Re-work on detective career.

the other thing I want to see is crime scenes in other lots like in gyms or bars or even restaurant's if dine out is installed.

"Cinebar;15574161" wrote:
I sort of disagree. It's pretty clear to me what type of case the detective is working on at any particular time. Vandalism. Burglary, and or murder. Sometimes all three. lol If the house only has those gnomes and other things painted on the ground..vandalism. If the TV or fridge is missing or something else and you have to dust for finger prints, then burglary. If an outline of a body, it's murder. I like it that way.

I guess my imagination likes to fill in the holes. The only thing I would change is those who are suspects aren't counted toward townie population, and they remain in jail, that would be nice. I'd like to see the jail full with all the suspects my Sims did catch over the last two years.

Totally saw this coming. But this is exactly what I want to see in this discussion. While 'murder' case might have to be as subtle as possible to keep the game rating, they could've put more effort on detailing. While we users a.k.a players are good at imagining, why can't we also get a system that will allow us to at least get a good (yet not so obvious) detailed story instead of just a plain Go to Office > Check Computers > Go to crime scene > Collect Evidences > Return > Investigate > find clues > catch suspect > interrogate > Put to jail for a day > repeat.

In The sims 3, we got a set of story with different actors and path. We even got a set of quest such as stake out, rummage, or look for clues in mailbox without being caught by the owner, search for finger prints, interview, blackmail, hack, etc etc, I really like everything about the Sims 3 investigator job (Except for the bug where sometime you have to repeat action over and over to actually trigger the completion, thanks to the open world that cause this kind of un-fixable bug to happen forever).

there must be something EA and Maxis can do to make detective career more exciting than the previous Sims Series.

I wish there was a story given with each case but there are only so many stories they would give us so it would get repetitive too. Maybe they have shook the career up with random emergency calls of crimes in progress like graffiti calls or stealing to keep it teen rated along with the cases. Overall, I think the detective career is one of my favorite. Out of the three, it has the most variety in my opinion.

I personally would like if the science career had an overhaul first. I mean how many times am I going to talk to employees or make them change clothes\sit\eat with the freeze gun.

I was expecting something a bit more like discovering planets or stars and naming them, engineering food not just potions literally GMO plants, discovering medicines when combining plants\fish\metals etc instead of just buying meds from the computer, etc My sims are studying metals and looking at slides with nothing coming of it. The best thing about it going to Sixam but even then there is nothing to do there either besides talk to aliens, get some plants and metals.

Doctor career is okay for me. I just would have like to be able to move patients to a room to keep them overnight. Maybe those random emergency patients. I would also like to see them with a saline drip bag while in their room. Doctors could also perform rounds to check in on those patients.

Anyway, I think all three careers could use improvement but my vote would be for the science career before detective.

Yes, to the op and the wonderful detective ideas. Like, maybe they could actually stay in jail for a few days. I would also feel a bit better if they actually fixed the career. It gives me clues without a suspect and it impossible to play.

"keekee53;15574843" wrote:
I wish there was a story given with each case but there are only so many stories they would give us so it would get repetitive too. Maybe they have shook the career up with random emergency calls of crimes in progress like graffiti calls or stealing to keep it teen rated along with the cases. Overall, I think the detective career is one of my favorite. Out of the three, it has the most variety in my opinion.

I personally would like if the science career had an overhaul first. I mean how many times am I going to talk to employees or make them change clothes\sit\eat with the freeze gun.

I was expecting something a bit more like discovering planets or stars and naming them, engineering food not just potions literally GMO plants, discovering medicines when combining plants\fish\metals etc instead of just buying meds from the computer, etc My sims are studying metals and looking at slides with nothing coming of it. The best thing about it going to Sixam but even then there is nothing to do there either besides talk to aliens, get some plants and metals.

Doctor career is okay for me. I just would have like to be able to move patients to a room to keep them overnight. Maybe those random emergency patients. I would also like to see them with a saline drip bag while in their room. Doctors could also perform rounds to check in on those patients.

Anyway, I think all three careers could use improvement but my vote would be for the science career before detective.

I was expecting a lot more too! I work in the medical field. So when I started playing the get to work expansion as a doctor I had so many cringe attacks :confounded: I would love to see them overhaul these careers as well <3

"StarWhispers;15575387" wrote:

"keekee53;15574843" wrote:
I wish there was a story given with each case but there are only so many stories they would give us so it would get repetitive too. Maybe they have shook the career up with random emergency calls of crimes in progress like graffiti calls or stealing to keep it teen rated along with the cases. Overall, I think the detective career is one of my favorite. Out of the three, it has the most variety in my opinion.

I personally would like if the science career had an overhaul first. I mean how many times am I going to talk to employees or make them change clothes\sit\eat with the freeze gun.

I was expecting something a bit more like discovering planets or stars and naming them, engineering food not just potions literally GMO plants, discovering medicines when combining plants\fish\metals etc instead of just buying meds from the computer, etc My sims are studying metals and looking at slides with nothing coming of it. The best thing about it going to Sixam but even then there is nothing to do there either besides talk to aliens, get some plants and metals.

Doctor career is okay for me. I just would have like to be able to move patients to a room to keep them overnight. Maybe those random emergency patients. I would also like to see them with a saline drip bag while in their room. Doctors could also perform rounds to check in on those patients.

Anyway, I think all three careers could use improvement but my vote would be for the science career before detective.

I was expecting a lot more too! I work in the medical field. So when I started playing the get to work expansion as a doctor I had so many cringe attacks :confounded: I would love to see them overhaul these careers as well <3

Totally Agree, All lames active careers needs re-work and all 3 of them should have been related. A detective can't stand alone. Someone who is professional on deducting is not always professional on Science and Health. While a doctor could've been the one who do the autopsy, scientist could've been the one who investigate evidences and both should be able to report to detective so the detective could analyze it and decide what to do with all those clues.

Why are they not doing that yet?

But first, as I said. Please update their work place. I don't want same office in all city.

@MadameLee I said it but I'll explain anyway. Detective could've just do the investigating, deduction, catching suspect and interrogating and I also wish that they can choose between self proclaimed detective or detective who work in organization. Doctor should be able to choose their path too. Doctor who work with the law enforcement career (doing autopsy, medical check up on victim / suspect or the regular doctor with their specific career track or maybe apothecary. Scientist could also choose between the regular scientist, scientist who work for law enforcement (Forensic Scientist), or scientist who work for medical innovation.

I haven't played the detective yet. I don't have a sim with the right personality and lifestyle for that yet. I have started playing the GTW doctor. I'd be interested in sending someone into the science field but I'm not interested in aliens and I have heard that it is a bit silly. My sims that would go into science are serious, studious and focused. I don't want them to goof off with lasers and to try to contact aliens.

Anyway, I would welcome a reworking of these careers and more options. What I have heard about bugged play has put me off a bit as far as playing those careers. I know about the doctor-pregnant sim bug but haven't gotten there yet in the game and will use the cheat to work around it if I have to.

Something that is probably true across the three careers that is annoying and that I've heard others complain about is the other coworkers. I understand that the goal of the career is for my sim to work but it's a little ridiculous. The orderly spends nearly the whole day goofing off. I'd like it if a sim could have more integrated team work with coworkers which would reflect real life work situations. I get it that the orderly isn't a doctor but he's pretty much hanging around and doing nothing. A doctor should be able to delegate tasks to other doctors and to the nurses. I'm guessing that stuff like that comes up in other forms in careers like the detective as well.

I liked Ambitions a lot and while I generally like Sims 4, Ambitions was stronger and more flexible than GTW. GTW is a weird mish-mash of alien play (not interesting to me) and these three sort of skeletal careers. I am mostly enjoying the doctor but it does sound like this EP could use some work. (Yes, irony).

I agree the cases are insignificant, something to just past the time.

and when finding out the suspect is, you're right they just "Go quietly." I would hope they put up a fight, maybe even get away.

and the crimes are bland. As much as it pains me to say I wish there was more of a story when getting a case.

Sims can't kill but what about the idea of murder taking place, assassination or an attempt.

I'm just noticing that when you're not placing as an officer, you're just a sim, there are no officers on patrol at least from time to time.

It would be cool if there was an officer npc(s) from time to time do patrol the active neighborhood. but the game doesn't force fights to break out, but if say a vampire was harassing your sim for blood, and a Officer was in close proximity, they could try to arrest the vampire, or the vampire can get away.
even vampire break-ins, it could be possible the midnight feeder can get arrested.

again its so hard to keep prisoners tho. because even when you rotate households you see those prisoners walking around when they're suppose to be locked up.

some cases would be worked such as if Vampires GP was installed the victims that had their plasma sucked out would faint and be sent to the hospital and a chalk line would be at the crime scene that would work as T rated Homicide cases.