So I don’t know if this is just my game but whenever I play with a specific household for a while and I decide to switch over to another household that I haven’t played yet, the sims in that new unplayed household have already quit their jobs for new careers that they don’t have the skill points for.Is this happening in anyone else’s game?It’s really annoying because then I have to make them quit their new careers and return to the old careers starting at Level 1 :s

Before I got into mods, one of my sims was an athlete, then I marked him as unplayed and he became a writer. I noticed this once with one premade, when Moira Fyres, unemployed, decided to become a politician :D

If you're willing to use cheats, you can quickly cheat your sim into the correct career and level.SimsVip career cheatsCarl's TS4 career cheatsTwistedMexi's career cheatsedited to remove spacing error

AH, yes in my games it's not uncommon where premades just up and drop their designated jobs for something else if the game decides it needs to fill the correct "niche" in a save. In fact, I always see the usual premades in the same specific roles all the time bc of this! Like how Geoffrey Landgraab became a vet in 3 diff saves of mine.

This always happens now and it is annoying - they pull the premades to fill all the roles - like vendors and bartenders. Since every new pack usually adds more roles - more and more premades lose their original jobs . I thought that is what townies are supposed to be for.

@kalaksed I believe Mila Munch was a caterer(?) originally; I noticed she has clothes from at least one branch of the Culinary career, and ties into her initial membership in Clara Bjergsen's cooking club.

Unplayed PreMade Sims Quitting Occupations

afai1261
New Spectator
7 years ago
Before I got into mods, one of my sims was an athlete, then I marked him as unplayed and he became a writer. I noticed this once with one premade, when Moira Fyres, unemployed, decided to become a politician :D
Tiarella4
7 years ago
If you're willing to use cheats, you can quickly cheat your sim into the correct career and level.

SimsVip career cheats
Carl's TS4 career cheats
TwistedMexi's career cheats

edited to remove spacing error
paradiseplanet27
Seasoned Newcomer
7 years ago
AH, yes in my games it's not uncommon where premades just up and drop their designated jobs for something else if the game decides it needs to fill the correct "niche" in a save. In fact, I always see the usual premades in the same specific roles all the time bc of this! Like how Geoffrey Landgraab became a vet in 3 diff saves of mine.
GypsyRozLyn
Seasoned Newcomer
7 years ago
This always happens now and it is annoying - they pull the premades to fill all the roles - like vendors and bartenders. Since every new pack usually adds more roles - more and more premades lose their original jobs . I thought that is what townies are supposed to be for.
paradiseplanet27
Seasoned Newcomer
7 years ago
@kalaksed I believe Mila Munch was a caterer(?) originally; I noticed she has clothes from at least one branch of the Culinary career, and ties into her initial membership in Clara Bjergsen's cooking club.
JEgbuta
7 years ago
I figured out how to prevent this today I think lol

I started a new game and I went to each and every premade household so that they’re marked as “played” now. I think that’ll prevent them from quitting their jobs.

It was SO tedious and time consuming.
OldeSimsFan
New Traveler
7 years ago
"AprilDawn;c-16735762" wrote:
This always happens now and it is annoying - they pull the premades to fill all the roles - like vendors and bartenders. Since every new pack usually adds more roles - more and more premades lose their original jobs . I thought that is what townies are supposed to be for.

Correct! In TS2 those jobs are handled by either townies or NPCs, depending on the job. The only way a playable sim - pre made or own - did any of that is via the 'work as...' option, and then it was only for as long as you chose to let it run. How much of this is stupidity, lousy/lazy programming, or a FUBAR engine I have no idea.
Cinebar
7 years ago
Premades changing jobs have been happening since a patch about two + years ago or longer. It's normal. When they stopped your own Sims from changing jobs a hundred patches ago.
JanuaryGarnet08
New Spectator
4 years ago
This is why I have a vanilla save that I have gone through and marked all of the pre-made households as played. Then they keep their jobs etc. I can just open it and immediately save as and start a new game and I can even skip the hassle of immediately entering CAS if I want. It’s a great shortcut. I do use MCCC and this way story progression only happens to the random townies, and any household I choose by intentionally marking them as unplayed. It’s great!
AlbaWaterhouse
7 years ago
Do you have any mods that enables story progression?