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Hard to get promotions
lyra
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I'm having a really hard time in my game getting my Sims promoted. Even when I set the dial to "work hard", send them to work in a good mood, have the correct emotion and skills it sometimes takes a week to get one promotion. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?
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There were a few times I missed the daily task, but I never thought it'd hold me back that much. I remember my sim in 3 reaching the top of the culinary career not far into her adult stage
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I've come to let that first day they are ready for a promotion go with no expectations I don't even bother working on their emotion ect.. usually the second day of being ready they will get it though.
I think Sims 4 went a bit too far the other way. Daily tasks can be extremely time consuming. I did prefer the Sims 2 way of doing it. Yes, you had to work on skills, but you could do it at your own pace and the chance cards could give you a career boost and get you promoted earlier. I didn't like the requirement of having a certain number of friends, though.
I've even seen the progress bar jump back a good portion on it's own during the day, without a chance card happening. I think the careers are complete garbage and need to be fixed. I can understand making it a little challenging (the daily task, the requirements/skills needed) but it's bull that the bar will go so slow, then randomly just drop back on it's own.
Well, it matters to me because I like to have my Sims top their career in their legacy, and I play on Normal. The reason I'm asking this question is that in previous games it was an obtainable goal, while in this game it seems extremely difficult to top a career. I was wondering if there were any tips people had.
I have also noticed the progress bar jumping back. Is this supposed to happen?
I actually really like this. The Sims 2 & 3 my Sims used to get promoted daily. I personally like the added challenge.
I'd guess the preferred mood helps get you promoted as well, my chef sim wasn't ever inspired when she went to work, might be why she progressed slowly. Basically all you can do is do the task every day, reach the required skills as soon as you can, and use objects and such to be in the right mood before work. It'll definitely take a good chunk out of your sims daily life, but there's not much of a faster way. Seems very hard to max out your career before you die if you're on normal settings.
Thanks. I'm hoping that the devs will make some adjustments at some point so my Sims can have a more balanced work and family life.
You have to remember.........this time around it's more "play the game this way" instead of players choosing how they want to go about things.
Try making more friends with coworkers. The more friends they have at work the faster they get promoted. Also be careful with working hard if they get tense that can slide the progress bar backwards. I have them work hard for a few hours only at the end of the day if they're still in a good mood. Also if oh brush their teeth entire work they'll go in on a confident mood and you can smooze the boss for a few hours.
What I do is make sure they do the daily task. Send them to work in a confident mood (or the required emotion sometimes) the first hour I have them smooze the boss, the next two hours I have them chat with coworkers. Then I work normal for a while, then if they're still happy I have them work hard for the rest of of the day, my sims usually get promoted in 3 days. I also have them chat online with co-workers at night to keep relationships high there.
It matters if you're doing a challenge and need to reach the top of the career track. Anyway, Sims isn't real life and it's nice to be able to get them to to the top. More money that way.
I agree, not everyone will be CEO... but shouldn't I, the player, get to determine that? Not the game? I've had Sims 4 since release and I've only maxed out a career maybe 3 times. I play on normal (as mostly I play challenges and that is the life span required) and it's next to impossible to max out a career on normal.
And if I want a sim to reach a certain level, I should be able to not meet the requirements and not advance past the point I want. Not penalize all players and all sims with this next to impossible task of reaching the top of a career because some people want a more difficult promotion ability.
This was extremely helpful, thank you.
Yes, I do try to have them in a great mood, but it's not always topped. It seems a bit unrealistic to top needs every day though.
You're best off trying to get them into their ideal mood for as long as possible during the day (e.g. plucking inspiration on a guitar gives a longer lasting moodlet than the usual 4 hr ones), doing the daily tasks and try keeping them from being uncomfortable as long as possible.
It does still take more time than with Sims 3, but it's so much more realistic to have to work harder at each step.
I think that's why you get so many points for completing a career, in a Legacy. If it was 'easy' why hand out points for it, right? I'm also currently playing a Legacy Challenge family. My Founder was a Musical Genius by aspiration, which he achieved. However, he never made it to the top of the Music Career, even so. Just made me even more determined for his son and heir to make it to the top of his chosen career. He just now made it. My Gen. 3 heir is now on deck, so to speak.
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Well, if by realistically you mean compared to RL, IRL, I do rather like to start out the work day without being sleepy, hungry, needing the bathroom or a shower, or being tense or lonely. So I guess to me it seems realistic in that aspect.
In the game, my Sims get typically promoted about every 3-5 work days depending on how hard it is to level the skills, and how important it is to me for that particular Sim. It seems pretty easy to top off the needs, it usually takes about a Sim hour and a half to do. So it's up to you if it's worth it.
It's more important to have them meet the required skills than to complete the daily task, so get their skills up first (the two will often go together). If you have them at 50% or 75% of the daily task, that will usually be enough if they're close to the top.
Edit to add: The Carefree reward will keep them from getting tense, Connections starts them at level 4 of a career, graduating from high school with an A starts them at level 3, and Entrpreneurial is supposed to help, but I don't know how. If you have Get Together, pick up the club perk "networked" for faster job progress.
I forgot to mention that my sims regularly get promoted on either the 2nd or 3rd day of a job level, although it takes a little longer, the higher they get. And sometimes they pick the wrong "chance" card, which can slow things down.