My least favourite career was always Law, never met anyone that wouldn't feed every lawyer in existence to a cowplant. The only time ive ever used the Law career was in a game where I had the Castaway Stories natives in a bizarro universe where they were all civilised and living in the city instead. In this universe, the chief's bodyguard from Felicity Island was now the Chief-now-Mayor's lawyer and defending him in court, instead of defending him from animals and angry villagers

The adventurer and oceanography career is a little too 'specialised' and would be better careers to lock behind a degree, than something near universal like Artist.

Shout out to the architect career, I dont think a single sim used it in the expansion it was introduced in.



Its pretty much an e-sports career, going off to establishments and making money off tournaments and events



Sims Life Stories had a proper Game Development career, although it was entirely underused as not a single premade is employed in it, not even the townies. Theres a mod to add it to the real Sims 2, alongside the second Entertainment career (Which really should have been renamed in the mod..)

Maybe I need a major rework to most careers, because a lot of the higher levels feel pretty stupid... wtf is The Law? Hand of Poseidon? But the one that probably bothers me the most is the Music career, probably because I'm a (classical) musician myself. It actually starts off decently, you work at a record store, eventually you move your way up into an actual musician with an actual band, but suddenly you're a classical musician? Concert Pianist seems like it is meant to be a classical pianist ("Audiences flock to see your fingers fly over the ivory keys of the grand piano"), and then you become a Symphony Conductor, an actually reasonable promotion if you look at someone like Daniel Barenboim, but you used to be a Roadie or a Battle of the Bands Judge. And finally you become a Rock God. Wtf. No one has "dived into crowds of adoring fans quite like you", bro you were conducting an orchestra just the day before. There should have been a classical musician career with the Concert Pianist and the Symphony Conductor levels and a pop musician with stuff like the Roadie. You could even have some of the levels being the same, like the Piano Tuner or the Summer Camp Music Teacher.

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I doubt if the creators thought about it - but imho

anyone can be a rock star. Not even sure you have to be a musician.

I believe that Franz Liszt has been described as the world's first rock sensation.

Of course, many rock stars had classical music training too - Freddy Mercury was a trained opera singer.

I was writing a reply this morning but I completely forgot to post it lol.

It's true that many pop musicians had classical training, and a Music major would make sense. I guess what bothers me is the progression. While some definitely have both classical and pop careers, like a friend of mine who is an opera singer and is (was? They haven't written new music in a while) the vocalist of a prog rock band, I don't think most do, so why should someone who wants to be an Axl Rose have to go through being an orchestra conductor first? Imo they should be two different career tracks with some overlapping lower levels but with distinct higher levels.

Oh, I completely understand the objections about this career - I just don't let it bother me

Having grown very fond of Sanjay Ramaswami (a sim bin sim in the music career) over the years, I believe he could be a rock star, no matter which career he is in

I kind of wish Sims 2 had done the career-splitting thing of TS3 where you could have them pick between classical and rock music, for instance. There's 3t2 conversions, but they don't count towards the LTWs or what.

Is there a way to make them count for the LTWs?

Manually toggle, I guess.

I agree with the entertainment career, that's why I downloaded the Life Stories version cause it make more sense.

I like the music career as an idea but the levels don't make sense. You quicky jump to being the judge of some competition, when usually established musicians and industry people are doing that, and I don't like mixing classical and rock music. The majority of rock stars were talented people with no education on classical music. I still use it though.

Adventurer doesn't make sense as a 9-5 job. Let me do some Indiana Jones stuff before returning home in a carpool and eat a hot meal with my family.

Criminal job is also so bad because it functions like any other career. At least make the pay higher and the sim arrested of a couple hours to a day if chosen the bad answer on the chance card, and the sim can get a 'got busted' memory after returning. Criminal mastermind is ridiculous, so many 'cool' mafia boss characters out there that could be replicated.

The Law Enforcement career... superhero? People watch plenty of cop/detective shows for decades, I'm sure that being a minister of police/defense is a cool job. I understand the quirky mesh of realism and fantasy but I don't think it's fitting properly into the game.

Sims 3 careers work better with choosing a branch once you reach a certain level. You can choose between realism and fantasy, popular commercial and less popular but more respected.

I love the flying superhero (and supervillain).

Of course it does not make sense - but does it have to?

It's a game, after all.

I remember how I surprised I was - and how amused - when I saw that for the first time.

Finally figured out what the missing information was, to get the tutorial to work properly. Epi forgot to describe exactly how to add the files to the new package, or assumed everyone already knew how. You have to open, not just each extracted folder individually, but the .xml file(s) inside (at least you can mass-add the .xmls). If you do it right, you will be able to open Bidou's Career Editor even before you have saved your new package.

So I've been collecting the "missing" careers, and we shall see how that goes.