[LS] Romance Consultant: Degree not helping
The July 1 patch added the following: Getting a Degree at University now helps the Romance Consultant Career. I enrolled my Sim in Foxbury to earn a distinguished degree in psychology for the roma...
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This was apparently "fixed" but is actually still incorrectly working.
To test, I gave 4 sims all 4 regular psychology and communications degrees (one from each university, without honors).
Issue #1: All 4 sims could only start the career at Level 1, instead of getting the usual degree career boost being able to skip to later levels in the career track corresponding to their degree.
Issue #2: CommunicationsDegreeBS (regular, from Foxbury) gives higher bonus than CommuncationsDegreeBA (Distinguished, from Britechester)
Distinguished psychology degree correctly boosts payment trait_University_PsychologyDegreeBSDistinguished degree in Communications gives a far lower bonus trait_University_CommunicationsDegreeBAtrait_University_CommunicationsDegreeBS (Regular degree in Communications, from Foxbury) gives higher bonus than Distinguished Degree in Communications from BritechesterThis also applies to the Honors degrees in the codeEdit: trait typo fixed in caption about Psychology degree.
I've done more testing to clarify my post (including with honors degrees):
COMMUNICATIONS DEGREE:
- Distinguished degree (trait_University_CommunicationsDegreeBA)
- starts at only L1 (no level boost, matchmaker track not yet available)
- earns 63/h at L3
- Regular degree (trait_University_CommunicationsDegreeBS)
- starts at only L1 (no level boost)
- earns 66/h at L3
- Distinguished degree with honors (trait_University_CommunicationsDegreeBAHonors)
- starts at only L1 (no level boost)
- earns 65/h at L3
- earns less than regular degree without honors; should earn more than regular degree WITH honors.
- Regular degree with honors (trait_University_CommunicationsDegreeBSHonors)
- starts at only L1 (no level boost)
- earns 67/h at L3
- earns more than distinguished degree with honors; should earn less
PSYCHOLOGY DEGREE:
- Regular degree (trait_University_PsychologyDegreeBA)
- starts at L1 (no level boost)
- earns 63/h at L3
- Regular psychology degree earns same as distinguished communications degree
- Distinguished degree (trait_University_PsychologyDegreeBS)
- starts at L2
- Level slightly boost but doesn't open up therapist track
- earns 66/h at L3
- starts at L2
- Regular degree with honors (trait_University_PsychologyDegreeBAHonors)
- starts at L2
- Level slightly boost but doesn't open up therapist track
- earns 65/h at L3
- starts at L2
- Distinguished degree with honors (trait_University_PsychologyDegreeBSHonors)
- starts at L3
- Level slightly boost but doesn't open up therapist track
- earns 67/h
- starts at L3
Issues:
- Career level boosts are inconsistent with how degrees usually work.
- Usually regular degrees start at L6, distinguished degrees start at L7, regular degrees with honors start at L7, distinguished degrees with honors start at L8.
- Matchmaker track not yet available with any communications degree.
- Inconsistent with how degrees work with other careers.
- Therapist track not yet available with any psychology degree.
- Inconsistent with how degrees work with other careers.
- Foxbury Communications Degrees incorrectly treated as Distinguished, and vice versa, for pay/performance boosts for this career.
- Distinguished Communications degree comes from Britechester, not Foxbury.
- Sims with Distinguished Degrees should be paid more than regular Degrees.
Hi EA_Solaire, my bug report was moved to this feedback thread, but there is a clear error in how the Romance Consultant career identifies which Communications Degree is “Distinguished”.
Distinguished Degrees in Communications (Britechester) should be the higher-tier degree, with greater pay and performance boosts than the regular Communications Degree (Foxbury), consistent with how all other degree-career pairings function. But with this career, the “lesser” Foxbury degree grants the higher benefit.
It appears that trait_University_CommunicationsDegreeBS / BSHonors were mistakenly used in place of the correct Distinguished degree traits trait_University_CommunicationsDegreeBA / BAHonors.
Could this thread please be reclassified as a Bug Report, or would you prefer that I create a separate report specifically for the degree mix-up?
- Distinguished degree (trait_University_CommunicationsDegreeBA)
Could you please post in the bug section? It’s not feedback, it’s clearly bug.
crinrict I hope it’s fine to ask - could you move this thread to the bug section? Thanks!
I did post my comments as a bug report, it got moved to this thread. I agree, a regular Communications Degree should NOT earn higher pay than a Distinguished Communications Degree and they've clearly been mixed up in the code.
I wondered if the "feedback" aspect was to do with the career level starting boost being a bit more complicated, as most other careers split off at Level 4-6, but this one doesn't branch off to matchmaker/relationship counselor until L8.
The only other career I've seen do that is the Park Worker career in Adventure Awaits, so I tested how degrees work there to compare. Unfortunately both careers are inconsistent!
- When I gave the sim a Distinguished Degree in Psychology with Honors, that sim was able to start at L8 in the ParkCounselor track.
- This is consistent with other careers.
- BUT when I gave another sim a regular Degree in Psychology (no honors) that sim was ALSO able to start at L8 in the ParkCounselor track. Not consistent with other careers, which would start at L6.
- My sim with a Distinguished Degree in Biology with Honors was only able to start at L6 Park Worker, before the career branches off to Ranger/Counselor.
- A higher career jump than the degrees currently give Romance Consultants, but it should be L8 like in all other careers (and is inconsistent with the other track!)
- Sims with a regular Degree in Biology (no honors) ALSO started L6. I would expect sims with a regular degree to start here. Distinguished + honors should be 2 levels ahead of a regular degree.
I'll make a report for the Park Worker career issue and wait & see what the community managers would prefer for this thread.
- When I gave the sim a Distinguished Degree in Psychology with Honors, that sim was able to start at L8 in the ParkCounselor track.
Hello. I didn’t know that… What is CM?
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