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*'''Job Pay:''' Unless your career is specifically meant to be unrealistic, make pay levels congruent with the pay of EA careers. A table of the basegame career wages is available [[Game_Help:Sims_3_Careers|here]] for comparison.
 
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*'''Custom Icons and modules''' For single track careers, Custom Icons and Career Module Images are required so your downloaders know what it will look like in their games :)
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'''Information:''' Your upload post must tell us the following:
 
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* Rabbithole - Which rabbithole is the job assigned to?
 
 
* Join Text - ''Do you aspire to be the best dog handler in town? Now hiring entry level sims for the Dog Grooming career.''
 
* Join Text - ''Do you aspire to be the best dog handler in town? Now hiring entry level sims for the Dog Grooming career.''
 
* Levels - There should be 5 or more levels for each job unless it's a teen job.
 
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You must attach your career's icon; - the icon is usually the best choice for default thumbnail, too. You may also include ingame pictures such as the carpool, uniform, a particular chance card/job description/promotion bubble: however these are ''not'' required.
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'''Taking Custom icon pictures and module pictures:''' Every career is required to have a Career icon and Module image that is relevant to your career and is unique. When sharing your module image, make sure that the module's image isn't too blurry, pixelated, stretched or bright and/or saturated! :) that way your downloaders can see exactly what the images are suppose to represent :)
 
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Latest revision as of 20:37, 30 June 2018

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[edit] Creator Guidelines - Careers

Creating a custom career involves a lot of writing and a fair amount of creativity. As such it's a shame to let all that effort go to waste - so it's important that you ensure your upload meets the following criteria for approval; otherwise you'll just end up depriving downloaders of what may be a brilliantly written career due to mere technical details.

[edit] Quality

  • Duplication: Search MTS and see how many careers have already been done for the particular type of item you're creating - do not duplicate items. We would, however, accept the same kind of career if your version had significantly improved features of an existing item.
  • Quality of Writing: Text is the main part of a career, as such it needs to be as close to perfect as possible. All text - job levels, job descriptions, and chance cards - must be triple checked for spelling and grammar; and must make general logical sense. Make sure you change the pronouns in male and female versions, and be careful in your use of $Me.
  • Job Pay: Unless your career is specifically meant to be unrealistic, make pay levels congruent with the pay of EA careers. A table of the basegame career wages is available here for comparison.
  • Custom Icons and modules For single track careers, Custom Icons and Career Module Images are required so your downloaders know what it will look like in their games :)

For multiple track careers, Make sure that you include every individual Custom Icons and Career Module Images for every single track you're sharing.

[edit] Information

Information: Your upload post must tell us the following:

  • Join Text - Do you aspire to be the best dog handler in town? Now hiring entry level sims for the Dog Grooming career.
  • Levels - There should be 5 or more levels for each job unless it's a teen job.
    • All job titles - Level 1 - Pooper Scooper Deluxe!
    • All job descriptions - Tell us what it's like to perform this job level. - Pooper Scooper Deluxe! Follow all those irresponsible dog walkers traipsing around town with their hordes of poopy dogs and clean up after them!
    • All wages - (Man! I should make more than this!) Level 1 - §5 simoleons per hour
    • All work days - (Do I hafta work weekends!) Level 1 - F, S, S
  • Opportunities -
  • Aspirations - What aspirations apply to this job?

Not required but we would like to see

  • Chance Cards - A rich lady carrying a pocket poodle is almost about to step in a pile of dog poop. What do you do?
    • Quick! Drop your jacket over the poop so she doesn't get her shoes dirty.
      • She is very happy to save her designer shoes and tells your boos what a great employee you are.
      • Your jacket does not completely cover the doggie doo and when she steps on your coat, some of it gets on her overpriced designer shoes. She complains to your boss how inept you are. And you are left with a poopy jacket.
    • You ignore it, secretly hoping the rich dame gets her just deserts.
      • Her pocket pal barks at just the right moment causing her to veer away from danger. You are annoyed that you did not get to see the show but you get to keep your job.
      • She sees that you have a pooper scooper and that you did not try to prevent her from stepping in it. She complains to your boss.
  • PTO (Paid time off or vacation time) time accrued
Patch required?
Certain coding is changed with patch versions, which may render previously-working items broken. You may also need a certain patch and later to use certain features. This is especially applicable to modded objects that have extra scripting, but may also apply to features added in later patches such as additional sliders in Create-a-Sim, new build tools, or other features.

If a particular patch level is required for your creation, make sure to state it in the text of your post! Even just indicating that you always run your game updated and will only be creating items that work with the latest-released patches is enough - at least people know then that they need to be updated too.

[edit] Screenshots

Required Images

Taking Custom icon pictures and module pictures: Every career is required to have a Career icon and Module image that is relevant to your career and is unique. When sharing your module image, make sure that the module's image isn't too blurry, pixelated, stretched or bright and/or saturated! :) that way your downloaders can see exactly what the images are suppose to represent :)

[edit] Files

Zip, Rar, or 7z
To upload your file(s) to MTS, you will need to compress them into an archive file, which makes them smaller and allows you to include many files in one download. The archive file formats we currently accept are .zip, .rar, and .7z.

For instructions on compressing your files into an archive, please see: Creator Guidelines: Creating Archive Files.

  • Do not include multiple archives with the same contents - that is, please don't put your files in both a .zip as well as a .rar because some people only want .zip files. Choose one format.
  • Do not double-compress your files... a .rar file inside another .rar file (or any other archive inside another) doesn't compress it anymore, and it makes it so we can't see the contents without downloading, and also just makes an extra step for the people downloading.
  • The file size limit on MTS is 50 mb. If you exceed this limit you will need to split your archives. This should probably never come up except for large worlds for The Sims 3, or huge sets of smaller items.


[edit] Other

Uploads not allowed on MTS
These items are not allowed on MTS in any category.
Pay/Pirated Content

Everything required or recommended for an upload must be freely available, without having to pay.

  • No uploads requiring pay content: We do not host content (for example, recolours of a pay hair or object mesh) that absolutely require pay content to function in-game.
  • No optional pay, pirated, or stolen content: Even for optional or recommended content not absolutely required for the creation to work (for example, hair on a sim or a couch on a lot), this means:
    • No content you must pay for. This means you cannot use items that are pay, donation, subscriber only, "special gift", etc. type content, anything accessible only when you pay money or subscribe.
    • No content from sites that are repositories of unmodified content when it is still available from the original creator, whether these items are pay or free (no Booty or Simscave, torrents, sites full of stolen content or similar, but the Graveyard and sites that offer recolours or modifications with the mesh are okay).
    • No EA content simply converted to base game use with no other changes.
    • No pirated EA Store content. EA Store content, linked to the legitimate EA Store, is okay though. TS2 store content may be included, with proper credit, since the store is no longer available.
Other content not allowed
  • Items that belong on the adult site: No content posted on MTS can have visible nudity, sexual content, or adult content, and instead must be posted on our adult site, Sexy Sims. This means on MTS, you may not post:
    • Content that contains nudity, which we define as exposing the female nipples, or the butt crack/genitals of either gender, including semi-transparent stuff like a sheer bra. Items that are merely "sexy" like skimpy miniskirts or string bikinis are fine on MTS. Transsexual/transgender items are also not considered adult content unless they contain nudity.
    • Skintones containing genital details - female nipples are okay on MTS but see below regarding screenshots.
    • Images of skintones with uncensored female nipples. Please blur or cover the nipples, butt crack, and genital area when taking screenshots of your skintones.
    • Fine art uploads containing visible nudity.
    • Items with specifically sexual content (sex toys, sexual poses).
    • Items containing swear/curse words
    • Items relating to illegal drugs. Prescription and over-the-counter drugs, alcohol, and tobacco are okay on MTS though.
  • Sexualized children: We do not allow any sexy/sexualized content for baby, toddler, or child sims in any way - no breasts whatsoever on child sims, no "sexy" outfits, etc. If you want to make preteens, make a less developed body for teen sims. Sexualized child content is not allowed at our adult site either.
  • Offensive content: Racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, bigoted, hateful or otherwise offensive content will not be allowed. Again, also not allowed at our adult site.
  • Gore/violence: We do not allow uploads which feature prominent, graphic violence and/or gore. Examples of things we do not allow would include items centred around mass shootings, images showing explicit violent imagery, cannibalism, and infanticide. Limited violence and gore may be featured if not the dominant focus of the upload, and not excessively graphic. Think a PG-13 movie. If uncertain whether your upload crosses this line, we suggest making a thread in the Creator Issues forum asking for feedback from a moderator before uploading.
  • EXE installers: Creators are not allowed to post exe (or other executable) files for any area of the site but Modding Tools. If your content needs to be installed to a certain directory, you can compress your files and leave the directory structure intact, so you can tell people to just install to Program Files, for instance, and the files will go where they need to. Executable installers can easily hold viruses, and are generally not needed for installing most content.
  • Preorder bonus content: Certain items were only available if you preordered certain expansions or stuff packs from certain retailers. It's unfortunate if someone missed out on getting them, but they can't be redistributed here as EA has made it clear that they do not allow it.
  • Unmodified EP/SP/Store content: While it is common practice to modify and use bits and pieces of game content to create custom content, extracting content from an expansion, stuff pack, or Store item and uploading it unmodified is not allowed on this site. You are welcome to upload significantly modified versions of expansion, stuff pack, or Store content, but you can't just be ripping it and changing one tiny thing (or nothing) just so people who didn't purchase it can still use it.
  • Stolen/reuploaded content: This should go without saying, but do not upload content made by others and claim it as your own, in whole or in part. Don't upload the work of someone else without their permission... if they wanted to share it at MTS, they can easily upload it here themselves.
  • Uncredited content/violating permissions: If any part of what you have uploaded (mesh, textures, alphas, bump maps, coding, etc.) comes from somebody else's work, you MUST provide a link and credit in the text of your post, for the original author. State what you've used of theirs, the author's name, and give a link back to them. You must check the author's policies to see if you can use their content in the way you want, and you may not violate any policies stated. If there are no policies or they don't disallow your type of usage, or the site is permanently offline, then you can assume it's okay. Please see here for more details: Updates and Remixes of Creations.
  • Redirects: If you want to move a creation to another site, please remove your upload from MTS, don't just edit the text to point to a different site.
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