Private Investigator Play-Through

[Nindigo]

So, Miraj. How do you feel about VJ doing the PI instead of you?

By the way, the starting brown trenchcoat is for gals only. Gents get a dapper suit as featured by VJ.

Also, by the way, after putting my Alvi lads in a fresh save, VJ started to receive phone calls even with logic at level 10.

This profession is so sensitive when it comes to the slightest change to the town and residents.

I think PI is actually PMS in disguise

[Sonshine]

LOL Nindingo!

I just found out that my glitch might be sim related and not mods. I took a major amount of mods out and I *still could not get careers to show up under "add opportunity!" So I switched to another sim and put her into the PI career and went through the path and guess what? Careers DID show up! I put all of the mods in and I will try that same sim again and see what happens. My guess is that it will. Maybe we're not supposed to play that other sim? Who only knows!

Edit: I was right! Either that town is really glitched or that sim in AP is glitched.

[MrsFlynn]

Ah okay. Thanks for the tip on the trenchcoat.  VJ looks handsome in his duds!!

I am happy to hear VJ receives phone calls. I was actually worried about that, as Melani is lv6 Logic and I really don't want to stop skilling so to be able to still keep getting cases by phone.

I've even noticed some of the "case calls" come via messages on the screen. lol They just pop up like opportunities do.

I fully agree - PI is actually PMS in disguise.

[MrsFlynn]

Sonshine, I'm not sure which Sim you're talking about, but have you tried taking a player-made Sim and put them in the PI career to see what DebugEnabler gives you?

LOL Nindingo!

I just found out that my glitch might be sim related and not mods. I took a major amount of mods out and I *still could not get careers to show up under "add opportunity!" So I switched to another sim and put her into the PI career and went through the path and guess what? Careers DID show up! I put all of the mods in and I will try that same sim again and see what happens. My guess is that it will. Maybe we're not supposed to play that other sim? Who only knows!

Edit: I was right! Either that town is really glitched or that sim in AP is glitched.

[Sonshine]

i just did try a sim that I made for another challenge. It worked. The one I tested before was Hetty Lionhart in AP. She was also the one where I leveled her up to lev 5 in the career, but NO cases at all. She only had a few cases on her first day and maybe her 2nd, but none after that.

[MrsFlynn]

Ah okay. That does sounds like there's something odd about that Sim. I'm happy to hear you're able to the the case list another Sim.

[Nindigo]

I've even noticed some of the "case calls" come via messages on the screen. lol They just pop up like opportunities do.

This happens if, for some reason, your Sim does not pick up the phone. Like when autonomy is disabled. You probably didn't hear it ring - happens when you are looking around town or focused on a different floor/room on the home lot where your Sim is not at.

[MrsFlynn]

I have the ringer off, but see tunes coming out the side of her hip when phone rings. There's a few times I didn't see that happen.

[MrsFlynn]

This case (Fishermen's Local 105) popped up and tried to go along with it, but ended up having to cancel it due to the stakeout at the diner wouldn't complete.

It sounds like other players have experienced this. One offered the suggestion of buldozing lot, and replacing the diner.

What I've done is just replaced the diner, not the lot. If the case won't complete again, I'll try buldozing the lot and placing a new diner.
 

Spoiler: Fishermen's Local 105 (click to show/hide)

XX. Fishermen's Local 105 - Canceled

Objectives:
- Report In.
- Fish for 4 Hours.
- Conduct Stakeout at Beach.
- Conduct Stakeout at fishing pond.
- Conduct Stakeout outside local diner. (DNF)
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Rewards: Job Experience and Simoleons = §500.
- Took more than 4 hours... Maybe need to be highly skilled (8/9) in Fishing?

FIX: The Case of the Fisherman's Local 105 Diner Stakeout
https://www.reddit.com/r/Sims3/comments/gw4mhk

- Cancel the case, bulldoze lot and replace the diner as it's something to do with the lot/rabbithole.

[Nindigo]

I did this one very recently with Anna-Liza Riddle, and it solved smoothly. Stakeouts often take a few tries for me before they complete. It has to do with the involved Sims arriving either too early or too late after my Sim begins the stakeout. It really shouldn't be this sensitive, but, well...it is.

Those pop-up regular opportunities are usually also called in first, but if not responded to they pop up. That is how the scripting works at least. But, that the game acts differently than it should is pretty commonplace, don't you agree?