[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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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?
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