Do i have to sign in into the university right after school in august or can i take a break (e.g. take a year off for money making or do other stuff) and sign in later?
That is something we are debating actually. Realistically you should be able to, but from a game development stand point that creates all kinds of issues for us. Mostly with the npc's, it would add in a lot of different text and checks for certain things like who is in your class etc. Since if they all are in the year ahead of you, then you wouldn't see them in class. Which means doing different versions of classes, with different NPC's to take class with. Then that opens up what if the player waits 2 or 3 years to go to the Uni, then we need 3 years worth of freshmen NPC's.
So you can see why this could be a issue. We have four choices and we don't like any of them
1) Block the Uni after the first year. Least amount of work for us.
2) Make a new set of NPC's to be freshmen for every year of school, which would be a insane amount of work, we don't have stories for all the current pav school npcs.
3) hand wave everything so you end up in the same classes anyways, which would mean the NPC's essentially all waited ayear or more too which would kill immersion.
4) Let you go late but not make new NPC's, the player just misses out on a fair bit of the Uni content then.
Personally I favor option 4 with a in game warning letting the player know if they choose to wait they will miss out on a lot of the Uni content.