Chance Cards: A Quick Gambler's Guide
J. M. Pescado:
It is commonly believed that chance cards depend on your sim's skills, your sim's mood, or your sim's aspiration. It doesn't work that way. Chance cards are purely random, with each card having an odds bias, where option A has the chance of succeeding that percentage of the time, and option B succeeds the other percent of the time, minus 1%, due to the way the odds work. For instance, an odds-85 card has an 85% chance of winning if you choose A, 14% chance of winning if you choose B, and 1% chance you are a big fat loser no matter what you pick. Chance cards for career levels > L6 pay out in thousands, meaning that no chance card > L6 will deal in quantities of money < 1K, and chance cards of <= L6 tend to pay out crap. Here are the odds tables for various careers, and the key words you should remember for them!
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LVL SLA SCI POL MIL MED LEF CUL CRI BUS ATH SHO PAR NAT ART ADV EDU GMR JRN LAW MUS
L1 85 50 85 85 15 85 85 15 15 85 XX XX XX XX 65 75 85 25 15 75
L2 85 85 15 85 15 15 15 85 15 15 85 85 XX 15 50 20 45 15 75 25
L3 50 15 85 15 50 85 85 85 15 85 15 XX XX XX 85 75 25 85 25 85
L4 50 50 85 15 85 85 15 85 85 15 XX 15 XX 85 75 45 15 35 35 20
L5 85 85 85 15 15 85 85 85 85 15 15 15 15 XX 15 75 45 85 80 25
L6 85 50 15 15 15 85 85 85 15 85 XX XX 15 15 85 75 65 75 80 75
L7 15 85 85 15 15 15 85 15 15 85 15 85 85 XX 15 65 15 85 25 20
L8 15 85 15 85 15 50 50 85 15 15 XX XX XX 15 75 50 75 75 65 45
L9 85 85 15 15 15 15 15 50 15 15 15 15 85 XX 15 55 15 25 35 55
L10 50 85 15 15 50 15 85 50 15 15 XX XX XX 85 85 75 55 25 15 35
SLACKER KEYWORDS
"WHATEVER", "ON BREAK", "DUCT TAPE", "BUNNY RABBITS", "REVEAL ALL".
SCIENCE KEYWORDS
"BLUE", "LET WIKI", "TANGIBLE", "GREEN"
POLITICS KEYWORDS
"HIDE"
MILITARY KEYWORDS
"OCEAN", "VAPORIZE"
MEDICAL KEYWORDS
"TURN AWAY". Even this one barely works, but the alternative is worse. Medical has some of the worst chance cards in the game. The following keywords are things you should NOT choose:
"ATTEND MEETING", "FINISH QUICKLY", "HAND OFF", "MEET INTERN"
LAW ENFORCEMENT KEYWORDS
"GIANT ROBOT"
CULINARY KEYWORDS
"EASTERN EATS", "AIRPORTS".
Culinary's chance cards are pretty unexceptional: the lucrative ones are unlikely, and the penalties tend to be pretty steep, but the payouts are modest and generally run with the odds.
CRIMINAL KEYWORDS
Crime doesn't pay in TS2, and it shows: The final hours suck, and none of the cards are exceptionally good. The final card is 55K vs. 20K for "CAPTURE", against 60K vs. 30K for "DOOMSDAY". It's nearly 50/50, so play or avoid at your leisure. Still, they're better than Medical's.
BUSINESS KEYWORDS
"TRUCKS"
Business pretty much runs with the odds, the payouts being neither exceptional or the penalties steep.
ATHLETICS KEYWORDS
"MAKE SPEECH"
All other athlete cards are crappy, offering lousy results, low-paying results most of the time. The job itself pays pretty well. The final card is marginal, offering "SMILE PRETTY" 50K/-50K vs. "MAKE SPEECH" 40K/Fired.
UNI CAREER KEYWORDS
"PAY BILL".
You're pretty much never gonna see a chance card in the Uni-added careers unless you use Harder Jobs, because you start at level 8 or 9 and the top level tends not to have a chance card at all, except Art. The cards all suck, except Art.
ADVENTURER KEYWORDS
"STARBOARD", "DISMANTLE WIRING", "CONDESCENSION", "CAPTURE"
EDUMACATION KEYWORDS
"BULLHORNS", "FROSTBITE", "RABBIT"
nenechell:
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Alvaron:
Yo, miscreant! You blew it on the Level 9 chance card for NatSci.
Keyword is AMBER and payout is 50 large. Couple that with 31k for 7 hrs off the promo bonus and this career kicks butt.
dawnkeeper:
This is for sure "more awesome than you".
I heard about these chance cards on the last site. By that time though all the stuff was on the move and I missed it. I always guess at my chance cards. But this guide will help me make more educated decisions on the randomness.
Thanks for posting this!
Zeljka:
Quote from: Alvaron on 2005 July 15, 14:03:10
Yo, miscreant! You blew it on the Level 9 chance card for NatSci.
Keyword is AMBER and payout is 50 large. Couple that with 31k for 7 hrs off the promo bonus and this career kicks butt.
85% chance of winning if you choose A, 14% chance of winning if you choose B, and 1% chance you are a big fat loser no matter what you pick...
I follow the guide and realize no matter what I choose, my sim will either gain a skill they probably already have, or be fired. I am a big fat loser no matter what I choose..
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