Career Reward Objects Goddammit

[maxon]

I am trying to raise someone from the dead on the Tricou lot (into a zombie slave but that's not important right now) but I can't select the Death Phone to call Grimmy. 

The phone was acquired pre-Pets with a Aspiration/Career Rewards collection I got from MTS2.

I thought it might be that that is the problem so I did some fiddling about:

1. I made Jennicor the top of the Paranormal career but I can't buy her a career reward in the conventional way either and she still can't use the phone
2. I removed most hacks and tried again (no difference) and anyway I can't see anything that looks as though it is a potential conflict
3. I looked at various other lots including one with a sim who is also in the paranormal career - I couldn't buy him a phone from the career rewards section either (yes, he is far enough along in his career to get one) or from the collection catalogue
4. I can't seem to use the career rewards collection on the Tricou lot or any other - none of the objects are buyable although the aspiration rewards are

I forced an error on the existing phone (attached).  Does anyone have any suggestions?

[jsalemi]

Must be a hack conflict -- I used TJ's career reward collection to get a resurrect-o-phone for a uni student who wanted to turn a recently dead sim into a zombie, and it worked fine. I have all the EPs and SPs.

[ElviraGoth]

Do you have TJ's pets-compatible buyable career rewards?  You have to buy them through build mode now.

I just had a fingerprint scanner disappear when I sent a sim to use it, and found I couldn't buy one in my existing collection, so I came here and found TJ had a new one for pets.  Maybe that's what you need.

[maxon]

OK - sounds like the collection is no longer working.  I'll try TJ's (I didn't know he'd made one) and I'll hustle back over to MTS2 and let the maker know there's a problem with Pets.  Thanks for your help both of you.

[jrd]

Just FYI, you don't get career rewards for reaching the top of a career. A career reward is given on a certain job promotion. So if you cheat and go straight to the top, you will miss out on it.
This is also a problem with one or two uni careers (forgot which ones), if your Sim has the relevant major and gets the job through the computer, s/he will start the job at a level past the point where the career reward would be given. Obviously not an issue with harderjobs, or applying through the newspaper.

You can shift-click the newspaper to get any career reward, or use the cheat unlockcareerrewards to give all to the current Sim.

[jrd]

Eh, maybe. Last time I bothered with the career rewards was OFB pre-p1.

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Where is the post I was just replying to? 

[ElviraGoth]

LOL Jordi - talking to yourself?

[J. M. Pescado]

Just FYI, you don't get career rewards for reaching the top of a career. A career reward is given on a certain job promotion. So if you cheat and go straight to the top, you will miss out on it.
This is also a problem with one or two uni careers (forgot which ones), if your Sim has the relevant major and gets the job through the computer, s/he will start the job at a level past the point where the career reward would be given. Obviously not an issue with harderjobs, or applying through the newspaper.

Uni fixed that already, you will receive your career award even with advanced starts. This lets you kinda scum them without harderjobs by just applying to everything on the computer.

[maxon]

Quick update

1. I was able to buy and use a new phone for a paranormal career person in another lot and the Tricou's now have their zombie slave.  I adjusted the memories to suit.

2.  I was still not able to buy and/or use the existing phone on the Tricou lot, so it must be the lot that's at fault there.  There seem to be a lot of annoying little bugs on that lot - e.g. the two teenagers are missing from the family portrait (loading) though both are present on the lot.  I haven't played that lot since I raised them and don't intend to play them much.  I just wanted another zombie in my neighbourhood.