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Post by JohnL83 » March 21st, 2019, 12:05 pm

In SP there is an option under "Town Options" that says: Career: Allow Public School" - I looked in FAQ and I can't find anything about this. What does it mean exactly? It's set to "False" in my games, but I do have sims who have school careers.
Also, is there a way to freeze a sims advancement in schools or elsewhere? I would like some of my sims to stay a High School teacher, Middle School Teacher...Principle...ec. I mean IRL most teachers keep their jobs throughout their career, at least most of the ones I know about...a few progress who want to, but most stay in their field of study or remain teachers at least. I have a friend who moved on to being a Middle-school principle, but she was a Middle-school History teacher for a couple of decades before deciding to advance and it was only at the urging of some of the faculty who thought she'd be great in the position. Which she is...:)

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Post by igazor » March 21st, 2019, 1:43 pm

1 - You have a slight concept mismatch there. Sims who are children have a career -- they go to school. Teens also have a school "career" in addition to a part time job, potentially. If you use the Careers mod's Schools add-on module specialty schools, you have the option of designating some or all schools in town as public vs. private. The SP option dictates whether the sim (household, caste, town) is allowed to register for and continue to go to a public school as a student. It has nothing to do with YAs and older in the Education career, who work at the schools. Teachers cannot actually work at the specialty school rabbit holes (Military, Science Center, Community Theater, etc.), they can only work in regular game schools and this setting won't affect that.

2 - SP > Sim (Household/Caste/Town) Options > Career: Allow Progression > T/F. If you want to arrange this automatically for a defined group of sims, such as those in the Education career who are in Levels x and above, you could arrange an Automatic Caste for them that sets this option. Then you would have to decide how best to handle the exceptions whom you do not want restricted from advancing, presumably that would be manually at the Sim Options level that will trump Caste Options or you could do this by trait, skill level, academic degree, or some other attribute (zodiac sign if you want to get really random about it).

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Post by JohnL83 » March 21st, 2019, 4:36 pm

Ahhh, okay. Yep, disconnect. And I'm not even on my post-surgery meds yet. LOL Tomorrow is the big day, then off work for a few weeks for recovery....
So I will be playing a lot of Sims. :)

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