Don’t get me wrong, the pet clinics sound fun. (They sound a lot (and I mean a lot) like restaurants though, but that’s a topic for a different conversation.)
However, after reading the blog and watching the trailer, I was left a little confused. Do we have to buy a pet clinic to be a veterinarian? Can’t we just be a veterinarian without owning a clinic? My sims are not all rich. They can’t afford extra $20000+
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Well, it sucks. Why can’t we have an option to just work in a clinic? I would like to just be an employee. I don’t want to own my own clinic.
If that works like the retail system, your sim will be unemployed the second you play him as an active household.
Once I tried to hire my own sims for my business and when I would play them, they would be set as unemployed...
Why would you just want to work in the clinic and not be the vet? What would you do, mop up the pet pee? If it were possible to just be an employee, you'd still probably be doing the same stuff anyway.
What I plan to do is create another sim more experienced/older/richer (with money cheats, lol!) to buy the clinic, then I'll move my sim into that household for a work shift so she can work for that sim. They have confirmed that household members can work with and be trained by the clinic owner. Then she'll take home something in her inventory for her paycheck.
But I guess as far as the game is concerned, she'll still be unemployed when she goes back home.
Because I’m not interested in only having rich vets. It’s like having all careers but being the boss in all of them. They don’t even build up to it.
Also some of us play rotational and we want more than one sim to be vets, and the only way for us to do that is by owning two different clinics.
The challenge would be in having to struggle to work your way to the top. Not just become a vet (something which takes years of training to do) simply because you have the money to open a clinic. Not everyone wants all of their characters to be the "boss" in each of their careers.
I totally do want my sim to be a vet and own her own clinic some day, but I don't want to cheat her into it. The way I see it, she'll be a vet in training for now. Then she'll buy her own clinic when she's older.
Yes, that. And the fact that we can’t have more than one vet per saved game, unless they all belong to the same household or build a clinic per vet
You could start with a clinic that has the minimum amount of equipment, one exam table, one surgical machine and one lab to make medicine. The struggle could be doing other boring jobs in order to save money to open your own clinic. As for having two different clinics, you could have one small clinic in each world just starting out with the bare minimum. No need to have all rich vets or any for that matter,
Doesn’t change the fact that I need to build more than one clinic. Doesn’t change the fact that my Sims can’t be co workers, but that are forced to compete with each other instead. Doesn’t change the fact that you are not even a vet, you are just a sim that owns a place and that automatically turned them into vets. It’s not a career.
What? You can be a vet without owning a clinic. I want sims that are vets not business men , we already have that career
I think this system works differently, because they also said that family members can be a worker instead of running the clinic.
I’m not sure. I mean if they can hire family as vets, it’s because they also own the clinic. But what happens if they hire a friend that doesn’t belong to the same household? The only way for both to be vets would be if two different households could buy the same clinic. That would be fine by me , like if they could turn into partners.
Same. It's actually a very nice surprise for me, since I hate playing with standard careers and having set work hours etc.
I can understand why it would be disappointing for others, though. There's no point in dismissing everyone else's opinion as some sort of desire to be unhappy simply because they had different expectations.
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The Vet "career" is just like restaurants from Dine Out. You have to own a clinic to be a vet.
Hey, don't laugh. That's what I used to do. Me and three other people kept the clinic clean, walked the dogs, cleaned the kennels, gave the animals fresh food and water (if they weren't going to have surgery), as well as bathe the animals that were going home.
There's probably a few things that I'm forgetting, but this was over 20 yrs ago (plus my memory issues have gotten worse these past few years).
I want to be a vet, but I don’t want to cash out a ton of simoleons to buy my own vet clinic.
Having to buy and build a clinic just so your sim can become a veterinarian means my sim has to be already rich to start with. You can’t work your way to the top. You have to be a rich clinic owner veterinarian from the get go.
I don’t want to be a businessman.
I don’t want to buy my own clinic.
I just want to be a simple veterinarian that goes to work 9 to 5 and helps animals.
Then what about rotational players?
Having to build a vet clinic per household considering the sims 4 world sizes... don’t even get me started. We would run out of free space so fast.