Late Night Employment

[Yxklyx]

So Sims3 can't handle late night employment like Sims2 could? Seeing lots of glitches playing as a criminal with late starts. The "work starts at X hours" is wrong at the higher positions. I've seen days where the schedule shows I'm on vacation but I'm still expected to work, etc... I've only got WA and LN expansions.

[HiFive]

I've had a number of ghost hunters with no problems. They work at night. As for the notice that they are due at work soon, when they are actually on vacation - that can happen for any Sim with any job. The interface at the bottom of the screen will say they are on vacation. The messages coming from the top right will say they have to go to work in an hour.

I ignore the messages about going to work. In such a case, they are meaningless. The Sim does not need to go to work, and there will be no ramifications for them not going. The UI at the bottom has the correct information.

[Yxklyx]

Gah, this is near unplayable. My night jobs don't end. I have to cancel the job after their work time ends (they are still at work past work time) - and they don't get any progress when I do this.

[HiFive]

Originally posted by Yxklyx:

Gah, this is near unplayable. My night jobs don't end. I have to cancel the job after their work time ends (they are still at work past work time) - and they don't get any progress when I do this.

I've never done a full play through of a criminal, so I don't really know much about that career. If it's a hand-on career, where you need to take your Sim out yourself and direct them what to do, then at first you might have leftover jobs when the normal work hours are over.

My first few ghost hunters did not complete all of their jobs by the end of their work hours, so I just had them continue what they were doing. They were exhausted at the end of each workday, but it was still fun, and at the higher career levels things got much easier.

The same is true for the detective career, which also tends to have a lot of night hours. The good thing about both of those careers is that you can skip jobs and skip days and it really doesn't affect things much, other than not advancing as fast in that career. I've had both types of characters go for months without doing a single job, because they were raising a child. (Both of them had been abducted and got pregnant.)

[Yxklyx]

It happens right after you get promoted working a night-related career. The job tab says you have the day off but below it says work starts in 4 hours (or whatever). The carpool does not appear but if you don't go to work a Missing Work popup appears and your Performance drops! If you do go to work (clicking on car) you lose any work opportunities (!) - I lost one I picked up by going to China, you don't get ANY positive performance (even if Working Hard) and the job doesn't end when the time is up. You need to cancel the job icon. The issue seems consistent.

[HiFive]

Originally posted by Yxklyx:

It happens right after you get promoted working a night-related career. The job tab says you have the day off but below it says work starts in 4 hours (or whatever). The carpool does not appear but if you don't go to work a Missing Work popup appears and your Performance drops! If you do go to work (clicking on car) you lose any work opportunities (!) - I lost one I picked up by going to China, you don't get ANY positive performance (even if Working Hard) and the job doesn't end when the time is up. You need to cancel the job icon. The issue seems consistent.

Wow. Well, that definitely sounds broken. That's never happened to any of my late-night workers.