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In the memories of individual sims who have the graduation memory (or who are adults with the "went to college" memory but no graduation memory), some have a diploma inventory object and some have a diploma token. Some of these sims were "graduated" using the lot debugger (I think), and some were graduated in-game and then made into townies. Also, some appear to be Maxis townies that were never in the university but who have the "went to college" memory.

Does anyone know the functional difference between the two? I am fixing up the memories of some sims who were either created as adults by me, or are game-generated adults, and it is not clear whether I should give them the token or the object.

Well, considering that the batbox has a "regive diploma" option, I would expect that the actual inventory object is not really necessary (as apparently the batbox can cause them to be summoned out of the ether again, like lost business deeds).

As far as inventory items go, sims that get turned into townies seem to have their inventories majorly fucked with by the game (or possibly, they're just fucked with when the sim is married/moved in, but from a player's perspective, that doesn't make any difference).  I've never seen a playable premade or non-uni townie with a "went to college" memory with a diploma object in their inventory when they moved in, either.  The only ones with diplomas seem to be the ones that were Uni-fied with the batbox, sent to and graduated from college in the usual way, or were actually former dormies who were asked to move into a lot in the main hood.

I believe the diploma token is a relic of the older, pre-NL inventory system, and that the game either ignores these or converts them retroactively into diploma inventory objects. Pay no attention to this.