I'm thinking of getting the Get to Work expansion pack while it's 50% off, but before I get it I want to clarify some things. I'm interested in it for the detective career, the retail, and the aliens. I want to know:• What exactly the pack offers especially in these areas and if there are any issues with the performance of these features. • How much impact the illness system will have, or if there is an option to turn it off. • How frequent alien abductions are and if there is a way to avoid them.• If there are any major bugs and glitches with Get to Work.• Will an alien and a mermaid having a baby cause any glitches?Please be detailed with your answers. It will assist a lot with making my decision. Thank you.

• 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.

Question about Get to Work Expansion Pack

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sallycutecat
New Ace
5 years ago
"Daephene;c-17762342" wrote:

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.

This has got me wondering a few more things:
• If I make an alien in Create-a-Sim will they be full alien?
• If it has a child with my mermaid sim will the child be glitchy?
• Do half aliens get a disquise form?
• What are the exact differences between full aliens and half aliens?
Daephene1
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
CAS aliens are full aliens. Also if a sim is abducted and comes back pregnant, the child is a full alien somehow. The other way to get full blooded aliens in your game is to find the townie ones and turn them into played sims.
Half aliens do not have alien powers or a disguise. If they are born with the alien skin tone it is permanent, but they are also frequently born with the human parent's skin tone. They can do a few of the alien socials with other aliens and half-aliens, but that's it.

I believe in another thread I read that if you have a half-alien use mermadic kelp to become a mermaid they don't get glitchy. So I would assume that a child born half-alien and half mermaid would not be glitchy, would have the same chance of being a mermaid as if the alien parent was human, and would not have alien powers. But I have never tried it. Mermaids have a lot of the same skin tones as aliens in their mermadic form, so you could make the mermaid form resemble the alien parent.
ra7orrat
5 years ago
"Sallycutecat;c-17760820" wrote:
"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?

Like I said it's been a while since I played the detective career, am rather sure tho that this bug went away for me after I started deleting any evidence in my sims inventory before opening a new case.
Cause I only remember it happening once for me.

"VentusMatt;c-17760146" wrote:

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.

well, I've had that problem and I never used CC, but I got seasons and the description of the outfit seems to refer to the normal every day outfit but when the weather is cold or hot they will wear their cold/hot weather clothes which of course looks different.

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