Question about Get to Work Expansion Pack

• What exactly the pack offers especially in these areas and if there are any issues with the performance of these features.
There are bugs with the retail workers not doing their assigned tasks as far as I know.
If you want more detailed info on the packs feature I suggest lookin it up on carls-sims-4-guide.com

• How much impact the illness system will have, or if there is an option to turn it off.
Not that much, my sims get sick every now and then, but you can just buy medicine on the computer.

• How frequent alien abductions are and if there is a way to avoid them.
they nerfed them I think, so they dont happen as often anymore, if you have a sim in the scientist career they can build a satellite dish and set it to "prevent alien abductions"

• If there are any major bugs and glitches with Get to Work.
I only know if the retail workers bug and sometimes co.workers in the active career will not wear the career outfit.

• Will an alien and a mermaid having a baby cause any glitches?
Hybrids have always been bugged, I had an alien/mermaid baby ones, and in cas it would only show it's head...but that was some time ago, don't know if they are better now.

Just remembered:
There was a bug with the Detective Career, where the person you are lookin for would not show up, not sure if that has been fixed (its been some time ago though). Also you gotta make sure to delete any evidence in the sims inventory before starting a new case, it caused some problems as far as I remember.

Has been a while since I played the detective career.
Science career is what I mostly play and so far I didn't encounter any major bugs (just one Co-Worker not dressed in career outfit).

• What exactly the pack offers especially in these areas and if there are any issues with the performance of these features.
- I find the detective and scientist careers the most fun. Detective is great since you can investigate crime scenes, identify and arrest a perpetrator, and interrogate them. You can also go on neighborhood watcb/patrol. There is a bug with the scientist career and maybe seasons? I cannot for the life of me get the plants in that building to grow. Maybe there's a workaround or it's just me. Retail offers a lot of fun opportunities for stores but I find the way it functions maddening. The multitasking and forever conversations can make it challenging to actually make a sale sometimes.

• How much impact the illness system will have, or if there is an option to turn it off.
- No option to turn it off unless you use mods. But it has little impact it usually just changes moods. Occasionally sims might get colorful rashes. You can combat illness with sleep, water, and tea. If you buy medicine from the computer your sim is cured immediately.

• How frequent alien abductions are and if there is a way to avoid them.
- They are very very very rare. I've only had one natural abduction that I wasn't trying for (and that sim was already an alien lol). He didn't end up pregnant, and there's an option to send the baby back to their home world if you don't want to raise them. Aftwr doing this I believe you can never get the kid back.

• If there are any major bugs and glitches with Get to Work.
- see above with the scientist career and retail. Though retail is more of a design flaw than a bug or glitch. I did have an issue with human forms not saving for aliens and always changing randomly when in CAS but that seems to have gone away.

• Will an alien and a mermaid having a baby cause any glitches?
- Not sure, I don't have IL!

• What exactly the pack offers especially in these areas and if there are any issues with the performance of these features.

The detective career is great! I really enjoy the active career. It's fun seeing my other Sims show up as the active Sim's coworkers too. I've never used the retail, so I can't comment on that. Aliens are great fun, although there is a problem with glitches that I'll discuss momentarily.

• How much impact the illness system will have, or if there is an option to turn it off.

I forgot that illnesses came with Get to Work. They don't bother me much. They happen pretty often, but drinking a bottle of medicine always cures the illness.

• How frequent alien abductions are and if there is a way to avoid them.

They happen A LOT to some of my Sims. My main Sim has been kidnapped so often I lost count. I think all of his family members have also been kidnapped. They happen more often if your Sim is a scientist, uses a telescope, or engages in other alien-related activities.

• If there are any major bugs and glitches with Get to Work.

Not that I know of. It's one of my favorite packs!

• Will an alien and a mermaid having a baby cause any glitches?

Boy, glitches sure happened in my game. My main Sim is a mermaid, and he wound up having twin babies through abduction. Both of them were glitched to different levels. One was glitched so badly that I tried twice to remove his mermaid trait and was unable to. The hybrid stabilizer mod seems to be helping though. But I would recommend against hybrid babies. I always save my game before I let one of the twins go swimming or take a bath, because they kept changing appearance permanently when they got in the water.

• What exactly the pack offers especially in these areas and if there are any issues with the performance of these features.
GTW offers 3 active career. For the most part it is you just fulfill a list of required actions to fill your event performance bar like when you hold a party. These actions are sometimes random but most times they are meant to guide you through the career and the task at hand.
Detectives will solves cases and go on patrol.
Doctors will examine patients to find the best solution to their illness be it medicine or surgery.
Scientist will mainly focus on having breakthroughs, which unlock new inventions to make and potions to create.
An issue with the careers is that they can get repetitive. My advice is don't go to work with your sim every day. Go with them 2-3 times a week unless you want them to get promoted fast.
You are also able to open up your own retail store which allows you to sell pretty much anything available in build mode as well as almost anything you can make.
Some advice, remember curb appeal, how nice your store is decorated effects how likely sims will visit as well as make a purchase. Remeber to put retail signs as they even state in their description in build mode that they help attract customers. Check on your employees regularly, just because you give them a task doesn't mean they will do it all day. You'll have to reassign them a task since they will eventually stop doing the task you gave them especially if they are low skilled. Try to build your relationship with them and promote them especially as they level up their skills. A happy employee is a more effective employee.

• How much impact the illness system will have, or if there is an option to turn it off.
My sims get sick maybe once every 2-3 weeks. They are mostly negligible but sims can pass their illness to others so at times you can end up with your whole household sick.

• How frequent alien abductions are and if there is a way to avoid them.
For me basically none existent. Abductions have been nerf to the point you forget aliens exist in game. It does seem like households with aliens in them experience abductions more. So if you want to avoid them don't play eith aliens

• If there are any major bugs and glitches with Get to Work.
For retail this is probably less of a bug and more of a design flaw. Sims are attracted to high ticket items. The more expensive it is the more likely they will buy it. So opening a shop that sell low values items will not be that profitable since you will have to spend time schmoozing them into a purchase.
In the detective career you may experience a bug where you can't find the suspect or the suspect does not match the description. In my experience this has been mostly due to CC not properly tagged.

• Will an alien and a mermaid having a baby cause any glitches?
Personally wouldn't know as I never really have occults have kids with other occults. From my understanding though hybrid aren't suppose to be a thing in ts4. Hybrids are often made due to the game glitching since hybrids traditionally end up having lots of issues. They have done patches to try and prevent hybrids from happening.

• What exactly the pack offers especially in these areas and if there are any issues with the performance of these features.
I mostly play with the science career but do rotate through the detective and medical career also. In the science career the main bug I have is the plants growing so you basically have to grow a science garden at home or buy seeds until you get the plant you need to finish doing the serums. The plants don't work well because of the 5am spawning time ... your sims aren't at work at that time. My plants seem to bloom once and that's it. I haven't played it for like a month because of the new pack so if there is a change I don't know about it.


• How much impact the illness system will have, or if there is an option to turn it off.
I don't see much impact now at all. I don't know if it's mostly because I have "healthy" sims. They exercise and eat low fat mostly... but also they live alone so maybe mine just have less chance of getting sick. Anyway you buy medicine or drink juice or green tea and rest when it happens. It passes.


• How frequent alien abductions are and if there is a way to avoid them.
Alien abductions seem to be linked to both the science career and if you are playing with or friending aliens. You can build the satellite dish as a scientist as pointed out earlier. If you're fast you can cancel them going to look at the strange lights outside, but not sure how well that works if you play multiple sims in a household. Mine seem to either be abducted a lot or not much at all. I usually want it though.. rather than trying to stop it.

• If there are any major bugs and glitches with Get to Work.
I don't run into any that aren't easy to work around.. that said I've never run a retail business. I just send my sims to shop at them.
Sometimes .. rarely for me.. you can't get something done at your job, so your performance for that day may suffer, but you get promoted pretty easily overall either way. I find that if you want to get promoted you can finish the promotion requirements then just send the sims in alone so you don't mess it up somehow when on the job. I usually send my sims in to work actively though. I just like doing it.

Never had a pregnant mermaid so no clue on the last question..

Just a few points from me, as I can't help with all:

* Illness is not happening very often. You can get medicine easily, you can even buy for a small storage so that you won't need to waste time ordering them each time. Sometimes I just ignore an illness and it goes away without medicine, but there are many illnesses and they might work differently.

* GTW was my first EP bought shortly after release - meaning I must have played it for about 5 years. I had a total of 3 abductions, and I play A LOT. I never did anything to attract aliens though, maybe there are triggers that I'm not aware of. None of my abducted sims got pregnant.

Also: I assume the effect from a single pack might be affected by how many packs you have added. With the full series, each pack's features will probably happåen more rarely than if you have just one pack.

• What exactly the pack offers especially in these areas and if there are any issues with the performance of these features.

Detective career is eh. It's very repetitive and there isn't really any sense of progression, you just sort of do the exact same tasks every day. Retail I haven't touched much so can't really say anything on that. Aliens are ok I guess, they don't really do anything that regular sims don't already do though, and it takes a very long time to get to the alien planet as you can't visit it unless you get to level 10 of the scientist career which takes forever. I do like how male sims can get impregnated from abductions though.

• How much impact the illness system will have, or if there is an option to turn it off.

I've had it for over two months now and not a single sim has gotten ill.

• How frequent alien abductions are and if there is a way to avoid them.

From what I've seen they only happen if your sim is in the scientist career and communicates with aliens, otherwise they're very rare.

• If there are any major bugs and glitches with Get to Work.

Not that I know of, I've heard some say the careers are broken but they've worked fine for me.

• Will an alien and a mermaid having a baby cause any glitches?

No idea. Pretty sure the off spring will just have a 50% chance of being a mermaid and 50% chance of being an alien.

"RavenSpit;c-17759961" wrote:

There was a bug with the Detective Career, where the person you are lookin for would not show up, not sure if that has been fixed (its been some time ago though).

So, how often was this happening?

I never had a problem with the suspect not turning up, but multiple times I ran into an issue where the clues told me about their everyday outfit and then when I got to the scene they were dressed in cold or hot weather outfits depending on the season. I never thought of it at the time but you could just ask the sims who fit the rest of the description to see their everyday outfit.

It does get repetitive, but some of it is pretty fun. I loved interrogating prisoners. My biggest disappointment was that they didn't bother to make your job any different once you reached the top. I would have liked being Chief of Police to be different from being a basic detective. The doctor career has more progression and is more challenging, and the scientist career has more variety of tasks so you're less likely to get the same requirements from one day o the next. The biggest bug I've experienced with the active careers is that the gardening changes that came with seasons messed with the plants at the lab. This makes it hard to complete some of the job tasks. It might not be a bad idea to have your scientist grow some plants at home, or buy flowers and produce from the computer to have in their inventory, as you will probably not be able to grow the ingredients for the serums in the lab.

I have not played the retail part yet.

I love my aliens. There are alien townies in disguise that you can discover, and also alien nights at the bar where they show up out of disguise (if you also have Get Together) and if you choose to interact with them a lot that can trigger an increase in abductions. My sim moved in an alien boyfriend and after that I had a lot of abductions, but only ended up with two alien babies. Using the observatory a lot can also increase the odds. A sim in the scientist career can also invent a satellite dish that can increase or decrease the rate of abduction I believe, and then at the top of the career they can make a portal to the alien planet. If you don't do any of those things, I think the odds of abduction are low.

Taking an alien to the islands and turning them into a mermaid would be glitchy. Half aliens aren't real occults though, they just have a chance of getting an alien skintone and have a few interactions, so I think if the other half is mermaid that may be fine.

My sims are sick all the time, but the medicine is not very expensive so I just try to keep some in their inventories and give them a dose when they show symptoms. Other than the rashes messing up some screenshots sometimes it's a minor annoyance at worst.