Update: Custom Electives v. 1.11.0 (Patreon)

This mod adds some new electives to universities and includes the forgotten EA skills as well as new custom skills from various popular mods. This mod has complicated installation instructions! Please read everything carefully to avoid error messages!

• 📆 Patron Release: May 16, 2024

• 📆 Public Release: June 6, 2024

✅ Update Notes

New Skill Classes

According to the voting results, Tomaru Skill was the undisputed leader. Although the Retail Maintenance Skill came in second place, I put it aside for now until the next update. Instead, I couldn't resist a new ballet skill, recently created by Jane Simsten, even though this skill wasn't even ranked. Thus, meet new wonderful university courses:

• Amphetamine Dealing Skill (Basemental Drugs Mod)

• Balett Skill (Balett Mod by Jane Simsten)

• HVAC Skill (Plumbbros Mod by Lot 51)

• Tomaru Skill (Language Barriers by Frankk)

Redesign of Language Courses

As I understand it, the courses from the Language Barriers mod are among the favorites among users of my custom courses. Therefore, a special surprise for you! All languages (with the exception of Sixami) are now offered in two versions: an intensive crash course (only available to Sims with a language skill of less than 2), as well as various specific specialized courses that will only be available to Sims with a language skill of 3 and above. That is, your Sims will never see both options. Thus, this update contains, in addition to the four new courses mentioned above, also six new language courses.

✒️ Main Mod Description

I like it when different mods don't stay isolated but are integrated into the common gameplay. This mod adds some new electives to universities, and includes the forgotten EA skills as well as custom skills from various popular mods. This mod is fully compatible with Zer0's University Custom Degrees mod. Only the Sims 4 Discover University Expansion Pack is required. The other packages or mods are optional. Each course ends with either an exam or a written assignment. No presentations are planned.

Detailed mod description and the complete list with all available elective courses: https://andirz.itch.io/university-electives

⚒️ Content of the Download Archive

The mod consists of several modules, some of which conflict with each other. Please read the instruction very carefully and delete the unnecessary files!

The mod consists of several modules:

• File: New University Electives CORE (required)

Choose one of the two:

• File: Classes EA Skills with Standard Costs (option 1)

• File: Classes EA Skills with More Costs (option 2)

Choose one of the two:

• Folder: Classes Custom Skills with Standard Costs (option 1)

• Folder: Classes Custom Skills with More Costs (option 2)

Choose one of the two:

• Folder: Classes Adult Skills with Standard Costs (option 1)

• Folder: Classes Adult Skills with More Costs (option 2)

All courses are therefore available in two cost variants:

• Standard Costs: All courses cost 240 Simolions by default (like all EA classes)

• More Costs: All courses cost more expensive (like Zero's mod)

From version 1.8.1 the adult courses are not part of the download archive on CurseForge. These are distributed exclusively via Patreon as downloadable addons.

🚨 Important instructions

After downloading and unpacking the zip archive, you will find several package files!

All courses are in separate files. So you can decide for yourself which courses you want to have. If you don't have some mods which skills my university courses are based on, then you should DELETE the corresponding course packages!

During the testing I did not see any serious game crashes, but if you delete the foreign mods (also from other creators) to which a university course refers, or the course package from this mod after you have already started a corresponding course (including NPCs, if some NPC have taken one of these courses), this can lead to error messages when the game is loaded. This can only be fixed by leaving the all affected Sims out of university and re-saving the game.

So please only install the courses if you have the corresponding third-party mods!

🚨Compatibility

The mod only overwrites one EA resource, which is the sims.university.university_tuning file (ID: 2360391319218225585), which can potentially cause incompatibility issues with other mods if they overwrite this file as well.

Until recently there was a compatibility issue with the Zero's Custom Degrees mod. Since Zero's mod no longer overwrites this resource, there are no longer any compatibility problems.

There are no other mods that I know of that overwrite the same resource.

🈯 Translations

• I added the strings in English, German, Russian, and Spanish.

• Translations into Dutch, French, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Norwegian, Swedish and Chinese are only partially available. Untranslated fragments remain in English.

• Strings in all other languages are copies of English strings.

If you would like to suggest an improvement to one of the existing translations or add a new translation, please contact me!

⚠️ Requirements

Of course you need the Discover University Pack (EP08).

📌 Installation Instructions

Rules for using mods:

• Back up your current save files just in case!

• Download the zip archive and extract all files to your Mods folder (how)!

• Allow the use of mods and scripts in the game settings (how)!

• Delete the game cache files (how)!

PLEASE DON'T FORGET TO DELETE THE OLD VERSIONS FIRST!

💾 Download

Exclusively Early Access:

• Early Access to the new version 1.11.0 is only for patrons (except Little Patrons): CLICK.

Free Public Download:

Public access to the new version 1.11.0 will only take place after the three-week early access period has expired. You can therefore access the previous version 1.10.1:

• Custom Electives - Core Mod (requiered) on CurseForge

• Custom Classes (EA + Custom Skills) with Standard Costs on CurseForge

• Custom Classes (EA + Custom Skills) with More Costs on CurseForge

• Custom Classes (Adult Skills) with Standard Costs on SimFileShare

• Custom Classes (Adult Skills) with More Costs on SimFileShare

Please respect my work and don't upload the files to other sites! Better link my Patreon page, my CurseForge account or my homepage if you like my mod and want to spread it! Thanks very much!

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