My sim gets promoted in the same time as finishing their degree.

"Writin_Reg;c-17305698" wrote:

"darrenfroggy;c-17305689" wrote:

"PreCiious;c-17305483" wrote:

"darrenfroggy;c-17305401" wrote:

"Mariefoxprice83;c-17305322" wrote:
It's a real shame that the medical career isn't tied to university because of them all, it's the one that most requires it.

Imagine if a career in GTW was locked for anyone who didn't also own University. And if suddenly anyone who owns GTW got one of the careers locked because they don't also own Uni.

It was never going to happen with existing careers.

Dont know much about programming but would it be so hard to have the option like:

IF you have Discover University beeing a Doctor would be unlocked. You still can be a nurse but going further would not be possible.
IF you dont have DU it will work as usual.
This would be a pack crossover that i would like see mentioned and implied.

There are litteraly modders who can unlock certain interactions already, and i wouldnt be suprised if there will be a mod like mentioned above. This low expactions and unrealistic stuff that we have to set in are annoying. Afterall this cost 50Bucks in my country.

On PC/Macs, it wouldn't be hard. But the game is also on consoles and the fact that they still haven't figured out how to make MFPS work on those tells me that there it's a good bit more complicated to make that kind of cross-pack compatibility.

You can make those requirements for yourself in a pack and just not have a Sim get the kinda job that you feel requires a university degree, while the Simmers who don't want to play that way can have Sims in those jobs without going to Uni.

You need to go to college to become a Nurse - just like doctors do though. At least get a little more realistic about it.

https://www.access2knowledge.org/jobs-education/how-long-does-it-take-to-become-an-rn/

Can you stop being so condescending in your posts? Anytime anyone disagrees with you you post a ‘helpful’ link. It’s incredibly passive aggressive and seeing as you’re an older player I’m surprised at your attitude. I know you’ll go on the defensive and deny that this is what you meant but it’s obvious that it is. Just because you’re satisfied with this pack doesn’t mean you have the right to jump down people’s throats.

Could you guys imagine if degrees actually unlocked careers to give you the option to actually play them and not have them be rabbit holes. That would be a massive incentive.

I have a relatively new save with a bunch of sims that started off as adults with no pre-existing skills. I have played some of these for 16 days each and just popped in to see where they are in their careers.

6 out of 8 I am comparing have reached level 5 in their careers in Culinary, Astronaut, Business, Athletic, Musician, and Arts Critic. I haven’t exactly been grinding these to the bone since lately I’ve been more inclined to make them do social things in groups or when invited out.

If they can get that far in a full term less time than it would take to go through university, I don’t see much point in going unless it’s for a Distinguished Degree where they would theoretically start at a higher level.

Although, if you enjoy having your sims career hop, I can see the benefit. I tend to pick a career that helps define their personality so it’s rare that I change that.

Earning more money or vacation days doesn’t appeal to me because I have an excess of these things anyway. Hopefully there’s more of a benefit to it than all this.

"babajayne;c-17308137" wrote:
I have a relatively new save with a bunch of sims that started off as adults with no pre-existing skills. I have played some of these for 16 days each and just popped in to see where they are in their careers.

6 out of 8 I am comparing have reached level 5 in their careers in Culinary, Astronaut, Business, Athletic, Musician, and Arts Critic. I haven’t exactly been grinding these to the bone since lately I’ve been more inclined to make them do social things in groups or when invited out.

If they can get that far in a full term less time than it would take to go through university, I don’t see much point in going unless it’s for a Distinguished Degree where they would theoretically start at a higher level.

Although, if you enjoy having your sims career hop, I can see the benefit. I tend to pick a career that helps define their personality so it’s rare that I change that.

Earning more money or vacation days doesn’t appeal to me because I have an excess of these things anyway. Hopefully there’s more of a benefit to it than all this.

Good thoughts, and that's exactly what I figured concerning post-Uni rewards; is it really all worth it when you can easily rise up the ranks already as is without the rewards in the basegame and other packs that would already let you start early high up on the career ladder? But after Uni, the purpose of the pack has been achieved and it's back to normal Sim play. Sure simulating life in Uni was always going to be temporary, but there should've been more substantial rewards then what you'll just get career-wise. Yes I'm sure they're quite helpful, but not anything deeply life-changing like say, extra trait slots.

"Mariefoxprice83;c-17305322" wrote:
It's a real shame that the medical career isn't tied to university because of them all, it's the one that most requires it.

You could always role play in your game that any doctor HAS to get a degree before you allow them. Come to think of it I will do the same for that career and others that I need to decide on.

I doubt if any of the game-changers has had enough time to work through everything in the pack. There was a lot more to GTW that they didn't explore before they gave up on that and it was much later that I found a lot of enjoyable things to do in the various careers that they just skimped over.

I've seen Carlos's and James Turners', and Simsupply's objects and building stuff and I'm not going to see any more.

The O.P. point is very valid though. While TS2 gave us new 'university locked' careers and an incredible jumpstartstart (as much as reaching lvl 9 of a career, or 8 for uni locked ones), TS3 gave us an incredible raise in salary that you simply couldn't match by going to work for the same timespan you would earn your degree. In TS4, My main sim has career hopper, which gives (incredibly) better job perf and doubles salary for ALL jobs. So unless the benefits of a degree stacks with that, going to Uni is more a personal preference than a wise game decision.

I would give those with distinguished degrees more rewards when getting to the top of their careers, a post in Government, an island, yacht or large country mansion. the ability to lower taxes and bills in his world, rule a planet if an astronaut, or even to moderate the weather if he does the science degrees. He could make an army of robots and take over the world even or make a killing in gardening or cleaning robots!

I've always had too much imagination. :D

"Dijktafone;c-17308367" wrote:
The O.P. point is very valid though. While TS2 gave us new 'university locked' careers and an incredible jumpstartstart (as much as reaching lvl 9 of a career, or 8 for uni locked ones), TS3 gave us an incredible raise in salary that you simply couldn't match by going to work for the same timespan you would earn your degree. In TS4, My main sim has career hopper, which gives (incredibly) better job perf and doubles salary for ALL jobs. So unless the benefits of a degree stacks with that, going to Uni is more a personal preference than a wise game decision.

But the distinguished degrees do give you that. I've been watching a lot of the Game Changers footage and from reading the description about the distinguished degrees, your sims get a boost in their career as well as higher pay each day they work and earlier vacation time.