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As requested:
This mod allows teens to age as young adults without the need for college.
 
*This mod is not compatible with Apartment Life*
 
EP1 & EP2 or greater are required to use this mod.
 
This will conflict with the anti-aging elixer mod by jase.
Note:
1. When they grow up it still shows the college stuff but they can get a job but it won't show that they have a job.
2. They age from young adult to adult, I forced them to grow up so I don’t know if they will grow up from young adult to adult without forcing them or if they will stay a young adult forever.
 
yaBirthDayCake.zip(Allows you to age them to adult when ever you want to)
nomemoryuneducated.zip(Prevent the game from creating never went to college memories, not needed for version 1.0c)
nowantsatisifyuneducated.zip(Prevents the game from satisifying the uneducated fear)
11-15-06 Posted a updated pets compatible version.
3-19-07 Posted a Seasons compatible version.
10-18-08 Posted a FreeTime Version.
You may also want to download college Interactions on any lot (http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=8943)
 
TeenToYoungAdultNoCollegeEP4V1.0b.zip(EP4 Pets is required)
TeenToYoungAdultNoCollegeEP5.zip(EP5 Season's is required)

10-30-08:

New Mega College Pack - FreeTime (http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?p=1438315#post1438315) thread set up with one package containing the college mods for your convenience.

 
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Thank you so much Squinge :o) I will try this out asap and let you know how it works.

So with this in will all teen go to the YA adult stage even if we don't send them to college or is it an option?

Only if they don't goto college.

And do you have an idea of how long that stage will last or the only way to make them grow-up into adult is to manually age them with the agesimscheat or set to birthday?

EDIT: Forget about this, you obviously don't know.  I should have read the 1st post....

I will try leaving the lot going for a few hours later & see if they age on their own.

I am really afraid of this one.  I think I will wait for a month and read many feedback before I even consideer installing this one.  It sound too much like BFBVFS kind of thing.

Me too that is exactly why I have a test neighborhood for testing new hacks like this one.

Ok, it does work, with and without a cake. I have the school on any lot in, though...so I have no idea what happens without it as far as the job thing goes. He got promoted and his hours changed. No errors, no bugs thusfar. :)

Edit: they do not age as young adults, so I suppose that is a plus if you never want them to mature. If they had the option to visit a Uni lot, they probably would...but they can't. I took out the school hack, and tried it without it, too.

Very cool!!!

Looks interesting, I try it in my test game, thanks much!

CT

I just wish that we can select which sims will became a YA and which will grows up directly to an adult. Maybe put the hack on a special birthday cake perhaps?

And will the young adult still be able to attend classes and stuffs? Like a stay with parents uni students in real life?

:goodidea:
 
Thank you I was trying to think of a way to make them grow up I will try the cake & post it here when it's working.
 
edit:no that would take another hack for them to goto class if it would even work.

Well.. you can also make a popup menu for user to choose their age, but a cake seems like simpler to me (not that I know any SimAntics tho :P).

It's a pity their cannot go to class. Maybe I can use your other hacks that enables other college stuffs for them on other lots.

Cant wait for the new cake ;).

I will do a test sending them to class from a home lot & see what happens if it works I will also post that under in testing.
edit: I tried sending them to class but it won't work because when they grow up they grow up as never went to college.

I just posted a hacked birthday cake so you can age them from young adult to adult whenever you want to.
 
edit:I also added another hack to stop memories of never went to college from being created.

Hi Squinge
I haven't had so much time to test it yet, but so far it's working. I had my teen grow to a YA on his own and he now has a job. It seems like he's not aging and he won't grow to an adult on his own.

... Just downloaded the birthdaycake... Thank you :0)

Oh, that's amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you!!!!!!!!!!

I'll mess around with this in my test neighbourhood, and see if I can break it! lol!  Will report back in a while.

i'm hesitent to download this, not because it's beta, but because i almost certain this will conflict with current and future inteenimators, i have no idea what technical stuff are involved with each so post if you have any word on that...

I will ask jase since he makes the Inteenimator and post his answers here when I get them.

I'll save you some typing and reply here directly :)

I have not tested this in game, but I don't see any conflict with this mod and InTeen (current or future).  InTeen users should be fine with this.

J

PS. It will conflict directly with my anti-aging elixer mod, however.

cool!-cause you know i'll be first to download the inteen *winks*

not to hyjack the thread squinge you're one of my top three mods, and i will be testing this soon...

I had my YA living at home, he had a job and a girlfriend... but when I moved him out, he became an adult :o( so they will grow on their own when they leave the family.

You know, with this and your college interactions mod, technically a YA could live at home and still do assignments and a term paper.  

Plus, if you use your workshop mod that alters the length and time of day that a sim works as an employee at an owned business, and your cruiseaslongasyouwant mod.....this could make the whole scenario even more realistic!  They'd live at home, work in an owned business in the evening, and for the purpose of storytelling you can send them on a lengthy cruise during the day, and say they were 'at school'........and then, while at home they can still their college assignments and term paper!  How cool is that?!

You are wonderful! Thank-you!!!

Ok thanks for the information I never thought of trying that.

They can do their assignments and write their term papers when this is used with the collegeinteractions mod (no research on bookcases though, as mentioned in the other thread).  The go to class option is not available at class time.  

For the record, their school performance does increase as they do assignments, their term paper and get any needed skills.  To bad there's not a way for them to go to class.

Oh btw, even though I there's no noteducated memory as advertized, I did catch on of my home-bound YAs doing the sigh and slumped shoulders, depressed think withthe thought bubble of college.  But I daresay it's still realistic that people who're stuck living at home and attending college part time, would be a mite depressed that they didn't get to fly the coup and live on campus.

EDIT: Oh.....and another thing: I was concerned that YAs living in regular neighbourhoods would ahve a problem buying clothes as the YA option only shows up on uni lots.  However, when I had mine purhcase clothes, though there was no age group selcted (obviously) the right YA clothing showed up, and was buyable, and then showed up in his at-home wardrobe.  So all is well on that count.

Is the research still not working with the new version?
 
I will try doing that one a different way & see if it will work.

Sorry, didn't see the new version.  Will download right away. (please note my edited post above with additional observations).

Version 1a seems like it stops sims from crying about not going to college in my game.

What a great idea :B I just have a question before I'll download and install this:


Does version 1a alone stop the crying or do I need the nomemoryuneducated.zip as well to prevent the memory?
I would love to get that "Never went to College" memory, but no crying and such.

You will still need the nomemoryuneducated if you don't want your sims to get that memory so it's optional.

Here is a message I just got:
 
"Hi Squinge!!
I downloaded your wonderful hack yesterday and had a chance to play for over 5 hours. Here is something I've noticed: when my ya sim changed her clothes/hair/make up she also changed her age (became an adult). And the male became an adult after a night - explanation: in the afternoon he was a teen I aged him to be a ya and everything was just fine. He went to bed and when he woke up, he became an adult. I thought I should let you know"

I can't duplicate this problem.  I played with a family in Plesantview that had two YAs living at home - a male and a female-  in regular jobs (one of them a custom career).  I played for two sim days, and saved and exited half way through.

They showered a couple of times, I changed their appearance, I sent them downtown, and they remained YAs.  One of them even got a promotion.

THe only drawback to this mod IMO is psychological........in that you can't see their employment info, and what skills they need to get promoted.  Otherwise, I haven't had anything buggy happen, and I'm playing with boolpropcheats on, and have had no error messages.

I have got them to goto class but the stayed at class forever & wouldn't return, now I will try to change the panel so it will show their job.

Hi hun!! I've downloaded the new version, but didn't play it yet. I'm going in game now. The family I'm playing has 3 teens. I'll have one of them became a ya. Soon I'll return with an answer.
I wanted them to go to college even thought they stayed at home....

I just posted another version which allows you to goto class see screenshot.
 
I left the other version just in case you don't want the option to goto class.

So I assume if they can go to class now, they can also go to finals?

And can you add a "take finals anytime" hack? Since I dont want them to waste their times when their GPA is already full!

Yes they should be able to but I didn't go that far in my test yet.

That was a very fast reply :D. I've edited my reply with an additional request tho! I dunno you'll reply that fast.

I will try adding that to the next update.
edit: I would also like them to get the went to college memory & want in the next version.

You can use inSIMenator's Education Adjuster to set "2 hours to finals" at any time.  It's a great way to fast track through uni.  I'm going to use that feature now to test to see if this mod will let them go to finals and ultimately graduate.  Stay tuned......

EDIT: Ok, I checked.  Unfortunately they can't go to finals becasue time does not actually progress for YAs living on home lots.  Even if you use inSIM's Ed Adjuster to make it two hours until a final, the clock remains at two hours, and so the option to attend finals never comes up.  back to you Squinge.

Hey, anymore popcorn around?...I'm feeling kinda peckish :tongue5:

I accept your popcorn. I'm really hungry and so lazy to fix dinner.....
You see, Maxis could have thought of that. I didn't live in a campus when I went to college. I lived in my parents' house. They should have done something like that as well. But you are a magician, Squinge!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*hugs Squinge*

Le edit: oops! Download is not working and the message said I should contact the adm. Kathy!!!!!!!!!!

This new version gives sims the went to college memory as well as want satisfy for going to college.

do we still need nomemoryuneducated.zip then.

Oky, it's working fine now

No not if your going to use the newest version.

I'm back!! Well, there was something wrong: the insimenator. I can't refresh the motives of neither of the ya - they will become adults. Dunno why. Anyways I found out what the problem was in my game.

For the clock to go, all you need to do is either download the Semester Tester at MTS2 here (http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=148693&c=1), or spawn it in testingcheats by shift+clicking on the sim. Select "class start" and the clock will run. Select "class end" and the clock will stop. I haven't tested it with the updated version that allows them to go to class, as I haven't played enough since installing it, but I was able to get them through the first semester without the go to class option, but they stay at their finals indefinitely so I just graduated him and then moved him out. When I moved him into his new home he had all 6 slots, a graduated with honors memory, but no diploma. I will be testing this with the new version and the Semester Tester and post what I find if someone else doesn't beat me to it.

*stares at Nec's post*
Huh?
BTW, I love your avi!!!!

Hi Squinge,

        All your hacks are wonderful by the way. With this one I am having the same problem as somone else, where my teen grew into young adult then about two hours later became an adult.  I am using version 1c.


Thanks

Did that happen after sleeping?

What do you mean by "huh?" Lost me there

and thanks! :)

Just in case this is what you mean: clock=hours until final where the aging bar normally is.

Will test the finals thing today. Been busy with other stuff.

EDIT: I put complete instructions in the College interactions on any lot thread HERE (http://www.insimenator.org/showpost.php?p=114310&postcount=26)

No he was awake.  Just watching televison stood up and he grew up.

Thanks Squinge for atempting this! I've been waiting for this mod ever since i got University.

I hope you conqur this mod someday!

Ok sorry I am just now reading about your last test I will get back to work on this asap, I thought all was still working well with this mod.

4/24/06 I fixed the problem with young adults aging for no reason also I added a new option to the cake to set the college clock to 2 hours before final exam.
 
With my test using the semester tester I was able to graduate & even got the diploma but I had to use another sim & click end class to get the sim to exit the final exam. I also noticed that my sim got the memory never went to college so you will have to download that fix again until I can fix that in a future version.

Thanks for the update! I will go check it out :)

Can you confirm that with this new version all sims stop aging? someone reported that to me but I didn't notice it in my game.

Fantastic!  I've always wanted to play YA sims without having to go through college (after the first dozen times, playing through the college scenario lost its appeal to me).  I'll have to remove the anti age elixer from my game and try this out.  Sorry elders, you're going to have to look old, now. :P

When you test it could you let me know if you notice if non young adults still age & post your results here?

Sure thing.

This happened to me, even though I didn't want the sim to go to college at all.  I downloaded the 1.b version, so if I don't want to have to send them to college do I download the first version instead?  I haven't had time to see if there are any aging problems with non YA on the lot yet, because the game acted as though he was in college and I sent him to class, only to have him never return. :P

Luckily I saved before I aged, him, so I'll try to do it without sending him to class....I just don't know if it will let me do that.  It seems to want YA to go to college no matter what. :(

Okay, it seems both versions have problems in my game, and I ran the conflict scanner and didn't find anything.  I also removed the anti aging hack before trying either.  The second version does turn my sim into a YA when he grows up out of teen, but it pesters for going to class and if I send him he never returns.  The first version that seems to be for people that don't want college doesn't allow him to turn into a YA at all.  Instead, he becomes an adult.  I tried using the cake, thinking the teen has to interact with the cake in the first version to grow into a YA, but the only option available is "clean up".

So, let me get this straight...if I use version 1.0a, I'm supposed to also install the nomemoryuneducated file, and if I use 1.0d, I'm not supposed to use the memory file?  I'm just trying to be sure I had the right combo or lack thereof.  Is the cake supposed to go in no matter which version we use?  

I'm sorry for all of the questions but the post that the downloads are in doesn't exactly specify which files to install with which, so I kind of had to read through the whole thread to figure it out and I'm not certain I got it right.  Just trying to understand why the first version completely skipped the YA stage. :)

The cake is to make them age from YA to adult & you are correct about the memorynoundereducate, with the newest version I just realized there is a inteen conflict but I'm not sure how serious it is yet I have to look at the inteen code to see how bad it may be, also which ep's do you own?.

I will check on that. :)

Thanks I really appreciate it.

I've got all of the EP's, and I don't use Inteen.

Ok thanks I know what it may be everyone else is also using my college Interactions on any lot (http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?t=8943) mod so that maybe why you are having problems.

Yes, all sims stop aging, except the YA with the Semester Tester on.

Ok thanks I think I found the problem it was a simple typo on my part.

OK, they did not age still, but I threw v1b back in out of curiosity, and they did age - only difference is the go to class thing.

I wonder if the ffs patch has changed something that i didn't notice, so they are getting stuck at class in your game?

No, they get prompted to go to class, and can. I don't have FFS - and I have OFB but I won't patch it until they make one that really works

I have no idea how the whole hack is set up, but the aging part of v1b works, and the rest of v1d works. With the Semester Testerm of course...but that is nothing more than a minor inconvenience, and certainly worth taking the 2 seconds to spawn.

Ok maybe I will start over with v1b & compare it to the latest one to see if I can figure out what may have happened.

Danger Will Robinson...the No College version of this mod has a MAJOR conflict with the InTeenimater.  Do not use together!

Oh No! Is there anyway these two can ever be in the game together? I love the InTeenimater ... and I love that you Squinge has made it possible for me to keep my YA at home ... (crying) ... I really hope that there is a way to keep them both. Please Squinge ... make some magic here if you can

I am going to try making this mod another way because it needs updating anyway so I will try to make sure not to use any code that conflicts with the Inteen if possible.

Forgive me, but I'm a little confused.

You say that the No College Version of this Hack isn't compatible with the InTeen, but isn't this thread specifically for, quoting from the title "Teens age to young adult without going to college"?

Wouldn't removing a No College element(ie. to make it compatible with InTeen), simply be what we already have?

Sorry to sound a bit obtuse, but I'm not sure what we can or can't download from here that's safe to run alongside the InTeen, and, more importantly, what it will actually do if the "No College" element isn't there.

Or have I missed something obvious?

The first version of this hack was compatible with InTeen, and then the No College version was added, and and both were available for a time.  If you have the old version (where sims still go to college), you're fine.  If you're using the current No College one, then no, it won't work with InTeen.

J

Sorry about that you may still use version 1a of this with Inteen only 1.0d & 1.0e conflict with inteen I just forgot to type that in the description.:)

Ah-huh. I think I follow you chaps now, so version 1a still permits YA sims to remain on Residential Lots OFF Campus, yes? But only version 1e(currently incompatible with InTeen) ages them to Adult, yes?

In other words, if I want to run Inteen, ver. 1a will permit me to keep YAs at home instead of having them go off to Uni... but I have to do the aging MANUALLY, with a tool like the InSIM's Temporal Adjuster.

If that's the case then I'm more than happy with that. I tend to have Aging switched off on all Lots anyway, and just manually adjust sims' ages when I feel ready to take them to the next stage, so I'll hardly notice the difference. :p Lol.

All I've really wanted, for quite some time now, was a Hack that permitted YAs to live in the Core Neighborhood or in Downtowns, and it would seem that ver. 1a does allow for that. :)

Super cooooooooooooool! :)

Many thanks. :wave:

do we have to uninstall the last version then re-download, or will this automatically replace it?

The filename is still the same inside the .zip so just replace the old one:)

Thank you Squinge .... you are the best!

Wonderful update, Squinge. I will try it in my game later. :) Thank you for your continued work on this, and your other, mods.

Your Welcome & I just noticed your website I will have to check it out when I have some free time:)

Yes it is compatible with Inteen, but I haven't had much free time to test the final exam part so I'm not sure:)

I Love it, thank you ~~

The aging problem is definitely fixed, and I was really happy to find that they stay young adults when they find their own place. :) For some reason, I can't get the cake to work. He blows out the candles, and then grabs a plate. Tried it three times, and nothing. Perhaps I need to put him through college as well? I have just been having him go to work without the semester clock running. I tried growing him up with the clock on and off. It gets further with the clock running, but stalls at the grow up part. I will go ahead and send him through college and see what that does.

Edit: I tried with another YA - one that was still living at home and the same thing happened. Both also turned into adults when I sent them (individually) to a community lot. I exited to the neighborhood without saving and they arrived home as YA. Can't figure that one out.

Re-edit:P  I have some very good news. If you remember, I posted that partway through one semester, the ability to go to class was failing. That is no longer happening. He is almost done with his sophomore year and has been able to go to all classes and finals on his own perfectly. Will let you know how the graduate works when it happens.

Yaay! This is way too cool! Just before the end of the first semester of his senior year, I got the "Tank will grow up in just two days" message...that kind of worried me since there were 3 days in the final semester. Well, he went through the first day and I got the 1 day notice, and for the next 24 sim hours he had the option to blow out candles on a standard Maxis cake. He didn't grow up, at least not yet. I had to tell him to go to his final exam for the last semester, but when he returned, he aged into an adult, has all six want slots, graduated with honors and got a diploma to boot. All the correct memories are there, as well. How cool is that? It was really hard being patient at times because I played the lot as clean as I could (sometimes it is so hard not to cheat!), and he still managed to graduate while holding down a full time job in the military career. I only stopped the college clock 2 times, and only because finals were scheduled when he was supposed to be at work.

This one is definitely a success as far as the home college education goes - just the community lot thing as far as bugs go, from what I can tell.

Ok good & thank you:) , I think I know a way of fixing that community lot thing, I just hope it can be done without making a new Inteen conflict.

I've been a long time away, so I have many questions.
Does your mod replace an item of the Insimenator where you have sort of an independent Teen?
In fact all what is wished is that the Young Adult be available in a regular neighborhood. It sounds like your mod does this.
As I said I have a long list of mods to test and most are yours.
So what I'm looking for here is that: Teens age to YA home, be able to have a job and reproduce normally and can move to own home.
I do not use Inteenimater and am truly fed-up with a supposed 12yo newly aged wishing to enter Uni and the fear of being uneducated when the (TS) Uni is just a place to be a fully operating Rabbit.

Here's an odd one.  Something you might want to look at, but someone noted that if you have YA's living on a normal residential lot, and a legitimate university student returns home from college to that same lot, ALL young adults on that lot are subsequently aged into adults.

Is that happening on only one lot at a time or all of the lots in the same neighborhood suffers the same effect?
Uni is a separated ngbh and I had once two Unis connected to one same home neighborhood, so this problem could even happen in the transition "return to home ngbh".

That is strange, Thanks for letting me know:)

I'm not sure what you mean by replace an item of Insimenator I haven't used that mod much, but teens once aged to YA can get jobs and move out if they want to if that's what you mean.

Below is a private message I just got:
 
"I am having a problem with this mod. I have taken it out for now but I so want my teens to become young adults without having to go to college.
 
The problem i was having is this, my sims are engaged and the one recently graduated from college the girlfriend is still in college, he moved into a home with his daughter but when he has to go to work, a message pops up saying that he has to go to school in one hour, then a bus shows up, i made him stay home and then a message pops up to go to work in one hour he goes but then the babysitter leaves two hours before he gets home and of course he looses his daughter, also as the game progresses it tells him he missed school and will loose a grade, then it says the teacher will send a note or tell his boss about his grades and he looses his job.
 
Since I removed the mod it does not happen so that's why I think it's got be this mod because of the aging."

The babysitter problem is not related with this mod.  I have had that problem too and I don't use this mod.  It seems to happen when they are promoted and change the hours they work.  It is like the nanny is aware of these new hours before the Sims come back from work making her leave earlier sometimes, I also had nanny come again the same day because the Sìms new hour were 8pm to 2am eventhough the Sim was not working that day and it was with that Sim that the nanny was scheduled with. The game reset this at 12:00 am so the next day she comes at the right hours.

As for the rest of the problems, I am sure others will report.

Is this Inteen related? I tested it by moving a legitimate college student into his friend's house in the base hood after he graduated, and the YA stayed a YA. I am trying it with another family, one who I had move to a Greek house from the base hood. The younger brother is about to go to college at home, so I will move the older one back in when he graduates to see if it is a family thing.

Squinge:

I thought the YA aging when they visited a community lot might have been due to the fact that I had no college subhood at the time. That was not the case. I tried it with Uni students, too, and they all grew up every time. Community lots in a Uni hood are fine. I did successfuly move a student from the base hood to a Greek house, as you see, but it caused his motives to be static until I changed them to dynamic. That was kind of weird. Also, it had to be done by the Greek house members since college interactions are not available on phones in the base hood. Also, upon returning to the lot after the student moves there, the Semester Tester will cause an error due to the missing student. So I guess it needs to be deleted or class ended before letting them move to a Uni lot. The other good news is that base hood YA show up at Uni community lots on their own, and are listed in the campus directory. Uni students that visit base hood students will do assignments and research autonomously, and it shows up in their grade bar. The same goes for base hood students visiting Uni lots.

I am going to try sending a non-YA to a non-Uni community lot and invite a YA and see if they grow up when not selectable. The other move-back-in to test the aging problem may take a day or two because the teen still has 7 days before his birthday, and the YA is in his freshman year still. I am playing it all legit, just to make sure I don't bugger things up.


Edit: Inviting them to any community lot causes no problems - they even do their assignments, so it is only when they are selectable, I guess....unless someone from the same household invites them, then they become selectable at the lot and do not age - so it only seems to be when the lot is loaded and they are the ones arriving first.

Also, if the other aging problem is Inteen related, I will install it in this test hood and check it out.

Just in case anyone was curious what happens if you stop using this mod, I tried it because I had to test another mod that conflicted with this one, all of the young adults age to adult without messing anything up in the game.

The case from the PM you got seems to me to be directly related to jobdata.
Teens are severely connected to a special jobdata that limitates access to adult interactions. That means, they can have only crap elder jobs so that the school works. YAs are in fact halfTeens halfAdults and I suppose this is the reason they don't age and don't have any jobdata print. So, it can be an issue caused by using Inteen mod.
It must be possible to recover all the data so that Uni students become a new full Age that can be simply included in the normal 'hood.
When Uni was released, it was the first trial and I suppose they were experimenting with the possibility to transfer Sims from one 'hood to another (of course they failed). My tests always showed me that the memories, family ties, DNA etc should be either completely separated folders and files or directly included in the Characters folder so that you could transfer Sims without their houses from one 'hood to the other. It is the house what causes the problem.
I just think that the Uni issues are much more alike to be solved by modders than by the source.

Works perfectly! Thank for the fix :)

Hi Squinge
Can you make a fix for 1.a too? I have InTeen so I can't use 1.1 ... but my YA can't go to community lots without growing up :o(
I can't thank you enough for all your work on this one ... you are the best!

You can use version 1.1, I changed the code so it doesn't conflict with inteen anymore :)

Squinge you are an angel :o) Thank you soooooo much ... didn't know that you had changed it :o) I love this hack!

OK, So I'm late to the party on this one and boy am I kicking myself for that, I'm also somewhat confused about this and what it does and doensn't do and what I need to go with it, I have read the entire thread so hopefully I'm not repeating anything too much (Joey and Toni know how I hate that :-P)

With this mod, and this mod alone teens will age to YA in a regular hood, great that sounds like just what I want, BUT, I don't want all my YA's to actually go to college.  

If I understand correctly they won't unless I also have the college stuff on any lot mod?  

If they don't go utilise any of the college interactions what happens?  Do they get put on academic probation?  Does the semester clock even progress without any extra ouside manipulation? And do they get the uneducated/never went to college memory (and it's associated wailing and weeping)

Do I still need to use something like the insims temporal adjuster to age them to adults at the appropriate time?

I am most truely sorry if I have broken my own cardinal rule and asked a redundant question but I am suffering from a lack of brain cells at the moment and this all has me rather confused.

Hehe Jorenne, better late than never ;)

At this point you must have the semester tester in order for the college clock to run so they age, and they will not age unless they got to finals and have a good grade because the current version of 'Teens age to YA no college' still requires they go to class (but they can't), and if they do not pass they will get academic probation. The 'college interactions on any lot' simply allows them to do this without failing each semester since they can go to class and do assignments, research, and term papers.

So, there are a couple of ways to do this.

1) Use the educational adjuster to adjust their grade to where you want it and just don't let them go to class, and they can skip finals and still get a B+ for a grade if you take them up to 1,000 points (A+) on their grade level. You can leave the semester tester "class start" off or on as long as you want and they can go to work and not age, or you can let them age the whole time but they still have to have a good enough grade to age to keep from getting booted from school if you want them to move on to the next level. They will age to adult when they graduate. I have not tried letting them skip the "final" final, so I am not sure what that will do.

2) Don't use the semester tester at all and just let them skip class and then age them manually when you want to grow them up.

I am sure Squinge will eventually be able to make it work so they don't have to go to class, but this seems like it must be a hard one. I know nothing about making mods, but this one must be a real beast!

I love this hack! :D

OK, so this sounds like it would be exactly what I want, I don't actually want student with college grades/major/classes etc living outside the college hood, I'd just like the age stage for, say twins where one goes to college and the other doesn't so they stay the same age.

I have a problem with my Sims aging from YA to Adult.  They'll go to class, but I don't have options of them doing homework, doing term papers, etc.  I'll try downloading the college hack I saw mentioned in previous posts to see if that helps.  I can't even age them with Insimenator's Grow Up option.  I can change their age to Adult, but what fun is that if you don't get the Grew Up well memory.

You should be able to age them to adult with the hacked cake I posted.

I had the cake already.  I guess the problem was that I also had the teentoYAnocollege mod too.  When I took that one out, the cake worked.  Sort of.  All the young adults skipped adulthood and turned to elders.  So I will poke around and see if there are other similar mods it could have conflicted with.  It may have been caused by my previous attempts of using the Grow Me Up option in Insimenator.  I just used the Choose Age option in Insimenator to make them adults.  So I'm happy enough.  LOL

And just so you know, you've really made my Sims time so much more enjoyable with all your handy dandy and oh so helpful mods!  So thank you so much for all the time and work you put into your creations!

Your welcome & Thank you very much :)

If you use this mod can you create a new family that has young adults in it?

You can only create young adult sims in CAS on college lots :)

ok, is there a way to get them into my family or no?

You can create teens & let them age to young adult with this mod if you want young adults in your sims family.

I just got the insiminator mod and that allows me to age a sim to YA so it works for me. Thanks for the help though.

If you age a sim to teen & use this mod the teen will age to YA :)

I've been testing this mod and I've got the latest version, and it works great, except for one problem: The Timer Doesn't Work.  I don't understand what's wrong, but this is a very serious problem for me, as my YAs can never go to their final exams, even with the help of the Insimenator (which can only get them within 2 hours of their final).  So could you please correct this error when you get the chance.  I'd really appreciate it.  ThanX in advance.

Did you run the hack conflict detector to see if there was a conflict? You may want to try JM's finalfix mod available over at MATY.

I have a small question. Is the TeenToYoungAdultNoCollegev1a or TeenToYoungAdultNoCollegev1.1 the most current version. It's a little confusing. Also while I'm at it, can I use agesims cheat to age them to adult? Thanks!

Version 1.1 is the newest version. I don't know why version 1a is there.
The agesims cheat? Why? A buggy POS in my book.

Hi ChaosMageX ... Do you have The Semester Tester? you will need to download it from MTS2 ... then the time will work and your YA will go to class and their final exams.

It's made by morten8035 if you want to search for it ... sorry I don't know how to post a link.

Version 1a doesn't include going to college from home lots that was the original request so I posted 2 different versions :)

Oh, OK. I never knew what the difference was. Thank you.

Your welcome :) I guess I should edit the description, I was new at posting when this mod was released, lol

Thanks Squinge for clearing that up! As for the agesims cheat, I was thinking of that to age the ya to adult instead of having the birthday cake, but the cake wouldn't be too bad either. :)  One other quick question. Is it possible for me to just have the no want satisfy uneducated hack and have them grow up directly into an adult thus bypassing the ya stage or do I have to have the ya birthday cake and teen to adult no college hacks as well? Thanks! I have a family where I'm doing the poverty challenge (no college allowed) and all the kids are growing up taking aspiration hits for not going to college.

Sonshine, I only have the no want satisfy uneducated hack in my game because university is tedious.  But I also have the no memory uneducated hack too, and I'd suggest getting that as well because sims walking around the house crying all the time is uncool.  So in short, I don't have the other three hacks in my game and it's fine.

Hi Squinge! I had no time to take a look on all the replies (long thread!)
I finished right now taking all my 250 Sims out of Uni lots and moved in the normal 'hoods. I'll never use Uni again, so I took out even professors and others (there's only a cow left there and a stupid professor that falls in love with everything movable). Why? Uni is so serious that has 24 professors and None of Them are graduated (???).
So, what files should I download? I never used Inteen and have no other aging mod at the moment.
What I wish is just to include YA as a full intermediary age between Teen and Adults. I want them to remain home and not to go to class or whatever. (I was in Uni and very seldom I went to class self :lol: ) Never lived in a Campus either (I had my own flat as from 17yo), got the bus to Uni and slept in my own bed.
This is what I want for my YAs. Is it possible?
Thanks.
 
In the lack of an answer I chose the file with ending v.1a
Got troubles. My preggies are not showing a belly any longer.
I don't have your mod to allow preggies to use other outfits cause I use a replacement package that is full harmless (change only texture)
You can see by the pics. I'm giving up. YAs in my game are only trouble.

I may have been able to answer you if you waited until I read your question which I did for the first time right now :)

XPTL your pregnant sim has an outfit that does not have a corresponding belly mesh, so naturally the belly wouldn't show when she's wearing it. Only some of the non-maternity outfits have corresponding belly mesh versions. :)

First of all, sorry Squinge, I'm a lot busy and I'm going thru each trouble in a queue. Sorry also for the pic, I didn't think twice before posting it. Normally I'm a very good photographer but didn't think about the exposure before posting it. Feel free to delete.
Ozzucay, I didn't change outfits, the game just placed the preggy back to her Normal Casual. This is the clothing that she uses when she is NOT pregnant. I don't use any mod to change preggy clothes, just a replacement package.
I took out the mod and things went back to normal. There was sure a conflict and I have a supposition on where it is. Unfortunately I'm sick minded, when I get a problem, I don't sleep until I solve it. Oh yeah, I'm going to find what's wrong! In a way, it is fascinating! It is like having a taste of what happens to the producers when trying to create new things. I don't envy them but it is really fascinating. :):):)

If you find where you think the problem is be sure to let Squinge know.

Yep, back after new tests. The problem was a conflict between your mod and one of mine that will never be posted because I got no permission for changes. Well, I moved mine to another coding and let YAs out of it. This made your mod to work. Anyway according to the new coding YAs cannot get pregnant anyway. Another story.
What can be interesting to you is that my tests (referring to the version that don't send YA to college) works this way:
Teens grow up to YA without any help and the YA presents the same panel as it has in Uni (72 hours bla-bla-bla) that don't change, don't age and initially the new YA seems to be with Free will Off. It remains without doing nothing for a while. Then start to act.
I got an old problem back. This teen in particular was transferred from the Test I (sub) mentioned above. I moved her to a new married couple with an expected baby. I use Teens to take care of babies.
Well, as soon as the Teen became YA, the first thing she did was to go to sleep with the Host's husband. Hell!.
I have already "NokidsinDouble", "NoTeensInDouble", now I need "NOYAinDouble". Hacks of the modding. Blah!
All right!
The case is that I got disturbed that she didn't go to her bed and I Moved Her Out. She went OK to the family bin, but as soon as placed on a lot, she aged to Adult. No problems happened, but be warned that you cannot move them out.
I used Christian-Lov Conterfeit Diploma to graduate her.
So, she didn't live more than two days as YA.

But on the total - The mod works as it should.
:)

I've just found this mod, and I'm going to try it when I get home. But the only problem I have is that the Semester Tester at MTS2 needs OFB and I don't have that expansion; if I use boolprop will I be able to get it or is it a OFB only cheat?

Is there any way to make this compatible with inteen. I am having a hard time choosing between the two. I love this mod, all my young adults go to college from home and hold down a full time job. Most of them live with thier spouse (often not in college). And I want the challenge of raising kids while going school. I am also missing the miscarraige feature. So I was wondering if thier could ever be a time when the two could play nicely. Thanks for the hack- I adore it.

Sorry Squinge cannot make it Inteen compatible since inteen is not his mod.  You would have to ask Jase if it is even possible, I doubt it is.

Thank you.

I have been using this mod and Inteen together in my game since this mod came out and both are working fine with no conflicts in either mod that I have noted so far. YAs graduate, teens give birth.. no problems... and I'm pretty sure running them both through the hack conflict detector comes up with no found conflicts.

It already is compatible with the Inteenimater.

I am so glad you cleared that up cause I been using them both at the same time, Hoping my game wouldn't explodie all over my overpriced Laptop. So thank you so Much I can stop searching for conflicts in the game. Woooooohooo. And here I was thinking I was being Naughty.


P.S. This Should be nominated for Best Mod Ever Award cause I hated Uni and Now all my Sims are college educated at home. Thanks For The Mod- Glad to see your alive and well.

I've read all the posts and now I got a headache... ;)

I'm trying to figure out if it is possible to use any combination of these hacks to get the following options:

If it possible to have YA that live in the normal hood that don't go to collage?
If it is possible to move the entire collage system to the normal hood?
If it possible to have YA that live at home and go to collage?
If it is possible to have YA that live in dorms in the normal hood and go to collage?

If this is possible which files of the ones made should I download?

1) Use Teen to Young Adult No College v. 1.1
2) Use the College Interactions on any lot mod
3) You should be able to with the 2 mods above
4) I'm not sure what would happen with a dormitory in a normal neighborhood. You could try in a neighborhood you set up for testing. Try putting a dormitory lot in your normal neighborhood. I suggest building one then use the changelotzoning dorm cheat in the normal hood.

Just letting you know this mod prevents pets from aging and reproducing. Otherwise all YA interactions for college work fine.

Thanks for letting me know.

I have this mod and my pets age normally.  I did have a problem with pets not aging which appeared to have been caused by Jase's no adult to elder hack (which isn't compatible with this mod either.)  I removed that and now have this and my pets age and reproduce with no problems.

I didn't have Jase's no adult to elder hack and I removed all hacks from my game but this one and was still having problems with pets aging and reproducing. Once I took this hack out I had no problems...

I just posted a pets compatible version of this mod.

Doh, I forgot to subscribe to this thread and didn't see you updated it, thanks squinge!

Your welcome :) that is why I always post a reply to each thread for people that don't subscribe.

bah, for some reason my stupid teen won't grow up into a YA. He lives at home alone with his 2 dogs. I've tried forcing him to grow up, I tried moving him out of the house and back into it... so far nothing is working... He goes through all the motions of growing up... the spinny thing they do but then kind of jumps out of it and is still a teen. boolprop shows no errors either... and no mod conflicts in my game either...



Edit: I sent him to college and he grew up no problem so it can't be a problem with aging or YAs. It has to be something to do with being a YA on a residential lot.

So I've tested this again since the Insim came out and even with the temporal adjuster my teen would not become a YA on a residential lot. Running the hack conflict detection utility only came up with 3 conflicts and none were files that I've ever had a problem with before and have been using them all since before pets came out without any problems. None of them seem capable of breaking this mod either.

As I said in my last post sending teens to Uni will allow them to age, but the whole point of this mod is to avoid the stupid Uni neighborhood. Is there a way I can move my YA from Uni back into the main neighborhood without him aging?

Also once again there were no error logs, the sims does the spin thing but remains a teen. I'm so lost as to what to try to get this working for me.

which mods were in the conflict report?

nolamehires was conflicting with OFBHireYA (which I removed just in case) and OFB_CommunitySkilling was conflicting with Smonaff_Jogging(AllowSkillBuilding)

I haven't tried aging my sim into a YA since I removed that mod, I'll try it now and see if it works.


Edit: Ok, I tested this again and I am able to force my sim into being a YA with the temporal adjuster. But I can't force grow up when he is a teen, he still does the spin but nothing else happens.

I just updated the EP4 version this update should fix the problem with teens not aging to YA.

Thanks Squinge!

Sorry the first update I posted didn't fix the problem, I just posted another update & it does solve the problem of teens not aging to YA.

Hi,
this thread is getting really long. I have read it, but it made me kind of confused. So could we get a describtion of the hack in a read me file or in the first post. A describtion with current features, known bugs, other hacks we always need and other hacks that we need in just some special cases.
Thanks.

Thanks for updating this for Pets! Bad things happened to one my Sims because I'd forgotten to take out the old mod. All should be well now.:)

OK, I've read this thread for the fourth time now I guess, I've been following the  advancement of this mod, but am ashamed to say I never tested it up to now. Now I have a hood where I want to have my own University (in base hood), and hence the need for this.
I have EP1-EP3, nothing else (patch 1 for OFB, I think, too). Everything went well at first. I moved in Ivy Copur and some male teen Sim (can't remember which) with Insim (Add To Household option). Ivy quit her teen job before aging to YA, and the male didn't. They both aged, college timer was still freezed (I didn't start the class on the semester tester, but I did press the "validate skill gates" or something like that on the sem. tester for Ivy only - sorry for my bad memory...). After only couple of hours the male (now YA in adult carrer track) aged to adult (when I wasn't looking at him, but he was just talking to somone, nothing special) and Ivy is still YA, with the timer freezed.
Maybe I got something wrong...
I was sooo happy at the prospect of running an University lot (residential, where the YA from the hood would come and do their college stuff, so I would fake it, but nevertheless), and happy that everything is going fine till this unforseen aging took place!!!
Now I am desperate again - how am I going to stop the aging from happening? What caused it? Anyone?!? Squinge?! Thank you in advance.
I am using ver. 1.1, nomemoryuned., and nowantsatisfied mods in my game.

Have you tried the sims 2 hack conflict detection utility? (http://www.simwardrobe.com) to check for a possible mod conflict.

I'm back, after so long. I had some problems with my hood (NOT with this mod). I did try the conflict detector, and it showed nothing. But I feel free now after some more testing to say that my recomendation is that your teen Sim whom you wish to turn into YA shouldn't be employed. Every other teen that wasn't employed  aged to YA with no problems. I must add so far, cause as I said I had to recover my hood and, with my job, I didn't have much time to play around with my new YAs. But they are still YA, and are able to go on com lots, buy chlotes, go to classes (with sem tester) and everything else.

Thank you, Squinge, for this mod. It is GREAT!!! I LOVE it!

I gather from posts here that there's two versions of this mod, one that keeps your YA at home and not going to classes (the one I want), and one that is basically going to college from home. Which is the one updated for Pets?

I mean, does that one still need YAs to go to class?

I might download it if it does actually, I was gonna use it for a story, but that's redundant now. Oh, these bugs that were mentioned, are they fixed for this Pets version?

Hi, I've read through every post, and can't find anything exactly the same as what I need to know.  I might have downloaded the wrong version, but after reading all this -I'm thoroughly confused.  I have been using this mod, but only with YA's at home, for the age group only, didn't care about going to college from home.  But, I went to play with my college today, and there are no college options for the actual college students.  Then, they all aged to adults.  I aged them back using insim, but they changed right back to adults.
here's what I need help with
1- I want to play with the college students on campus, going to class and not turning to adults
2- I would like to have ya's at any house off campus too, anyway I can get them other than messing up my college students on campus

What version and additional downloads do I need?  thanks

Just wondering if anyone is using this in seasons? I've been using it and for the most part it works but for some reason when my sims finish their term paper they keep rolling the want to "write term paper" Not too sure if thats caused by this mod or another one. Anyone else noticing this?

Nice work dork!!

I'm still having problems with the YA's getting the want to write term paper even though they've already done so. I removed all my hacks except teens to ya no college and college interactions on any lot and I'm still having the same problem. So my best guess is either seasons screwed up some code in the game itself or it screwed up something to do with either of these mods.

I just posted a EP5 compatible version of this mod.

Thank you! Thank you! (really can't live without this one anymore)

Oh Squinge .. Thank you so much for updating this one for Seasons :0)
I just love this hack, thank you for all your hard work to make the game so much more fun ... you are the best!

Great mod...but there's one problem..

I just installed the "Seasons" version of this.  After installing it, I went to play oen of the dorms I had in one of my colleges. I had two sims there, both of them were shown as being adults, and the Job tab was completely empty, it did not have their status for class or requirements for gaining more room for improvement. It did not say they were unemployed. It just showed their skills and then was completely empty.

Thier appearence was the same, they did not appear to have aged at all. I removed the mod and it went back to the normal age of Freshmen, Sophmore...ect...Is there any reason that may have happened?


Thanks :),,,and sorry if this makes no sense...x_x...I have a hard time explaining things sometimes...

Have you tried the sims 2 hack conflict detection utility? (http://www.simwardrobe.com) to check for a possible
mod conflict.

I'm using this hack along with TJ's ACR mod over at MATY. Because of the way sims age and the way TJ's mod is set up if I have sims that go to university from their home lot by the time they are adults the game thinks they are far too old to have kids using the ACR mod. I think sims out of uni using this mod end up being in their 40's when they graduate. Is there a way to correct this so that the ACR mod will still see the just graduated adults as being adults and not in the elder age range? I hope this makes sense and that something can be done so these two mods can work together to allow my sims to become pregnant autonomously since its more fun to play that way.

Thank you. It sounds to be better than University itself.

I don't know if it helps to have more than one fan in need of the same fix, but I want to agree with jade and request- As humbly as possible, that you could make an ACR compatable version that would correct the sim's 'days in previous age' person data when aging them to adult. So that when they hit adult they are the same "age" as other sims who did not go to college, and would still be able to randomly run off and populate my hood.

Thank You so much whether you change it or not, as I am a great fan of quite a few of your mod- this one being my favorite though.

Will this work for me? I want my teen to go to college but I don't want her to leave home. Her parents are going to go a couple days after she leaves for college, then I could move her to the dorm or something. But if I don't send her now she'll become an adult it's her last day. If I make her younger by a couple days using the elixer and her parents die the SW shows up the next day to take her because she's a teen. I also tried to let them die and call to move to college real quick that doesn't work either because then she is the last controllable Sim on the lot. So then you have to move her out in the neighborhood, and it won't let you put a single teen in the family bin. I had to exit both times without saving. I've never encountered this before and I want to go ahead and let them go. But I don't want them to go and no one is there to move their headstones to the cemetary. Their one of the few Sim families I care about. Or could I change her to a young adult with this and then move her to college leter so the SW doesn't come?

Doh never mind I answered my own question I can use this so she can change to a young adult. That way she doesn't miss out on that period of time. Then use the fake diploma or adults go to college from Christianluv, that's what I get for thinking it through...

I have all the EXPs but just now got UNI.

This thread is so very long & so very confusing... after all this reading, so far, I only got one thing straight "it's updated for Seasons".

I want my "self" sims daughter to be able to attend college from the regular hood, do assignments, term papers, & take finals. Going to college should NOT mean my daughter is like totally "dettached" from my family household & then also become an adult immediately after graduating --WHAT WAS MAXIS and/orEA THINKING??? Although I do have a few groups on campus, thank you so much Squinge for working on this for us and giving us the option to choose. It's much more realistic too.

I just need to know, which file do I need to have her go thru college from our normal hood without aging? I know there's an answer in here somewhere --it took 1/2 hour going through this thread but I still don't get it. And now there's this ACR mentioned --what is ACR?? :smt120

Thank You again

Hi Squinge, I'm having this same problem as Athena with this hack.
This is the first time I've used this hack, just downloaded it today, and I'm using the EP5 version. I have all the EPs and most of the stuff packs.
 
I played a YA in my base neighborhood and everything worked fine. She went to class, had a regular job, did her assignments... But then I went to play some of my real uni students in the uni neighborhood and they were aged to adults. I couldn't change them back by setting their semester or changing their major. Their class panel was completely blank, and when I went to the change major screen, all the majors had no names and the associated jobs were gone too. They still had YA voices though.
 
I ran the conflict detector thing, and nothing came up related to this one. Once I took the hack out, they were fine again.
 
Oh, another thing, they started out as YAs and had their class panels, but aged to adult as soon as the hour changed.
 
Was really looking forward to this one, and I hope you can figure it out. Thanks so much!

ACR is the 'Autonomous Casual Romance' mod by Two Jeffs at MATY.

Hi, guys! Thanks for your hard work and the joy you bring to our simmies, Squinge!
I'd like to know if its possible to run the both hacks at same time, well, I want to have a YA sim wich don't go to Uni, and other that studies at home. Is it possible? And I'd like to know, to, if we must have the hacks about college interations and tester semester to everything works fine, as the hacks about the memories of not going to Uni.

Thank you and sorry if I'm repeating posts, I've read all the thread, but I still have these doubts. Thank you again.

Let me get this right if I understand you correctly. You're wondering if the two mods work together for you that allows a teen to grow up into a YA and stay home to study and go to class?

And what is your latest expansion pack please?

Is this compatible with apartment life?

Two mods are compatible with AL, No Memory Uneducated and YaBirthdayCakev.1.0a.

BUT the other two mods, Teen To Young Adult No College - EP5 and No Want Satisify Uneducated, are not compatible with AL.

There are no plans to update the incompatible mods for AL at the moment.

Really? I am heart broken. No more college from home:( Have Mercy on Me one more time squinge, if you ever get a minute, please update Teen To Young Adult No College.

Is there another way to get them to go to college from home besides this hack?

I second the request to update it! If it isn't too much trouble. spare us. :(

If you look in the Peasantry section on MATY, there is a GoldRecord Unitest mod there by Lion which allows you to assign any lot as a Uni one. That's the only other way I have found to do college without leaving your main hood. It's not the same as Squinge's version, it doesn't age all teens to YA, and the bookcases don't have the uni options. However, you can run a functioning dorm in your main hood.

Hope this helps.

By the way, I am still using Squinge's college mods with Freetime, and they seem to be working. I noticed they were not in the (currently very short) list of FT-compatible older mods. (I hope this doesn't mean something horrible is happening to my game, but it looks good so far.) I ran a YA through to graduation last night.

Will this work in Apartments EP?

Please search before posting a question that has already been answered :)
 

Even if the mods appear to be doing fine with FT, they may be wreaking havoc on your game and blow it up later down the road. If you see mods in question on that list Mr Squinge quoted, then trust us to be honest with you and try to keep you from harming your game files.

They -will- be updated once the important stuff are updated for FreeTime and Apartment Life. I really don't encourage you to say it's working for me and then later retract that statement with I was wrong. I did that before and learned my lesson. Be sure to ask one of us first before you can use the mods.

That's all! :)

You'll notice I didn't say "This Works!! Everybody use it!!"
Not meaning to steal your thunder or anything, just reporting my experience.

I think this needs to be cleared up.

There will be and always will be people who take other people's opinion or experience seriously and go grab those mods because of the opinion and experience people had with those particular mods.

We don't want people coming back and telling us the mods didn't work for them because of the opinions and experiences other people had with those mods.

You might want to let us decide if they are or are not compatible with the mods in question for this section. If someone ask about this or that mod, let them ask us.

I know you said it was no plans for AL, but I just wanted to say that if it happen to be I would really love it. It sounds very cool.

have a nice day:angel:

I know a lot of you want this updated & I may decide to update it at some point :)

I haven't tested this let me know if you find any problems.

Yeah, get crackin' so we may appease Mr Squinge O'Master with chicken and grease. :P

:sign5: Yes I need chicken & grease :P

Okay, okay, I got it just now. I'll put it in my test hood and see how it goes.

I take it the other college mods are the same as the ones I'm already using, so I shouldn't need to change anything there - jut the 'teen to YA' itself.  

Thanks for fixing this up (maybe we'll all stop bugging you about it).

(new message so you know there's an update.)

Looks good as far as I can tell. My game includes all up to FT, excluding Pets. Almost no CC in this test version, except for an entire raft of hacks.

Installed the FT teentoYA and the birthday cake packaged with it. One odd thing was a popup about bugcatching, relating to a non-selectable visitor on the lot, rather than a resident. I don't see why this would have anything to do with your college mod. Only happened once.

Aged a teen using the YA cake, and ran him through college with shortcuts, using the semestertester, the Ya cake and Twojeffs' college adjuster at different times. All seemed to go as normal except that it took three tries to spawn the semestertester. Once I got it, it worked.

After graduation, aged YA to adult using cake. He got a flashing blue / invisible face, but I fixed that with Pescado's batbox.

I discovered that aging him to adult with the cake, rather than waiting for him to be thrown out by the game, saved having to move him back into his own house from the bin. Great!

Also tried a new teen, got scholarships, moved him into normal college dorm and completed Day I successfully.

Looks fine to me, is there anything particular you need to know about?

Yes, there are a couple other things we want to see if this applies to FT.

Can you start up a fresh residential lot and age a teen to a YA? Play the lot for several days and watch the 5 Days/Season like Day 5 of Season 1 - Summer for example and see if the lot progress from Day 1 to Day 2 to Day 3 and from Summer to Fall to Winter. If the Days of the Season doesn't advance or the Seasons aren't changing, let us know.

Fresh lot, CAS sims, see if the seasons advance normally. Okay, I can do that.

Looks good. New lot from the bin, new CAS sims. Aged teen up to YA at the end of summer, advanced to autumn normally.

I'll play some more in case it acts up further on, but so far, so good. Anything else?

(edit) Played a while longer, autumn advanced day by day as it should.

Okay, so it is something with the AL version that's interfering with the season days and seasons.

Keep testing for another full season and see if it will change seasons if you can. If not, that's okay.

Thanks for the feedback. :)

Season changed from autumn to winter, no troubles. You're welcome! I'm glad to have the update, a little testing is small exchange.

Okay, the AL version is working as intended with the season and day changes. I am assuming no one else has any issue with this newly updated mod for FT.

Thanks for all the help! :)

Make sure to offer chicken and grease to our benevolent creator, Mr Squinge, for updating this mod to FreeTime. Oh and beer will be great as an offering to him! :P

mmm Beer :P

chicken, grease and beer offered aplenty. Thankyou Squinge!

Your welcome :)
*grabs beer before Jenna finds it*

Forgive me if my question is redundant, but I have no idea how to make them go to their final exam. I clicked on the cake and it said final in 2 hours, but 4 hours went by and nothing.

Try clicking on your Young Adult, selecting College... and then choosing Go To Final. That should get the lazy Young Adult going to their finals like they ought to! :D

Thanks Chaavik :D I was looking in the AL thread trying to find the answer, lol

However, I think they still might not go to the exam unless the semester timer has been spawned.

I was thinking that too but I don't use this mod much too busy doing requests, lol

The two differences between FT and AL versions are the YABirthdayCake and TeenToYANoCollege mods that have to be adapted for Apartment Life because of the new apartment lots.

The Semester Tester is spawned off the Sim by shift+clicking the Sim, choosing Spawn... and then selecting Semester Tester. This one allows the college clock to run down to 0 and automatically send Sims to their classes. As for the Finals, they will go to their Finals, but if they get another message about going to their Finals, ignore it or cancel the current action in their queue, and they will return from their Finals successfully if they have good grades.

The only way to make this work is to type boolProp testingCheatsEnabled true and then spawn the Semester Tester. Then type boolProp testingCheatsEnabled false in the window after hitting Shift+Ctrl+C.

The College Adjuster from TJ works fine with this. I don't know about AH's College Isn't Free Series since they appear to work only for Apartment Life. Best to ask him about whether they will work with FT or not.

Sorry for the annoying questions but will the nomemoryundeucated.zip work as a stand alone? I'm not so worried/bothered about having YA stage sims who go to work/live normally but I really want to be able to pick and choose which of my sims get to go to college and which don't and would prefer to send only a small percentage, but I resent the fact that if I don't send them, they cry and moan and get a bad memory about it :rolleyes: in my world not everyone wants to go to college, pretty much only knowledge sims would get a bad memory IMHO. I've been considering uninstalling the University EP because of this, but if your no memory file works alone this would be brilliant as the sims I choose not to educate can quit moaning and get on with it. :D

Also your initial post says it doesn't work with Apartment life but the last post in this thread implies that it does and that it is freetime that is the problem, I'm a bit confused?

EDIT - sorry I've just seen your compatability list which actually answers both my questions, didn't see it before. :-[

You should be using the AL version instead of this version for compatibility. Yeah, you can use that mod as a standalone if you only want your teens to age up to adults.

Would it be possible to make it work for Apartment Life EP or not? I'm sure its not easy to make any hacks (ive never tried and i dont play on possibly ruining my game to figure out how) but i was just wondering... I was so excited to see this mod because I was looking for, but then i saw that its not meant for Apartment Life and it made me sad :(

see the above post.

I'm sorry, I am retarded. I either missed something, or am wrong. If there is an AL version, where can I find it? Or am I just misunderstanding, and there is no AL version? *Feels stupid*

The AL version is in the section for EP 8 Mods. Here (http://www.insimenator.org/index.php/topic,96190.0.html).

Thanks, caffinated.joy. :)