Regency Career Pack Part I: Uni Careers

Finally, I’m ready to release my first career pack. This has  been an ongoing project for many months and is part of a collab by the Historical Sims discord. I’ve done a fair bit of the actual writing and have permission to upload the careers so here goes.

You may have seen some of these careers before. I’ll leave those versions up but they have some typos/errors that have been fixed here, and this is a career pack so the pay scale and some of the “lore” I included is consistent across all of them. I tried to make the pay realistic and challenging as appropriate for the era. Mostly the lower levels start out between $15-95 simoleans, the middle levels are $150-400 simoleans, and the higher levels cap out at about $750-900 simoleans. There are some outliers like the Pauper career (to be released) the Politics career (also to be released, and the idea is that only wealthy landowning males run for office so the pay reflects that) and the Courtier career which is based off of the royal titles in the Victorian Challenge by @victoriansimmer and uses the pay outlined in the challenge rules. Generally the writing style is a bit “goofy” and maxis match. I don’t know how to change the icons or LTW text so I’m sorry, that won’t match the defaults. They’re meant for the regency era but I tried to make the careers flexible enough to fit in the Victorian era as well if needed.

This pack includes the uni careers. I’ll be releasing my careers by ep in a zip file. Everything will be clearly labeled in case you only want certain careers replaced.

Credits to @victoriansimmer of course for her victorian challenge, lovely personality, and the Historical Sims discord where this collab took place, @simbury for resources, knowledge, helpful ideas for the Natural Science and Paranormal defaults which were really hard for me to come up with, and just generally being the high queen of everything and anything regency related. Credit also to @kidinthenight who I’m pretty sure started the whole idea of this career pack and made some of the original files as well as a document that I used, @morgaine2005 who made a lot of the original medieval career replacements and inspired many of my ideas, aysarth who allowed us to use a lot of their ideas and custom regency careers (I don’t know if they have a tumblr. Let me know if they do and I’ll tag them.)

TLDR these replace the four uni careers, they have a consistent style and payscale and a bunch of amazing people helped to create them.

 Spoilers under the cut, and here is the link to the files!

http://www.simfileshare.net/download/3870331/

So, some more info about the replacements:

Paranormal: The replacement is very similar to the original career, with tweaked pay and some levels moved around. Your sim starts off as a “Weirdo,” then works their way up to reading tarot, hypnotizing sims, performing phantasmagoria shows, and eventually leading a cult. Custom chance cards to fit the era.

Show Business: Replaced with a courtier career. Your sim starts off as a “Hanger On” who is a guest of an established courtier, then they advance to “Court Diamond” and work their way up the titles listed in the Victorian Sims challenge, with the daily pay indicated in the document as well. Skill and friend requirements are the same as the maxis ones, so pretty steep. I think making friends and working on charm, beauty, and accomplishments is a realistic way to move up the court ladder, and the challenge document doesn’t specify how sims are supposed to move up to the higher titles so I just let my sims progress in the career normally (wants based.) The hours are pretty short, your sims just go to court for a couple hours to socialize and attend garden parties. Custom chance cards to fit the era and theme, with your sim having to interact with other courtiers and behave themselves at parties.

Artist: Just a more era appropriate artist career, similar to my previously released one with fixed typos and pay scale.

Natural Science: Replaced with a Botany career, where your sim starts out working on a farm shoveling dung and caring for plants, moves on to freelance botany work before getting work at a university and potentially eventually becoming the royal landscaper. Custom chance cards included featuring your sim working in a cowplant lab, sculpting splendiferous hedges for nobles, and conducting experiments.

Military Career Default Replacement: No Astronauts

@blackswan-sims was looking for this, so here's the military career default replacement I made for myself. It replaces level 9 (Astronaut) with "Brigadier". You can see the new description above.

No changes in wage, work days and hours

The career outfit will be the high rank uniform (same as for the General) instead of the astronaut one

Level 8 chance cards are edited to refer to Brigadier

Level 9 chance cards are edited to make sense with the new position

Download (SFS) (alternate)

The file is compressed. Compatible with BCON mods that alter career wages as long as the wage mod loads after the career default. Will conflict with other military career replacements.

Only English and English UK text strings are replaced, so won't work with games installed in other languages.

Firefighter (AF) and Firefighter (AM) replaced with @moyokeansimblr EF20 Firefighter

Posting this late but I haven't posted in a while! I used the colours pictured for the two swatches. Hidden in the catalogue but I checked to see they display properly.

Thank you @moyokeansimblr for all these fantastic career conversions!

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i couldn’t do it, y’all. i spent the time to age up and adjust ivory’s save, because playing her in a world where dallas didn’t exist just felt wrong 🥺 that’s one dinner party of five down! (which i missed, bc i left my computer running dhdhs)

catch up with the kruegers below! ⛓️

for those of you who don’t know, dallas (sixth pic, they/them!) was a nameless sim i’d created with the idea of playing through the joy of life legacy with! they became much larger in-game than the confines of the challenge, though, and while they were working on starting their own 🌿 bakery, dallas was also working as a stripper and a sex worker at “the flamingo” in del sol valley.

dallas wasn’t on any protection when they successfully seduced mayor ted roswell at the club and freak-a-leeked the next month’s rent payment out of him. when they found out they were pregnant, they resolved to raise their daughter as best as they could.

little ivory was born maybe three in-game weeks into the game, i’m not kidding.

though she was a major upset in the course of the challenge, ivory has been a delightful sim to watch grow up! dallas did a wonderful job raising her - but their fate was never to be a simple legacy founder!! so while dallas is freed of mantle of “tjol gen one”, ivory gets to don the “tjol+ gen two” crown 💛 i did a timeskip in-save and now we catch up with her fresh off of her graduation from ubrite 😌

i hope this can help explain a little bit of what’s happened and why the legacy has been all over the place! we’re sticking with ivory from here on out, who has a much more streamlined gen dhdh

morgan fyres, wolfgang munch, savannah price, cassandra goth, and gemma charm are ivory’s best friends since highschool. she used to date cass when they were still teens, but they cooled things off before going to college. now, ivory’s crush on savannah has been popping up in her mind from time to time… 👀 shingo sasaki (fifth pic) was ivory’s nanny from the moment she was born to the moment she grew into a teen! he was there since day one, and over the course of the years has woven his way into the kruegers’ lil unit of two. he’s wearing a ring because dallas proposed to him, not the other way around 🥹 he’s also the reason our girl is level 5 in komorebigo, and they exclusively gossip together in this language. (shingo has never learned simlish dhdhd he’s like level 4 and we love that for him) ivory calls him “toji” or “otoji” — basically “grandpa-dad”. cliff kiser (by @gothoffspring) and anaya jang (third pic) are dallas’ best friends and the first two sims outside of her parent and nanny that ivory ever made friends with! they’re solid figures in her life, and ivory views cliff as the fun-uncle-slash-father that she never had in ted!

(ivory has been thinking a lot about ted in-game, though: she’s been calling him to chat every day bc her “think about family member” dialogue is always him. i’m imagining that the motherfucker didn’t exactly go to any of her graduations 🙄 ted still doesn’t recognize ivory as legitimate, even if he was paying her child support and even if she’s met her half-sisters and they adore her!)

also like??? my baby dallas did so good, look at ivory’s traits 🥹 none of these were cheated in: dallas was just an absolute super parent!

(I never watched Sex and the City when it was on, but I'm well into Season 2 and Lisa Gilroy's impression of Steve is haunting me beyond words!!!!!!)

Not sure if you’ve answered something like this before, but what’s your favourite fictional interpretation of Napoleón?

There are no fictional Napoleons! They are all real, and they all live deep in my heart! What are you implying? That I don't have an army of Napoleons gathered from across all media, ranging from 19th century caricatures to modern video games living in my home?! Perish the thought! Watch your mouth or I'll sic my Attack Napoleons on you!!

I certainly won't be actually answering this question in my tags!

The thing about us when it comes to shipping is that we are... terminally aroace. If we like a character dynamic, forty-nine times out of fifty, we'll prefer it platonic- hell, five times out of ten, we won't even see the appeal of shipping the pair in the first place.

We'll toy around with a ship, but we won't commit to it, and on the rare occasion that we do something for a ship, it's almost always because one particular facet struck us as the sort of thing we wanted to explore. We tend to use romance and such as a joke, not an actual, serious Plot Element, and if there are any major ships in the fandom they tend to wear through fast, especially if it's difficult to find content without the ship.

There are exceptions, of course, but almost all of our interactions with shipping as a whole are through this lens. It's a joke, not a serious plot element, not something that can be singularily focused on, and definitely not something we particularly care to dedicate too much time to.

With this in mind, you have to understand that one-off nonsense crackships are hilarious to us, we spent a good chunk of our early writing years using a quadrant pairing generator to make Utter Nonsense, and we still think that shipping the Zommoth with anything that breathes is fucking hilarious.

bironically, my unremarkable career in law has already toed the line of infamy. my ex-employer, a literal millionaire, paid for an interview with him to be published on my birthday and had the last two questions tailored to make a directly inderect jab at me (that is, a jab that points at me but doesn't name me, starting out true and ending false, the sort of thing that can't be classified as libel as it doesn't unmistakably point in my direction without insider knowledge). it's a 10-questions format, so it's quite obvious which questions deviated from the previous interview rosters. it's a 10-questions marketing gimmick meant to define the interviewee's business ethic for potential clients. the business ethic here being a vengeful cunt.

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Not to be a prick, but your art is gonna have to be Real Damn Good to get me to interact with it if you slap something like "Don't even bother if you're not gonna reblog" on the end of the post. I'm not enough of one to like and scroll out of spite (though I'm not above thinking about it). I am, however, perfectly willing to ignore something I wouldn't have otherwise. If you're fine with a lower note count in the long run as long as it's more equal, if you think less interaction isn't gonna fuck with you worse than uneven likes-to-reblogs, then sure. Show some attitude. But if you're relying on commissions and dumb enough to think saying that sort of thing isn't gonna have consequences, I Do Not Feel Sorry For You.

Regency Career Pack Part  IV: Freetime Careers

And here are some defaults for the Freetime careers. These will replace the Entertainment, Dance, Architecture, Intelligence, and Oceanography careers.

Credits to @victoriansimmer, @simbury, @kidinthenight, @morgaine2005, and the Historical Sims discord.

More info under the cut, and here is the link

So, about the careers:

Entertainment: Replaced with a theatre career. Your sim will start off as a “Fan” working in a local pub that caters to actors, they will eventually become a theatre sweeper, extra, understudy, and so on until they are getting leading roles and possibly directing plays!

Dance: Replaced with a woohoo worker career! The previous versions I have uploaded have some pretty serious typos and errors so I would recommend this one. Performers in general were considered to be pretty low status and essentially the same as woohoo workers, so that’s why I chose dance. Your sim starts out as a street walker and eventually gets their foot in the door of a brothel, rises through the ranks and eventually is able to buy their own brothel, and potentially keep company with some very powerful sims and be paid accordingly.

Architecture: Replaced with an era appropriate architect career. Mostly new chance cards. It was hard to research this one but I did my best. Basically an architecture firm would hire a surveyor who would supervise individual craftsmen who worked separately from each other to build different parts of the building. So your sim starts out as a laborer to help the actual craftsmen fetch and carry things, then crafts stonework and woodwork until they are promoted to surveyor and then able to join the actual architect firm, where they can work their way up to senior architect, and then perhaps become the city manager or palace architect.

Intelligence: My spy career that I’ve uploaded here before, with fixed typos, errors, and pay. Lots of lore from the sims medieval.

Oceanography: Replaced with a Navy career. Your sim works their way through the ranks and does boat stuff that is actually legal. This was the one that made this particular career pack take so long because it was so boring to try and write stuff for this when I had already had so much fun writing ten levels of pirate content. But I got it done for our goodie two shoes sims who like the ocean but would rather not murder and rob sims.

How cool is it that I can just be like "I want a space ray sticker" and then I can just

go and make one?

Or a few.

Scrubs TU - EU replaced with @moyokeansimblr EP01 Scrubs

Hey guys x Really wanted to get this and Labcoat up together but I'm having problems getting the teen male one to work so I thought I'd share these at least as I haven't gotten anything up in a little while.

Other ages are repo'ed to the adults. Someone asked me to make one large merged file but I SimPe wasn't having it. Will defo try again later when I'm less busy. I've put them all in one folder so you don't need to download six diff files. Darker blue and green scrubs used to mirror the colours in-game. They should all be hidden in CAS/bodyshop but if they aren't, let me know and I'll fix (I'm uploading these super quickly before a meeting lol).

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I also realised that I hadn't hidden the EF soldier I did a little while ago and they were coming up with custom flags. I've fixed that here. Super sorry about that. Please let this file replace the old one if you downloaded it previously. The original thread has been updated as well.

That should be everything, thanks again to @moyokeansimblr for letting me borrow their previews!

thinking about how, in modern verse, jack's first real "career" ( being a lifeguard ) starts out for him as a teenager when, during a swimming lesson, he helps a fellow student out who gets into difficulty in the pool. he's recognised by his swim teacher who encourages him to develop and improve his swimming ability even further ( bearing in mind that this boy is a water baby who has never not known how to swim. because he's half-merman and the mermaids taught him ) before applying for and taking the relevant course to qualify as a lifeguard when he's 16/17 ( this is one of the few things that jack actually pays attention to and passes in his final few years at school, in comparison to the rest of his exams which he mostly flunks because he's spending too much time with christophe )

he doesn't use the qualification initially, but after the christophe situation blows up and jack wants to distance himself from crime and teague for a while, it's a job that jack falls back on to be able to make a living on his own in his own flat, rather than in his familial home. in the uk he is restricted mainly to working in a swimming pool, which is not his favourite ( and eventually why he moves on to work at tilbury docks and eventually get embroiled as a foreign operative for beckett in his main arc ), but in any arcs where he moves abroad and gets to work as a beach lifeguard during the summer months/season, jack enjoys it waaaaay more. he gets to spend all day at the beach, his favourite place in the world aside from actually being on the water. he loves it.

he is also at an advantage working as a lifeguard since jack is not the best employee lmao. working a job with a boss does not suit him. he has issues with timekeeping in general and is frequently late to work, he's also not the friendliest individual when it comes to being in a public-facing role ( though he can certainly play at being very charming ), particularly if he's already in a bad mood. however, he is very good at what he does, is a competent swimmer and good in a crisis, and is a surprisingly good teacher on the occasions where he is leading swimming classes etc, which does make up for jack's flaws.

had therapy and told on myself so much... smh this therapist is gonna have me like, on the path to a new hopeful career situation if i'm not careful

I went to a religious high school that would not give any guidance on applying to any college that most likely includes dorming like SUNY or any out of state university. We were limited to info on colleges that are within our neighborhoods. A part of me is really upset but since it is a private school I assume they are allowed to do this. Do you think it is fair?

I don't really think this is about fairness. The school is willing to provide a service to help students apply to schools that are in line with some sort of value system it has (unclear if this is a Jewish religious school or another religion so I'm not going to make any specific assumptions about what those values are). They don't offer assistance with applying to schools outside of that category, but they also probably don't offer assistance with a lot of other potential post-high school plans, like, I don't know, doing a year-long tour of Europe, or starting an LLC to run your own business. It's not unfair, it's outside of the scope of what's offered. You can still apply to any school you want (and you can find out about anything very easily these days online), and there's no reason you can't get in just because your high school isn't guiding you.