Game Help:New Features in University

New Features in University

Each new expansion adds some pretty significant changes. What are the new features that EP1: University adds?

New Careers

University adds 4 new careers: Artist, Natural Scientist, Paranormal, and Show Business. Only sims that have graduated University may access the new career tracks.

New Career Rewards

The 4 careers listed above each have their own career reward:

• Show Business: Dr. Vu's Automatched Cosmetic Surgeon (Level 6). Allows sims to perform plastic surgery, changing facial structure.
• Natural Science: Laganaphyllis Simnovorii (The Cowplant) (Level 6). Eats sims when hungry, and produces milk that, when taken by a sim, adds 5 days to their life.
• Artist: Luminous Pro Antique Camera (Level 6). Allows you to take pictures of sims and pose them in a variety of ways for their pictures. You can then either hang or sell the photos.
• Paranormal: Resurrect-O-Nomitron (Level 5). You can use it to call the Grim Reaper and, depending on how much you pay him, bring back dead loved ones either as they were before, or as zombies.

Zombies

See: Game Help:Zombies.

Lifetime Want

Sims get a random Lifetime Want when they choose an aspiration. Other than the one possible opportunity in college when you can choose a new aspiration, you cannot normally change your sims' lifetime want through normal gameplay. The InSIMenator (among other hacked objects) will allow you to re-roll your lifetime want randomly. The only way to actually -choose- a lifetime want is to use SimPE.

You can see what your sim's lifetime want is by hovering your mouse over the sim's aspiration status bar (the one that goes platinum) to see that information.

Influence

Influence is a new feature in University that applies to all Sims. Sims now have the ability to exert Influence on other Sims. To use Influence, click on a Sim you want to Influence and select “Influence to…” The Influence meter is located just to the left of the Aspiration meter. The meter shows you how many Influence points you have, as well as your Influence capacity (the maximum number of Influence points your Sims can obtain). To increase your Sims Influence capacity, you must increase your personal friendships (not household friends).

Influence has five levels, measured by your total number of personal friends for that Sim.

• Level 1: 0 friends, 2,000 point capacity.
• Level 2: 1 friend, 4,000 point capacity.
• Level 3: 3 friends, 6,000 point capacity.
• Level 4: 6 friends, 8,000 point capacity.
• Level 5: 12 friends, 10,000 point capacity.

Combining Households

This feature is available only for University. Any Sim that is located in the Family Bin or Student Bin can be merged into an existing household.

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Credits

Thanks to daysies for the original article.