Re: Premade sims losing their occupation when played

@MintyFreshSims @Thank you! This worked! I deleted the new pub owner through manage worlds, but it didn't actually delete her from the game, so when I went to the pub to see if Sara was working there, I saw the other pub owner and had to click and modify her in cas full edit mode to delete her, but after that and using the cheats you provided, Sara is the pub owner again. Thank you, thank you, thank you

@ChapelParalysisSure! I think I found the most relevant ones 🙂

Creature Keeper

trait_Hidden_Cottageworld_NPC_CritterTender (seems like they only need the trait)

Food Delivery

career_Adult_CottageWorld_NPC_GroceryDelivery

Gardenshop Owner (I'm not sure tampering with Agatha and Agnes' NPC traits is such a good idea, but here they are)

career_Adult_CottageWorld_NPC_GardenShopOwner

trait_Hidden_Cottageworld_NPC_AgathaCrumplebottom /or/ trait_Hidden_Cottageworld_NPC_AgnesCrumplebottom

Grocery Owner

trait_Hidden_Cottageworld_NPC_GroceryOwner
career_Adult_CottageWorld_NPC_GroceryOwner

Grocery Deliverer
career_Adult_CottageWorld_NPC_GroceryDelivery

trait_Hidden_Cottageworld_NPC_GroceryDeliverer

Mayor

career_Adult_CottageWorld_NPC_Mayor

trait_Hidden_Cottageworld_NPC_Mayor

Pub Owner
career_Adult_CottageWorld_NPC_PubOwner
trait_Hidden_Cottageworld_NPC_PubOwner

Hope this helps 🙌

Very useful information thank you. Do you know codes for DJ, mixologist and entertainer? I have tried giving certain NPC these roles but I usually struggle and they do not show up. I don't see any codes for these in the webpage provided. Thank you.

Wow, thanks, this is incredibly helpful! You’re a star!

@babuchas01 

DJ

careers.add_career career_Adult_NPC_DJ

traits.equip_trait trait_Hidden_NPC_isDJ

I think I read that you need to add the DJ skill in order to make the cheats work; a DJ Headliner needs max DJ skill, regular DJ needs DJ skill 7-9. This should work.

In short, I haven't figured out how to assign a bartender or entertainer yet... 🤔 But if you want to read what I've tried while trying to figure out while they won't spawn, you can read below, haha 😳

Bartender

careers.add_career career_Adult_NPC_Bartender

For the Bartender, I can only find this cheat, which I assume you've already tried. There's no trait attached to this NPC. I've had problems with this NPC as well.

I've tried just the cheat, the cheat and mixology skill, etc., but it seems like the game wants to assign the role to all unemployed sims first. I now tried adding the cheat with Sim ID, and it didn't work either. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that bartenders have three shifts that they can work? You might try and note the "work time" that they get assigned when you apply the cheat, and travel to the bar where you want them to work, I haven't tried it myself though. But, I know something that kind of works, if you have the motivation... In my savegame, every sim is employed and/or marked as played. If I add a sim, I can travel to the lot were I know there's a NPC-role missing, and the only one available for the job will be the sim I just added.

Entertainer

careers.add_career career_Adult_Entertainer

Kind of the same as the bartender, but it seems the game assigns an Entertainer depending on the skills that they have. If there's a piano, a sim with high piano skill will show up, a guitar spawns a high guitar skill sim etc. No new sims were spawned to fill these roles in my game, it only used premade sims. But I've only been able to hire entertainers as my game doesn't seem to want to spawn entertainers automatically at the moment, and I need them to spawn to figure out if they have hidden traits.

I hope that the DJ cheat works out at least 🙂 Good luck!

@MintyFreshSimsOkay i followed the steps, I deleted the random grocery store owner from the game, placed Kim in world, gave her the cheats, then evicted her and marked her household as unplayed. But the game just spawned another random grocery owner, what am I doing wrong? I’ve tried this several times making sure I got all the cheats typed in correctly and I’m following the steps in the right order but a new townie keeps spawning. Should I try this through the careers.add_career [NPC career] [SimID] cheat?

@Knotwise13 

I think the full cheats are:

traits.equip_trait trait_Hidden_Cottageworld_NPC_GroceryOwner
careers.add career_Adult_CottageWorld_NPC_GroceryOwner

Is that what you did?

Hmm... You seem to be doing all the steps correctly. If I understand your message correctly, you might've missed the "beginning" of the cheats. I realised when looking at mu post that I didn't really specify that the cheats are "in two parts". All trait cheats a start with traits.equip_trait and all career cheats start with careers.add_career. Try the cheats below again, with all the moving, evicting and mark as unplayed stuff.

traits.equip_trait trait_Hidden_Cottageworld_NPC_GroceryOwner

careers.add_career career_Adult_CottageWorld_NPC_GroceryOwner

As you said, doing it with the SimID might be another way to do it, though I personally find it more finicky.

If it still doesn't work, I know that in new saves, I sometimes forget testingcheats true before I try to cheat, which makes them fail. If thats out of the way, I'm not sure if there's a particular order to the cheats, so maybe try the career cheat before trait cheat and vice versa.

Then there's also where Kim is placed. If you place her in Finchwick village center, the game will have already spawned in a new grocery owner because the area is "activated", and the cheats won't work as the role is already filled.

I really hope you find a solution to the problem. Fingers crossed!

@Knotwise13 

Yeah, what @MintyFreshSims said here:

"Then there's also where Kim is placed. If you place her in Finchwick village center, the game will have already spawned in a new grocery owner because the area is "activated", and the cheats won't work as the role is already filled."

I would go to the empty lot in Old New Henford, place her there, run the cheats, and then evict her.