New career ideas
The main one I have, which I've seen mentioned elsewhere, is a music career more reminiscent of Sims 3. I still sometimes send my Sim into the entertainer career, but it feels very lacklustre to me. Either with a Musician track (focusing on singing and instrument skills) or a Producer track (focus on logic and the media production skill). Or a Solo Star track (focusing on singing skill, popularity, agency relations, perhaps with an option of choosing your agency like in the acting career) or a Frontman track (focus on instrument skill, band member relations, perhaps with an option of selecting your band members like you hire staff, with their skills improving alongside, or an option of kicking them and selecting higher skilled ones).
For the second option (As the first one is nicely fleshed out thanks to Sims 3) it could have stages like:
Solo Act:
- Back-up singer
- Featured artist
- Pop sensation
Frontman: (This is not a reflection on what I think of the instrument, just.. literally how close they tend to be to the front)
- Drummer
- Lead Guitar
- Rock star
Would be a nice way of introducing drums and bass guitars *cough*.
This could either be a work-at-home option, where you have tasks such as raising skills, interacting with band mates, or producing albums. Or a gig-selector type like the acting career. Where you go to a studio and produce albums and practice, with some random tasks of promotion being holding fan meet & greets, then you have random events of holding a concert (this could be rabbit-holed to save time, money and system requirements). It would be nice to see the career venue either evolving depending on your career-level, or being able to be customised somewhat by the player. The amount of money is dependant on the "quality of the album/concert" (i.e how many work-related tasks you complete).
Finally, a fame opt-in/out option could be nice for promotion tasks/random events/concert success (for those who don't have GF or some who don't like the fame system).
Any suggestions/amendments to the above? Perhaps suggestions I've made that just simply wouldn't work in Sims, or could be improved?
What ideas do you have for careers? They play such an important aspect of the game after all. Another thing I'd like is more part-time job options, perhaps even with varying shift patterns.
For the second option (As the first one is nicely fleshed out thanks to Sims 3) it could have stages like:
Solo Act:
- Back-up singer
- Featured artist
- Pop sensation
Frontman: (This is not a reflection on what I think of the instrument, just.. literally how close they tend to be to the front)
- Drummer
- Lead Guitar
- Rock star
Would be a nice way of introducing drums and bass guitars *cough*.
This could either be a work-at-home option, where you have tasks such as raising skills, interacting with band mates, or producing albums. Or a gig-selector type like the acting career. Where you go to a studio and produce albums and practice, with some random tasks of promotion being holding fan meet & greets, then you have random events of holding a concert (this could be rabbit-holed to save time, money and system requirements). It would be nice to see the career venue either evolving depending on your career-level, or being able to be customised somewhat by the player. The amount of money is dependant on the "quality of the album/concert" (i.e how many work-related tasks you complete).
Finally, a fame opt-in/out option could be nice for promotion tasks/random events/concert success (for those who don't have GF or some who don't like the fame system).
Any suggestions/amendments to the above? Perhaps suggestions I've made that just simply wouldn't work in Sims, or could be improved?
What ideas do you have for careers? They play such an important aspect of the game after all. Another thing I'd like is more part-time job options, perhaps even with varying shift patterns.
