I'm sorry if this has already been addressed in another post but I couldn't come up with anything in my search.

I'd like to know how common it is to get an email saying that one of your people has been accused of doing something wrong and therefore their career progress is invalid and being reset to the beginning of the current level. I was stunned (and POed) when this just happened but at least the person was only at a lower level (3 I think). I'm worried that it's going to happen at higher career levels and destroy potentially days of work.

As far as I know, all of the events are random.. I'm not sure what the odds are of getting that event, but someone once suggested that if you want to avoid the loss from it you can..



I haven't ever tried this myself, but I'll give it a shot next time I get a bad e-mail message.

It does seem to be random, but as with all random events, luck seems to play into it too. It seems as though the same person gets hit with that email time and time again. I have gotten into the habit of checking my people's progress before opening the email. If they are just barely started (or a Master) I will go ahead and open it. If it takes away progess, it won't take much that way, but if it happens to be the automatic promotion email, they get more benefit from it.

Well, it's now happened to me twice today! Both my adults have lost huge progress.
I'm sorry I don't know how to hide my question in case it's a spoiler but how do I exit the program safely if this happens again? I can't keep losing so much, this is not fun.

I'm sorry about those horrible events OrionsRose If you want to hide spoilers, here's the code you would use:

Now as for avoiding the bad event:

You can also

I forgot about that arnie, once again you refreshed my memory! I was staring at my game blankly trying to figure it out myself hehe

Sorry 'bout that, it's been a long time since I frequented these forums! I didn't realize how advanced this place had become in the last year. Thanks for the trick to hiding spoilers.

Thanks for your sympathy and the advice! I can't believe this keeps happening. How immoral my people must be to keep getting accused of improper behavior and theft of information! And here I thought they were such a nice little family.

Yeah, that really is not the best event to keep coming back at your family.. If only we could give our little peeps some salty candy for doing bad things at work

I've only seen it once in my first generation and didn't even think of trying to avoid it >_<

Both of those only work in windowed mode, correct? Lyssaria, have you tried

I'll give it a shot knk! Logically it should work with your method as well, but we can never know for sure. I'll go test that right now

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Yes, thank you very much!


You folks are awesome for helping me. Seems like it's going to be a long road with this family! I swear they are good people! heehee

It's okay! They always could've been framed by a co-worker or something I do like to make excuses for my little peeps when I have to.

Ooh, I like that! Yup, I think it's false allegations or a frame-job. My people are good, honest, and hard-working. Sadly, they are constantly having things taken from them. They've had money taken from them a lot today too.

The worst fate my peeps had today was getting a serious infection >_< It was actually the child I plan to continue the family's next generation and she was heading towards the "Extremely Weak" zone!

The best thing that happened today was mastering one of my peeps' careers and getting the trophy! I would've cried if I accidentally accepted that horrible infringement e-mail before the promotion.

I do what knksmiles does as well, check my peep's progress before opening the email. If they are very near a promotion and a professional magazine is in the store, I buy it and give it to them to take them to the next level. Then I open the e-mail. One of my peeps lost progress for days because of that particular e-mail until I finally caught on.

I did nearly cry, especially the second time. I think I would have just closed the game forever if that had happened to me MissKathy.

Oh my thats not good I could see the Spammer or hacker losing a "pay Grade" so to speak but anything else no way.... LOL I have not had it happen yet that will suck when it does. But I won't reset the game because of it I will take the events as they come its part of the fun LOL... I just hope when it happens that my family has plenty of cash in the bank LOL....

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The same trick can be used for

DrDan, I'm with you there. I just take them. lol In later gens you will have a lot of money and when the upgrades are done, losing career progress isn't a big deal as they usually max out at such an early age.
Someone (I think it was Arnie) posted in the careers and salaries thread that you can also use

Thanks for adding onto this BB! The more ways to avoid the tax man and career loss e-mails the better

True. I actually warned my Mom about those two and told her what to do ahead of time. lol She has one family that is pretty poor and I didn't want her getting discouraged before she could get hooked on the game like me!

I couldn't bring myself to reset either, but I will ignore emails in real life when I am busy, so I use that excuse for my people too and they go right on ignoring email until they get that promotion. If you don't shut down or switch families between getting the email and answering, the emails just pile up. I had one of my mothers move to master just after making level 6 because 2 of the 4 emails waiting to be answered were instant promotions.

Generally I would agree with those who say they just accept what the emails say/do as a part of the game but after having 2 losses of progress, a hefty tax, and a couple others that just said "we took the money out of your account" for some reason or other in a single day I was getting really bummed out. Depending how often my bad luck pops up I may or may not use the shutting down options but I'd like to actually enjoy the game not get depressed over it.
knksmiles I don't know if I could just ignore the emails and let them pile up, I'm too curious! LOL But you know what they say about curiosity...I think I've had only 1 or 2 good emails so perhaps I should leave them be!

My peeps are more upset about accusations of job infringement than that of paying taxes, which eventually gets paid back to them.

Once my peeps receive a promotion of any sort, incoming emails goes unanswered - temporarily..... Meaning, I too switch between families. It's a procedure my peeps learned early on and will continue to hand down for generations to come.

How ironic that the same person that was accused of impropriety just a few years (days) ago was today given accolades and bumped up to the next level which was very nice indeed. The frame-up must have been found out!

LOL grats OR! I actually got that darn infringement e-mail yesterday,

Yeah, I was pretty pleased with that email! LOL Especially considering she'd only just gotten the previous promotion overnight and wasn't too far into it.

:P @ Lyssaria You couldn't have even been that far into progress with your 4th generation.
Why isn't there a "stick-out-your-tongue" smiley when you need one?

It was actually in my other family, the Rainbows ^^ they almost reached master cook so I couldn't let them lose progress! For my stick-out-tongue needs, I use the face LOL

Ok ok, that's a good reason. It would have been awful to lose that much progress, I agree.

If that's the face you use for sticking out your tongue then I had better clear my name and say that's now how I meant it when I just PMed you! LOL