The University Project Project
This bi-monthly theme at GoS gave me some inspiraton, so here's a mod to celebrate GoS returning. :)
This mod gives university students a chance of bringing college project instead of standard written homework, using TS4 Discover University meshes and textures.
Project will look differently for each major. Undeclared Sims and custom majors get randomly one of 11 projects.
Chance of bringing a college project is by default 20%.
College projects take longer to finish, but are more rewarding, letting your Sims gain some skills and hobby enthusiasm. There's 50/50 chance of gaining either logic skill or charisma skill, because those are the skills that made sense to me in the college project context.
Art project makes your Sims gain Art and Craft enthusiasm,
Biology project makes your Sims gain Nature enthusiasm,
Drama, History, Philosophy and Literature projects make your Sims gain Film and Literature enthusiasm,
Economics, Maths/IT, Physics and Psychology projects make your Sims gain Science enthusiasm,
Political Science project makes your Sims gain Games enthusiasm.
I know some of subjects might not be the best match for certain hobbies, but I didn't want to turn everything into Science and there's history of everything, so this major could fit into many hobbies, like art, music etc.
Sims have a chance of making college project of one of three qualities: low, mid and high. The outcome depends on Sim's grade and getting help with the project (but it only counts if it happens during quality check).
If you use Smonaff's Fall Asleep While Doing Homework, Sims who have fallen asleep while working on their project can't make projects of high quality.
Additionally, Sims with Ambitious, Genius or Perfectionist trait get bonus making it easier for them to get better quality project, while Absent-Minded and Clumsy Sims will get penalty. Sims with Can't Stand Art trait will get penalty if they are working on an Art project. Bonuses do not stack. Penalties also don't. So if your Sim is genius and perfectionist, they will get only one bonus. Bonus and penalty can cancel each other out.
This mod conflicts with some mods:
if you are using simler90's Homework Assignment Mod (Full Version - it doesn't conflict with Placement Version), choose plug-in "zz_Meduza_UniversityProject_AssignmentFull" and make it load after both my mod and simler90's mod,
if you are using smonaff's Fall Asleep While Doing Homework, choose plug-in called "zz_Meduza_Smonaff_UniversityProjectFallAsleep" and make it load after both my mod and smonaff's mod,
if you are using @episims' Pencils by Color Traits, choose plug-in called "zz_Meduza_UniversityProject_ColorPencil" - Epi's mod doesn't conflict with mine, but you need this plug-in to get colorful pencils,
if you are using Dave_Luv's Faster Homework, choose plug-in called "zz_Meduza_UniversityProject_FasterHomework" and make it load after both my mod and Dave_Luv's mod,
if you are using MogHughson's University Mod for use with the Desk Locator, choose plug-in called "zz_Meduza_UniversityProject_UniDeskLocator" and make it load after both my mod and MogHughson's mod.
DO NOT use my plug-in for simler90's Homework Assignment Mod (Full version) and my plug-in for Dave_Luv's Faster Homework - these mods are incompatible.
There's an issue when a project board is facing wall - the project won't turn around and your Sim will be doing their project even though they are facing the board's back. Right now I don't have a good solution for that. The best I can offer you is that you can cancel the action and turn the board around in the Buy mode. :/
Update 20th June 2026: yeah, the same day I published the mod 😅 added compatibility plug-in for MogHughson's University Mod for use with the Desk Locator and added trait support that I had forgotten about
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