Doctors Need Degrees

This mod requires Cyjon's Smarter EP Check, found here, HB's easy Inventory Check, found here, and at least one expansion pack after University (any one will do).

Update 2.1: Added compatibility for Job Stopinator and Salary Bonus Scheme, and fixed an error with Pet Jobs
Now updated to version 2.0 for more flexibility and easier updates for custom careers

In the real world, it is not possible to be a doctor, a teacher, a scientist, or a lawyer without a degree. While the lowest levels of the career are something that anyone can do, very quickly you would find that the next job up is only available with the right qualifications.

Other careers, however, don't need to be so strict. Why would criminals or gamers care what sort of education you've had? And why do you need a degree to get any job in Paranormal?

If you've ever been bothered by this in your sims 2 games, this mod is for you!

How does it work?
Sims get Education Points depending on their previous studies:

• Sims that failed high school get 0 points.
• Sims that achieved between D- and C- at high school get 1 point.
• Sims that achieved at least a C at high school but either never went to university or dropped out early (or were created in CAS) get 2 points.
• Sims that attended university and reached at least their Junior year (for the 2 year diploma (2YD) version) or Senior year (for the 3 year degree (3YD) version) before dropping out or being expelled get 3 points.
• Sims who graduated university get 4 points.
• Theoretically, sims who have graduated university and have a specific token in their inventories can have 5 points, but as of right now there aren't any careers with this option.

Each career then has a number of points that are needed for promotion to each level. Some careers can let sims be promoted even though they don't have enough points, but they'll have to get lucky for that to work.

Here are the points needed for each career:

Careers: Medicine, Science, Natural Science, Law, Education

Level	Points Required
1 - 3	2
4 - 5	3
6 - 10	4

Chance of passing limit: None whatsoever. Sorry sims.

Careers: Business, Law Enforcement, Military, Show Business, Journalism, Architecture, Intelligence, Oceanography

Level	Points Required
1	0
2 - 3	1
4 - 5	2
6 - 7	3
8 - 10	4

Chance of passing limit: 20% per attempt if the sim is only one point short, 10% per attempt if the sim is two points short, 5% per attempt if the sim is 3 points short, and no chance otherwise.

Careers: Athletics, Culinary, Politics, Slacker, Artist, Paranormal, Music, Entertainment, Dance

Level	Points Required
1 - 3	0
4 - 5	1
6 - 7	2
8 - 10	3

Chance of passing limit: 30% per attempt

As a default, Criminal, Adventurer and Gamer careers do not care about education, nor do any custom careers unless the career is updated to work with this mod.

What about promotions from chance cards?
When a promotion comes up in a chance card, this mod runs the same checks as it would for any other promotion, and so the promotion may not happen. In that case, you will still get the promotion bonus (as otherwise you wouldn't get anything for a successful chance card pick). Reputation bonus promotions you can sometimes get will also have the same checks.

If you don't want this to happen, get a version with "+morepromotions", which will only block chance card and reputation promotions if there is no chance of that sim passing the education check.

What about getting a job in the first place?
The Artist, Natural Science, Paranormal, and Show Business careers no longer require a degree. Getting a job in Medicine, Science, Natural Science, Education, or Law requires at least 2 education points (a C or above at high school).

What do I need to download?
Get one of:

• "KittyCarey-DoctorsNeedDegrees-3YD"
• "KittyCarey-DoctorsNeedDegrees-2YD"
• "KittyCarey-DoctorsNeedDegrees-3YD+morepromotions"
• "KittyCarey-DoctorsNeedDegrees-2YD+morepromotions"

and all of the folder of Careers, the easy Token check and the easy Memory check.

The "Custom Career Kit" is for updating custom careers to work with this mod, and should not be added to your downloads folder.

What if I want one of the careers to have different rules?
Open up that career in SimPE and have a look at the BCON file called "Education Requirements by Level" (if the only thing you can change is the labels, you've got the wrong one and need to click on the other one). Lines 1-10 are the points needed for each level, and the chances of passing the points check with insufficient points are in lines 13-16 (as percentages, so out of 100). If the career you want to change is one that doesn't have any educational requirements by default, you'll need to get its package from the "Unused Careers" folder.

How do I update a custom career to use this mod?
Use the "Custom Career Kit" to update your custom career to work with this mod, remembering to update the "Education Requirements by Level" file to your preferred numbers. The code will only be read by the game if the rest of this mod is installed, so this will not break a custom career for someone who doesn't have Doctors Need Degrees installed.

Code Modified:

Type	Group	Instance	Name
BHAV	0x7F8F4EB6	2005	Function - Qualify for Level?
BHAV	0x7F8F4EB6	2008	Sub - Chance Card - Results
BHAV	0x7F8F4EB6	2017	Sub - Chance Card - Alter Budget
BHAV	0x7F8F4EB6	2097	CT - Hobby Card - Results
BHAV	0x7F8F4EB6	2117	Sub - Hobby Card - Alter Budget
BHAV	0x7F8F4EB6	206C	Unlock Check
BHAV	0x7F8F4EB6	209F	Sub - Secret Networking Promotion/Demotion
STR#	0x7F8F4EB6	012D	Dialog prim string set
STR#	0x7F8F4EB6	012F	Call Named Tree prim string set
BHAV	0x7F441294	204C	Career - Unlock Check
BHAV	0x7FC2ED7B	1007	Filter - Unlock
BCON	some careers	1056	Tuning - Flags

New Code:

Type	Group	Instance	Name
BHAV	0x7F8F4EB6	20B9	Function - Get My Education Score in Temp2
BHAV	0x7FC2ED7B	100A	Function - Get Education Score in Temp2
BHAV	each career	1008	CT - Qualify for Level - Education Fail?
BHAV	each career	1009	CT - Qualify for Level - Education Block?
BCON	each career	105F	Education Requirements by Level

Conflicts:

Name	Conflicts with	What to do
Cyjon's Edukashun iz Gud	most of this	Remove - this is an expanded version
Pescado's harderjobs	Function - Qualify for Level	Get the lower starting levels if my mod loads last
Monique's Work & Bring Home Friend Dialog	Dialog prim string set	Works provided my mod loads last
Cyjon's Reputation Job Sanity	Dialog prim string set	Probably works provided my mod loads last
Cyjon's Job Stopinator (Chance option)	Sub - Chance Card - Results and CT - Hobby Card - Results	Works provided my mod loads last
Sims Salary Bonus Scheme by Pick'N'Mix Mods	Function - Qualify for Level and Call Named Tree prim string set	Works provided my mod loads last and you don't use the Pause Promotions feature of that mod
LazyDuchess' Job Rejections mod	Dialog prim string set	Probably works provided my mod loads last

Other conflicts are probably not compatible.

Updates:
Version 1.1: Custom careers now default to the Careers that a diploma is useful category, so redownload if you have a custom career. Instructions for adding custom careers to other categories are also available here
Version 1.2: Fixed an issue with the wrong messages appearing when a sim owns their own car. Fixed an issue with the wrong amounts of money given/removed for chance cards at high levels (I hope).
Version 1.3: Fixed an issue with wrong bonuses at higher job levels.
Version 1.4: Fixed an issue with chance card bonuses (thanks LimeyYoshi).
Version 2.0: Redesigned the code for more options for custom careers, or for editing individual careers to suit preferences.
Version 2.1: Updated to provide compatibility with Job Stopinator and Sims Salary Bonus Mod.

Thanks:
Cyjon, whose Edukashun iz Gud was the base for this mod, and whose code I have shamelessly used thanks to their generous 'don't reinvent the wheel' policy.
All the makers of SimPE, without which this mod would never have made any progress.
Hexagonal-bipyramid, whose handy "Easy Inventory Check" mod was both very useful and inspired my own versions.
And jonasn, who keeps answering all my questions.