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18th Aug 2009, 02:38 AM	What use is a good school grade? #1
Angstrom Original Poster Lab Assistant Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 200	In TS2, good school grades could yield skill points or money. In TS3, there seems to be no benefits, except a moodlet. This seems to be lame. Are high grades worth the effort?
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18th Aug 2009, 02:40 AM	#2
haylz320 Forum Resident Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 693	Good school grades means you get to choose the child's trait when they age up. If they do average, they get a random (usually good) trait. If they do poorly, they get a random (usually bad) trait.

18th Aug 2009, 02:55 AM	#3
Angstrom Original Poster Lab Assistant Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 200	Does this mean you can let the child perform poorly, until they approach their birthday, and then study hard to get the max grade?

18th Aug 2009, 03:04 AM	#4
haylz320 Forum Resident Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 693	Well, yes, I suppose so, provided you leave enough time. Children don't stay children for all that long though, particularly when you miss two school days due to a weekend. It takes a few days to bring the grades back up, and that's if they've been average.

18th Aug 2009, 03:16 AM	#5
Angstrom Original Poster Lab Assistant Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 200	A poor modelling of school, I would say. School should be about learning skills. I would prefer to see more dynamic trait creation: if children grow up in a poor family they would become frugal, if they grow up in a rich family they would become snobs, if they grow up in clean houses they would become neat, and so on.

18th Aug 2009, 03:19 AM	#6
haylz320 Forum Resident Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 693	Yeah, that'd be pretty cool. And I do agree that it would be nice for kids to learn skills at school, even if it is only occasionally or through the opportunities. Those things bore me to tears these days, since all they do is make their school performance bar go up a little. Pfft, that doesn't motivate me to accept it.

18th Aug 2009, 04:22 AM	#7
Scout Field Researcher Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 391	Also tutoring the sim will bring up their grade in case you don't have enough days left for homework/attending school. At least that is how my chronic school skipper finally managed to get a decent grade.

18th Aug 2009, 04:33 AM	#8
haylz320 Forum Resident Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 693	Oh yeah, I forgot about that feature since I'd never bothered to use it. I just find it easier to send them to school and make them work hard. Saves the hassle later.

18th Aug 2009, 07:01 AM	#9
hfox1 Test Subject Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 32	In a year when they release University 2 for the sims 3: Back to school featuring simulated (fully clothed) streaking, grades might mean they can get into a good college.

18th Aug 2009, 07:39 AM	#10
Inge Jones Mad Poster Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 6,851 Thanks: 7426 in 17 Posts 18 Achievements	Also moodlets are quite useful as your life points are likely to add up faster, and you can buy rewards with them.
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18th Aug 2009, 08:37 AM	#11
Shoosh Malooka Scholar Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 1,280 Thanks: 2416 in 45 Posts 7 Achievements	If they release a University 2, how would you feel if they divided it into a Sim Ivy League University, a private college, and a community college?

18th Aug 2009, 04:43 PM	#12
hfox1 Test Subject Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 32	then allow your sim to skip ahead in their career based on the degree they recieved. Like if they got their ivy league degree have it go with a certain couple of careers and they would start out at the mid level.

18th Aug 2009, 04:52 PM

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Like if they got their ivy league degree have it go with a certain couple of careers and they would start out at the mid level.

Or they would gain performance quicker.

18th Aug 2009, 06:31 PM	#14
Angstrom Original Poster Lab Assistant Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 200	Please read the review from March 2011, about a new expansion pack - The Sims 3: A-Plus: http://www.modthesims.info/showthre...071#post2796071

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