[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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Issue: A Distinguished Communications Degree with Honors gives a smaller career boost than a regular Communications Degree without honors in the Noble and Romance Consultant careers.
This is how degrees are supposed to impact career performance, PTO accrual, and simoleon pay boosts:
- Regular Degree: lowest boost
- Regular Degree with Honors: 2nd lowest boost
- Distinguished Degree: 2nd highest boost
- Distinguished Degree with Honors: the best degree; highest boost
But Noble and Romance Consultant careers treat regular Foxbury Communications degrees as if they were Distinguished, giving them larger boosts than both Britechester Distinguished degrees.
Code from the career_Noble_Level1 tuning files shows both Foxbury communications degrees wrongly giving a higher simoleon bonus than the Distinguished communications degrees from Britechester. CommunicationsDegreeBA/BS need to be switched here.What should happen: Distinguished degrees should provide higher boosts than their equivalent non-distinguished degrees for the Noble and Romance Consultant careers.
I reported this exact issue last year for Lovestruck's Romance Consultant career, but a CM mistakenly moved it to a Feedback thread when it is clearly a bug in the code mixing up which communications degree is distinguished.
Adding additional clarification based on in-game Discover University screenshots.
The Lessons menu states that Distinguished Degrees provide "better benefits from their job than normal degrees" (see screenshot).
But in the Noble and Romance Consultant careers, normal Foxbury Communications degrees currently provide larger career bonuses than the Distinguished Communications degrees from Britechester.
from Lessons --> Discover University --> Attending University"Enroll in a University" menu: Only Britechester offers a Distinguished Degree in Communications. The code for this degree is trait_University_CommunicationsDegreeBA or trait_University_CommunicationsDegreeBAHonorsFoxbury only offers a normal Communications Degree. The code for this degree is trait_University_CommunicationsDegreeBS or trait_University_CommunicationsDegreeBSHonorsThe degree trait BA/BS naming conventions correlate with arts (Britechester) and science (Foxbury) universities, not which degree is distinguished.
But tuning for the Noble and Romance Consultant careers appears to treat all DegreeBS traits as distinguished, when CommunicationsDegreeBA is the distinguished degree. So the higher bonus values are linked to the wrong Communications degree traits. This results in behaviour that contradicts the documented function of Distinguished Degrees.
(The other boosting degrees for Noble and Romance Consultant careers, Economics and Psychology respectively, behave correctly because their Distinguished degrees are from Foxbury and do use DegreeBS university traits.)
Could this please be reviewed again as a potential bug rather than feedback EA_Solaire EA_Cade ?
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