There are a couple of things I've figured out that I haven't seen in guides or videos. Feel free to post yours if you have any.
- If you get to the commons area a little more than an hour before class, you'll get a prompt for "Go to Class Early". Once your sim is at the classroom, all their needs on the left side (Bladder, Hunger, Energy) will fill to 100%. So as long as you keep the others up, you can drag your tired, hungry Sim to class and it will be just fine. It doesn't seem to work on the very first day of the term, but that's a small complaint.
- Both Commons areas are buildable. Not much you can do with Britechester because it's kind of small. In Foxbury, I'll place a couple of Yoga mats so I can practice yoga while waiting for the Vendor to show up. There is also an empty room between the staircases that is just the right size for a bed. You can either make it your secret woo-hoo spot or a place to get some good sleep.
- Food at the cafeterias costs nothing, but they only serve at specific times. So if you get there too early or too late, you are out of luck. Nothing more annoying than the vendor setting out the spread at 6:30, but they won't sell until 7:00.
- If you choose the "Academic" aspiration, keep up your progress. One of the activities is to tutor 5 students. Tutoring a student takes 5 full hours. You don't want to cram that in on the last day.
- I've joined the Brainiacs on several occasions. One of the activity choices is "Study 2 hours". I never get credit for it. Another is to "Attend Class while Focused". That one is hit or miss. Most of the time it works, but not always.
- If you are a habitual gardener (like me), you don't have a lot of good choices. There is one small dorm at Foxbury where you can plant stuff, but you won't be able to take the plants home when you graduate. There is one lot in the Library area that you can move into. It's perfect for gardening, but you won't have much money left over if you move there. Maybe some enterprising builder will come up with a garden cottage for that lot.
- My sim has acquired a bad habit of walking long distances to talk to other sims when I haven't prompted that action. There's nothing you can do about it, but it's annoying when you are trying to accomplish something.
- Juice kegs seem awfully hard to tap.
- And what's up with the librarians in Britechester? They seem especially chatty when I'm working on a term paper or trying to finish homework.
