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13th Sep 2020 at 11:30 AM
Last edited by igazor : 13th Sep 2020 at
10:14 PM.
If you are using NRaas mods, you can reassign the sims manually using MasterController. What that does is force a re-registration at the second school and thus the student's School Performance will revert to 0. That can also be readjusted with MC. Sims will never transfer schools on their own unless they have just aged up to teen, a mod is pushing them to do so, or you have bulldozed their assigned school out from under them. Sims can't seamlessly go to whichever school they want on different days.
If using NRaas StoryProgression, then the schools can be separated by age (one elementary, one high school), gender, zodiac sign, or whatever else one wants to use. It's a bit fussy and often both schools need to be bulldozed and replaced for the game/mod to get the idea, which thus again triggers a reset of all students' School Performance to 0. NRaas GoHere is required for the Lot Options restrictions on age (etc.) to be honored. By default, without SP Lot Options restrictions and GoHere, once both schools are finally recognized by the game as viable choices, sims who age up to child and then teen should register at the one that is closest to their home lot. I usually do the manual re-registration thing when setting this up since it can take more than a few sims days for the game and the sims to get the idea, and then let the mods' settings take over going forward with an eventual 95% or higher success rate.
Homeless NPC sims, so that's typically the child newspaper carriers and teen babysitters who really only go to school once in a while "for show" will still go to whichever school they want on those days. But they are Service Sims and not really progressing either, so I just try to ignore that.
There is
another way, or in addition since many of us like to have multiple schools in many medium to larger sized worlds as our populations grow, to address the overcrowding issue. I've tested this mod in the past with upwards of 80 sim students per school and, depending on the structure of the school rabbit hole, everyone gets inside nearly on time and there are never any overcrowding issues or students still stuck inside waiting for their turn to exit as midnight approaches.