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==Creator Guidelines - Careers== | ==Creator Guidelines - Careers== | ||
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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. | 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. | ||
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===Creation Requirements=== | ===Creation Requirements=== | ||
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| + | ! style="text-align:left" | EP Compatibility | ||
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| + | *Being graced now with a full 7 EPs, there's really no excuse for careers not being EP compatible. If you're not sure, there is a tutorial for making careers EP compatible [http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=147886 here]. | ||
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| + | *Custom careers ''must not'' overwrite Maxis ones. It's a simple rule, but may not always be obvious to beginning creators. Instructions on ensuring this are in the same [http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=147886 tutorial] as linked above. | ||
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| + | ! style="text-align:left" | Quality of Writing | ||
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| + | *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. | ||
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| + | ! style="text-align:left" | Job Pay | ||
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| + | *Unless your career is specifically meant to be unrealistic, make pay levels congruent with the pay of Maxian careers. A table of the basegame career wages is available [[MTS2:Creator Guidelines/Careers/Pay Chart|here]] for comparison. | ||
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| − | * '''Custom icons:''' Are ''required'', unless you have a good reason for exception. They should meet the standards laid out in [http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=269957 this mini-tutorial] - that is; be the roughly right colour (if it's a single-colour silhouette), '''NOT''' be a random photo, have a transparent background. | + | {| class="collapsible collapsed wikitable" style="width:100%" |
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| + | *'''Custom icons:''' Are ''required'', unless you have a good reason for exception. They should meet the standards laid out in [http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=269957 this mini-tutorial] - that is; be the roughly right colour (if it's a single-colour silhouette), '''NOT''' be a random photo, have a transparent background. | ||
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Revision as of 19:28, 22 May 2011
Creator Guidelines - Careers
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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.
Creation Requirements
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Posting Requirements
- Information: Your upload post must tell us the following:
- How many chance cards are complete.
- All job titles.
- All job descriptions.
- All wages.
- All work days.
- The easiest way to present the last of these is something like this:
- Talking Example - §200 - M, W, Th, F, Sa
- Your job is simple. You sit in a wiki article, reading yourself to passers-by. This description would include brief mention of your promotion prospects; but really, from here, where can you go but up?
- Images: You must attach your career's icon, even if it is for whatever reason not custom - 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.
Extra Stuff
For an example of a perfect upload post, see here.
If your upload is rejected or marked as changes required and you're not sure why, ask - in Creator Issues.
