Custom Electives v. 1.10.0 is public! (Patreon)

This mod adds some new electives to two 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!

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📆 Last Update: Nov 18, 2023

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✅ Update Notes

Update Notes v. 1.10.0 (Nov 18)

Two new courses are being presented to students: studying the history and culture of the Sulani Islands for lovers of cultural studies (Sulani Culture Skill mod required), as well as courses on studying the basics of playing the oboe for lovers of musical instruments (Oboe Skill mod required).

New courses are available in English, German, Spanish, Russian (in my translation), Chinese and Simplified Chinese (thanks WANZI). Other players have strings in English.

Compartible with Patch 1.103!

Update Notes v. 1.9.4 (Nov 12)

Required update for compatibility with Zero's Custom Degrees mod. The courses don't need to be updated, just the core file. (Without this update, you will see all of Zero's new majors twice in the menu).

Update Notes v. 1.9.3 (Oct 3)

The core mod has been separated. The individual courses can be found in two separate modules (Standard Costs OR More Costs). Chinese translation (traditional and simplified) by WANZI.

Update Notes v. 1.9.2 (Aug 29)

Zero updated the Custom Degrees mod! My mod must also be updated for compatibility. See also the updated compatibility notes at the bottom of the page.

Update Notes v. 1.9.1 (Aug 28)

Small update only for users using Zero's Job Finding mod. The mod had to be adjusted because Zero changed the ID of the job finding skill. No more changes.

If you don't use this mod from Zero, no update is necessary.

Update Notes v. 1.9.0 (Aug. 18)

New Skill Classes

EA introduced an elective class for Equestrian Skill, so I need to update my mod as well because it's an override mod and the old version just hides the already existing horseback riding course. Sorry for the delay, I just discovered this now.

Also, I did an custom elective class on the Nectar Making Skill because EA didn't create a course for that. However, because this mod already has a Nectar Making Custom Skill course, I didn't create a new one, but copied the existing course. The texts and descriptions are therefore identical in both courses (I have changed the icons, however).

I initially wanted to delete the old custom Nectar Making Skill course, but I kept it for users who do not have EP14. So you have the choice of whether you want to take one or the other course. However, the content and descriptions are the same, only the skill used is different.

No Class Choice Restrictions Now

I haven't made the course choice restrictions I wrote about before because the implementation seemed disproportionately too cumbersome. Maybe that's why EA decided to do without it in the end. Apart from that, I have a poll asking if I should show all courses or just a certain number. At the moment there are a lot of courses (if you have all the packs and mods). There are a total of:

• 42 EA Skill based courses in game
• 9 EA SKill based custom classes (forgotten EA skills)
• 25 custom classes on the custom skills from various mods

That's a total of 76 classes! If you see such a list, you won't find anything anymore. So I'm wondering if I should still show all courses or switch it back to the 12 random courses (like it was originally in-game). There is a poll for this. In this version you can still see all courses.

(See notes for previous version)

✒️ 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 two 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!

MOD CORE:

• File: New University Electives CORE (required)
• File: New University Electives Strings (required)

Option 1: Class Modules (Standard EA Costs):

• Classes EA Skills with Standard Costs
• Classes Custom Skills with Standard Costs
• Classes Adult Skills with Standard Costs

Option 2: Class Modules (Expensive Costs):

• Classes EA Skills with More Costs
• Classes Custom Skills with More Costs
• Classes Adult Skills with More Costs

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

• English, German, Russian and Spanish translations by myself.
• Chinese translation (traditional and simplified) by WANZI.
• Automatic Google translation in Dutch, French, Italian, Portuguese, Polish and Norwegian.

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!

📌 General Installation Instructions

• Back up your current save files just in case!
• Download the zip archive and extract all files!
• Move the unzipped folder to your Sims 4 Mods folder!
• Path: Documents > Electronic Arts > The Sims 4 > Mods
• Please delete all files of the previous version of the mod first!
• Delete the game cache files (how)!

💾 Download

The following link is available exclusively for my patrons (v.1.10.0):

• Exclusive All-in-One-Download (all files in one zip) at Patreon

Non-patrons download all modules separately (v.1.9.4):

• 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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