I thought we could start an Ambitions question thread like the one in the WA section.

My first question: Do I have to manually extinguish fires when my firefighter sims go to a house? Because whenever they autonomously put out even one of the many little fires in the house, they can't complete the job. All the fires will be out and the timer will still go on, until their grades drop more and more. I can't even manually stack a queue, because they quit putting out one fire to go to the next. And the residents of the house just panic and there are no interactions with them. I've even tried cleaining up to see if that finished the job, ut nope. I keep having to restart without saving so I can redo the day. I'm so frustrated.

If I'm able to put out each little fire manually, the job is completed.

On a lighter note, I love the investigator career. I am going to break into soooo many houses. Maybe I'll make a clumsy policeman and name him Lestrade and then make Sherlock Holmes.

I've done 5 fire things so far, when it comes to fires, I click one single fire they put it out, they move on to another without my direction.

They do that for me too. But if you let your sim do that, does the job get completed? Because the job won't finish if I let them put out any fire at all autonomously. It doesn't matter if it's the first fire or the last one. If I don't click on every single fire and put it out, the clock just keeps counting and they eventually get a D. All fires can be out but the people just keep panicking and just the meter thingy won't go away. I look up an down the house for other fires, and meanwhile my sim goes about reading books and playing on computers.

I've tried going back to the main menu and even restarting the game. But I've switched a few households and each time I play with a firefighter this happens to me.

No they put out all the fires and the event finishes. I've only ever clicked a fire once. (Except when I had to break down a door to get into the next room with a fire).

Maybe...and I know I might regret it...I'll do an uninstall and reinstall. I've been wanting to because I had to do one a little while ago and the launcher just updated to the patch that was most current and so skipped the one I would have really wanted - the one where families you've played are protected from being moved out with story progression. Right now I'm playing with it off and that's why I have to micromanage all of my custom townsfolk.

If I do so, it might solve my problem. I've tried just clicking the first fire and then letting my sim extinguish the other fires herself, but when they're all out the job meter just keeps counting. I have to manually install patches this time, so I'd be able to pick and choose which ones I need. I have all of my saves and store content/custom content backed up, so it wouldn't really be too bad. I'm just afraid of screwing it up.

I haven't dabbled too much into the fire fighter career just yet. My sim was called to put out a "small house fire" on his first day. I just clicked on the fire and told him to put it out, and he pretty much did everything from there. The fire did spread a little while he was busy putting it out. It didn't seem like anyone was home so no one needed rescue

After the fire was out, the emergency was over and he got an A grade, then left

From the video I saw on fire fighting, the user directed the fire fighter sim to rescue sims first, then put out the fire. So maybe try and do things in that order? Maybe put out any fires in your direct patch first atleast

As for the investigator thing, you can't simply break into anyones house. It only seems to appear when you're actually on a case that involves the sim you're investigating

Also, that fire truck is damn slow when it's not upgraded. I had a sim start a fire while cooking, who ended up putting the fire out him self. Literally like 5 minutes later the fire truck finally showed up. I was like "Yea... I put it out already AND finished cooking my meal, where the were you?"

Anyone know how it works if you have two firefighters in one household? Do they go to calls together?

does anyone know where about the skill books are in the library I can't seem to find them :/

There are no skill books in the Twinbrook Library, EA's dumbass problem.

ugh I thought that was the case but I was hoping I just couldn't find them

There is a lot which you can use to replace the already-placed lot here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?nijznjzy2z2

I have a question!

In the stylist career you have to keep up your own little portfolio of pictures of people you have styled. How does this work, and how do you get the pictures??? I am very confused.

Other than that, lovin' the game so far!!!

If you get a good review of the make over, it will automatically start the camera if you say yes to taking a picture. I suggest having a nice camera in your inventory, because if you dont, it uses the cell phone camera.. and that one sucks. Use buydebug and get a nice camera. :D

I took the fire fighter career ,and my sim is literally living in the fire station because there is everything there so I don’t have to buy anything till I make some cash, and while I’m there I start making things with the Inventor Bench ,can you sell those things that he makes like the widget and the drinking lamas, and if yes, to whom or how, thanks .

I don't know if you can sell them TO people, but if the inventions go into the inventory, you can sell them there.

Thanks ririlu for answering my question!

But I never seem to have a pop up telling me whether the makeover was good or not. Is it only on makeovers you do at work on request?

Thank you!

I don't know if this is a bug or something but when you detonate something with the inventor,aren't you suppose to it blow up? I don't see anything exept that some piles from rebel comes out of the pile.

and the other thing is when a big fire is in a house and the fire man has to break the the door down to rescue some prople from the inside it's says that first you have to put out the fire from the windows and the fire man goes near the windows take out the hose pipe but no water comes out from the pipe and there is no visible fire in the windows that I can see.

those this happen to someone else as well?

It is. *nod* Makeovers I've done on people at random haven't showed me whether it was good or bad. Just given me money for the makeover.

You're welcome :D Usually you can get an idea of whether or not it was a good makeover from the body language of the stylist and the recipient... I have only seen disapointment so far. I think that working at the drawing table will help... or my sim might just be fashion-challenged.

Are you by chance using an old uncensor mod? I remember when WA came out, that if you were using an older one, certain visual effects would not display