Hello !

It's been a while since I've played the sims 3, and I'm trying to slowly get back to it.
I wanted to edit in CAS a young adult back to teenager, but I wanted to know if there's a way to erase his career history ?

I'd like to get rid of the "graduated from military " one, and the level 1 medicine career that I didn't even assigned to him myself, the game did !

If it's not possible, is it still safe to edit him back as a teen even with those two things in his career history ?

Thank you

Hi there. MasterController can be used to delete part or all of a sims' career history. NRaas > MC > (Sim) > Intermediate > Career > Remove Quit Careers (MC Cheats add-on module required)

Graduated from military sounds more like an alma mater than a career to me, but those can be changed as well also using a different command under the Intermediate > Career menu.

Generally speaking though, aging an existing already in-game sim down from one of the adult life stages to teen or younger is not always going to work out well. The sim may end up becoming damaged or corrupt through the process. I would consider making a copy of this sim in CAS as a Saved Sim and then using this as a template to "build" a new sim, if that's reasonable for what you are trying to do.

Oh thank you ! Didn't see it when I tried, must have been blind -_-

It's good to know that it's not that safe to do, I'm probably going to either do it as you said or leave him alone entirely, depending on other few things :

This sim is the son of a family, so if I use a copy to replace him, what do I do with the existing one ? Should I TA him ?

That sounds right, unless you are trying to re-create one of those weird movies where someone goes back to high school and meets the younger version of themselves.

The new sim will need to have their family relationships fixed (MC > Advanced > Family to Add Parents). From a philosophical perspective, it won't be the same sim as the older one TA'ed in that they won't have the same history, memories, and experiences that the older one had but maybe this isn't very important for your storyline.

Aha, no "meet your younger self " in this case !
It's not important either that his memories won't stay because, although I created this family a very long time ago, it's the first time I actually play them so.. he has no memories anyway.

Thank you very much for your answer !

Oh yeah, I wanted to ask too, you said

" Generally speaking though, aging an existing already in-game sim down from one of the adult life stages to teen or younger is not always going to work out well. "

So, Adult-and-up to teen-and-less is bad. But, is it ALWAYS bad to age down sims, if it's like elder to young adult, or child to toddler for example ?
Also, is it safe to age them UP in CAS ?

Oh, I didn't mean the scrapbook memories. I meant the sum total of their life experiences thus far whether player-controlled or not that help make a sim who they are, if they were actually in your game and being progressed without your involvement. Maybe they dated someone as a teen when you weren't watching them or saw a funny show on tv once as a child? Like I said, too philosophical and I'm probably the only one (or one of only a few) who even thinks of silly things like this to be concerned about.

On the CAS question, I'm pretty sure that Adult to YA and back are fine. Not as sure about Elder. But on the others, there will be both life experiences that won't make sense for a suddenly much younger sim to have had and, probably more importantly, their body shapes and sizes are different and don't always survive the transition going backwards.

I've had sims not react well to going forwards when forced through CAS either, such as their head keeps shrinking down into their body when I've aged existing sims up that way -- those would be age-stuck sims that no combination of OW, MC, and DE types of fixes seemed to budge, very rarely though that happens. It's much safer to force an age transition on them in-game if one can. But that kind of breakage is purely cosmetic, how they look on the screen and not their underlying data, and they often grow out of it by the next birthday. I had one (at the time inactive) sim I had to force up from toddler to child that way and he kept lapsing into head/body deformities. He's an older teen now and you would never know it, in fact he looks too good to not be a professional model of some kind although that's not where the game is taking him.

I didn't mean the scrapbook memories either What I meant was they were in my bin for a really long time, and I only placed them right now, in this new save game. He only spent about 10 minutes on his own, while I was building his older sister's house.. So the only thing he'd done by himself was get a job in something I didn't want him to be ( and didn't fit his personality or interests anyway ) and get a taxi. Not much to lose here ! I mean, he was born a young adult, poor guy !

Thank you for the explanation on CAS age up and downs, it's really helpful. I'll try to not use it from now on, just to stay on the safe side of my game !

I used to do it, and remember one time ( it was in The Sims Medieval though, not sims 3) I aged up a child to adult, edit it and changed it back to child after it, and boy it was a sight to see after I was done..

Heh, maybe your sim can still model on the side, like a hobby ;p I guess sometimes an ugly duck really does become a beautiful swan.

I have another question related to aging up and down a sim through CAS :

Is it safe if I edit a toddler, age him up to adult to edit his facial features, and then age him down as a toddler again, if I don't leave CAS during this time ?

What is safe to do is age an existing sim up or down in CAS out of curiosity to see what they would look like in another age stage, then exist CAS without saving. But no, I wouldn't advise making changes like that and saving them, it's much safer to just wait until they are older. Maybe others here do this and have different results to report?