While I was playing Bella and Mortimer, I figured I’d send them to the university site to see whether everything I’d built so far is functional. The corner of the Sunset Valley map that used to house the Alto and Landgraab houses and the legacy lot is my university campus. The halls of residence are there at the moment, and there will probably be a student union, a library and some, er ‘other’ stuff. The main event, though, is the university itself. It’s meant to function as a skilling zone, primarily, and the aim is to have both skilling equipment and rabbithole rugs/doors so my students can go to lessons and can learn independently.
I’m also going to demolish the science lab eventually because most scientists work in universities or businesses, not some random lab on its own somewhere. Mortimer will be working here so he may as well get to know the place.
The art room is small, but functional. I want a properly functioning artists’ district in time, where many artists will live, work and display their wares, so this is really just for students.
Some of what’s produced in here will adorn the walls here, but other things will end up in an exhibition in town somewhere, or in people’s homes.
Bella went straight for drafting. Maybe she’ll want to turn her hand to being a stylist – it’s one of very few things I can see her doing, work-wise.
Her first attempt. Um.
The freshers all turned up on campus, which was rather opportune of them, so I briefly switched households and put them all to use.
Esther took straight to drafting as well.
Her first attempt is better than Bella’s.
There’s a sports block, with male/female toilets/showers/changing rooms.
A gym
And a pool
Dale went swimming, whilst athletic Serena plumped for the machines.
There’s also a garden which doubles up as a social area.
My first attempt at creating a rabbit hole was placing this rug in the theatre. Sadly, everyone route failed when they tried to use it.
I moved it to the corridor, which worked a lot better – sims just stepped on it and then vanished through the wall. Hee. Here you can see an EA townie pre-makeover, and Slammii Minogue, one of Kingsfield’s roller derby team. They actually have two teams, a men’s and a women’s. They’re probably just NPCs in this hood unless rollerskating becomes an option in the game, or there at least becomes some roller CC. But I wanted to create my own teams anyway (mainly for the lulz and the naming). At some point I’ll do photo shoots with them all.
The front of the theatre, also doubling as a music classroom.
Micah and Ivory are both music-oriented: he towards rock, she towards classical.
Mortimer is totally checking out Joanna’s arse.
The university is so cool! Do you plan to upload the save when you’re all finished with it so others can put your awesomeness to use?
Haha, I don’t know how awesome it actually is, but maybe! There’s still a lot to build right now.
Great update, I like how you have made Mortimer very TS1:ish
How old is he right now?
And i love the uni. I’ll just go now and read the rest of the updates.
42 – early adult bar. (Not sure what I’m doing with ageing yet, but giving them all a nominal ‘real’ age to start with). Bella is the same age. I always thought Morty was older but actually the TS3 thing of (potentially) making them childhood sweethearts works really well and gives them much more reason to be together – which I could never figure out entirely in TS1. I’m pretty sure they have great sex, though