Career Profitability and Perks
BlueSoup:
Satire is not unlocked by any other genre. It appears as a type when your Sim gets to a specific writing level.
Tibbi:
I have a law enforcement family, the Dad is a Superspy and the mom is in Forensics. The Superspy is a touch more difficult, because it really wants you to get a ton of athletic points, on top of all your logic points. The Forensic path has you level up in painting on top of logic, but it doesn't have to be very many points to satisfy the game. Right now I have three and am on neutral, and she's at level 9.
Basic Law Enforcement options start out with Business as Usual, Work Hard, Take it Easy, Sleep on Couch, Work Independent Case, and Talk to your Partner. After spending one day talking to your partner, you barely have to socialize with them again. On the Lieutenant level you start having the need to write reports, and the quality of your reports and therefore the happiness of you report level is absolutely dependent on your writing ability. I eliminated every variable and saved that for last, and just having three little writing points made a world of difference. To get info for the reports you either Question townies, or Rummage through their trashcans--my favorite part of this job. You can find gems, space rocks, bubble bath, teddy bears and, of course, trash. Your Sim will continue to be disgusted until you remember to remove the trash from their inventory and throw it in their own can. No, you can't rummage your own can.
The Superspy has to carry a beeper, and is almost always called out the same night they work. Forensics doesn't have to. The Superspy options change to Business As Usual, Work Hard, Take it Easy, Work Independent Case, Chat with your Partner, Build Athletic Skill. Forensics stays the same, unless I'm just not remembering properly.
I did get the Opportunity to build friendships to create a network of tipsters. That was for the spy. Once he reached level 10 he could raid the Criminal HQ, but that was rather meh. Quite a bit of to-do, for not much return.
tides:
Quote from: BlueSoup on 2009 June 01, 19:30:43
Satire is not unlocked by any other genre. It appears as a type when your Sim gets to a specific writing level.
i have level 10 in writing but i dont have satire :/
i got all the writing achievements as well..
Czezechael:
Do money trees come from an opportunity? I've wandered my sims through hill and dale and am always disappointed to find that a "special" or "rare" seed was another watermelon, garlic, or flame fruit.
On the subject of gardening-related opportunities, are the ones that grant meat plants, egg plants, and cheese plants rather full of it when they tell you to stop by the bistro for more opportunities once you reach level 10? I suppose I could test this personally but it doesn't really seem that thrilling of an activity, and unless already having level 10 in gardening somehow ruins it (which, given the EAxian <i>m.o.</i>, seems plausible) the "full of it" option seems like a fine lazy default.
Interesting about the death flowers, it's nice to know they have a point, and I'm not sure if this is worth mentioning or not but Green Thumbed sims can revive death flowers to get two harvests from them. Oh, and one <i>fun</i> thing to do is plant a life fruit orchard with some throwaway gardener sim and then harvest to your heart's content with a family you've actually got an interest in playing. I'm not sure if this is actually the case, but harvesting from higher-leveled fruits did seem to raise gardening faster than tending and harvesting things in normal available level range, and all the life plants are still alive and kicking after harvesting a few hundred life fruits - I'm into the mid teens at the very least for number of harvests, and as far as I con it, they're supposed to kick the bucket after five at the most.
All in all I find the perks a little disappointing when juxtaposed against career rewards. Since neighbourhoods don't really feel nearly as vibrant to me when they're not filled with leftovers from abandoned legacy challenges gone prosperity mode (ooh! backstory!), the perks form journalism and law enforcement haven't really felt very worthwhile, assuming they stay "interview" and "question". Ooh, great, my vinyl-skinned doll can find out things about some doughy-faced fat vinyl-skinned dolls whom I don't care about.
Menchii:
Quote from: Tibbi on 2009 June 02, 00:54:37
No, you can't rummage your own can.
My sim gets the option to rummage from her garbage can. I thought it was due to one of her traits. She is insane evil mean spirited inappropriate and 1 other I forgot.
Also when my sim got taken to jail during work she lost all her inventory. I got a message about taking my adventures of rymundo so other inmates don't get jealous. I couldn't find the unknown seed I found either. A different time on a different sim that wasn't a criminal I couldn't find the seed after a while. Maybe they die and disappear from inventory.
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