The Military Career is included with The Sims 4 StrangerVille Game Pack. The new Career features two branches, Officer and Covert Operator which differ quite a bit. One will lead you toward spying on your neighborhood, while the other charges you with getting other recruits into shape. Here's a guide to the new career, its requirements and the rewards you can expect with each promotion. Each one comes with a medal, and there's a display case for storage which can be seen above.
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Military Sims can Spar and Order other Military around.
Sims in the Military can use the Spar interaction, which lets them fight in a friendly way with another Sim. This raises fitness and builds relationship between the participants. They also gradually gain access to the 'Order Around' menu which can be used on other Military Sims. You may instruct them to spar one another, among other activities.
Learn about THe Sims 4's Military career, new in the StrangerVille Game Pack. Includes information on both the OFficer and Covert Operator branches and where the jobs rank in pay overall.
Getting Started in Military
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Want to be a Covert Operator or Officer? The Military Career is available for all owners of The Sims 4 StrangerVille Game Pack.
Take a job in the Military by using your phone or the careers panel (hotkey 'J' on PC) if you don't have one already. Early on, your Sim is very much focused on keeping fit and not much else. As a new recruit you'll want to keep energized during work hours to keep the fitness skill levels coming. Workout equipment for the home can help a lot with saving time, though you may at times need to get out in the world and go on a jog.
Military is like Gardener from Seasons in that it allows you to choose each day whether you'll attend work or work from home. If you choose work from home, you'll get an assignment which you're expected to complete during work hours. Gains toward promotion are not given until the next day, so do not worry if you don't see your Sim making progress. This allows for a lot of freedom while bringing in money. I personally prefer going in when I'm trying hard due to being able to use work hard and going in a positive mood,
Unfortunately when it comes to choosing between these, the differences are there but not in the way we might like. They make the same amount per rank, gain the same bonuses except for the minor differences you see in pictures, and work the same number of hours (8). The vast difference is one is an early morning/daytime job (Officer) and one is a late night job (Covert Operator). Because of this it should be fairly easy for you to choose, but hinders the replayability of the two branches.
Covert Operator Branch
Uniform and rewards for the Covert Operator Career. Shown second is the Man in Black uniform for reaching Rank 10 in Covert Operator
Covert Operators will listen in on other Sims, using the Listening Device. This may mean planting bugs on them, as potentially used at one point during the StrangerVille Mystery, only an absolute requirement of the job in this case. They may also need to find evidence and research strange phenomena, while keeping the secrets of the military. The level 10 activity, 'Plan 10 Moves Ahead' means to simply play chess for 2 hours. I'm not sure why it doesn't change the name for agents or add an additional activity to the chessboard. It also lacks a tooltip, so hopefully this helps.
$1790, Ranking Rug, Medal of Discipline, New Clothes
9
[Redacted]
$297/hour
Tue-Wed, Fri-Sun 6PM-2AM
$2376
Max Logic, File Reports (Computer)
$3149, Tactical Genius Medal, New Clothes
10
Sim-in-Black
$422/hour
Tue-Wed, Fri-Sun 6PM-2AM
$3376
Plan 10 Moves Ahead (Play Chess)
$4567, Medal of Courage, New Clothes
Officer Branch
Officers may be expected to Recruit other Sims to the Military. They're also responsible for keeping other Sims fit, practicing combat, and improving their own ability to order other Sims around.
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I had a bug happen when my sim was at the 'Covert' branch level 8 - Clandestine Investigator. The daily task is to search the stars using the backyard observatory. Even spending the ENTIRE 16 hours between shifts in the observatory, I could only get completion to 75%. I cheated my needs full as I started, to test the time it took.
You just need to play chess. 2 hours solid should get it to 100%. I always ponder moves first to get a focused moodlet, don't think that counts towards the total.
Yeah it's chess, the game doesn't alter the name of the interaction at all so you're sort of forced to guess based on the name. I'm editing the guide to include this now.
How do you guys manage the "Give Orders" daily task for Level 7 Officer? It doesn't progress with the training bot, and if I go to the bar after work to start ordering the enlisted soldiers around it takes something like 6-7 hours of constantly clicking while all the sims move around, realign, change chairs, etc. It's the most frustratingly tedious task I think I've ever encountered.I can't do that every day. My single-parent sim has two kids to look after. :)
I love making and playing families, but for this and other games where I'm on a mission (eg. professions in Get to Work), I play with a single member household so I only have to look after the needs of one sim.
Keep in mind that the Daily Task is not required for promotion. Performance will go up a little slower but that's all. It probably won't take more than an extra day.
I'm at Conspiracy Squelcher for Covert Operator and the work at home assignment asks me to find evidence in the lab. I already played through the story and it won't let me search through the evidence. I tried searching the archives in the library and planting a listening device on a sim and listening but it doesn't count. Not sure how to complete it.
Hey, maybe trying to hack the computers there will help, i had this problem when my sim found a usb stick with evidence on it and was able to complete the secret dossier part of the mystery, i had to hack all the computers every day untill i got the required 15 pieces of evidence to move to the next step of the aspiration, but hacking the computers counted as evidence for me, hope it helps you
I had this problem too, the solution for me was to "sell" my keycard and then you can search for evidence in any of the piles. You might also have to get rid of any existing dossiers but I might be wrong about that. Since you're in the military career you can "Requisition Keycard" on a computer when you no longer need to gather evidence as a task.
Is anyone else having issues with 'Search the Stars'? Mine gets to the just started phase, then nothing after that. No matter how many times, or how long my Sim stargazes, it never goes any higher. Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug?
Seems to be a bug. I did manage to reach 25% but it took several hours using Observe the Sky during the daytime. I went back after dark and tried Stargaze but I was still at 25% after a full hour of that and I'm not willing to continue trying. I'll just plan to make it through the next promotion without the daily task.
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Hi. How do I share war stories. Can't seem to find out how you do it. It's clearly not as simple as just talking to someone. I can't find the action. Help please.
Despite having played through this career twice now this action hasn't appeared for me! I guess you find another military sim and it would be under friendly socials? Military sims hang out in the bar in StrangerVille so it should be easy to find one.
Hello, I just wondered I have reached level max of officer BUT.. I still in a old cloth didn't change to new cloth( Marshal cloth ). It's normal or bug?? if it's normal what should I do? thanks.
Try waiting until your sim goes back to work, they may change into the correct military uniform then. You could also delete the localthumbcache.package file found in your TheSims4 folder.
Im a grand marshal and one time the alarm for work rang and i clicked work from home. Its saying i have the task of "Spar with Sim" and when i hover over the task it says click on a sim and click spar. However the only thing related to spar in the options when i click on a sim is "spar with..". Regardless, i tried it thinking maybe thats it, but nop not working. Any help?
Hmm, you should be able to 'Spar' with any other sim as long as your sim is still actively in the Military career. But try the interaction with another military sim just in case this is bugged somehow. "Spar With' is when your sim and another take turns on the sparring machine, which is different that your sim sparring hand to hand with another sim - which is what this interaction needs. You could also try the interaction when you are standing close to another sim or in a group with another sim. Although in the past that hasn't been needed. Try deleting the localthumbcache.package file from your The Sims folder too. Just FYI, the option to "Spar" is still present in my game when I control the military sim and cycle through the Friendly Social interactions on another non-military sim or military sim.
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