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AKLSimmer
8 years ago

Tutorial: Turning Your Sims into Service NPC (No mods required)

A few days ago I've seen a thread asking about if we can make our own service sims, and I've seen similar threads before too. These cheats have always been in the game, but since few people know it, I decided to make a tutorial.

Updated cheats here (will update again when Seasons come out):

Base Game
Mailman: traits.equip_trait isMailman, careers.add_career Mailman
Maid: traits.equip_trait isMaid, careers.add_career maid
Nanny: traits.equip_trait isNanny, careers.add_career Nanny
Pizza Delivery: traits.equip_trait isPizzaDelivery, careers.add_career PizzaDelivery
Gardener (need Gardening Skill): traits.equip_trait isGardener_Service, careers.add_career Gardener_Service
traits.equip_trait trait_isMasterGardener, careers.add_career career_Adult_NPC_Gardener
Fisherman: traits.equip_trait trait_isMasterFisherman, careers.add_career career_Adult_NPC_Fisherman
Repair Service (need Handiness Skill): traits.equip_trait isRepair, careers.add_career Repair

Get Together:
DJ (need DJ Skill): traits.equip_trait isDJ, careers.add_career DJ


City Living:
Weirdo: traits.equip_trait isWeirdo (You need at least 5 of them, and probably more)
Living statue: traits.equip_trait isStatueBusker (You need at least 2, YA or teen)
City repair: traits.equip_trait isCityRepair
Romance Guru: traits.equip_trait isLoveGuru (In the vanilla game, the romance guru have to be an elder, but with this mod, you can have young adults and adults as well)
Landlord (need handiness skill): traits.equip_trait isRepair traits.equip_trait trait_Hidden_Landlord careers.add_career career_Adult_NPC_Landlord

Cats and Dogs:
Adoption Officer: traits.equip_trait isAdoptionOfficer, careers.add_career AdoptionOfficer

Outdoor Retreat:
Forest Ranger: traits.equip_trait isForestRanger, careers.add_career Ranger
Master Herbalist: traits.equip_trait isMasterHerbalist
Bear: traits.equip_trait isBear

Spa Day:
Massage Therapist (Service NPC that you can call through phone, not the ones in spa venues, needs at least level 9 wellness skill): traits.equip_trait isMassageTherapist, careers.add_career MassageTherapist_Service

Dine Out:
Restaurant Critic: traits.equip_trait isRestaurantCritic, careers.add_career RestaurantCritic

Vintage Glamour:
Butler: traits.equip_trait isButler, careers.add_career Butler


Jungle Adventure:
Natives: traits.equip_trait isNative


Steps to turn your sims into service NPC:

- Create the household and place them in a lot
- Temporarily play them, and add the traits/careers/skills needed via cheats.
- Go to Manage World and mark them as unplayed.
- Delete the random sims you have.

More detailed tutorial + playtesting here:
https://youtu.be/yOEWJCgT32Q
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  • ZeriBlackheart's avatar
    ZeriBlackheart
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    7 years ago
    ah cool thanx! i had been doing this with butlers and nannies but i wasn't finding much relevant info on the other types
  • TopNotchToddler's avatar
    TopNotchToddler
    7 years ago
    "SheriSim57;c-17063044" wrote:
    What is the CL weirdo?

    @SheriSim57, according to this thread:
    "LeGardePourpre;c-15344696" wrote:
    trait_isWeirdo is set for the NPC Raccoon/Luchador.


    "BrokenChaos69;c-17062969" wrote:
    Does anyone know if there are any of these cheats for the Get Famous acting career? Going to a gig generates so many random new Sims as background actors and the various producer, director, etc roles (and 9 out of 10 will be female to boot) when I have so many Sims open for the game to place them into these kinds of roles. Ugh, why can't the game just work properly for once?

    @BrokenChaos69, do you mean these?

  • TopNotchToddler's avatar
    TopNotchToddler
    7 years ago
    What happened to NPC fishermen?

    I think I remember lots of sims dressed like this...

    https://imgur.com/8PUcx1h.png

    ...hanging around ponds and rivers during my early TS4 days. Since then I haven't played sims with the angler aspiration and have totally neglected fishing locations. But recently I decided to create an NPC fisherman myself with the traits and careers listed above...

    "AKLSimmer;d-941386" wrote:
    Fisherman: traits.equip_trait trait_isMasterFisherman, careers.add_career career_Adult_NPC_Fisherman


    ... and gave him level 10 fishing skill to be on the safe side. I sent another sim to a fishing sign post and waited. My selfmade NPC didn't show, and the sims that did didn't wear the fisherman outfit but their everyday (or maybe seasonal) outfit:

    https://imgur.com/YvT4AVp.png

    I first thought that this was a variation of the problem described in this older thread, but I have no outfit troubles with my maid or gardener. Also, I could neither find the trait nor the career on these sims:

    Spoiler

    https://imgur.com/hHZaZcr.png
    https://imgur.com/Dz0hZjW.png


    They do have level 10 fishing skill, though:

    Spoiler

    https://imgur.com/DU0TedQ.png


    And all of them have an assigned role:

    role_open_streets_masterfisherman

    Spoiler

    https://imgur.com/TOBSnCF.png


    I wonder... do these traits still work for you or has the system changed for NPC fishermen? The other NPC traits I tried worked fine so far.
  • UnknownGamer85's avatar
    UnknownGamer85
    6 years ago
    Very useful thread. However to those not opposed to using mods the NPCC mod can be used to effortlessly assign and remove NPC careers at will on not-in-household sims. Very useful mod, at the same time it limits townie generation and only generates one maid instead of generating 10 different maids like the game usually does.
  • EA_Pulsar's avatar
    EA_Pulsar
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    4 months ago

    Hey there!   

    This thread is rather old, so we're closing it to avoid any necroposting. If you have more questions or want to keep the chat going, please start a new thread! That way, things stay neat and tidy, and everyone can join in.  

    Thanks for your understanding.  

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