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The Sims: Livin' Large


For hacking activity through computer, see Hacking.

The Hacker Career Track comes with The Sims: Livin' Large. It is notable for having one of the most severely bent (not steepest) pay curves of any career in the whole game or any of its expansion packs. At rank 1, only 8 career tracks pay more than Hacker, 8 pay less, and 3 pay the same. By rank 4, however, Hacker has fallen behind ALL of the career tracks from the base game and most from the expansions, with only Slacker, Culinary, Education, and Circus paying less. The pay then sharply accelerates, and it spends its final five ranks as the highest-paying career track in the whole game or any of its expansions. It also has the highest combined pay over all ten ranks (§6470). Requiring only 8 friends to reach rank 10, it is the second-easiest career track to climb (behind Fashion and in a four-way tie with Military, Animal Care, and Circus), and also enjoys the best ratio of pay to friends required (§1550/8 friends = §193.75/friend), with only Fashion coming close. In short, it is undoubtedly either the best or second-best career track in the game. However, even its rank 10 job, Information Overlord, only pays §172 per hour, whereas crafting lawn gnomes on a workbench pays §200 per hour at maximum Mechanical skill.

Hacker Career Levels
1) Beta Tester
Put the next version of the software through its paces, and break it as often as possible. The Company is depending on you to make sure this code arrives on the store shelves in the cleanest possible condition, provided you don't rack up too many late-night pizza bills. Cooking 0 Mechanical 0 Charisma 0
Body 0 Logic 0 Creativity 0
09:00 - 17:00
09001700
Friends requirement 0
§120/day
2) Support Tech
Time in the testing trenches has earned you a break working on the phones. The hours are more regular, but the work isn't very entertaining. Keep up on the latest technology trends, and watch out for those nifty bugs that slipped through the cracks. Keep your customers happy... Cooking 0 Mechanical 0 Charisma 0
Body 0 Logic 0 Creativity 0
08:00 - 16:00
08001600
Friends requirement 0
§150/day
3) Web Master
Your understanding of what the company has to offer and what the customer is looking has you uniquely suited to creating (and maintaining) the company's website. Expect late-night work to avoid high-traffic downtimes, and requests from literally everyone in the company for changes and additions to your fine work. Cooking 0 Mechanical 2 Charisma 0
Body 0 Logic 0 Creativity 0
18:00 - 02:00
18000200
Friends requirement 0
§200/day
4) Hacker
Answering to the world was for the birds, so causing trouble on your own time has all the advantages you've been seeking. Keep your mind sharp so you can infiltrate government databases and eventually hone your skills to go after those international banks. Cooking 0 Mechanical 3 Charisma 0
Body 0 Logic 2 Creativity 0
00:00 - 09:00
00000900
Friends requirement 0
§240/day
5) Security Consultant
Getting caught breaking into that government database had you on the brink of incarceration. Fortunately, the SimCitySoftware Company needs someone to help protect their Intellectual Properties from people with just your kinds of skills, so they'll let you out on probation if you agree to beef up their electronic security. Keep your creative and logic skills high to outsmart your former friends' assault on your new company's firewall. Cooking 0 Mechanical 4 Charisma 0
Body 0 Logic 4 Creativity 0
10:00 - 19:00
10001900
Friends requirement 2
§400/day
6) Game Designer
Good thing you've gotten so creative of late - turns out your ideas for games caught the eyes and ears of the Powers That Be. Now the pressure's on for you to deliver a game script that will capture the public's interest, as well. This also means that you get to work nights, since that's when the engineers are at the office. Cooking 0 Mechanical 4 Charisma 0
Body 0 Logic 4 Creativity 4
14:00 - 23:00
14002300
Friends requirement 3
§610/day
7) Internet Entrepreneur
Take your brilliant ideas out into the e-commerce world on your own. Hours are ridiculously long, the work is physically and mentally exhausting, but the payoff could be big at the end of the road. Make sure you don't overspend all your VC budget in the first month, and there's a chance others may want to work for you. Cooking 0 Mechanical 4 Charisma 0
Body 0 Logic 5 Creativity 6
10:00 - 20:00
10002000
Friends requirement 5
§800/day
8) Software CEO
If you lead, they will follow.... and they have. You are now a hard-working, headline-making software industry baron, with impossible work hours, lots of healthy industry competition, and a P/L report to die for. Cooking 0 Mechanical 4 Charisma 4
Body 0 Logic 6 Creativity 7
10:00 - 19:00
10001900
Friends requirement 6
§1,100/day
9) Venture Capitalist
All those stock options paid off - now that you've gotten more liquid, you can pick and choose which struggling little startups will earn your magnanimity, as well as the prestige of your name as a backing for their work. Cooking 0 Mechanical 5 Charisma 6
Body 0 Logic 7 Creativity 9
11:00 - 20:00
11002000
Friends requirement 8
§1,300/day
10) Information Overlord
Just when you thought it couldn't get any better, the hours eased up, the public became both worshipful and insufferable, and you have all the answers that everyone else in technology is seeking. You can become increasingly reclusive, bulking up your home security system, and taking lots of phone calls, but the money just keeps rolling in. Cooking 0 Mechanical 7 Charisma 8
Body 0 Logic 10 Creativity 10
11:00 - 20:00
11002000
Friends requirement 8
§1,550/day

The Information Overlord will eventually change careers and become a Newspaper Reporter in the Journalism career track.


Chance Cards[]

Hacker Chance Cards
1) Beta Tester
Sharp eyes and lots of coffee let you find the wretched crash bug that would have crippled the product's sales JUST before it heads off to manufacturing. Your grateful boss gives you a $1000 shipping bonus - a ground-breaking gesture that makes you the envy of all your coworkers.

Positive: Earned Money +§1000

2) Support Tech
No chance cards for this level
3) Web Master
No chance cards for this level
4) Hacker
Local law enforcement has teamed up with the Feds to track down local software pirates. You narrowly miss being caught, but it costs you 2 servers and a great deal of worry. Spend $4000 to replace the machines. Good luck trying to retrieve the sacrificed data...

Negative: Got Fined -§4000

5) Security Consultant
No chance cards for this level
6) Game Designer
No chance cards for this level
7) Internet Entrepreneur
No chance cards for this level
8) Software CEO
Thank your lucky stars for those cheap start-up-priced stock options!! Taking your company public was immensely successful. Cash out enough stock to buy a new jacuzzi, pool, and sunroom to keep them in, with a little left over for hors d'oeuvres for the guests who'll drop by to congratulate you. Get $30000.

Positive: Earned Money +§30000

9) Venture Capitalist
No chance cards for this level
10) Information Overload
All the money and power you call your own still can't quash that nervous sense that perhaps some of your information is inaccurate, that there's something else you're missing. Take the time to find out what it is working for your local Times as a reporter.

Positive: Change to the Journalism career track as a Newspaper Reporter.

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