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What changed in Accountant Career

Changes since the last public file (the 2024 beta, `maplebell_AccountantCareer.package`).

Before installing

  • Replace the old file: delete maplebell_AccountantCareer.package and put the new one in its place. The file name is the same.

Version 1.0

Pictures

  • Select a Career now shows the career's own picture instead of the llama.
  • Both Manage Client Tasks lists, Digital Clients and In-Person Clients, now have a picture on every row. In the in-person list, Set Up College Fund shows a mortarboard, Offer Investment Advice a silver Simoleon coin and Plan for Retirement a gold Simoleon.
  • Every row picture on both Manage Client Tasks lists and the Money Mastery skill-bar picture (now a laptop) are base-game pictures. No pack is needed for them.

Pay and cycles

  • Digital clients now pay every 3 days instead of every 6, the same as in-person clients.
  • In-person work is now paid from the in-person pay table. It used to be paid from the digital one.
  • The in-person paycheck message now shows the amount.
  • A cycle with no work done now pays like a low score. It used to be able to pay any band.
  • Your Sim is only promoted after a cycle with more than 60 work. Random level jumps are gone, and the top level is never "promoted".
  • The Level 3 to 4 promotion now shows as a note like the other promotions.
  • If a cycle stops after a save is loaded, a new cycle starts by itself the next time your Sim appears. Manage Client Tasks comes back without Take a Break and Resume Job.

Quit, Take a Break and Resume Job

  • Quit now takes effect at once. It ends both the digital and the in-person clients.
  • Quitting mid-cycle pays nothing for that cycle, and a note now says so: "You quit mid-cycle. No pay for the unfinished cycle."
  • Quitting and offering services again no longer pays a loop.
  • Quit now shows while your Sim is on a break or has only in-person clients. Quitting on a break no longer blocks the career afterwards.
  • Take a Break no longer pays at once and can no longer be repeated for money. The running cycle pays once at its end, then nothing until Resume Job.
  • Take a Break now gives the "Taking a Break" moodlet. Resume Job and Quit remove it.
  • A client signed while your Sim is on a break no longer starts a paid cycle. The cycle starts after Resume Job.
  • Resume Job now brings back in-person clients if your Sim is Level 2 or higher and still has at least one client.

Computer work

  • Trade Stocks and Prepare Tax Documents can each be done once a day. When used, the row greys out with "Already done today. Available again tomorrow."
  • Prepare Tax Documents can no longer lose §5,000 to §10,000.
  • Break-even trades and tax filings now show a plain note instead of nothing.
  • Prepare Tax Documents is no longer done by free will.
  • Update Financial Records now counts toward your digital client work.
  • The Manage Investments task now says "Review Investment Portfolios or Trade Stocks". Either one completes it.
  • The career's daily tasks now count the right computer actions.
  • Financial Health Check now gives a grade before the first task. It uses the same grade levels as the paycheck.

Clients and chats

  • Debt Reduction Plan (the chat) now counts toward in-person client work.
  • Budget Consultation's bad choice now loses points.
  • Review Financial Statements goes badly about one time in five, with a worried reply and no points.
  • The Financial Audit texts now fit how well the work went.
  • Review Financial Statements, Budget Consultation and Debt Reduction Plan only show while your Sim is a working Personal Accountant who is not on a break.
  • The client chats, and Discuss Market Trends, Discuss Money-Saving Tips and Offer Financial Advice, no longer show on children.
  • Quit Personal Accountant Career, Take a Break, Resume Job, Offer Financial Management Services (Digital Clients) and Trade Stocks are no longer done by free will.
  • "Leave the seminar early" now has its Yes and No buttons. They were blank.

Text

  • Paycheck and Financial Health Check lines now say "this cycle" instead of "this week".
  • The in-person row "Financial Health Checkup" is now "Assess Overall Finances", so it no longer looks like the digital Financial Health Check.
  • The offer note says "you've booked new digital clients!" instead of "your first".
  • The CPA exam texts now name the Accountant career and say you can retry tomorrow.
  • "Study Investments Strategies" now reads "Study Investment Strategies".
  • Offer Investment Advice no longer shows the reply about losing it all on a bad stock pick.
  • Players using another game language now see English text instead of blank entries.

Good to know

  • In-person clients start at Level 2.
  • Quitting while a cycle is running pays nothing for that cycle. The game shows a note when that happens.

For translators

Game text: 2 new, 35 changed, 0 removed. Other languages are now filled with English text, ready to translate. Translations for this mod

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