So my main sim is a floral designer, and after playing through the career, I have to admit, I'm really disappointed and frustrated. Before I go on my little rant, I have to preface this by saying I didn't play through the botanist career, so I can't say if the other branch is the same.
Pictured in the above spoiler is all (yes, all) of the rewards for the gardening career from levels 1-4. Every item is found regularly without having to progress in the career it self to access them. The weirdest one of all for me is the garden planter box, which is a reward for the 3rd level, despite gardening already being a requirement. I'm sure all players had at least one already since the daily requirement is "harvest harvestables".
And now, pictured above is all the rewards for the floral designer career, which is, to me, the saddest part of all. When I think of floral design, I think of new, gorgeous plants in so many beautiful vases.
All of the pictured rewards can be found regularly in the base game (literally just go into buy mode into the plants section and purchase it) without ever having played the career) except for the flower arranging table.
However, the flower arranging table is only given to your sim at level 6, after you already chose your branch. But... in order to be promoted to that rank, you need flower arranging skill level 2, so that means you'd already have to have bought the flower arranging table. I'm literally face-palming rn, lol. There's no other table you could have bought before this one.
And the level 10 career reward? Yet another base-game plant and, weirdest of all, the single rose... (aren't floral arrangements supposed to be with multiple flowers? Isn't that what makes the skill so hard to master and beautiful? Like, why would they do this?) Also, the single rose is a reward for getting a silver on a date event. Not even a gold, a silver. It literally took me 4 minutes to get the date event to silver in order for me to get a second rose to put in this screenshot.
To further prove my point, pictured above are all the rewards my current sim has in the musician career. This is only what I have on my lot currently, but there were more rewards. Every item is unique, inspired, and beautiful. I absolutely adore the piano and the guitar and they make mastering the career and the instruments even more worth it. The best part? You
have to play through the career to get them.
I really don't like complaining, but career rewards are one of my fave things in the game. I feel like they were a bit lazy with the gardener career.
Like, they could have added new flower arrangements a floral arranger could create but nope. This is all we get, and honestly, I think it's pretty sad. But I hope I'm not overreacting.
I dunno, what do you guys think?
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However, the botanist branch's rewards are not avalible in build mode at all. First, your sim will get a cowplant berry so they can grow a cowplant, and then on they'll get microscopic prints as rewards. While this does make obtaining the cowplant berry easier without cheats, obtaining those microscopic prints can be done with any microscope.
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Yeah, that's actually true. Not sure if it's the same with anybody else, but working from home in the gardening career only earns my sim 10$ after a successfully completed day of work, which really sucks, lol.
Like I mentioned in my post, I personally never played through the botany career but at the same time, the prints that you get are common until the final career reward, which is uncommon. I still feel like it's kind of a lackluster reward since, as before, it's found in the game already. If you've been using the microscope they gave you as an earlier reward within your family, you might already have those prints, so I don't know.
i know some consider using cheats like this as...well, cheating. but it's great for decorating lots you don't intend to actually play (like putting some of the feather collection up in a rustic restaurant or adding the selvadorada collections to a museum) or to match the story/feel for a sim (i gave a latina sim a few fake selvadoradan artifacts because i figured she'd be interested in her cultural past, but be so distanced from it she didn't realize...or maybe didn't care... that the knickknacks she bought were fake and not the real deal)
The Floral design branch does have several new job-oriented interactions, but other than blogging (which gives a focused buff) they don't do anything. To me, these areas make the career feel less immersive than even some of the base-game careers.
Just seems there was no effort.
there are also the outfits that nobody mentioned, each path unlocks a unique full-body outfit
and, as several said above, not everyone plays through a career just for whatever rewards from it (though those can be a nice perk in most careers)
This makes me miss the cool rewards you got in the Sims 2. All of the rewards in the Sims 2 careers were unique, and it was hard to get to the top of your job, so it felt like a big accomplishment when you did succeed.
Thanks for the warning
is it base game? I thought it came with Seasons on account of the florist branch. as for the rewards, I enjoy them but I'm also not overly concerned with them. rather unfortunate the florist rewards aren't that great though. a fancier floral arranging table would've been an awesome reward.
I have just the base game on my computer and I don't have that career.
When I play through a career.. especially a rabbit-hole one I often never finish it again. I might start it but I don't worry about topping it again as much. So I get kind of upset that that one piano that would look great in my antique house does not have a sim that want's to top that career. So next time I want it I'm going to cheat it in, and I dislike cheating it in personally.
I get more ticked off about traits actually. I love the fresh chef trait but I don't want to play through that career with every sim I want it on.
So what I see is this and I can certainly be wrong. I think telemetry tells them what we use and often how we use it. Polls might also and other interactions.
I also admit when most reward items go in my household inventory I rarely use it. I've already decided what decor my sim has...or favors so it sits there unused and very often not even pulled out and looked at.
Since it has nothing unique and you can garden and make flower arrangements already, the career will be even more redundant after the patch.
It's a shame because I was really excited about it when I got the pack.
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It will be great, pity that simsguru have not so great ideas as you
That said, it would have been better to give us objects from Seasons rather than the base game.
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