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mklawson
Seasoned Newcomer
6 months ago

Get to Work Pack Refresh

Can we get a refresh for the Get-to-Work Expansion Pack or more careers to play? It's one of my favorite packs, but the gameplay has gotten old now. Maybe redo the gameplay for the career tasks to focus more on the actual job titles and work more together as a team. 

Doctor Career Example: Orderlies and Medical Assistants bring patients from the front desk and clean up tasks, Medical Technologists more running labs, Nurses do more patient triage and administer meds tasks, Doctors diagnose and patient education, and Chief of Staff do actual leadership things/assign tasks to other employees.

Detective Career Example: Cadets doing more exercise, research, and training functions, Officers and Corporals more out on patrol and securing crime scenes and maybe talking to witnesses, Detectives collecting/processing evidence, interrogating suspects, Sergeants-Chief doing leadership tasks like issue APB's, running patrol, managing crime scene tasks, and assigning tasks.

Also, another career to be able to add gameplay functions might be the Education career, especially with the High School Years Expansion Pack. Let the entry levels 1-5 work at the high school. Add a High School Administrator career track to go to the high school: Level 6. Guidance Counselor 7. Student Dean 8. Academic Dean 9. Vice Principal 10. Principal. Add tasks like mentor teachers, counsel students, give career advice, discipline students, observe classrooms, monitor halls/lunch period, fix objects, make announcements, run faculty meetings, review lessons plans, call parents, etc.

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  • I would love to see Get to Work receive more fully playable careers.

    Doctor, Detective and Scientist are great because we can actually follow our Sims to work and participate in their day instead of simply sending them into a rabbit hole.

    It would be amazing to expand this system with completely new active careers such as:

    🚒 Firefighter – Work from a fire station, respond to emergencies, extinguish fires and rescue Sims.

    🚑 Paramedic – Receive emergency calls, treat injured Sims and transport patients to the hospital.

    🚓 Police Patrol Officer – Patrol neighborhoods, respond to incidents and work alongside the existing Detective career.

    🔧 Repair Technician / Mechanic – Receive service calls, repair equipment and eventually specialize in different types of repairs.

    🏗️ Construction Worker – Work on building sites, complete projects and repair or renovate locations around the worlds.

    📦 Postal / Delivery Worker – Deliver mail and packages to different households and businesses.

    I would also love to see some existing careers become optionally active, such as:

    🏫 Education
    ⚖️ Law
    🏢 Business
    💻 Tech careers
    🏋️ Athlete

    Just like with Get to Work, players could choose:

    Join – Follow the Sim and actively play the workday
    Send Alone – Keep the existing rabbit-hole system

    Get to Work is supposed to be the expansion focused on our Sims’ professional lives, so adding more careers we can actually experience would make the pack feel much more complete today.

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