HARDER Harder Jobs, Please!
croiduire:
Pescado, would you please consider expanding/enhancing "harder jobs"? I just had a teen get a job in oceanography (her first job ever). She worked less than one hour before being promoted to the top of the teen career track. That is just absurd.
Is there a way to add another check requiring a minimum of three full work days at any level before becoming eligible for promotion? If it's feasible, I'd also add an additional day for each career level above five.
Inge:
That way no sim would ever reach the top of their careers unless you turned aging off?
What would be really good is if the higher up the ladder you got the fewer vacancies there were at that level so you were actually competing against other sims in the hood. So only one in each hood could be right at the top, only 2 at the next level down etc
And/or how about if you always had to be good friends with someone in the same career at a level above you in order to get promoted? Then for the jump between 2nd highest level and highest that's when the really tough bit happens - you have to be platinum asp, full green mood, fully skilled at everything etc.
jsalemi:
Quote from: Inge on 2008 April 03, 16:42:35
What would be really good is if the higher up the ladder you got the fewer vacancies there were at that level so you were actually competing against other sims in the hood. So only one in each hood could be right at the top, only 2 at the next level down etc
Harderjobs already does something like this -- there are certain jobs (mayor, captain hero, maybe others) where there can only be one in the hood at a time. I believe Pesc said he did this for any job where it doesn't make sense that there would be more than one at a time.
pixiejuice:
Croiduire, I have to agree with you, but I don't know about the three-day thing. Maybe one full day? What's bothering me more than anything else is age problems. Perhaps some kind of age check could be added? So that they couldn't be promoted beyond a certain level that makes sense for their age. That is, if such checks can be made in terms of sim-days old, rather than just the broader age stages.
For example, I have a girl straight out of college, adult, and supposed to be about 24 years/sim-days old and in the medical career, and I've got her as an intern or resident, which makes sense, but I can't keep her from being promoted and have to keep knocking her down a couple levels. I really can't see her being a surgeon or whatever until she's at least in her 30s, you know? I have another guy straight out of college in the law career and he's gotten up to Entertainment Attorney in just a couple days. He'll probably be promoted again soon.
Otherwise though, I'm happy with everything else harderjobs is doing.
Kyna:
Quote from: croiduire on 2008 April 03, 16:13:32
Pescado, would you please consider expanding/enhancing "harder jobs"? I just had a teen get a job in oceanography (her first job ever). She worked less than one hour before being promoted to the top of the teen career track. That is just absurd.
Is there a way to add another check requiring a minimum of three full work days at any level before becoming eligible for promotion? If it's feasible, I'd also add an additional day for each career level above five.
The teen career only has 3 levels. If your sim is in private school when they find the job (whether from paper or computer) they will start at level 2, which is one promotion away from the top of the career track. If she did less than one hour's work, it sounds like you answered a chance card and got a promotion from that.
If you want your teens to start teen careers at level 1, then don't put them into private school until after they have a job. Also, don't answer the chance cards, because there's a chance they'll get promoted from that even if they don't have the skills/friends required. Another way you could make it harder is to only look for your teen's chosen career in the paper, rather than on the computer. With only 3 jobs per day in the paper, and with all the careers now available for teens (assuming you have both Seasons + FT), your sim may have to wait a while before finding the job they want (or that you want to give them).
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