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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.

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Regency Career Pack Part III: Seasons Careers

Here are some defaults I’ve made to replace the careers from seasons! So this will include the Law career, Gamer, Adventurer, Music, Journalism, and Education. 

Credits to @victoriansimmer, @simbury who especially helped come up with the opera career, @kidinthenight, @morgaine2005, the Historical Sims discord and @davinaojeda who inspired me to replace the gamer career with a professional gambling career. They make wonderful post apocalyptic defaults/cc, including an absolutely amazing set of apocalypse default careers.

Spoilers under the cut, and here’s the link 

More info about the defaults:

Law: Just replaced with an era appropriate law career with some help from kidinthenight who came up with a lot of the career levels and descriptions.

Gamer: Replaced with a professional gambler career. Your sim starts off as a “Fopdoodle” while eventually improving to the point where they can actually make a bit of money with cards, moving to horse races to make money on those bets, and then finally hitting bigger casinos until they can open a casino themselves! Teens start off playing marbles with other youngsters and then can eventually become a card fumbler.

Adventurer: Replaced with my dread pirate career. Fixed errors, typos, and made it consistent with the payscale for my other careers.

Music: Replaced with Opera. Your sim starts out in a sheet music store, progresses through tutoring young sims, working their way through the ranks of the orchestra, singing in opera shows and eventually perhaps becoming the phantom of the opera. @simbury helped a lot with this one.

Journalism: Just an era appropriate replacement where your sim can work at a newspaper. Most of the chance cards are brand new, but some of the level titles are the same. At the lower level your sim is focused more on paper delivery and writing an informal gossip sheet rather than writing blogs and the top level is a Newspaper Baron instead of general media magnate. The vibe I went for is like... Richard Carlisle from Downton Abbey. Just a very rich sim with a profitable news empire and an easy way to blackmail other sims.

Education: Most of the levels here are similar as well, but most of the chance cards are way different. Your sim starts out learning themselves, and then tutoring a rich sim before becoming a schoolteacher, headmaster, and then working for the university. The top level is still Education Minister.

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Regency Career Pack Part II: Five Base Game Careers

Hi again! I’m back with a few more career replacements. This time I’m replacing five basegame careers: Athletic, Criminal, Medicine (Mild TW for some medical gore and body horror in some chance cards. Goopy entrails and all.), Science, and Slacker.

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

Spoilers and more info below the cut, here’s the link:

http://www.simfileshare.net/download/3871453/

More details about the replacements here:

Athletic: Replaced with a mining career. Brainstormed by many of my friends in the Historical Sims discord. Your sim mostly works their way up from being a “Drudge” to a Minor Miner, Middling Miner, Major Miner, etc.. Pretty low pay until your sim starts becoming a Mine Boss and getting involved in the business side of things. Once your sim is a Coal Baron or Diamond Debonair they are raking in the big bucks. Louis Carter in Riverwood Park is a Diamond Debonair and between that income and his wife’s income as a Baroness.. you’ve seen their house, they’re doing quite well. 

Criminal: It’s still a crime career, just more era friendly with lower pay that matches my other careers. Your sim will have pretty low pay as they are a Street Rat, Cutpurse, Highwayman, etc. They will have more decent middle class pay once they get into the higher levels like Smuggling and other organized crime. Chance cards altered to fit the era. 

Medicine: Era friendly medical career. Also inspired by kidinthenight who had listed some of the career levels, though I moved them around and added chance cards and descriptions. Your sim starts out cleaning entrails and robbing graves for medical students, works in an apothecary shop, trains to be a surgeon and eventually maybe attends Smoxford Medical School to become a physician and serve more illustrious clients, perhaps with royal titles? The pay is lower than the maxis career mostly but still fairly decent. Doctors were not the power earners they are today but it was a respectable middle class profession that made a living wage.

Science: Replaced with Church of the Watcher. I really liked this in morgaine2005′s medieval replacements and I know that in the 19th century science was more normalized and not seen as an affront to the watcher, but I wanted a church career and the original replacement I found replaced education, which I wanted to make an actual teacher career to replace that. So this is mostly cobbled together from kidinthenight’s replacement for the education career and aysarths custom church career. The writing style for the adult career is a bit different since it’s mostly not my writing.

Slacker: Replaced with a Pauper career! I love this one. It’s originally made by kidinthenight, I just added the chance cards, some of the descriptions, and I changed Link Boy to lamplighter since Link Boys are more of a medieval thing. This career has very low pay for all ten levels. The top level, tenant farmer, still makes only $165 simoleans. Your sim starts out as a “Tramp” and finally scrounges up a street corner to beg on before doing odd jobs like catching rats, cleaning chimneys and streets, and shining shoes of other sims! Era appropriate chance cards included. 

I hope you enjoy! I’m still working on finishing the other five BG careers as well as the careers from FT and Seasons.

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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.