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#209652 - 09/08/09 06:39 PM Most common career
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I've never been able to get the A Perfect Match trophy after more than three months of playing. I suspect it is going to boil down to starting a new game with a really common career and holding out until I get a match. I see that there has been a lot of research into pay curves and different careers, but has anyone done any research into which careers come up most commonly?

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#209662 - 09/08/09 07:36 PM Re: Most common career [Re: blessed]
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I'm pretty sure it's random, so there shouldn't be any particular career come up more often than any others to any significant degree.
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#209663 - 09/08/09 07:38 PM Re: Most common career [Re: arnie]
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So the high dollar careers aren't any more rare than the badly paid ones?

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#209667 - 09/08/09 07:59 PM Re: Most common career [Re: blessed]
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this might be off topic for this thread but I was wondering what is the "Perfect Match" is it just that both have the same career or do they have to have the same likes and dislikes & want or not want kids?
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#209668 - 09/08/09 08:00 PM Re: Most common career [Re: blessed]
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That's a different matter. That depends on how many there are of each career salary on each pay scale. The Fan compilation lists 109 different careers, so the odds against a particular career appearing are 108-1.

A quick look through the list shows 12 careers that can earn the highest, $690, and 12 the max out at $210. I didn't look at the other careers. It looks as though the highly paid salary paths are as common as the less well-paid paths, although since there are more of them, the lower-paid ones will come up more often.

DrDan: They have to have exactly the same career. likes/dislikes and preferences for kids don't come into it.
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#209682 - 09/08/09 10:39 PM Re: Most common career [Re: DrDan]
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Perfect Match is the same career.

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#209683 - 09/08/09 10:44 PM Re: Most common career [Re: blessed]
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I didn't think of looking at it that way Arnie blush. I guess that's why I was a math teacher. Although I really wasn't worried about the odds of a high paid career so much as I was about a particular high paid career coming up in a marriage proposal. If I choose a pesto sauce creator, would the odds for that particular career coming up in a marriage proposal be the same as for a toy maker. I noticed that the two people who have posted that they got that particular trophy seem to have gotten it with a low paid career, toymaker and fiction writer.


Edited by blessed (09/08/09 10:45 PM)

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#209729 - 09/09/09 05:41 AM Re: Most common career [Re: blessed]
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I got my 'perfect match' trophy last night. i started a new Generation and the first marriage proposal was the perfect match. They are Pesto sauce creators. but this is the first time i have got the 'perfect match' for a high paying career
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#209732 - 09/09/09 01:04 PM Re: Most common career [Re: arnie]
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Originally Posted By: arnie
That's a different matter. That depends on how many there are of each career salary on each pay scale. The Fan compilation lists 109 different careers, so the odds against a particular career appearing are 108-1.

A quick look through the list shows 12 careers that can earn the highest, $690, and 12 the max out at $210. I didn't look at the other careers. It looks as though the highly paid salary paths are as common as the less well-paid paths, although since there are more of them, the lower-paid ones will come up more often.

DrDan: They have to have exactly the same career. likes/dislikes and preferences for kids don't come into it.


Thanks Arnie! grin
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