I am wondering if your YA ages while away for United? My Sims age normally in town but when I move them to school it stops. Is it just me or is that normal??

Your sims do not age while at the University world. It works similar to traveling to a vacation world.

There's no aging while at University. The home world doesn't age either while you have sims at Uni.

Sweet! Thanks so much... thought it was a glitch. LoL

I have a question related to this: If my YA sim graduated and went back home, got married, had kids etc, and then sent her kids to Uni, would her kids meet the same people as their mother had like there would be exactly the same NPC uni students as before? (So does time pass at uni while you're in your town?) Sorry if this was confusing, but I really hope there will be a "new generation" at uni when my heir graduates and her kids go there.

You can't age while at University but I'm very curious because when I was playing an elder male Sim in my dorm died of old age. Which is confusing to me since you can't age.

I think Elder sims have a small chance of dying each day they are an Elder, so I don't think "no aging" would change that. Of course, it also could be a bug. :\

Ah that makes sense, I just found it very ironic he died of old age when aging is off, haha.

poor fella, he must be pretty unlucky then...

He paid for his tuition but didn't even get the degree.

Maybe he gets a posthumous degree.

Someone answer this!!

Maybe he was just really intent on avoiding student loan debt? For American sims, the only escape is death.



I don't have Uni yet (haven't picked it up from the mailroom--big exam on Monday and the easiest way to make myself study is to not pick it up... I would not have studied for 9 solid hours today if I had that EP, let me tell you), but the Uni system seems to be using the travel system from WA pretty much wholesale. The way it works in WA is that the game keeps track of your time away from each travel world (i.e. how many days you play in the home world from when you come home to when you travel again), and then when you return to the Uni world it ages all characters in the Uni world accordingly. The NPCs are probably aging according to that same system (with something like 98% certainty).

The bigger question is how the game handles degrees for NPCs--not aging, but moving them out of the pool of active students. Presumably the game also assigns credits to the non-playable students as time passes, graduating them and bringing in new students as necessary. But this is EA we're talking about, so there are no guarantees that they did anything intelligent. I've heard that the academic career system is not closely linked to the travel system (which is a very good thing as far as modding is concerned), so it's not entirely obvious to me how they had to have done it. (A serious modder who has read the coding should be able to answer this more fully.) The roommate system seems to generate an awful lot of surplus Sims to clutter up game memory, so EA may have done something exceedingly clumsy on this one, too.

I've read somewhere that when you sim enrolls for a new term after traveling home, you get new classmates and roommates and the previous sims that were there are thrown out somewhere into the homeless pool. And it also seems like all the other sims living on the campus already has a degree, at least, that's what was noted when I had my sim ask for their alma mater.

My Sim still had a friend on the campus when he reenrolled one day after he had travelled home from a term. Same house too, same boring partys . Also, the teacher was the same. This time he not only had her pose nude for drawing but had a woohoo with her.

I laughed at that and then sighed because I realized it is the absolute honest truth.

You can get a sim to age up whilst at University. I've used it many times before. You can make the Age of Instant elixir and throw it onto whatever sim you want to age up, or you could use it on yourself.
You could also use the Fountain of Youth elixir to age yourself down if you wanted to.