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Re: [FIXED] [IL] Mermaid Conservationists can't complete snorkel job task

I have this problem.

My mermaid conservationist lives off the grid and was responsible for supporting her teen sister (who aged up and is attending university).  I actually abandoned this save for a while because it was TOO FRUSTRATING. 

Today's task:  GO SNORKELING!
Buoy:  Mermaids don't snorkel.
Tomorrow's task:  Rhiannon's boss was disappointed in her work and she received $0.  Today's task:  GO SNORKELING.

Repeat ad nauseum.

She used to sell her little sister's school projects for food money because she never got paid because SNORKELING, and....

Well, I sent my mermaid conservationist into the office until she got promoted past the WFH task being SNORKELING every day, and she's now level 10, and also I bought Eco Lifestyle and that makes off-the grid so much nicer, and she even found birds of paradise in the beach cave! but....

STILL WITH THE SNORKELING. Not daily, at least, but often enough to be really frustrating!

I could just switch careers, I suppose, but I built her with conservatonist in mind.  Active, loves the outdoors, Child of the Islands.  I mean, it seems natural to ME that a mermaid would care about the health of the ocean. (My mermaid conservationists in other saves are all Environmental Managers because SNORKELING.)

She's gotten into gardening as a sideline, so at least she and her little sister aren't starving, but good grief.  ENOUGH with the damned snorkeling!

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  • xochiquetzl_xkvn's avatar
    xochiquetzl_xkvn
    Seasoned Ace
    5 years ago

    Replying to myself, sorry. 

    Sometimes I feel like the Sims team believes there are two types of Simmers:  "fantasy" players who like occults and "weird" things, and "realism" players who like families and things like cleaning up the environment, and never the two shall meet.  Mermaid conservationist is an example.  (I also have another save with a spellcaster married to a mermaid, and their children ran into the hybrid glitch, because who would play a family with occults, let alone more than one kind of occult? *raises hand*  But I digress.) 

    Some of us want our mermaid to be a marine biologist.  It seems logical to ME that a mermaid would care about the environment and the health of the ocean!  Mermaid and environmentalist are two of the big features of Island Living, as Adolphus2217 pointed out above.  The only possible explanation I can think of for why they didn't test whether they work together is the paragraph above. 

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