I'm posting this here since I don't know where else to post this question. I've been trying to do a longer playthrough with lower incomes, slowed career progression, and higher bills so maybe I would be able to get past a single generation. So far, it's been going well, except for my sim in the fireifghter career. The amount of money I earn from responding the emergenices is pretty high, and it feels like if I do anything even slightly significant I'm at or bordering the next level of my career. As it stands, it seems lie the ambitions careers completely break the balance I was trying to achieve.

I'm not sure my story progression settings for slower career gain rates affect the ambitions professions, and I have not found any mod that reduces the income from professions. I was wondering if there's anything I can do to edit those careers to be more in line with the rabbithole jobs either through nraas or another means.I don't want to have to take the route of purposely sabotaging my gameplay or ban the ambiitions careers from play just to achieve what I'm trying to go for.

If any solutions you provide could work for other meters too, such as the university performance, that'd be a plus. Thanks.

Welcome

Version 88 of NRaas Careers here should allow you to modify the BasePay ingame- it's in 'Testing' but safe to use, just hasn't been made the full release yet.

SinfulSimming's Minimum Wage mod has an active career package that modifies this tuning as well as the multipliers involved. Even if you don't want to use their changes specifically, it's a good example of what resources are involved if you'd rather use Careers and Retuner to tweak them yourself. You could also do all of the above- use the tuning mod, which will adjust the global default, and use NRaas to adjust them on the fly.
If you scroll down to the spoiler button for active career changes in the description, there is a table explaining the cost and XP changes.

University progress is considered the same as career progress, so should already be covered by your SP tweaks, but there are some pricing changes in that same mod suite

CardinalSims wrote: ↑

March 17th, 2024, 7:41 pm

Welcome

Version 88 of NRaas Careers here should allow you to modify the BasePay ingame- it's in 'Testing' but safe to use, just hasn't been made the full release yet.

SinfulSimming's Minimum Wage mod has an active career package that modifies this tuning as well as the multipliers involved. Even if you don't want to use their changes specifically, it's a good example of what resources are involved if you'd rather use Careers and Retuner to tweak them yourself. You could also do all of the above- use the tuning mod, which will adjust the global default, and use NRaas to adjust them on the fly.
If you scroll down to the spoiler button for active career changes in the description, there is a table explaining the cost and XP changes.

University progress is considered the same as career progress, so should already be covered by your SP tweaks, but there are some pricing changes in that same mod suite

Thanks so much! I was looking all over for resources on this and thought maybe no one made anything for ambitions. Sims 3 info is surprisngly harder to find than I thought it'd be for a 15 year old game. Once I get a backup save file set up, I'll see what that module can do.

CardinalSims wrote: ↑

March 17th, 2024, 7:41 pm

Welcome

Version 88 of NRaas Careers here should allow you to modify the BasePay ingame- it's in 'Testing' but safe to use, just hasn't been made the full release yet.

SinfulSimming's Minimum Wage mod has an active career package that modifies this tuning as well as the multipliers involved. Even if you don't want to use their changes specifically, it's a good example of what resources are involved if you'd rather use Careers and Retuner to tweak them yourself. You could also do all of the above- use the tuning mod, which will adjust the global default, and use NRaas to adjust them on the fly.
If you scroll down to the spoiler button for active career changes in the description, there is a table explaining the cost and XP changes.

University progress is considered the same as career progress, so should already be covered by your SP tweaks, but there are some pricing changes in that same mod suite

So I finally got around to trying the Careers module. It only allows me to adjust the hourly wages of rabbit hole careers and nothing from the Ambitions pack.

Fastdash wrote: ↑

March 20th, 2024, 4:43 pm

So I finally got around to trying the Careers module. It only allows me to adjust the hourly wages of rabbit hole careers and nothing from the Ambitions pack.

Sorry about that! It must only have support for the regular career XML so far, hopefully active careers will come in the next testing version.

The career XMLs are the type that Retuner can't modify either, but you could still make manual changes with a .package. If you open the active career file from the Minimum Wage mod, for example, in S3PE you can open the XML with a text editor and add your preferred changes.

CardinalSims wrote: ↑

March 20th, 2024, 6:04 pm

Fastdash wrote: ↑

March 20th, 2024, 4:43 pm

So I finally got around to trying the Careers module. It only allows me to adjust the hourly wages of rabbit hole careers and nothing from the Ambitions pack.

Sorry about that! It must only have support for the regular career XML so far, hopefully active careers will come in the next testing version.

The career XMLs are the type that Retuner can't modify either, but you could still make manual changes with a .package. If you open the active career file from the Minimum Wage mod, for example, in S3PE you can open the XML with a text editor and add your preferred changes.

Oh I think I realized wjhat the problem would be. I was using another minimum wage mod https://modthesims.info/d/657165/minimu ... istic.html I didn't realize I would actually need the other mod so I could edit the Ambitions values in game. I haven't tested the other mod since I don't want to mess up my game, but I did grab the Ambitions career package. I'm not sure how much I can realistically edit since it seems very daunting, but I'll see if I can get it into a state I'm happy with.

You don't need the mod to make the changes, it just makes the process a little bit easier for you if you need to do it manually- otherwise you need to find the resources in the GameplayData yourself. Which can sometimes be easy, sometimes not if EA didn't name the resources very well! If a mod already exists for something, that basically means someone did the hard work of finding the right files for you :p

The mod you already have is fine, as it also only modifies the Careers XML- so it wouldn't conflict if you used the Ambitions package from the other one.
Sorry for the confusion! I'd be happy to take screenshots of how to make the changes in S3PE. There's nothing too technical involved

CardinalSims wrote: ↑

March 20th, 2024, 7:15 pm

You don't need the mod to make the changes, it just makes the process a little bit easier for you if you need to do it manually- otherwise you need to find the resources in the GameplayData yourself. Which can sometimes be easy, sometimes not if EA didn't name the resources very well! If a mod already exists for something, that basically means someone did the hard work of finding the right files for you :p

The mod you already have is fine, as it also only modifies the Careers XML- so it wouldn't conflict if you used the Ambitions package from the other one.
Sorry for the confusion! I'd be happy to take screenshots of how to make the changes in S3PE. There's nothing too technical involved

I've done it before for smaller mods. It's just I'd have to do a lot of modifications. Thanks again for your replies.