College, Week Three

Winter has fallen on campus. At least at the very beginning, it's kind of nice. Some several generations down the line I'm going to be very, very tired of snow, especially since I'm giving Generations another chance.

On the other hand, I don't seem to get snow days without Generations installed, so there's that.

Unlike Gary, I tend to prefer lifting Artist early because until Military is cleared - admittedly that's going to be easier to get since I'm starting with Master Thief - you still have to deal with elders. Usually I slap the most artistic child with that challenge.

Now, regarding the college experience.

The reason Week One was all on its own is because I like to take advantage of my scholarship credits, and that gave me more time to do -everything- else. 

Doing Week Two and Three together means that Janie didn't lose any academic progress over the weekend, and will have minimal challenge in Week Three. I'm having her use the 'Suck Up to Professor' tone, because 'Work Hard' is pointless when you're already the best.

I'm also taking literally every opportunity I get to 'Talk to Charcoal about Logic.' I figure it'll either be Logic or Handiness that rounds out my third skill for Renaissance Sim. She's at 9 logic, but I'm also boosting Handiness with the Brain Enhancement Machine - which, notably, can boost neither Logic nor Social Networking.

Janie is constantly bursting with happiness, more than normal sims even, thanks to the Over Emotional trait. This means she's constantly racking up LTR points, which is pretty useful now - it'll next show up as a useful trait when more LTRs are unlocked.

Maybe I overestimated the simplicity of keeping Janie's grades up - after a day of doing nothing related to her major except for going to class, there's a noticeable gap between her current progress and the top.

Well, that's nothing an hour or two at the books and the business planner can't fix.

And there's logic maxed, which nets me Meditative Trance Sleep and Hardly Hungry.

The baby dragons are sincerely, intensely overpowered. Most of that logic skill was from chatting up Charcoal, which is in itself pretty powerful. Then there's the part where Janie doesn't need to eat or sleep for pretty much her entire college career. Granted, I spent real money on Dragon Valley - and a little more on the Renaissance Faire - but I liked and wanted these things anyway.

A note about the different kinds of dragons: 

I feel the baby black dragon is the most useful. Logic is a fantastic skill to raise quickly, and not having to worry about hunger or sleep is really, really powerful.

You can find more information about the other flavors of dragon here. They're all pretty good, depending on what you want them for.

Long story short, though - if you have this content, I can't encourage you enough to grab a dragon for your easy mode college career.

Janie rolled the wish to discover all potions - not especially hard, I figure, so I buy a chemistry set and get to work. A day and a half into discovering potions, and she's got 6/10 discovered; by the end of the semester she's learned them all.

Not needing to sleep is pretty awesome. I see why Shank endorses insomnia; you just get more done.

Janie's stats at the end of week three (obviously she passed with flying colors):

10 Charisma

10 Athletics

10 Handiness

10 Logic

4 Cooking

4 Social

1 Mixology

Multitasker

Fertility Treatment

Bookshop Bargainer

Meditative Trance Sleep

Hardly Hungry

and 19k-ish LTR points.