“It’d be a lot easier to have a cafeteria in the dorm lot.” Basically what I thought every day of my college life when I decided it was too cold to get dinner so I’d just eat microwave noodles instead lol.
I was always jealous of people on my campus who lived in dorms with restaurants. My dorm freshman and sophomore year had a little convenience store/sandwich shop downstairs and you could use campus dollars...they got a lot of my money.
I feel you. In my last 2 years of college I lived in the res hall that was close to my classes but on the other side of campus from all the other ones. The dining hall was closed on weekends so I had to actually go out for dinner.
I know literally no one who had a kitchen in their dorms, or were even allowed more than a small fridge and microwave - I have only one friend who could have a little hot plate in her dorm, but they had to register it with their RA so they knew where to check first in case of smoke, lol. Accidents can happen so fast though, and fire spreads even faster, I get it. My college had the lunch room (that was open all day though, from about 6 am to 8 or 9 pm) and a small convenience shop that was open later that had little things like premade sandwiches, ramen and snacks (and toothpaste, toilet paper, little necessities like that) in the "common area" in the lower level of our library building - across the street from the dorms (over a city block away if you lived in the farthest building).
SUCH a good idea. And it takes me back to my college years and one girl not knowing how to do laundry and literally setting the dorm on fire by not cleaning out the lint filter on the dryer.
YES!! My dorm laundry room was on the first floor, I was on the 4th, it sucked carrying down weeks of laundry...I was always too lazy to do it earlier hahaha
Now that they’ve sussed-out how to do “roommates” in this pack & having a bunch of people coming in and out of the lot, do you think there’s more of a chance of them implementing hotels of some kind in the future? 🤔
Last night I had a dream that James was looking for an assistant to help him and his requirement was just you had to sound like him. The whole dream from then on is me trying to sound Australian and saying "hey guys!" A lot.😂 Edit: omgoodness thank you all for the likes! I don't think I have ever had such a loved comment. 😊 I'm happy I could entertain you with my silly dream!😁
I'm not saying I once spent an hour trying to imitate how Australians say "no" but I totally once spent an hour trying to imitate how Australians say "no".
madisont Ikr like I’ve been watching university videos from my favorite simmers today and I’m honestly glad that they posted because my initial reaction to the livestream from Sims 4 was not convinced to buy the pack😅 Now from watching James, Vixella, lilsimsie, and others, I’m definitely going to buy the pack
for me i wish stoves worked bc i mean, i went to uni in england and we had a fully functioning kitchen. also no one shares a room and i had my own bathroom which almost everyone on campus had, too. i didn't know if i'd want this pack but this build definitely made me sure that i do...
they made it more american i think .i watched ameriacan youtubers and they like that idea bc this is how it looks america (but i live in poland so idk)
I think they could have at least made them possible with cheats. I understand the whole American thing but it would have been nice to have the option to add kitchens too.
@@sinabaur9150 yes!! i agree! even if it was an extra cheat or something, it's nice to have. i want to be able to recreate things i know rather than base my game on american university buildings but it's okay, i'll live despite wanting otherwise i suppose 😂
@@adamm4378 yeah i totally get that... they said in their stream that they didn't realise how american some parts were but i just wish it wasn't locked completely, like sina baur said below, have it possible with cheats would be good to recreate how we went to uni outside of america...
All the housing options add a great element to gameplay. I love that I can have a sim legitimately go off to university in the traditional sense, but I can also have an adult sim with 3 kids take 2 classes per term and slowly work their way to a degree while juggling a fulltime job. Pretty cool. The roommates also add a cool element to the city living apartments.
This pack is definitely really versatile! You could open a boarding house or something with the roommates and you could work and take care of kids while taking one or two classes a term. I can't wait to make my own dorms, lol. I feel like they need to be even more cramped. I also want to make some run-down off-campus houses since a lot around my college were super cheap and simple. Love your videos and what you did with the dorm!! The common area looks really good
I get the whole not having kitchen is, since the University in Malaysia doesn't have kitchen in dorms and we weren't even allowed to bring any cooking appliances either, you know like a portable stoves, mini fridges, etc. So all in all, it fits the style of norm here. What I don't like is, not having bunk beds. The University I go to have bunk beds in their dorm rooms. So if you live in a room with three people in them, one of the bed would be bunk beds and one other is a single bed. I think it's quite a norm here too (Fix me If I'm wrong) or a simple loft would have me sold. But! I honestly, really like the pack and I love that you did like 3 videos on this pack explaining all the new stuff. I am so looking forward for this Friday!
Frayy Y In America some universities have bunk beds or the two separate beds can be bunked at your request by the school but some schools like mine don’t allow it? I’m not sure since they said it was uk based if they have bunk beds in their dorms?
Yeah at my UK university we have a kitchen in the building but we are strictly not allowed to bring fridges or microwaves for our rooms because of the fire rules. If you have a medical condition and your medicines need to be kept in the fridge then you can have a mini-fridge in your room just for the medicines, but that's the only exception and you need a letter from your doctor. The way they've done it is really American and we should be able to change things to be like a different country/culture if we edit the lots.
@@solarmoth4628 Ah, I see. I feel like bunk beds are like the universal floor space saver for people that live in small rooms. Well, can't complain now though. The pack is coming out soon anyway! And it looks promising. Fingers crossed someday they'll have bunk beds put in haha.
Never seen any dorms with bunk beds. Only ever time I did when they were in movies or cartoons. They seem so uncommon. Bunkbeds definitely would have fit more into a pack like parenthood or even Get to work (Considering bunk beds in prisons seem more the norm.)
@@SomeoneBeginingWithI I do think they did try to like generalise it a bit but it ended up being too Americanized too 😂. I won't blame them either since I think dorms situation are a bit different from now compared to back then. Maybe its more lenient at some places and more strict at different places? Who knows really.
I wish they would at least let you drag furniture around in live mode, if they won't let you go into build/buy mode. Halfway through my freshman year my roommates and I pulled out all the furniture in our bedrooms and completely rearranged, as well as totally rearranging the living room. Never underestimate a group of roommates with a bright idea on how to maximize their bunker of a room.
@@non857 - yeah; I think Lil' Simsie said something about you can edit your dorm room/furniture in Manage Worlds or something so you can even if it's not as direct.
@@non857 I thought in the build/buy video I saw James only able to move the minifridge and smaller stuff. I'm talking about like the beds and desks and stuff
Yes!! When I was dorming, a few guys actually rearranged and stacked all the common room furniture up in the center of the area in the middle of the night! I wish they would have something like that here. College shenanigans and just normal furniture moving. It would give just a little more autonomy to the little sims.
it’s super incredible what has happened here. i’ve ordered every expansion and game pack, and the stuff packs, like clockwork. when the leaks for university started coming, i actually debated on even bothering with it (after Strangerville and RoM I was a little ehhh, and started modding/CCing everything). between you, Jessie (plumbella), and Kayla (lilsimsie), I am actually excited about this pack. it’s the first time that it feels like EA and the sims team delivered (not everything is perfect and not everyone will be happy, but there’s a consensus across several simmers that this is a very well done and designed pack)
Yaaassss this is exactly what I wanted to do. A whole separate building for the cafeteria didn’t seem accurate. Sure no kitchen but a cafeteria on the bottom floor makes sense.
Still SO confused that you still have to share rooms in other countries' dorms. I have never seen that here in Germany. You only share bathrooms and kitchens (yes! Kitchens! I'm so mad you can't have them in game in dorms).
Yeah in the uk most people have their own room, and every residence building has a kitchen. The cheaper accommodation has shared bathrooms and the more expensive ones you get your own tiny bathroom.
5:24 if I remember right, you can set up dorms so that they have a specific affiliation. I don't know if that includes the clubs from Get Together, but you could maybe use that to make a frat or sorority
Ya in the top left corner next to the house Symbol there's those gears for settings and you can so only a specific organization can live there and change gender settings to male or female only. But I dont know if you can make your own organization or rename one or add/kick out members
For people with Get Together maybe using the club system to make a fraternity or sorority would work well. Plus there are mods (if you use them) which allow for more options with clubs.
Let’s not go that far, in my U residence in CANADA there’s is a small kitchen in EVERY FLOOR (1st, 3rd and 4th, some have more than one) and a GOURMET KITCHEN completely equipped with everything you need in the second floor, there is a total of SIX KITCHENS in my residence of four floors. Really unfair that they are forbidden just because of the Americans.
I feel ya! I mean across Europe and Asia universities kitchens are a thing! I get the Americans don't have it but we can't even get one with a cheat? I dunno.. especially when the town seems so European.
I'll definitely be using this build when University comes out. I love how it blends in really well and your thought process to slightly askew the furniture. I might remove a few things like the bike and stuff (if my sim can use it because I want them to struggle) but I'll definitely use this build
At my Uni there were dinning halls at the bottom of each dorm building. Also, there were study areas, there was lounge areas as well. There was always a two single rooms (one for the person in charge of the floor and one for a person that may have a disability.) There was also a single bathroom in case a person had a disability and needed a private one.
I'm definitely doing this when I get the pack! I'll also add a laundromat and gym to the first floor, and a more suite-style room to be a Resident Adviser room.
Including an NPC Sim as an RA would have actually been a really cool feature, they could be your "tour guide" for the university. If you instituted curfew using the Parenthood whiteboard thing they could reprimand you, or just do like the apartments when something is too loud after a certain time and you get angry neighbors banging on your door. Man...what a cool option.
I think you should do a britchester dorm build that is more prestigious and matches the campus better. Use fancier furniture like the nicer beds that came in the pack
I think I’m gonna use groups from get together to make sororities and fraternities 😊 also Walter wyatt made me laugh. You should edit him to look like Walter White lmao
University in a regular neighbourhood is essentially my university city groningen. The old university buildings are all in the old city center among all the other city center stuff and housing. It's pretty cool!
I think those modern room dividers were given as a way to make the open showers look cool in home/modern builds. Always wanted large sleek shower rooms, and now we can ^^
Stellar Quartz I think it’ll be ok. They’ve added a lot of items that could potentially add gameplay options on other lots. It looks like if adds more than Witches and Mermaids.
@@anigodess Absolutely!!! Totally Agree!!!! I Mean The Hyper For These / REalm Of Magic And Island Living Was Just THAT... Yes I Love The Asethetics Of Island Living But NO Gameplay It's Like These Are Fun For A Bit Then Your Like Ok Bored Now.... I Am Stoked For This ONE
@@MarineSimmer Agree Island Living Has The Most Gorgeous World!!! Too Bad They Didn't Have Any Active Careers .... I Love Playing In That World.... Just For The Beauty Of It
this dorm is way nice! it’s huge! from what i’ve seen (in american dorms) there aren’t all these open rooms in dorms just like bedrooms and commons but i like that we can’t have stoves it’s realistic
Apparently it's realistic for American dorms :) German dormrooms for example have little kitchens. It's like a very small apartment and there is a stove, fridge and a sink.
This dorm situation in discover university is just so American, I understand, because the game is made by Americans, but like, al the things everyone is talking about that you obviously can't have in a dorm, I have in my country. My dorm right now is more like a studio apartment so I obviously have a kitchen, pets are allowed. But even when I had a dorm with roommates, we had a kitchen, we can paint the walls and drill holes in them. Commons is not a thing in my country, so dorms are just rooms in townhouses. Dorms don't come with anything, so you need to buy your own furniture etc. I just feels really annoying that you constantly have to load other lots for just being able to cook a good meal or cheats to even rearrange the furniture in the room to have it fit more nicely
I live in america and every university I've heard about around where I live, and the uni I go to, at least has a communal kitchen on every floor, so I didn't know not having a dorm kitchen was a common thing.
My niece goes to uni in Florida and she has an apartment type dorm kitchen et al with her roommates ( just 1 this her final semester but she's has shared a dorm room with up to 3 others in previous semesters). So I don't understand why this is considered norm for every American uni.
I live in Malaysia. The university I went to was closer to the style in the sims. Dorms were literally beds, a cabinet, and a desk. you couldn't change anything about it. there was no communal kitchen and we weren't allowed to bring even small appliances so we were forced to buy food.
Actual this isn’t American, it’s pretty general , funny enough in my country we weren’t allowed stoves in our dorms as well as pets and we had to walk to our cafeteria which was on the other side of campus. We weren’t even allowed to bring certain things to the hostel. Our school had an unfortunate event where a stove caught on fire and burnt part of the school so it became a new rule. However that was a private school , public universities usually allow stoves but their dorms are more shitty than this .
I love how you didn’t make it look like an ikea show room, the un cluttered and unmatching ness is so realistic compared to the matching perfect decorated dorms. I’m so excited to play with this!
Thank you! This is what my dorm was like in college. We had a common area with an actual kitchen. I'm cool with a cafeteria instead. No time to cook, must study! - Kinda wish they had what we had in RL. Tortilla maker in the cafeteria. Mmmm. Fresh tortillas at any time.
I really wish we could have kitchens in the dorm lots. We had small kitchens in the dorm I stayed in at college (given I used it like once lol) but it would have added that nice little touch plus make it so our sims don’t have to go to another lot!
My dorm has 2,200 people in it, (four towers connected) two restaurants(cafeteria), one convenience store, coffee shop. It was massive. 28,000 students go to my university as well
I love that you can put in your own dining hall, had no idea, I’ll go do that! It’s so annoying that you have to go through a loading screen every time you need to eat, or wait for random people to drop off food.
Watching this as I cook lunch in my campus unit, which has a full kitchen that I share with four other students. It's set out very much like living in a flat with flatmates. Individual rooms, shared bathroom, shared kitchen/dining.
My only experience (in the last 16 years) was a residential trip in 2017 and even then we had a kitchen in each dorm and a small room each for the 2 nights we stayed in the dorms
My dorms from college had all this, but also a small store (with snacks & clothes) & a small fitness center (only treadmills). When I can download this, imma add that
This is just my opinion. I'm not hating on this amazing build: The only thing I disagree with in this video is giving britechester. (An extremely rich historical university in the modern world) a really crappy tv and poor common room. The students don't purchase the items that go in the common room so it shouldnt reflect their financial status. The rooms should reflect that. The common room should atleast have a flatscreen tv (because lets be honest its all thats sold nowadays, this is 2019 not 2007). The couches should look comfortable and clean. Edit: The computers shouldn't be old bricks. And the furniture should actually be neatly placed because no one just pushes a couch diagonal. This is a school building still. The RA's are still in charge of keeping the dorms in order as well. I think their individual rooms or clutter around the dormitory should be thrown around or placed clumsily but the actual furniture should be neatly placed. Maybe a laundry room would work out nicely as well.
I dunno, I went to an old, private university where a lot of people had money, but the dorm furniture was crap because kids would barf/pee/do worse stuff on everything and it had to be replaced. And we had an old TV, maybe to discourage theft or maybe bc a nicer one got broken?
As an American, I went to college in Minneapolis and our dorms were only rooms, bathrooms, and laundry. We didn’t have kitchens, you had to walk far across campus to get to the cafeteria, and you share your bedroom with one to two other people. It was so fun. It builds character. So it’s interesting to see everyone complain about no stoves no amenities no private bathrooms.
I am a university student in America, and the dorms on our campus all have their own bedroom and a bathroom shared with two students. I also have a full kitchen (refrigerator, freezer, dishwasher, stovetop, oven, microwave).
Hello American college/ university student here, and I’d like to clear up some peoples questions about dorms in the U.S. First roommates: In almost all American colleges you have to have a roommate. There normally are some single rooms on campus but they are only given out in special circumstances (mentally or physically handicapped people, gender non conforming people, or people with service animals). And in some colleges you might not just get one roommate but two or three. And the rooms are almost never large enough to comfortably accommodate all the people living in them. Second kitchens: Unlike in the pack most American dorms have at least one kitchen in the building. Though I have heard of quite a few schools that have none in dorms. And the kitchens are ALWAYS communal, I have never heard of a American school where the kitchens are in a dorm room. Three, bathrooms: I would say the majority of schools have a communal bathroom that you share with your whole floor. Though some schools (including mine actually) have smalls bathrooms that two dorm rooms share. Again bathrooms are never just for one dorm room, they are always communal to some degree. Fourth apartments: Many schools also offer apartment style accommodations on campus as well. In apartments you still always have roommates sometimes that means sharing the apartment and sometimes it still means you have to share your room. But in apartments you do get to have your own living room, kitchens, and bathroom(s). The downsides to apartments is that there very expensive (1,000-3,000$ per semester) and you still have to share a small space with many people. Lastly why do they do this: The short answer is that American colleges are not funded by the government and thus try to extort students of all their money. For example, why would you build more expensive larger dorms when you could shove all your students in to small shared dorms to save money and space? Or, why would you let students make their own food when you could force them to eat shity dinning hall food and charge them a lot. So basically American dorms are just slightly fancier prisons that you have to pay an arm and a leg to live in.
I have my own bathroom in America there’s a lot of variation because i had a communal one freshman year. If you’re in a city it’s more likely that you’re standard housing offered by the school will be apartment style with a kitchen. The upperclassmen apartments are actually pretty big with a kitchen in every apartment and then a big one downstairs and they don’t cost extra. We also have some singles but it depends on the building and usually they don’t cost more. Every college has a different system it seems like nothing is standardized amongst them besides the fact that they offer on campus housing.
luna first of all I want to say that you’re very lucky with having your own bathroom. And I also acknowledge that there is variation between schools and from what I’ve heard I agree that it’s especially apparent in colleges in cities.I was just trying to be as general as possible but I may have presented my own biases based on my experiences at my own college.
Rachel Ahrens I should be more clear that my college isn’t in a city lol but some of my friends do go to city colleges. We have like four different styles of housing in our smallish campus. It’s a public state school in a suburb. Mines like a normal dorm, it just that every room happens to have its own bathroom which is actually amazing because you only share it with one person instead of like 24. although besides freshman housing you only share bathrooms with 1-3 other people at most. I definitely agree with a lot of what you said.
i really want a to see a dorm room in this game which echos the tragic style of the UK uni student halls. 6-12 people in a flat, in tiny beige rooms with single beds and a single sink just sticking out of the floor, all of them sharing grimy showers and a kitchen where the stove set itself on fire every other week
You could set up a fraternity or sorority as a club using "get together" and then just "recruit" by who moves in with you or on campus. You also could make a custom "greek house" to live in, and set that as the place you gather.
I hope you and your family are safe from any fire dangers today James! Still can’t believe we had snow at Perisher only a few days ago and then these horrible fires up north. 💜💜
Are the NPCs also decorating their rooms or are they just leaving them how they are? Would look really weird when your part of the room/ room looks adorable and all others are so neutral
Personally a loading screen doesn't bother me, but I completely understand why you added a cafeteria in the dorms. It's a really neat idea! And I always love every single build you come up with. I can't wait to see more University videos from you soon. 😁
As an American I guessy school is special cause we have halls that have have a small kitchen for everyone. And we have kitchen suite dorms, which is basically 4 dorm rooms that share a small kitchen/common sitting space.
SO glad we can build multi stories here because that single-story build they had was depressing the hell out of me. Can't wait to start changing it all!
Many dormitories don’t allow to cook by stove because they are afraid of fire hazards and smell of food may disturb others who live there too, I guess.
Wait so there’s a full on tab for transportation so I think one day soon we will get cars The bikes could have been in the outdoor activity and the skill tab
Plans so far - just worked out for those towers at Foxbury, but one is going to be reasonably conventional - a few storeys high, common floor, dorm floor, and instead of a rooftop area, it's a storage area that's been repurposed as a club. The other is going to be an 'experimental community' featuring small but almost fully-functional tiny houses in a micro-town setting (almost fully functional. No stoves, obviously). Like they've taken this dorm structure and gone, "How can we make this an Experience?" Anyway, I've decided Britechester is Sydney Uni and Foxbury is Macquarie Uni. It's even red! Unsatisfactory lack of robots and lobsters, but still. Feels nice and familiar.
Guess you can redesign it all like lil studio apartments/suites with kitchens and change the lot type to residential and request roommates. It can then simulate apartments, but everyone will be paying one humongous rent.
Chronic geek in the rest of the world u have the option of catered halls which has a dining hall and self catered halls which have kitchens but the overall campus will still have a canteen.
Shamir Patel nah here u just have your own studio with a shared kitchen with like 6 people max. Its weird to have to go out for food, it should be in your house
Shamir Patel Many other parts of the world do have kitchens. It's crazy to make the oven a forbidden object. They should let people play the game with their own vision.
Those dorm rooms are HUGE. I look forward to building something like the dorm room I had: a tiny, narrow room with just enough wall space for 2 twin beds, 2 wardrobes, and 2 desks. I had to suffer, my Sims will have to suffer.
you need a laundry room, and a gym, a workshop, and an internet cafe. (still annoying you can't eat/read with keyboard taking food/book spot) might as well add a bowling alley, etc :)
one time i got an achivement for playing 24hrs straight-- lets just say getting that "achivment" wasnt fun to see l,maooo-- i realized i had no life---
I'm probably going to make the commons into a classroom building of some sort? Like a place where there can be an art studio, music room, labs, etc. I'm actually glad the classes are rabbit holes but making a building of classrooms would be nice because as an art student for example, you spend a lot of time going into the studios to work on projects. I gotta get my sims out more lol
That's brillant to place the cafeteria, library, and debate and robot labs in the same dorm.👍I'm so copying that.😍 I'll probably add movie stuff screen and a vending machine for after hour snacks.😁
My IRL dorm didn't have a cafeteria. Ours was next door to the girls' dorms. The guys had to walk further to get their food! Each floor in our dorm had a tiny cubbyhole of a kitchen with a fridge and oven.
I appreciate this build so much. I'm not a fan of all of the dark wood floors, walls, and furniture together its so dreary to me. The renos I've watched so far have so much dark everything all blending together it's just...no. Beautifully done, thank you! Not really sure how I feel about the different colored furniture pieces and them not being straight (it makes my OCD hurt haha) but I would definitely use this in game, with the furniture maybe not crooked lol
Thank you James, that's a great idea! Bravo! I'm going to try this but there's enough room to give 10 students their own rooms. Plus, male & female bathrooms. I'm old school like that. I've officially watched this video 5 times. It's my favorite of all the Discover University videos I've seen. Several you tubers have renovated these dorms, but you went above and beyond, literally. Love it!
