# Sims 2 University Release Date **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 25, 2005, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims-2-university-release-date/291883 "2005-02-25T15:17:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims-2-university-release-date/291883/61 "2005-03-24T23:49:43Z")
I haven’t tried the cow plant yet, but I would think it’s just like the elixer of life. Three days per sip. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims-2-university-release-date/291883/62 "2005-03-25T00:51:43Z")
> [@harmless](#): > > After playing around in the SS house, I have a question. > What does the new Aspiration Reward Camera do besides let you earn money? > It has so many different settings but I can’t see what else it’s supposed to do. > When I took pictures with it, I didn’t have the option to view them in the Photo Album…it was disabled. All I could do was sell them directly out of the camera. 😕 > I thought you had the option to hang them on walls and stuff, but didn’t see an actual print that I could pick up anywhere. I even went into the buy mode thinking I could pull it off the camera (like a painting off the easel) but no luck there. You go into Build or Buy mode and you can pick the photo up out of the camera - it’s sticking out of a slot in the side of it. Once you grab it you can hang it on a wall or stand it on a sidetable. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims-2-university-release-date/291883/63 "2005-03-25T03:00:22Z")
a word of warning: Be careful about hydrostatic testing boxes with more and more books. They’re really effing heavy when you do that. (Not that I would be speaking from experience. Not me. I’m too smart to have forgotten that while packing. Really. Don’t you believe me? Why are you shaking your head at me? :p) ---
**Author:** ![Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bites_when_provoked/32/18073_2.png) [@Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bites_When_Provoked)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims-2-university-release-date/291883/64 "2005-03-25T14:31:09Z")
> [@cazzle](#): > > You go into Build or Buy mode and you can pick the photo up out of the camera - it’s sticking out of a slot in the side of it. Once you grab it you can hang it on a wall or stand it on a sidetable. \ Thank you, **cazzle**! I couldn’t for the life of me work out what the deal was with that camera. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![lee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lee/32/7455_2.png) [@lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lee)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims-2-university-release-date/291883/65 "2005-03-25T15:56:12Z")
Well, I have not done this yet, but apparently drinking the elixer gives you a memory of drinking the sim killed for the elixer, “Drank April” if April was killed to make the elixer. Sims can have wants to drink particular other sims. ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims-2-university-release-date/291883/66 "2005-03-25T22:46:25Z")
:eek: **lee** Now that’s just _too_ weird! **cazzle** : As for the camera…I thought I had tried that, but I’ll give it another go tonight. Just to be clear; you did this with the one sitting in the Secret Society house? I had the thought that maybe since the Sim I was playing with didn’t live there, it might now work the same for him. Then again, maybe I was just missing grabbing it. ---
**Author:** ![harmless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/2acd7d/32.png) [@harmless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmless)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims-2-university-release-date/291883/67 "2005-03-25T22:51:09Z")
correction: > [@harmless](#): > > I had the thought that maybe since the Sim I was playing with didn’t live there, it might **not** work the same for him. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims-2-university-release-date/291883/68 "2005-03-27T14:44:18Z")
> [@harmless](#): > > :eek: **lee** > Now that’s just _too_ weird! > > **cazzle** : As for the camera…I thought I had tried that, but I’ll give it another go tonight. > Just to be clear; you did this with the one sitting in the Secret Society house? > I had the thought that maybe since the Sim I was playing with didn’t live there, it might now work the same for him. > Then again, maybe I was just missing grabbing it. I have done it with the camera in the SS house and with the same type of camera in regular houses. I promise you this is how it’s done! If you look at [this image](http://thesims2.ea.com/sims2_exchange/story/13/21213/snapshot_2f406420_4f40f999.jpg) from my Sims 2 album (no idea if you need to be logged in or not) then you’ll see a photo I took with the camera hanging on the wall behind the sims, and [more portraits](http://thesims2.ea.com/exchange/story_detail.php?asset_id=21213) in this picture. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims-2-university-release-date/291883/69 "2005-03-27T14:46:37Z")
D’oh! That second link goes to my whole album when I was trying to link to [urlhttp://thesims2.ea.com/sims2\_exchange/story/13/21213/snapshot\_2f406420\_ef41091a.jpg]this picture. Feel free to browse the album if you’re interested but the link in this post shows some of the pictures and the camera they’re from. I only wish I’d thought to take a picture of the photo sticking out of the camera while I had the game running. Maybe later. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims-2-university-release-date/291883/70 "2005-03-27T14:47:46Z")
:smack: [Once more with preview?](http://thesims2.ea.com/sims2_exchange/story/13/21213/snapshot_2f406420_ef41091a.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims-2-university-release-date/291883/71 "2005-03-27T15:25:25Z")
Is anyone else having trouble getting their sims to go to class? From what I understand, you click on the sim within an hour of the start of class and tell them to go. When I do this, though, the only options that come up are “meditate” or “do yoga”. The two sims I started out with all flunked their first semester, and I lost interest after that (well, actually, I discovered Neverwinter Nights, but that’s a separate issue.) It’s probably a problem caused by the hacks I installed from MTS2, but has anyone else had this problem and fixed it? ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims-2-university-release-date/291883/72 "2005-03-27T16:01:19Z")
> [@Sublight](#): > > Is anyone else having trouble getting their sims to go to class? From what I understand, you click on the sim within an hour of the start of class and tell them to go. When I do this, though, the only options that come up are “meditate” or “do yoga”. The two sims I started out with all flunked their first semester, and I lost interest after that (well, actually, I discovered Neverwinter Nights, but that’s a separate issue.) > > It’s probably a problem caused by the hacks I installed from MTS2, but has anyone else had this problem and fixed it? There should be a go to school icon (like the go to work icon) in the upper left hand corner. Where all the other “thing I’m doing right now”, “next thing I’ll do” icons go. If your sim has too many things to do before going to school, you’ve got to get rid of them. If you’re sim is in a good mood they go to school all by themselves no matter what crap they’re supposed to do. ---
**Author:** ![carterba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85e7bf/32.png) [@carterba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carterba)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims-2-university-release-date/291883/73 "2005-03-27T16:52:07Z")
It’s probably a hack from MTS2 causing a conflict. There’s a thread somewhere on there that lists all the hacks that are University compatible and all the ones that aren’t. There’s also a utility there that lists all the hacks you have and what they do (in case you’ve got some that you didn’t install intentionally, which is possible since they can come packaged with downloaded lots). Sims2Pack Clean Installer or something similar. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2005, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims-2-university-release-date/291883/74 "2005-03-28T00:46:02Z")
Thanks, I figured it was probably a conflict of my own making. As soon as I can tear myself away from Neverwinter Nights I’ll go look for that list. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sims-2-university-release-date/291883.md?page=3)