I think the detective career need a re-work. I wish I could know what exactly the case they are investigating instead of just a plain quest done and move on until I caught a suspect and put them to jail for a day. An actual danger during active work hours like the Fire Fighter career in sims 3 sounds great too. Maybe they can be actually in a fight with the suspect? Then, instead of just to spill out the confession, maybe interrogating is more like trying to know the motive or something else?

As much as I actually really like Get to Work, the amount they added kind of reflects some missed opportunities for the expansion. For example, your sick sims can't go to the hospital, patrol officers don't roam around the world giving citations to sims who misbehave, no crimes are done onto your own sim, it would be neat if your own sims house could become a crime scene, also sims that are arrested by your sim don't stay in the cell, they disappear the next day, and the default inmates don't come and go, they're the same no matter how long you play the game (unless you delete them from the townie list). Out of all the playable jobs I believe the detective career is the least interesting out of the three. I agree, they should rework the detective career a bit more, would be nice but probably not going to happen.

You actually can interrogate but you have to be high in the career level and if you find then Innocent you let them go. But yeah I agree it has to be reworked and also it feels so separate from the actual world. What would be good if they brought burglars back and your on the job catching (meaning fighting like they did in Sims 2 and 3) if they catch the burglars and you see them in jail or let's say your playing another family getting robbed they call the police and your police detective sim comes and gets the robber and whenever you play your police sim you see the robber in jail (if he got caught.) That's how they can be connected because right it seems separate we go to work and that's that.

Sometimes I wish the Police career could branch into 2 different ones the detective career would be one but the other branching career would be Forensic Scientist I just find it unrealistic that Detectives are allowed to use the equipment in the crime lab even though in real life that would be the Forensic Scientists job to analyze the evidence .

"MasonGamer;15567325" wrote: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.Right? I totally wish they put more effort in detective career! I understand that they need to make the game as 'kid-friendly' as possible since they probably doesn't want to be sued, but they always can replace assassination with something else. Such as a humorous terror message sent to victim (Example: He shot him with a gun water balloon!) or something wackier. They should add burglar/pickpocket along with their upgrade, then perhaps adding mafia/hacker role in society could work too!"filipomel;15568037" wrote:As much as I actually really like Get to Work, the amount they added kind of reflects some missed opportunities for the expansion. For example, your sick sims can't go to the hospital, patrol officers don't roam around the world giving citations to sims who misbehave, no crimes are done onto your own sim, it would be neat if your own sims house could become a crime scene, also sims that are arrested by your sim don't stay in the cell, they disappear the next day, and the default inmates don't come and go, they're the same no matter how long you play the game (unless you delete them from the townie list). Out of all the playable jobs I believe the detective career is the least interesting out of the three. I agree, they should rework the detective career a bit more, would be nice but probably not going to happen. I personally like the detective job the most since the doctor and scientist are just as plain and repetitive. But yes, I wish they put those NPC officers out of the active job. It's so strange that the city doesn't have them roaming around!"Briana2425;15568062" wrote:You actually can interrogate but you have to be high in the career level and if you find then Innocent you let them go. But yeah I agree it has to be reworked and also it feels so separate from the actual world. What would be good if they brought burglars back and your on the job catching (meaning fighting like they did in Sims 2 and 3) if they catch the burglars and you see them in jail or let's say your playing another family getting robbed they call the police and your police detective sim comes and gets the robber and whenever you play your police sim you see the robber in jail (if he got caught.) That's how they can be connected because right it seems separate we go to work and that's that.I don't think we can drag an innocent suspect to office. The game will tell us that we caught the wrong person before then. Please remind me if I'm wrong. But either way, the interrogating doesn't give us any clue about what exactly happened after we successfully interrogate him/her. We just know that the person is confessing and put him/her to jail after.And yeah, the most favorite thing when i do the law enforcement job in sims 3 is that I got a hidden trait : can apprehend burglar, then why i love investigator is that i get to read some funny story even though it might repeat with different characters. The Stake Out is kind of a little buggy too since it was an open world and sometime the actors are taking so long to reach the destination / late to come and I had to repeat the action until i get the non-buggy actors (That's why I'm not really fond of the open world, btw, but it's not like I hate them too, I love the way I can open other's trash can/mail box to search for clues)."Cynel1;15568369" wrote:Sometimes I wish the Police career could branch into 2 different ones the detective career would be one but the other branching career would be Forensic Scientist I just find it unrealistic that Detectives are allowed to use the equipment in the crime lab even though in real life that would be the Forensic Scientists job to analyze the evidence . Oh yes! Totally! I really prefer to be able to pick between them! I also prefer it if they have 3 branches instead. Ace Detective, Chief, or Forensic. Not every detective likes to be in an organization, right?

"MasonGamer;15567325" wrote: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.Yeah I agree with everything you've written. I really, really wish the officers you see walking around from time to time would actually respond to events in the game. It'd give my sim much more of an incentive to start a fight in a public place, or to go to a dark alley to accept a bribe or drink plasma from a sims. As it stands, you just get a few negative reactions from sims my sim mostly doesn't care for anyway ^^ ETA: same goes for the doctor career - why have so many different diagnosable illnesses & treatments when playing at the hospital, but only one medicine for everything outside of it? Why can't I take my sims to the hospital when they're sick to get tested? Why can't they go there to get an artificial insemination baby like TS3 introduced with Into The Future? So many whys. They really missed the mark on both these careers in GTW. They should've made them less "parallel universe-y" and more integrated into the overall worlds and gameplay. It would've been so much fun! I'd even wish that there was a link between the science career & the worlds, but I understand it would've been less obvious. Although, if we still had newspapers for example (please, please), they could mention something like "contact with aliens made!" after you reach that level. Something, anything :)

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Heidr_Coerthas
8 years ago
"TJKazuha09;15584834" wrote:
"MadameLee;15583291" wrote:
"Gullveig;15582837" wrote:
"Cynel1;15581380" wrote:
"TJKazuha09;15578397" wrote:
@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'm guessing the self-proclaimed detective your talking about is called PI (private investigator).

I talked to him and he meant a detective like Sherlock Holmes. They work on their own (without being a member in the police organization) and only use local police as support.

Sherlock IS a PI like the Pinkerton Agency . But there's the other kind of detecivie like the one from Murdoch Mysteries (aka Artful Detective in the UK) which is a police detective

Wait, which Sherlock Holmes is this though? I was talking about the original one (novel), not the one that played by Benedict Cumberbatch. I think they are slightly different since the Sherlock that played by Benedict is modern-ish with time-travel thing involved and he work only with a specific agency. Not sure, I don't like the Benedict's version of Sherlock :\

It's still PI, silly. Private investigator also known as Private Eye/ Private detective, a person who can be hired by individuals or groups to undertake investigatory law services. I think you meant that too when you told me but wasn't sure if I was right lol.
ber5nie5
8 years ago
a lot of great ideas posted here. i was happy with the detective career as is. i agree that it does get very repetitive, but that's pretty much unavoidable in my opinion. improvements are always welcome though. the detective career is my personal favorite, with the doctor career coming in a close second. don't like the scientist career due to not liking interactions with aliens and the dumb tasks they have to do.

my big problem is that the detective career has been broke for quite awhile and they still haven't fixed it.

the game actually made jasmine holiday the suspect on one of my cases. when i arrested her, she didn't go to the police station with me for interrogation. so i couldn't "solve" the crime. this left me stuck and unable to do anymore cases. so i had to change careers. i could have gone back to a previous save, but i'm not going to waste my time in a career that has bugs that prevent me from progressing. just too frustrating and i play the game for fun and enjoyment.

so my one suggestion for improvement is having the ability to drop a case (due to insufficient evidence or whatever reason you want to come up with) and start with a new case.
gelehallonsoda1
4 years ago
I miss the private detective career from the Sims 3, it was very fun to play with. Also agreeing with that the careers needs reworking. They are to some extent empty and repetive and the doctor career are buggy and glitchy.
ghamrick75
4 years ago
Would love for them to fix the detective career, rework the detective career, and flat out give us a "private investigator" / "freelance detective" second career.

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