Ultimate Careers (V4)

Due to the impending release of The Sims 4, this mod will likely not be updated past this point.


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The end of career rabbitholes is here! With Ultimate Careers, instead of going into a rabbithole to work, Sims will spend the work day at a community lot, doing work-related interactions - or slacking off. The mod scans the Sim's interaction queue, and increases performance depending on which interactions are being used.

Download Ultimate Careers 4.3.3

• Compatible Objects
• Tuning Packages (for changing difficulty and other settings)

A detailed tutorial on how to set up the mod is available over at NRaas Wiki: http://nraas.wikispaces.com/Zerbu%27s+Ultimate+Careers+Mod

• However, please note the following mistake: the correct way to assign Sims to a lot is using "Add Career or School" - "Assign Manual Sims" is for assigning individual Sims to a lot different from their usual one, and is intended for storytelling purposes.

Translations

• Brazilian Portuguese translation by Arthur360.
• Spanish translation by Marco CP

Compatible Objects

A list of objects compatible with each career is available here: http://zerbu.blogspot.co.uk/p/ultimate-careers-v3.html

Bugs

If you encounter any bugs, please report them.

You can report a bug in the comments. Please also state what other mods are using, and what career(s) you're trying to enable.

Please read below before reporting, as your bug may already be explained.

Technical Restrictions

Some features are restricted due to technical reasons.

• Sims will not be recognized by the game as "at work". Instead, they will be given a fake "unpaid day off" about two hours before the work day starts.
• The carpool will not function on open careers because it's attached directly to the EA default "go to work" interaction, which takes Sims to the rabbithole.
• I had to use a cheap workaround to handle inviting Sims currently at work to lots. The Sim may accept the invitation, but you will then be given a notification that the Sim can't make it, after you've invited them. This was the only way around the issue.
• The "Go to Work" button in the UI will no longer function.

Expansion Pack Requirements

Although the mod should work with only the base game, you may need expansion packs (especially University Life, which has the most objects used by the mod) to get the full experience.

Compatibility with Other Mods

• Ultimate Careers has been tested with NRaas StoryProgression and seems to work correctly. Please note that you'll probably get a lot more co-workers than usual if you use NRaas StoryProgression. There does seem to be a rare glitch where Sims will be pushed to leave the career lot, but they'll immediately be pushed back and their autonomy won't be effected afterwards, so it's a non-severe issue.
• Cherry92's Cancel Time Off mod should work, as long as you don't use it to cancel the fake day off the mod assigns Sims before they go to work (I see no reason why you'd WANT to do this in the first place unless you were deliberately trying to see what happens).
• Ultimate Careers version 2 replaces the "Work from Home" interaction with a custom version that is disabled during work hours, and will conflict with other mods that edit the interaction.
• If used with NRaas Dresser, Sims may end up randomly switching out of their career outfits. Inactive Sims will switch back, but the constant changes may be annoying. There doesn't seem to be any way to fix this.

Opportunities

Opportunities are not included in the mod, due to the complicated amount of code needed to properly mark them as achieved.

Lifetime Rewards

The mod is compatible with the work-related lifetime rewards.

• Office Hero - Gives Sims a +20 moodlet, which also increases all social skills, while at work.
• Vacationer - If a Sim has this lifetime reward, their career performance will not decrease when they're not on the career lot.
• Entrepreneurial Mindset - Performance increase from work interactions will be higher than usual.
• MultiTasker - Performance increase from work interactions will be higher than usual, though not as much as Entrepreneurial Mindset (there are, however, core features of the lifetime reward that aren't related to the mod).
• Professional Slacker - Performance will not decrease when not using work interactions. However, it will still decrease when off the lot.

Traveling

Previously, if a Sim travelled during a work day, the work day will automatically end. Since version 4, the method for ending work days has changed so that it will automatically end whenever it's not the valid work hours (as opposed to ending at an exact time) so it should be safe to travel even while the work day is still going. I wouldn't recommend doing that, but it's up to you.

Career Outfits

By default, inactive Sims will automatically switch into career outfits, but it will be optional for active Sims. This can be changed in the tuning file.

Time Off

Time off work - both paid and unpaid - will function normally. However, if you want unpaid time off, you must request it before the work day activates two hours before the work hours begin. Holidays from Seasons will also function correctly.

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