The one time I played with the detective career I saw the ghost of Alexander goth at the crime scene as a witness. I assumed he died from natural causes, but I will say it was quite grim to see a ghost provide “valuable information about the crime” with a body outline in the living room. Talk about a first hand eye witness!

a annoying thing about the detective career. when you have seasons installed and its hot or cold the suspect wont wear the clothes listed in the notebook. since the notebook always describes the regular outfit.

I wish NPCs were better at their jobs. Ever go to the hospital and the robot arms rip out your sim's heart or fight while delivering a baby?

This career always bugs out for me. If I have evidence from a previous crime it gets mixed up with my current case, so I'll have clues telling to arrest someone with blond and red hair. Or, a suspect who is a teen will age up, but the clue does not update. OR, my arrested suspect is a vampire who dies from sunlight because they wouldn't get their butts into the precinct, and DIED, effectively locking me about because there is no way to drop cases. The whole thing needs a revamp. Maybe let us pick our type of cases, like we can for acting gigs.

This was funny. 😂 “Selling hand sanitizer on eBay” lol

True story: the perps in the cells will grow old and die if you play detective long enough. I had it happen to my cop Sim as I was trying to get him promoted to chief. I don't know why they age so much faster than my household (sims outside the household seem to age very randomly). However, my guy walked in to work one day and all the perps he saw every day were elders. Because they are programmed to work out in the cell, they overexerted themselves and dropped dead, one by one, until they all died. Everyone in the precinct (including my Sim) had pretty good relationships with all of them because they'd all been there so long, so everyone (including my sim) was devastated at the deaths of several "friends" in one day. I collected all the tombstones to put in my town graveyard, and sure enough, when my sim went to work the next day, there were all new perps in the cells.

"this is sims 911 what's your minor inconvenience?" killed me that being said i took a break from sims four specifically because of this career; the suspect who fits your apb not actually being in the area until at least an in-game hour later (which is the opposite of what the game tells you is happening but ok), the fact that you can't queue up multiple data analyses, being unable to lock a suspect i arrested up and her consequently just...walking out of the station, and my favorite... The game forgetting I was still on duty because I went to the place where my APB suspect was and it didnt load properly, so I was physically incapable of arresting her .

I wish they had set npc’s for the careers and such. It’s weird for example Nancy Langrabb as a detective even though she is a criminal. Also for roommates with discover university they are just random generated townies that look a mess and have bad outfits. I hope they will fix this in the future games.

You are hilarious. I was literally crying with laughter through this. Just what I needed after another day of Zoom meetings!

The chief on my station died of old age right at work and it was a highlight of my sim's career

Carl, you are a treasure. Your sims forum has been helpful to me countless times in the past zillion years, but I'm so glad you've ventured into the video realm, because it's given me a chance to delight in your personality, voice, and wonderful snark. Thank you!

My sim was sent to go on patrol... ...on a DESOLATE ISLAND IN SULANI!! She had to swim to the mainland to actually meet any other sims to interact with.

having a GTW career as a celebrity is playing a dangerous game. three patients walked out on my doctor sim and he almost didn't make gold that day because he wasted so much time autonomously "reacting in disgust" every five minutes.

I really wanted to enjoy Detective when it came out, but I just couldn’t. I know the sims isn’t a hyper realistic game, and I don’t necessarily want it to be one, but with detective I was saddened to see just how cartoony it really was. When I played it didn’t feel like my sim was really a detective, instead he was merely a caricature of one. I don’t need him to be solving serious crimes like murder, something that doesn’t fit into the sims family friendliness, but I wanted something beyond what we got. I think in general all sims 4 careers are like that to a degree, there’s not much to them besides a title and some locked build items. You can have a sim that’s an attorney but beyond rare pop ups I have no idea if he’s in court or not. And what sort of law does he specialise in? Prosecutor, defence? That sort of thing. Careers like Judge, Attorney, Detective, and some others that escape me should have some sort of wider impact on the game and they just don’t. Instead they’re just another thing your sim does. I don’t want this to seem like I hate TS4, I really don’t, but I just feel let down by careers in general.

The detective and doctor active careers are my two favorite careers in this game! I’m sure it’s a lot of work but I hope at some point we get maybe one or two more.

LOL, I was JUST playing Sims 4 and had one of my Sims become a cop for a first time. I was trying to figure out some of the gameplay of this profession, and thought, I think I need to go on UKposts and search for a video that had more information on this. And low and behold, this video popped up in my feed. Thank goodness I subscribed to you! And thanks!

Can you cover the Outdoor Retreat in a video? I'd like to see the herbalism stuff and the hermit covered in more detail.

Culprits are always a brand new randomly generated sim. When I played I would pretty frequently check for newly generated ones to give them make overs (we all know they look notoriously busted) so since I was able to recognize every randomly generated sim currently in the world I would always know who the culprit was, based solely on the fact that it was a sim I hadn't seen before

Blouse: A usually loose-fitting garment especially for women that covers the body from the neck to the waist (M-W).

I wish they'd fix the rankings on the detective career. I have a sim that reached Commissioner at the job, made another household and made him work as a detective and the Sim that was supposed to be the Commissioner was working as a detective. This got me confused so I went to manage households and played that sim and her job is still Commissioner though I saw her working as a detective on my other sim. This sounds really confusing not gonna lie

I love the doctor career so much I wish I could turn off the time so I can just keep on working or start my own private practice.

Detectives with the "Evil" trait get a happy moodlet from interogations.

Dude, you could air short stories about corrupt cops with this! Stealing from homes while on the job was actually a real complaint about the cops in Baltimore(plus one guy randomly left his poop on the floor in someones house).

i never get tired of these videos. sims careers are so silly they never fail to make me laugh

1) The actual way to solve the case and fill the work bar is to either look up in the database or process a piece of evidence though one case item at a time and then add it to the crime map. After it is added to the crime map it will ask to process a new piece of evidence until have enough for the APB. Then it will give the option of APB or process another piece of evidence or something else. 2) The quickest way to fill the description of the suspect is though the witness statements. The processing of the evidence is hit or miss. 3) Another great skill needed for cop is the charisma skill to raise the friend level quick. Plus all the angry people become easier to deal with when use three specific friendly interactions. They all stack 3 levels of happy right away to make them not angry. Does not work on very angry though. Those three are Brighten Day, Compliment Outfit, and Heartfelt Compliment. 4) The Observant trait from the rewards store is a great one to have as if makes friending up the person less required when get all the traits by just meeting them. It it is a walk up hi and arrest in most cases. 5) Befriending the co-workers works great before going to ask them about case theory too as if the relationship is low or career level is low to them then would get a negative to relationship with that person, however if just want to raise up the ranks of detective then this doesn't matter much. The main objective is filling the bar and best way to fill the is processing the criminals and solving cases. 6) Each case needs to be solved in two days each. If it takes longer then the game will start to give a new crime scene to explore, which each crime scene is different. The one thing holding back is how long you stay at the crime scene searching for evidence and so forth. 7) As go up in levels the search for clues increases the range or at least it appears to. The key is to search for clues in the whole house first one room at a time. The hidden clues are better changes to turn into actually evidence than the broken items all around. Yet when running out of time and need something to move away from the crime scene then the dusting of prints of the broken items will do. A neat sim will make you take longer at the crime scene. As they will be complaining about all the messes all around, which could be each room in some cases. 8) If want to can befriend criminals in the cell. Only do this if have time or just don't care much about the work bar. 9) This career becomes much more challenging in some cases when use the Wicked Whims Mod depending on settings. I have had the criminal being taken into the restroom to WooHoo before locking them back in the cell. The chief can and does take another co-worker into the restroom from time to time to WooHoo as well. Which could be a bit kind of hard when really want to talk to the chief. 10) When dealing with the Criminals in the cells just click on the one want to finger print, search, and mugshot and fire up the whole list in whatever order need it. Once the criminal is outside of the cell and going through the processing then click on the cell door and choose lock up and choose the criminal name. I have done it like this always since that first one went off for the fun in the restroom those 3min. earth time cost a bit of extra time to lock that one back up. Yet if this happens to you just enjoy the fact that there is no need to lock them back up and just go on to another task. Police work at its finest Sims style.

This was pretty funny thanks for the laughs. I enjoy Detective but of the three “Get to Work” careers, it offers the least in terms of what your career developed skills can do for you “off the clock”.

I like these. Don't feel bad about putting out shorter content. Your style of letsplay is unique and fun to watch. I feel our play styles are similar and I very rarely wish you'd done something differently. You're the best, keep it up!

"Your gnome is missing, huh? Someone will be right over." Your videos are not only very informative, but always extremely entertaining!

you are so hilarious and witty please make more videos of you playing the game, I just love it!!

This is the content I need during Covid-19 stay-at-home. 😁

CARL: "I'd get a picture of the evidence, but I am pretty sure it would just be that female cops ass" ME: Dead 😂 😂 😂 How this man doesn't have MILLIONS of followers, I will never know. He is funny AF and has me cracking up so much. Also is no one going to mention that Carl's sim pulled a fish out of that woman's vajaja 😂😂

Your intonation of your voice here made me feel like every line was gonna rhyme, I'm kinda sad it didnt lol

"The cost of damage must be in the dozens!" lol. Thank you for the never-ending help you give us all, and also the laughs!

The commentary on this video has me watching it for a 3rd time 😂

Your cop is a klepto, and the chief is selling hand sanitizer on eBay. hehehe I personally loved playing the scientist career in my Not So Berry challenge, but my favorite thing about Get To Work is running a retail store.

This is a regular day at my agency.

I wish we could use the detective/police career to arrest townies for wearing those hideous outfits.

Having played a Detective Sim for quite some time now, I can say -- no, you're not missing a DAMN THING. It is EASILY my least-favorite active career because there is SO LITTLE variety. (Doctor comes close, but at least there's more challenge there with trying to identify the illness -- could you apply your lovely snark to that career too?) I plan to play it through to the end with Eric, simply because I am fueled by massive amounts of spite when it comes to stuff like this (you should see me against boss monsters I'm underleveled for in Fallout 4), but I'm glad his alien boyfriend now lives with him so I have someone ELSE to follow when I don't want to go to work with him.

That 'out of the way with you' killed me 🤣

this was an extremely funny video - honestly the cop and doctor jobs are sometimes hard to figure out at times.

I hate the detective career and I never went far in it 😂 however, this video makes me want to try again !

I did enjoy playing the active careers, but only the scientist career, because there is a lot happening in that career, police career is just the same thing until level 10 and the doctor career is super frustrating when you become a doctor and not a single sim is helping you.

Celebrity klepto detective. Now that's The Sims 4 I love.

“A pack of thug toddlers” I new it that where behind it all

I always find the Sims 4 P.D. confusing. You can literally kidnap another sim for food (as a vampire), trap them in your house, starve them to death or drown them, and the police are nowhere to be seen. But they are shown to arrest people and have a "working" jail, they just won't touch the sim you're playing even if they've murdered an entire neighbourhood. Gotta love the sims.

Finally caught up with this -- your narration is pretty much my internal monologue when I play Sims these days :D Love it!

Dude, I love your tutorials and your commentary. I ran across them when I searched for help with my Sims4 game and they help me destress about my Sims issues by laughing at you ripping the Sims a new one in your sarcastic way.

This gnome is needed for evidence!

That artist's recreation... had me in tears... and then I saw those sling back sandals on that townie with cargo shorts, and I lost it!!

The detective career was wasted on the sims 4 because there aren't any crimes to solve for regular npc cops...if any ever spawn.

Lol. This is a lot more amusing than most sims gameplay vids I’ve seen in the past. Keep up the good work!

I think detective career is the hardest to get promotion, because you often get tasks that slowing your promotion progress. correct me if I was wrong

you deserve a blue tick and a whole bunch of subscribers. I LOVE ALL OF UR VIDS. SPECIALLY THE GARDENING SKILL ONES

Is it bad to say that as of late, I have been binge watching your videos? So informative and fun

You have such a great sense of humor! I was laughing throughout this video. You make everything seem seamless and natural. I know it's a lot of work, and I commend you for that. Thank you! Thumbs up!

This was a super good video, you have a lot of good jokes and the flow of story progression was great

this was very entertaining! thank you. as an aside, i was relieved to see your criminals staring at the walls in their cells; mine recently started doing that, too, and i thought it was just me and that my game was broken.

This is amazing. I appreciate the effort you put in. Thanks for making me laugh!

I played a cop and it wasn't long before I got desperate and just blamed some guy that may or may not have been guilty! I felt so guilty I made my Sim become a musician!

The Sims arrest animation basically sums up what I thought arresting criminals was like IRL back when I wanted to be a police officer when grew up (this was about 15 years ago)

Omg I laughed out loud through this whole thing!! "Hello, sims 911 what's your mild inconvenience?"

Comedy on point!!!!!!!

I love your videos. This was hilarious. I especially liked when the suspect stood behind you and then finding a hammer on him.

What I loved about the private detective career in The Sims 3 were the stories behind each case. In comparison, each case in TS4 feels generic AF.

Dude on my first patrol i was sent on an ampty island in sulani at least there was something on yours

I watched this in 1.5x speed and it was even better than the usual. LOL. I love your videos.

This is hilarious. I like these kind of videos, you should do more.

I don't even bother going to a new crime scene if i still have evidences from the previous cases lol. Go on patrol and immediately go back to the station. It's a waste of time waiting around.

Crazy good video!! I now want to play this one. I have avoided it until now! Ty!

Oh wow, I've been using your website for years, thanks to your amazing custom Sims 3 world (I actually just downloaded the newest 2020 version, excited to see what it's like), and just found this channel =D Excited to see what ya got here! Thanks for making *the* best go-to site for Sims information.

This makes me want to make a cheesy cop looking fellow with a mustach and aviator sunglasses just to play the cop career. I've never even tried the career because I had heard it was buggy. But, now I don't care. I just want to make the cheesy cop and I don't even care if he gets promoted, I enjoy gameplay more when they struggle.

This makes me want to play as a detective! Very funny commentary 🤭

Carl you are hilarious! 😂😭🤣 Damn toddlers!

I'll confess I used a time cheat and he peed himself. On to the next shift. LMFAO

LOLLL The blouse was the purple one! I know it from knowing all the CAS categories so well haha

Your humor is always the best I love these videos always

"The cost of damage must be in the DOZENS!"

Thank youuuu for doing this! I've never play detective too I think about it since some weeks but never done yet. And I'm glad to discover it here and to not be alone in this situation XD (sry if my english is weiiiiird rectify me if needs I need to learn)

So many quips! Love it. I haven't tried the detective career yet because the scientist had so many perks. Can't wait to check it out now.

i genuinly love these types of videos youre hilarious

You're hilarious, so entertaining to watch you play

I used to really enjoy the interrogations when I first purchased the pack. I wish they did more stuff like that.

My cop sim who is a mermaid went on patrol on a secluded island and decided. Eh no crime. Let's swim. 😹😹

I was thinking the other day “I want to make my sim a cop”. This was great to watch (and made me want to cop more 😂)

I totally agree the Sims 4 seems so bare bones to me

Please make more like this,love the humor.

I laughed so hard throughout this video! Your commentary was hilarious!

"Criminal Toddler" - I love it.

I’m dying! This was hysterical!

Next time a sim is using your computer you can give props, hug, share a secret, etc really any interaction that will require some animation while standing up.

If your sim was a Spellcaster and you have your mischief spells unlocked, you won't have much use for the kleptomaniac trait, in fact, the pickpocket/swipe object ability that you gain as a Batu'u vacationer/citizen will let you swipe objects without the need for the kleptomaniac trait too; But if you want to have all three of those possibilities together you could swipe anything in sight for all that you desire😉. Yea😂 I have been playing Kleptomaniac/criminal sims a lot too. My game clue: using the the Batu'u swipe object would give you the better chance at swiping objects than the normal kleptomaniac trait interaction.

11:20 that scene perfectly summarizes everything 😂

I laughed so hard while watching this. Great narrative! Funny stuff!

Thanks for the guide, Carl. I just reinsalled the Sims 4 for an alphabet legacy and will remember what you did here if I decide one of my heirs wants to be a police detective. ;)

I put that townie in the detective career, too.

Playing the detective career while having Wicked Whims mod installed made crime scene investigating WAAAAY more interesting! 🤣

CELEBRITY KLEPTOCOP HAHAH this was hilarious

I think it would be interesting if in interrogations you had to figure out some of the suspect's traits and then the traits would determine what approach would be most successful

'This must be what it's like to be Stevan Segall' Dude 💀

This had me in stitches! 😂