My sim is in the journalist branch right now, but I'd like her to be an author instead (I prefer the unlockables). Is there still a way to switch? Cause when I quit her job and look for a new one, it immediatly gives me the journalism branch rather than a new writing career.I tried the Careers.demote cheat as well, but it seems to have no effect.Any ideas/ other people having a problem with this?

well...i hope this is a glitch...i was hoping to do multiple careers and such

Gone through several careers so far, all of them set me to level 9 of the branch I choose, doesn't seem like a bug. I was hoping to unlock all the content, but that doesn't seem possible currently. Also there's at least one aspiration you're unable to complete if you pick the "wrong" branch, Mixology Aspiration requires you go Mixology branch, but the Cooking Aspiration has no such requirement, meaning if you want to complete both, you have to go Mixology branch. Odd that they're making the game more and more restricting... But yeah, I'm hoping it's bugs, not features, and that it will be fixed eventually.

According to SimGuruLyndsay:> @SimGuruLyndsay said:> You cannot switch branches. That's a really good idea though!! We'll make a note.So looks like we're out of luck for now...

Unable to switch career branches....This is something that would bother me.

"devilchild803;12620459" wrote:You could try switching to a different career and then switching back to the writer career, maybe.That won't work. In fact, you'll trigger a bug where you'd start off in your branch at level 1, and can't get beyond level 4 (which is supposed to be level 10 to begin with).

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JennaSaisQuoi58
11 years ago
well...i hope this is a glitch...i was hoping to do multiple careers and such
Rekalty
11 years ago
Gone through several careers so far, all of them set me to level 9 of the branch I choose, doesn't seem like a bug. I was hoping to unlock all the content, but that doesn't seem possible currently. Also there's at least one aspiration you're unable to complete if you pick the "wrong" branch, Mixology Aspiration requires you go Mixology branch, but the Cooking Aspiration has no such requirement, meaning if you want to complete both, you have to go Mixology branch. Odd that they're making the game more and more restricting... But yeah, I'm hoping it's bugs, not features, and that it will be fixed eventually.
PlatinumPlumbob
11 years ago
According to SimGuruLyndsay:

> @SimGuruLyndsay said:
> You cannot switch branches. That's a really good idea though!! We'll make a note.

So looks like we're out of luck for now...
SimSizzle
11 years ago
Unable to switch career branches....This is something that would bother me.
mmsbludhound
11 years ago
"devilchild803;12620459" wrote:
You could try switching to a different career and then switching back to the writer career, maybe.
That won't work. In fact, you'll trigger a bug where you'd start off in your branch at level 1, and can't get beyond level 4 (which is supposed to be level 10 to begin with).
TwistedMexi
11 years ago
"Danicat09;12608154" wrote:
According to SimGuruLyndsay:

> @SimGuruLyndsay said:

> You cannot switch branches. That's a really good idea though!! We'll make a note.

So looks like we're out of luck for now...

I'm not entirely certain, not to discredit SimGuruLyndsay - there definitely isn't any "legit" way of switching branches.

There is another careers command in the code I'm sorting out right now. If I can get those values right it may very well be able to switch the branch.
SimGuruLyndsay
11 years ago
"TwistedMexican;12620489" wrote:
"Danicat09;12608154" wrote:
According to SimGuruLyndsay:

> @SimGuruLyndsay said:

> You cannot switch branches. That's a really good idea though!! We'll make a note.

So looks like we're out of luck for now...

I'm not entirely certain, not to discredit SimGuruLyndsay - there definitely isn't any "legit" way of switching branches.

There is another careers command in the code I'm sorting out right now. If I can get those values right it may very well be able to switch the branch.

You're right - you should be able to use the career cheats to get back to the branching choice. If you cheat to the level of promotion that would prompt the branching dialog you'll get to choose again. There is not a way to switch branches without cheating right now though.
Baewall
11 years ago
> @SimGuruLyndsay said:
>
> You're right - you should be able to use the career cheats to get back to the branching choice. If you cheat to the level of promotion that would prompt the branching dialog you'll get to choose again. There is not a way to switch branches without cheating right now though.

but when I try to demote myself past the choice my sim just gets fired. Then when I use the Careers.add_career cheat I get the job past the branching choice again. Could you please specify what cheats to use to achieve this?
patrickb1973
7 years ago
Here we are in 2017 and this problem has still not been fixed, hello maxis team we would like a choice e to switch branches
Baewall
11 years ago
> @DiSoAngel said:
> well...i hope this is a glitch...i was hoping to do multiple careers and such

I've seen a few people mentioning this problem, but no solution has come up so far :(