Played Sims quitting & getting jobs
The March 26, 2015, patch notes say: "Non-played Sims (sometimes referred to as townies) now have jobs!" But I've had played Sims be given jobs, when I was rotated away from them. Other Simmers are...
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I've added this.
Tried yesterday in my abandoned game where I play rotationally but I could not duplicate the issue. My stay at home mom was still a stay at home mom and many others didn't have jobs or kept the ones they had.
Everyone that reports, please add if you had mods in when you first started your game and also if it occurs on new games to. Does it happen right away or only after playing a family and then switching. Does it matter which jobs they had ?
The Sims given jobs: Does it say they are unemployed or something else (for my Sim it said she was a stay at home mom.
The more info the better.
I patched mod-free, so you can rule out "patching with mods in" as a cause.
I'm playing modded; I can't recall how many people said they were playing unmodded on the other forum. As I recall there were some players encountering this unmodded, though - I think fullspiral plays unmodded. I had no culling or career related mods in when it happened on an older game. I'm asking on the forums if anyone with this problem is playing unmodded, but I'll also pulling out all my mods and start a new game again to test.
(edited to add: These two Simmers had the game take a Sim's job away, playing with no mods: http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/823067/my-sim-lost-his-job-in-the-patch and http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/13472349/#Comment_13472349)
Yes, it happens in new games.
It happens only gradually, not right away. In my current game, it was 2 or 3 Sim days of playing another household before unemployed Barbie was made a painter. My other unemployed played Sim that I'm rotated away from is still unemployed after 5 Sim days. In 5 Sim days, I didn't see a Sim have their job removed or changed, only given when they didn't have one.
Re. "stay-at-home mom/dad": that's the same as unemployed, but is the label used for unemployed adults who have children living in the house. You won't find any of those Sims labelled "unemployed".
