Journalism career reward
kuronue:
Quote from: jsalemi on 2007 March 14, 17:42:23
And I don't believe that you're limited to only getting it once, but I'm not 100% sure on that.
Once you click the career reward, the option grays out and it's locked again, while it's on your cursor
cyperangel:
Nothing prevents you from getting the job, working the career ladder till you get the reward, then using the newspaper to start over in the career. As long as you have placed the reward somewhere on the lot, you can get as many of em as you want. If you havent placed it when you reach the level of the career where you would get the reward, is my experience that you simply dont get it, as you already have it. Once its been placed, you can get another, place that, get another, place that, etc...
syberspunk:
Quote from: jsalemi on 2007 March 14, 17:42:23
You actually unlock the career rewards at level 6 of the career; they're generally designed (or at least originally were) to give you skills in one of the areas that you have to max out to reach the top level of the career (i.e., the Medical career reward builds mechanical skill).
OH! Duh! I'm not sure where I got the idea that the career rewards were awarded to you upon reaching the top of the career. That totally makes more sense now. :P I always wondered why they would do that... reward you with something that essentially isn't useful to you anymore. Lol. I just figured it was stupid Maxian EA logic. Or maybe that it was meant to help you pass on/teach skills faster to your progeny. All this time, I could have been skilling much faster if I had used those dumb rewards. :D
This is what I get for playing so slowly. I end up reading about stuff more, and just jumping to conclusions about things. When the game first came out, I didn't even know about aspiration rewards at all. I thought it was hella crazy to keep all their motives up and take of babies and such, until my sister told me about the re-energizer and thinking cap. Hehehe. ;D
Quote from: jsalemi on 2007 March 14, 17:42:23
In any case, TJ and others have buyable collections of all the awards, and you can also unlock them through the testing cheats. :)
Well yeah, of course there are other ways to get them, but I prefer non-cheaty ways.
Quote from: cyperangel on 2007 March 14, 18:06:42
Nothing prevents you from getting the job, working the career ladder till you get the reward, then using the newspaper to start over in the career. As long as you have placed the reward somewhere on the lot, you can get as many of em as you want. If you havent placed it when you reach the level of the career where you would get the reward, is my experience that you simply dont get it, as you already have it. Once its been placed, you can get another, place that, get another, place that, etc...
Ahhh... I hadn't thought of that. I suppose that requires too much effort tho. And... I could have sworn I read somewhere that you could get promoted past the unlock level, and you wouldn't be able to get the reward. Did I imagine that? Or was that just a "bug" that was fixed?
Anyways, I'm looking forward to getting home tonight. I finally installed Sims on my new machine. I can't wait to see how the game runs and looks, and I might actually get to play!!! Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!
Ste
jsalemi:
Quote from: syberspunk on 2007 March 14, 18:13:13
Ahhh... I hadn't thought of that. I suppose that requires too much effort tho. And... I could have sworn I read somewhere that you could get promoted past the unlock level, and you wouldn't be able to get the reward. Did I imagine that? Or was that just a "bug" that was fixed?
I think it's a uni thing, where if you came out suma cum laude, you could start a career at level 7 or higher, and completely miss the point where the reward gets unlocked. And I don't think it's ever been 'fixed'. However, Pesc's harderjobs prevents a sim from starting so high up in the career, so I haven't hit this 'feature' in like, forever. :)
if you come up through the ranks, and it unlocks at level 6, it stays unlocked even if you get promoted, until you actually place it on the lot or into your inventory.
purplehaze:
I don't think this was broken with Uni. When I start a grad out, they usually start at level 9 of their career path. I then perma-ignore them (if their LTW was career related), and send them to the computer to find a job. I take the jobs, one by one, and all the career rewards are unlocked ( Level 5 or higher of career path). I can them remove the rewards and do it all over again. Wash, rinse, repeat. This is assuming your Sim is a Summa grad, has maxed skills and plenty of friends. I've been playing this way for quite a while. It's starting to feel 'cheaty' to me.
Their *is* a problem with non-uni adults who had teen jobs (reaching the top of the teen career). Somehow they seem to leap-frog over the awards. I guess the workaround would be to have them seek the job from the paper to insure a lower level start?
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