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"Sage" <lbee@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
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> From GameSpot:
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> http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/thesims2university/review.html?tag=nl.e579
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I enjoyed that. Usually I get fed up after one page. Read unbiased and
ballanced to me.
A bit unnerved by " All feature colorful new career-reward objects that can
perform amazing feats, like bringing sims back from the dead. " although
even this has a good point. Does this mean I can bring Goopy back and kill
him again?

Oh, goody!

Granny.
 
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On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 08:29:49 GMT, "Sage" <lbee@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>From GameSpot:
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>http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/thesims2university/review.html?tag=nl.e579

Some parts that caught my attention:

"Along with new items, like the pool table, a bonfire, treadmill, cell
phone, MP3 player"

Heh... I wonder if you can carry these around. The mp3 player and
cell, obviously, not the other three :p

"so you'll see show-off guitarists playing behind their backs and
drummers flipping their sticks into the air midsong"

Wee, can't wait :-D Wonder if these can also be used other places...
for tips, I mean.

"One problem with The Sims 2 is that your interior design options are
rather limited, so getting new chairs, wallpaper, and so forth is
great...in theory. The new ones just aren't particularly practical,
unless you're creating a swinging bachelor pad for an Austin Powers
sim."

OR... you download them from the net!

"The pranks were supposed to be a selling point of the expansion, but
they're a big bust. Coming from the fertile minds at Maxis, the pranks
are surprisingly unimaginative and boring. Water balloons? Joy
buzzers? That's just weak. It would have been better if Maxis had
spent time fixing problems with existing actions, because it can still
take ages to perform simple tasks, like getting kids off the school
bus or accepting grocery deliveries."

Urgh... the streak and bubblemix in the waterfountain are alright,
almost a requirement, but water balloons and buzzers? Meh... what
about prank calls, spiking the drinks...

"For extra simoleons, you can also perform temporary odd jobs, like
serving coffee, rapping for tips, or selling off other students' dorm
furniture (an oversight by Maxis?). However, there are no regular jobs
like those teen and adult sims can get. "

LOL!!! Not necessarily... some collegians have been known to do this,
in addition to dropping stuff off at random...
 
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On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 12:08:57 +0100, Guardian Pegasus
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>"Along with new items, like the pool table, a bonfire, treadmill, cell
>phone, MP3 player"
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>Heh... I wonder if you can carry these around. The mp3 player and
>cell, obviously, not the other three :p
>

Have you seen the new iPod at TSR? ;) It's their current featured
object - it looks awesome.

Cheers,
nina
 
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Have you ever considered this from the teacher's point of view?

I'm only asking.

Best wishes
Maxon

"Cuthbert Gurdlestone" <chgurdlestone1154@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> Sage wrote:
> > From GameSpot:
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http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/thesims2university/review.html?tag=nl.e579
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> Awww right!! Apparently sims can sleep with their teachers!
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> --
> --Cuth
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Maxon wrote:

> Have you ever considered this from the teacher's point of view?

At my college, it happened often enough to one student in every 3 years
or so married one of the professors. The Board preferred them married to
having affairs. You could get fired for the affair- but not for the
marriage.

-georg
 
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On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 12:08:57 +0100, Guardian Pegasus
<nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

>buzzers? That's just weak. It would have been better if Maxis had
>spent time fixing problems with existing actions, because it can still
>take ages to perform simple tasks, like getting kids off the school
>bus or accepting grocery deliveries."

Not to mention the stupid decisions your supposedly "mature" sims
make.

Good: Going out to the campus and bringing back a pizza.

Bad: Going upstairs to serve the pizza on a desk with a single
chair with a single access so the person eating can't get up if
someone else is standing next to them eating pizza.

Even worse: Deleting the desk just stops them from getting a pizza
at all, rather than force them to put it on a kitchen counter or, god
forbid, putting it on the dining room table they walk right past when
going upstairs to the desk or on a end table downstairs..

--
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability
of the human mind to correlate all its contents." - H.P. Lovecraft
 
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On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 23:50:43 GMT, georg <thegeorg@stny.rr.com> wrote:

>> Have you ever considered this from the teacher's point of view?
>
>At my college, it happened often enough to one student in every 3 years
>or so married one of the professors. The Board preferred them married to
>having affairs. You could get fired for the affair- but not for the
>marriage.

But since NPCs dont change, unless you move them in with you
afterward, some of those college teachers are going to get majorly
laid by lots of sims lol
 
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Am Thu, 03 Mar 2005 02:46:40 +0100 schrieb Guardian Pegasus:

> But since NPCs dont change, unless you move them in with you
> afterward, some of those college teachers are going to get majorly
> laid by lots of sims lol

Now, don't get jealous! *G*

Dorte
 
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I only ask because, as a proto-lecturer myself (I'm doing a PhD and doing
some teaching in my department) the thought is not inviting. It's bad
enough dealing with the ignorant little sods in the teaching situation (and
I use the word 'ignorant' advisedly).

Best wishes
Maxon


"georg" <thegeorg@stny.rr.com> wrote in message
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> Maxon wrote:
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> > Have you ever considered this from the teacher's point of view?
>
> At my college, it happened often enough to one student in every 3 years
> or so married one of the professors. The Board preferred them married to
> having affairs. You could get fired for the affair- but not for the
> marriage.
>
> -georg
 
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Maxon wrote:

> Hee hee - well thanks for your advice. One of my problems is that my social
> life is far busier than my research (and teaching) life ... (Damn, look, I'm
> just going to have to do some work sometime soon). Oh BTW, I'm married so
> singles clubs are a bit of a no-no. Well, unless I could trade him in ...

Well, see the students may encourage an affair... but I am very glad you
have a. a sweetie and b. a social life outside the school. Some
professors are simply not smarter than the students sometimes.

> And as for time limits, current government spending doesn't allow that much
> time for your actual students you know - too busy filling in forms.

Ah- different systems, different rules. :)

-georg
 
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