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The-Muzickmage's avatar
5 years ago

Tech Guru vs Engineering.... (question)

In overview.... being that a household is limited to how many sims we can have I try to experience as many of the careers opportunities as I can using limited sims.....

For example:
.... Sim 1: Culinary career, while also gardening to get vegetables, etc for the recipes. Plus this opens the door to run around the worlds collecting recipes. (added gameplay)

.... Sim 2: Musician career, to utilize all the music instruments, DJ booths, Karioke, and CD/ video production,etc.

.... Sim 3: Freelancer. This sim is for arts and crafts. Painting, woodworking, candle making, flower arrangements, pumpkins, etc. This sim will also use the Nifty Knitting pack.

.... Sim 4: Tech Guru vs Engineering.

For my 4th household sim, which of the two careers will allow me the best experience of both. I'd like this 4th sim to be the computer sim. The programmer, technician, robotics, etc. Anything to do with the computer side of the game.

If I put my 4th sim in the Tech Guru career, will I face limitations when it comes to the robotics because of not being in the engineering career? And vice-versa?

Which of the two careers do I choose for my 4th sim?
  • I haven't played the engineer career yet, so can't really give a recommendation here. But engineering is a new career and it gives your sim a choice to either go to work normally or work from home. In general I find those careers a little bit more interesting.
  • GypsyRozLyn's avatar
    GypsyRozLyn
    Seasoned Newcomer
    Tech Guru is all computer - video gaming and programming (+charisma if choose the entrepreneur branch). Main rewards for Tech Guru are an expensive game mat or an expensive TV. Computer engineer involves robotics and computer programming mainly and you can work from home. The main reward for the computer engineer is the computer glasses. There is also mechanical engineer - mainly robotics and handiness involved and the main reward is the ExoMech Suit - can work from home.

    You can do robotics without being in the engineering careers but you will not get the rewards.

    If you want to experience both computer programming and robotics -that would be the computer engineer career.
  • "AprilDawn;c-17590756" wrote:
    Tech Guru is all computer - video gaming and programming (+charisma if choose the entrepreneur branch). Main rewards for Tech Guru are an expensive game mat or an expensive TV. Computer engineer involves robotics and computer programming mainly and you can work from home. The main reward for the computer engineer is the computer glasses. There is also mechanical engineer - mainly robotics and handiness involved and the main reward is the ExoMech Suit - can work from home.

    You can do robotics without being in the engineering careers but you will not get the rewards.

    If you want to experience both computer programming and robotics -that would be the computer engineer career.


    So the question from here would be.... how valuable are the engineering rewards? If I didn't have them would I be missing much?

    Edit:
    .... I just researched the ExoMech Suit,helmet, etc. and from what I see is that people are having trouble with them getting stuck on their sim after wearing them. They can't remove them again... such as the glasses. The advice seems to be to remove them directly after finished using them. Any save game/exit while still wearing the glasses will sometimes result in the glasses being stuck on the sim.... requiring a cheat to remove again.
  • GypsyRozLyn's avatar
    GypsyRozLyn
    Seasoned Newcomer
    The computer glasses are like Google Glass- can browse the web, do research, minor computer stuff, and just look kind of cool!

    The ExoMech Suit boosts fitness and handiness and you can hover like a servo. Forgot too - there is the ExoMech Helmet - that gives focused mood and boosts logic and robotics - and again - just looks kind of cool!
  • It might be better for me to skip the rewards lol. (because of problems mentioned in my prior post)