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#1 Old 21st Feb 2016 at 11:12 PM
Default Playing Multiple Universities Attached To One Main 'Hood?
I really really want to play a 'hood made up of Land Grant University attached to Widespot. But, after briefly playing a couple of the household whilst testing some default replacement majors today, I also really want to play Sim State University!

So, I was wondering, does anyone here play a 'hood with more than one university attached to it? If you do, how do you decide which university your sims are going to attend when they become young adults (if they attend university at all)? How do you make the universities "feel different"? Do you have multiple Greek houses, or just one? How do you keep the universities (and, where applicable, the Greek houses) populated (especially if your main 'hood has a small population)? Do your sims have to pay tuition fees or other fees to attend the universities, and do the fees vary across the universities or does everywhere charge the same amount? Is there anything else you'd like to share about how you play multiple universities attached to one 'hood?

I AM SO FULL OF QUESTIONS TODAY!
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#2 Old 21st Feb 2016 at 11:27 PM
So, I was wondering, does anyone here play a 'hood with more than one university attached to it? If you do, how do you decide which university your sims are going to attend when they become young adults (if they attend university at all)?

In one of my hoods, I have two universities attached; Sim State and Academie le Tour. Since the Academie strikes me as being really prestigious, I treat it as an Ivy League-like school, where only the wealthy and the smartest go, while SSU is for everyday students (of course, I broke my own rule with that since I sent all the kids to the Academie the first time for convenience sake).

How do you make the universities "feel different"?
I put each uni under a category and let that guide me; SSU is the typical state university; LFT is really focused on science, and the Academie is an Ivy-League type school

Do you have multiple Greek houses, or just one?
I usually only have one frat and one sorority. I don't

How do you keep the universities (and, where applicable, the Greek houses) populated (especially if your main 'hood has a small population)?
I don't; if I have no sims in college, it remains empty except for the dormies

Do your sims have to pay tuition fees or other fees to attend the universities, and do the fees vary across the universities or does everywhere charge the same amount?
No; mainly because a fee system would be complicated and it's simpler to get them a free education
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#3 Old 21st Feb 2016 at 11:44 PM
I have only 3 base universities but their templates are so different from each other.
Sim State University has Maxis template, so if I want to play vanilla university with all original dormies, 2 professors for each major and so, I will take SSU.
La Fiesta Tech has Meetmetotheriver's cleaned template without dormies and NPCs, only fixed premade playables. It is for case if I want play with premade students.
Academie La Tour has Jawusa's empty template. Nothing there. If you send there one to study, he will be alone until game generates NPCs.

If I will attach all 3 into one neighborhood, I will get only one set of dormies from SSU, I am content with it.
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#4 Old 21st Feb 2016 at 11:49 PM
I have all 3 original universities in my megahood, but I'm currently only actually using Sim State because I feel like I don't have enough sims for anywhere else. I'm waiting for my megahood to grow in population before I set out tuition and such.

I feel like to get the full effect of each university, it would be better if I waited for my hood to get more populated. Now that the born-in-game sims are almost ready to go off to University, I'm hoping it will be very populated very quickly. But I do still have 5 greek houses and 3 speciality dorms (Business, Art, Science) so I don't think I'll ever really need more than one campus. I like to play all my uni students together, or at least as many as I can per house, 4 greek houses can accommodate 8 sims, each dorm can also accommodate 8 sims, and 1 greek house only 4.

I'm thinking of knocking down a few of my dorms, or moving them to other campuses. I always see La Fiesta as a bit of an arty school (due to the Shifting Paradymes band, and Frances J. Worthington III who spends most of his time painting in my game) so I might shrink the Worthington Art Dormitories in SSU to not accommodate for as many sims, and instead make a bigger one in LFT - and start sending my more artistic sims there. Maybe even start charging my sims for attending university - so that poorer art sims have to attend SSU, whereas the more well off sims can afford to attend LFT. But then Acadamie Le Tour would need a speciality too... I imagine as Lord St.Croix said, Acadamie is quite prestigious. They seem a bit of a 'no-nonsense' school due to their stand on greek houses, maybe even it's in a different country? So my sims will have to spend a lot of money to travel there for uni, or it will not have a speciality but will instead just be more expensive than sim state, with fancier dorms.

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#5 Old 21st Feb 2016 at 11:50 PM
You may want to take a look at this old thread, since it answers quite a few of the same questions you're raising here!

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#6 Old 22nd Feb 2016 at 12:19 AM
What a well timed thread! I was just reading the simswiki pages for Academie le Tour and La Fiesta Tech, trying to decide if I want to add another university to my town at some point. I'll be interested to see how others answers your questions.

My 'hood's population is currently small, but I'm increasing it by adding bin families and households living in subhoods to my town at a rate of about 1 or 2 per season. I've got mods in to stop more townies and dormies from generating, and those sims also occasionally become playable. Right now, I think I'll add a second university when I run out of bin sims to add. By then, I should have the a train station or airport built so that students can go to a university that is farther away, and I'll have a lot more sims ready to go to university.

In my game, everyone goes to university (not all will graduate, though). Right now, those who can afford it have to pay $1250/semester. Either they pay or their family does, and the money goes to the education minister's household for now. If they can't afford it, they either have an interest free loan and they will pay it at some point in the future, or they were given a grant or scholarship and don't have to pay - I base it on family situation, grades, and dice rolls. When I've added a second university, I'll probably make them differ from each other by how much they cost - Sim State is likely to drop its tuition, and the other university will be higher. Their seasons will differ - Sim State has all four seasons; a more expensive university will have two falls, and if I add a third even more costly university it will be fall all year round. So sims who want an easier time learning (I'd pretend due to smaller classes and more tutoring) will have to pay more.

I don't know how else I want universities to differ from each other. I thought about having one act as more of a military college, with a barracks-like dormitory, restrictions on what sims are allowed to do, and mandatory additional activities (skill or badge building) even if it isn't wanted by sims or related to degree requirements. I'm not sure if I want to do that at one university, or at a dorm within the university I already have. I'm also still playing with ideas about trades training/badge building, hobbies, and admission requirements for different universities.

I don't know what I'd do about keeping Greek houses populated. I'm currently trying to keep the two at Sim State going, but haven't really thought about why. At another university I'd probably have just one, mixed gender Greek house or none at all. Not all universities have things like Greek houses, after all - I'd never heard of them before encountering them in the Sims and some American movies.
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#7 Old 22nd Feb 2016 at 12:23 AM
I attached all three Uni hoods to my custom neighborhood when I got the Uni EP. La Fiesta Tech isn't seeing much action right now but Sim State is for anyone that rolls a want to go to college and got at least the good grades scholarship (IMO the easiest to get). Academie Le Tour requires the Sim Scholars grant and at least 1 of the skill grants/or 7 in one or more skills. Recently on top of the scholarship requirements, teens must also have a two points in every skill. Otherwise, I have the mod where they can go to college and stay at home and this is 'community college' which they can go to.

As far as the greek system goes, I created a 'scholarship house' on Academie LeTour which is a sorority by another name. There is one frat I made up at Sim State. Sim State and La Fiesta Tech come with pre-made frats and sororities though - however I don't play them.

No modifications on tuition, they just pay any bills that come to the mailboxes.

Most of my sims live in dorms, I have moved some out into their own duplexes/houses before but the dorm setting is just really convenient. I have also replaced a lot of the dorms with lots made by CC creators. The firs time around I thought the premade dorms were fun but then like most of the time I ended up moving to custom content.

Uh oh! My social bar is low - that's why I posted today.

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#8 Old 22nd Feb 2016 at 12:37 AM Last edited by omglo : 22nd Feb 2016 at 1:02 AM.
My old Pleasantview had all three. Sim State and La Fiesta Tech were free and anyone could go. Academie Le Tour was the elite school. You had to have great grades or be well connected to get in, and it wasn't free. Sim State was supposed to be a vibrant and large campus. ALT was more quiet and close-knit, and there was no Greek life, but there were plenty of museums to visit. The storyline was that LFT didn't have enough Sims for a Greek life, so I got rid of them, but Sims threw lots of parties since there wasn't much to do. Although the schools were connected to Pleasantview, the storyline was that the latter two schools were located in Strangetown and Veronaville. Attending Sim State meant you could visit your family and friends often, which obviously wouldn't be the case for Sims who'd gone away to school.

When I decided who'd go where, I'd look at their grades, their relationship with their family, where their bf or gf was going, and whether that would matter to the Sim, finances and their personality. I never got the the point of having to worry about the population, but I'd been planning to reuse all the dormies over the generations, unless they'd befriended my playbles. I was going to just make new Greek house members once my main Sims graduated.
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#9 Old 22nd Feb 2016 at 12:48 AM
Well the site looks nice...

But yeah I have multiple universities. Never had a problem with it.

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#10 Old 22nd Feb 2016 at 1:04 AM Last edited by maxon : 22nd Feb 2016 at 1:53 AM.
Little Carping has two universities - Redbrick and Metropolitan. Redbrick is an old august institution built in a traditional style (think Harvard and other Ivy League unis in the States). Metrpolitan is a modern university. So that's a start in that the architecture is completely different. There are modern buildings in Redbrick, in addition to the older architectural styles, but they are a different style (usually wood and glass) compared to Metropolitan which is mostly concrete and rather modern.

Then Redbrick is rather an academically elite place too so it tends to be the wealthy who go there and the seriously clever. Metropolitan is more relaxed and cosmopolitan. One of the things I have done is set the seasons differently. There are two autumns in Redbrick (plus a winter and a spring) which means that students there get a study boost and tend to do better overall than those in Metropolitan (two summers, an autumn and a spring). Metropolitan students can do just as well as Redbrick students but they have to work harder to get there.

Redbrick students are encouraged to study more traditional subjects whereas there is greater variety at Metropolitan and it tends to be a little more creative. That's the basic set up though there are other differences too.

I don't really have population issues since LC is a large hood. I have had, in the past, the opposite problem, not enough room. I don't do Greek houses because it's not a British thing.

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#11 Old 22nd Feb 2016 at 1:39 AM
In the very beginning, I wanted to try all three of the Maxis Unis, and installed all three for my earliest hood. I might have done many stupid things to corrupt my hoods, but I don't believe this would be one of them!

Anyway, which college the Sim attended was purely arbitrary. No rhyme or reason. I wouldn't do this again, though. I don't have THAT many Uni students.

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#12 Old 22nd Feb 2016 at 2:24 AM
Before my last neighborhood, I was pretty inconsistent about the three universities.
In my last neighborhood, which was a megahood, I made up a few guidelines that I'll generally use for this one (not strict-and-fast rules):
- Most of the Pleasantview sims (and any who don't have a preference for one of the other two) go to SSU.
- La Fiesta is near Strangetown, so alien students tend to congregate there. Also it has a reputation for being the "party school."
- Academie La Tour is the most prestigious ones. Unless you get a lot of scholarships, you usually don't go there unless you're rich. (I did have a group of my own Sims start up a sorority there, though. The administration is turning a blind eye...for now.)
- Maybe I'll install Land Grant University. It sounds interesting.

Sorry if this post doesn't make much sense, I'm on painkillers
#13 Old 22nd Feb 2016 at 1:21 PM
Port Shroudhaven Academy (PSA) is for those who attended Maxis private school or the simlogical boarding/prep. It also accepts some military brats and the rare eccentric homeschooled weirdo. It has limited majors and tuition will be high. Fraternities/Sororities are discouraged as they are deemed disruptive and counter productive to the values being taught. Secret Societies, secret parties, and sordid teacher/student affairs are the agenda of the day here. If you really want to coast on easy street have the family donate a wing and get four years of free luxury vacation living all expense paid.

Port Shroudhaven Community College (PSCC) is mostly for everyone else and uses the Squinge mega college pack. Tuition is low mostly 1,000 a year (500 a semester) and is also a good opportunity for adults to get a second chance at higher education. There is a very loose greek life (this is where the AL social groups and hobby lots come into play) where alumni mentor students in various ways.

You can also attend for as long as you want provided you can afford it. I plan on breaking it down to where certain degrees require different levels of accreditation and basically reset it before they graduate at the end of the last semester for as many semester/years needed to obtain the new level. Also since PSCC students can have regular jobs along with it I plan on resetting the semester days for each one if needed so they can keep their gpa up and still afford it.

I do have the original three added on but mainly for the purpose of the premades as marriage/genetic fodder/ background storyline for the regular cast.
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#14 Old 22nd Feb 2016 at 10:52 PM
Quote: Originally posted by stitching
When I've added a second university, I'll probably make them differ from each other by how much they cost - Sim State is likely to drop its tuition, and the other university will be higher. Their seasons will differ - Sim State has all four seasons; a more expensive university will have two falls, and if I add a third even more costly university it will be fall all year round. So sims who want an easier time learning (I'd pretend due to smaller classes and more tutoring) will have to pay more.


That is a really good idea!
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#15 Old 23rd Feb 2016 at 12:20 AM
Coral Bay only has one attached university right now, Brainania by Mootilda. Found here: http://modthesims.info/download.php?t=426826 I've added some dorms and houses to it. There is no Greek house right now and no SS. I am only just now starting to graduate my first lot of sims going through.

There are about 8 dormies, + one of each proff and NPC (couch, cheerleader, llama, cow) they will be the only ones keeping it populated. Except for the cow, one of my playables has 2 bolts and wants to be 'friends' with her... Yes I am thinking of letting her marry in and yes I am crazy, thanks for asking.

I am thinking about having the graduates pay some kind of small fee to the mayor. The ones who have graduated are still in the family bin.

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#16 Old 23rd Feb 2016 at 1:15 AM
Dirkwood is currently funding the creation of DWCC, a community college anyone can get into fairly cheaply, while ssu is one step up. Academie Letour is going to be the most prestegious of the three found in the flats, and the hardest to get into. Students will have to meet a minimum requirement of at least 5 skill points in at least 3 subjects of study, in addition to maintaining a 4.0 through private school (which in my game is the equivalent of money meeting advanced placement courses.) None of the Dirkwoodians can go to college as it isn't lifted in the bacc yet, but taxes are paid at the start of every other season and they are quickly building the fund up!

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#17 Old 16th Jul 2016 at 3:41 PM Last edited by lauratje86 : 16th Jul 2016 at 5:04 PM.
I totally abandoned this thread, ooops! Thank you to everyone who shared your ideas/suggestions! :-) I was reminded of this thread today when Vimpse posted on Tumblr, asking people how they play/think that she should play the three pre-made universities as part of an Uberhood.

She set out two possibilities and asked for peoples' preferences, comments etc. Option A was to have the three universities specialised based on different majors, and Option B was to have the three universities differentiated according to prestige/cost/difficulty to get into.

If I had to choose I would prefer Option B, but if I was going to do it myself I'd probably use a combination of the two options. I would have it so that the three universities all offered every major (because in my game I pick my sims' majors based on their wants/fears, so it would be a pain if they could only study certain subjects at certain universities. But I would have them specialise in certain subjects as well, to some extent, so that I could build specialised community lots for each campus. They would cost the same amount to attend but would have different entrance requirements in terms of grades, required skills and so on. For some universities specific majors would have more difficult entry requirements that then university in general .

La Fiesta Tech - specialised in the sciences. Relatively low entrance requirements, but much higher for sims who want to study a scientific major (Biology, Physics, Mathematics), as they have such a good reputation for their science courses.
Sim State University - the average/middle university in terms of entrance requirements. Specialising in the humanities and some arts subjects, with high entrance requirements for sims wishing to study Economics, Psychology and Political Science.
Academie Le Tour - high entrance requirements, requiring an A or higher and various skills and extra-curricular activities. Specialising in Literature, Philosophy and Art.
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#18 Old 16th Jul 2016 at 4:52 PM
Personally it wouldn't be a MTS forum if lauratje86 didn't have multiple threads happening. :D
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#19 Old 16th Jul 2016 at 5:13 PM
Quote: Originally posted by NewSimgirl2011
Personally it wouldn't be a MTS forum if lauratje86 didn't have multiple threads happening. :D

I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing! :-P I go through phases, though - when I'm setting up to start a new 'hood, like I am at the moment, I post a lot of threads as I'm full of ideas and thoughts and possibilities, then when I'm actually settled playing a 'hood I calm down a bit and don't start many threads - until I start coming up with more ideas and possibilities and end up abandoning my 'hood and starting to set up another one! :-D

At the moment I'm a big fan of how to differentiate between similar things - my recent(ish) threads about seasons/climate/weather, reproduction and vacation destinations are essentially all about making similar things *feel* different, as is this thread.

Because I love it so much, I feel that I should add Peni Griffin's Land Grant University into the mix, as well. So, here's how I'd play Land Grant University if I had it attached to an uberhood.

Land Grant University - average entrance requirements, specialising in Drama and possibly Art.

I play with (my own) default replacement majors, so most of these majors don't actually exist in my game! If I was playing using my defaults (which I would be, because they're great! ), this is how I would divide up the specialisms.

La Fiesta Tech - Biology, Computer Science & Medicine.
Land Grant University - Performing Arts (and possibly a custom major or two as well - maybe Film Production and/or Animation, or perhaps I'd alter my Performing Arts major and make Music a separate option?).
Sim State University - Business Management, Military Studies, Political Science & Psychology.
Academie Le Tour - Architecture, Education & Law.
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#20 Old 16th Jul 2016 at 5:37 PM
Don't forget the Athletics department that influenced the distribution of funds so much at LGU!

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#21 Old 16th Jul 2016 at 5:40 PM
Quote: Originally posted by Peni Griffin
Don't forget the Athletics department that influenced the distribution of funds so much at LGU!

Oh yes! I'd have to add in a custom Sports Science major or something, along with a sports team or two...... :-)
Test Subject
#22 Old 16th Jul 2016 at 6:51 PM
I also saw Vimpse's post on Tumblr and through it was taken here. I've answered to her question there, but I've decided to use this chance to elaborate. The universities are described by their location, field of study, and other traits.


1) LOCATION
Before my gaming HD died, I had started a Uberhood and split all the towns into three districts/areas, each with a uni and a "hub", and those teens who "want to stay close to home" would aim for college in their district.

SSU -> Belladonna Cove, Pleasantview, Bluewater Village
ALT -> Veronaville, Riverblossom Hills +Old Town
LFT -> Downtown, Strangetown, Desiderata Valley

2) FIELD OF STUDY
Next, I gave each University preferred majors, though the unis weren't limited to those. Sims who finish their university's preferred major have an "advantage" at getting employed in careers that the major boosts.

SSU -> Economics, History*, Philosophy, Political Science
ALT -> Art, Drama, History*, Literature
LFT -> Biology, Mathematics, Physics, Psychology

Teens with a preference for a field of study (ie, a LTW for a certain career) will chose their college by which gives the best option for that field.
* In ALT, History is for ARTIST career, while the other three careers prefer SSU's History major.

3) OTHER TRAITS
This is usually the last one I think about, but is there for the teens who lost their place in the preferred university or don't have one by the other two criteria.

LFT -> Settled upon the crossroads of Nowhere, Nowhere Important and Could Be Somewhere, LFT attracts four types of people: aliens, those who need/want a new start, science geeks, and the folk who want to get a tan. Still, no one parties as well as LFT kids, and their parties tend to gather students from other campuses as well.
ALT -> A classy place where not many parties happen, but the spontaneous gatherings are somewhat common. It's also close to the edge of Faerie, so faeries, plantsims, werewolves and witches can often be seen wandering this way.
SSU -> The only university with all four seasons, instead of everlasting rains of ALT and scorching sun at LFT, SSU has three major groups of students: the ones there for studies, the ones there for sports, and the undead ones. SSU is generally known to have the best athletes, though the parties aren't as wild as one might expect.


Admittance into college

That's how teens decide on which college they'd prefer, but which do they actually get into? Well, for that, I make a list of all the teens headed for college in the round, and divide the number by 3 (I round it up if necessary). Each college accepts that number of students. The teens are listed by their score, which is a sum of:
  • Their GPA
  • Sum of their skills, divided by 10 (I haven't got around to checking if this is balanced)
  • badges: 0.05 for bronze, 0.1 for silver, 0.2 for gold (same as above)
  • 0.1 for each non-skill scholarship

Once such list is formed, I start from the best student and add them to their preferred uni, and so on as long as there is room in college. The first kid that can't get into their preferred college is added to the second list. Once I get through the list, I go through the second one, starting with the best student again, and add them to whichever university still has room, or "let them choose" if it so happens that there's room in two universities (could happen if a lot of teens have a same preferred university).
Students still have an option to switch to a different university after first year, but to do so they must get A+ on both of their finals. Afterwards, the curriculum is "too different" for the switch to be acceptable.
Of course, there's also a possibility that a year will go by with no new students. In that case, I will get dormies or neighborhood teens to join in just large enough number to keep all the Greek houses running. If, for some reason, it comes to the point where there are no non-townie students at all in college (AKA, 4+ "years" of no neighborhood teens starting university), I'd probably just freeze the townies in time until new teens join in. But, then, I do avoid using townies as much as possible, especially in large neighborhoods, such as Uberhoods.

On top of everything, University ISN'T free in my neighborhoods, Uberhood included. SSU students usually have to pay the least, and ALT the most, but I still haven't decided on exact pricing. Still, this CAN affect teen's choice of University, or if they're going to one at all.
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#23 Old 16th Jul 2016 at 7:34 PM
Hello FreemTariphe! :-) I'm glad that you came here and elaborated, I love reading about how other people play(ed) their games :-)

Quote: Originally posted by FreemTariphe
1) LOCATION
Before my gaming HD died, I had started a Uberhood and split all the towns into three districts/areas, each with a uni and a "hub", and those teens who "want to stay close to home" would aim for college in their district.

SSU -> Belladonna Cove, Pleasantview, Bluewater Village
ALT -> Veronaville, Riverblossom Hills +Old Town
LFT -> Downtown, Strangetown, Desiderata Valley

I really like the idea of the Sims 2 world having an actual geography. My sim geography head-canon is based on this map by Aledstrange, but with a few alterations to fit better with my idea of how things would be laid out and to include the custom 'hoods that I play the most often.

In my SimNation, Takemizu Village is a separate country, and hence wouldn't appear on this map. Twikkii Island is also a separate county, and it's an actual island (though the bit that we see in game is only part of the whole island, but the rest is uninhabited.

Peni Griffin's Widespot is located to the right of Pleasantview, moving Sim State University slightly down and to the right. Peni's Land Grant University is just outside of Widespot, on the highway. Meetmetotheriver's Viper Canyon is below La Fiesta Tech, moving both La Fiesta Tech and Strangetown upwards to fit it in. Prometedor takes the place of Twikkii Island, and Isle St. Croix roughly takes the place of Takemizu Village, though it's a bit less secluded.

I wish that I had the skills (and the patience!) to try to put together a map of my own!
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#24 Old 16th Jul 2016 at 8:23 PM
I completely forgot about Viper Canyon! I didn't start playing with it until the last iteration of Uberhood, but then the towns got shifted arout. I also had begun reimagining Magic Town, and was trying to figure out just what more could I add to get the number of towns back to a multiple of 3 (I was considering making a town that would be Sims 1's Downtown+Vacation Island+Studio Town).

Another idea I had is converting/remaking Sims Life Stories and Sims Pet Stories neighborhoods for Sims 2, but never started on it, as I don't have enough trust in my skills to remake the characters from those games, and also a single Island neighborhood where characters from both neighborhoods from Sims Castaway Stories would live. I gave up on this idea, as Uberhood is already Way Too Huge.

Anyway, I never made an actual map, but I had a silly flowchart with what is everything connected to by roads and/or railways, and the rough position of every town in relation to others (mostly for climate). As for the three vacation spots, I figured Takemizu Village is not only in a different country, but on the other side of the globe, hence the seasons being shifted by two (Uberhood seasons follow a spring-to-winter with their local climates deciding exactly what goes into each spot, whereas Takemizu got a fall-to-summer season rotation). Twikkii Island is in the middle of the ocean, in the proximity of Wanmami and Felicity Island, and it's season rotation is summer-spring-summer-spring, indicating dry and wet seasons with no particular differences. Finally, Three Lakes is near Riverblossom Hills, but closer to Faerie, thus the existence of bigfoot, and a bunch of locals being changed into plantsims and werewolves by yours truly.
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#25 Old 16th Jul 2016 at 8:55 PM
The HBG has remade some of the Life Stories hoods as BG hoods and subhoods. Available right here on MTS.

The only place I have multiple universities is the GS Uberhood. The entire Uberhood is linked by a highly sophisticated and efficient system of bullet trains, and the three campuses have dedicated shuttles, so though sims are initially sent to one or another campuses according to geographical proximity or social factors, in practice they wind up living with their friends/lovers as becomes handy.ALT is almost always deserted because people who aren't Harts are tending to join the Greeks to consolidate households.

Drama Acres only has SSU. Strangetown only has LFT. Widespot got ALT by default because I hadn't built LGU then; but it always felt way too upscale for the hood, so when I return to regular Widespot play I intend to add LGU at some convenient point and phase out ALT, probably ultimately deleting it.

Ugly is in the heart of the beholder.
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