How's the Detective Career?

I have the occasional suspect not showing up but usually, I'll have no problems doing that career. It used to be a lot more buggy.

I haven't really played it in a while actually good reminder

when i was playing it last time it was quite buggy tho but that might also be my own fault for trying to edit things and also i was playing with rather potato computer

I've never had any problems with it being buggy. If you play it "straight" like the game wants you to, it's actually quite boring. But my detective is corrupt and crazy, and drinks on the job--that makes it fun

It's never been buggy in my game. There was only one problem a long time ago, but it got fixed. Recently it's been working fine.

"aaronrulz;d-986817" wrote:
I've had Get To Work since the pack came out and I never played the Detective career. crazy, right? I've read posts on here in the past that it's buggy so I never tried it. Does it work well these days?

Its one of my favorites but only works correctly if you don't use any cc at all. Because cc is most often not color binned correctly, the APB descriptions get all wacky. Without, I don't typically run into any major bugs.

Sometimes a suspect will not show up for interrogation until after the day the suspect has been arrested, but otherwise, it's working just fine.

I find the detective career quite boring because the suspects are really easy to spot since they're usually the only sim that will immediately spawn on the lot.

I’ve been playing Detective for the first time in the last week and it seems fine. There are some bugs when using the Booking Station, where a suspect will wander off and the animations will play as if they’re stood being searched by you. Nothing game-breaking.

OP, this is my experience because when I played that career I played it several times with several different Sims over several years. It's an interesting thing, especially if you don't spend all your time grinding and just doing the tasks you have to do. These were the bugs that existed after some patches back in 2017, and some still exist today. But I no longer play so you can look out for these things.

Let it be said when the pack was first introduced these bugs were not present.
But once CL was added due to situational outfits the game put on Sims even your own there arose a lot of problems.

1. Sims at the jail may not spawn. These were non playable and were there for you to fill some tasks like frisk prisoners etc. They also started just walking off so that task (can't remember what it's called) or fingerprinting etc. could not be done etc. At the first of this pack the game counted these characters as Sims so they counted against the head count of how many for population count. Just like the game counted dummies in the stores as Sims. But they increased the population counts so they shouldn't be a problem anymore.

2. Due to CL Sims who were the actual suspect were no longer dressing in the clues that were given. This became a huge problem and game breaking since the player couldn't fill the task to arrest the right Sim. It was still present about a year ago since random situational outfits still happen I would assume.

3. There was a problem with going back to work only to find out employees were ghosts and or replaced by ghosts (GT) pack

4. There was a problem about the chief remaining the chief so it was a problem to get the promotion, I don't know if they ever fixed it.

5. Lots where you went to get/ find the clues did not clean up (reset) after they had spots and other stuff left on them. You could see this stuff from the distances etc.

If you can't book the suspect I would call that game breaking. These things happened several times after the packs of CL, GT, Seasons and many others. The detective career became one of the most buggy things about TS4. I know I spent three years begging for fixes. Whether it's actually fixed or not will have to be proved to me. Note these were not all the bugs after they started adding more packs and patches.

But it was interesting and you had lots of time to play other things while at work. Hope they fixed it for those who gave them a zillion chances and seven years to fix it after they kept breaking it.

Something I thought of only after my detective retired... if you have suspects on the lot who match the description but are wearing hot or cold or situational outfits, introduce yourself and try using the "Ask to see outfit" social to make them change into everyday.
The workaround I found at the time was to keep track of which sims fit everything except the outfit clues, go back to the station without making an arrest, and put out another APB. If only one of those sims showed up on the second lot also, that was my suspect.
That was the only bug I had but I last played it in early 2019.