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1980s – The Yuppies

All rules from 1970s still stand with the following changes:

• Addiction: In 1980, choose one Young Adult or Adult Sim in EACH of your households (does not have to be the heir) to join the Business career. This Sim unfortunately falls into a drug addiction. In 1985, they hit a crisis point and must make a decision. Roll an eight sided die:
  • If you roll a 1 or 2: Your sim parties themselves into an early grave. Change their traits to Dance Machine, Erratic, and Slob. This sim then dies at the end of the decade. 
  • If you roll a 3 or 4: Your sim resorts to stealing to support their habit. Replace their traits with Kleptomaniac, Paranoid, and Noncommittal until the end of the generation. In 1985, this sim loses their job and is threatened with going to jail if they don’t reform. You can now have them join any other available career, and return to their original traits.
  • If you roll a 5 or 6: Your sim guts it out and quits cold turkey. Replace their traits with Hot-Headed, Mean, and Gloomy for 1 Sim week. Pick one of these three traits (or roll for it) to keep for the rest of their life, the other two may be changed back to two of their three original traits.
  • If you roll a 7 or 8: Your sim listens to their close friends and family and goes into Rehab. Move them out of the household for one sim week. When they move back in, choose one of the following traits and replace one of their existing traits with it for the rest of their life: Self-Assured, Neat, and Perfectionist.
• Children:
  • IVF (Invitro Fertilization) has become mainstream. If you would like to roleplay your sims having fertility issues, you can now do a science baby. HOWEVER. IVF is not cheap. This will cost your sims 10k per baby attempt. Then, before you actually click Science baby.. you MUST roll an 8 sided die to find out what happens.
    • 1-2 = your sim don’t become pregnant, or the baby doesn’t survive pregnancy.
    • 3-6 = The pregnancy is successful, and you can go through with clicking science baby. (This MUST be done with someone of the opposite sex, whether it’s your sims’ partner, or someone else. NO same sex or solo Science babies.. in real life, science has not gotten that far!) And- yes, you still must pay the 1,200 fee on top of the original 10k you removed for the fertility treatment.
    • 7-8 = Your sim actually has twins instead. You must do TWO science babies, and the above clause still applies (it must be done with opposite sex partnerships). This will cost you 2,400 on top of the 10k for the fertility treatment.
  • The Geek trait is now allowed.
  • High Maintenance Trait now allowed.
  • Any Sims born during this decade must take one of the following traits: Ambitious, Self-Assured, Materialistic, Snob, Self-Absorbed, Jealous, or Perfectionist.
  • Babies MUST be born at the hospital.
  • Teens can now join Computer Club after school.
• Home/Building:
  • Computers are allowed for gaming, you may use gaming consoles with televisions.
  • Television time restriction is changed, 6am to 2am.
  • Marble flooring is allowed.
  • Fitness equipment (including the training bot) and using the TV for fitness are allowed.
  • Easy Listening and Backyard music are allowed.
  • Politisim and Sports TV channels are allowed.
  • If your Sims are environmentally-conscientious, you may now use the Off-the-Grid lot trait.
  • Bed upgrades are now allowed. 
  • Ball pits are allowed.
  • The music production table is allowed.
  • Hotpots are now allowed.
  • Handheld vacuum cleaners are available.
• Career:
  • Permitted careers for Sims:
    • Actor
    • Astronaut (Space Ranger) – requires a university degree
    • Athlete (either branch)
    • Business (either branch)
    • Civil Designer (Civic Planner) – requires a university degree
    • Criminal (either branch)
    • Critic (either branch)
    • Culinary (either branch)
    • Detective
    • Doctor – requires a university degree
    • Education (either branch) – requires a university degree
    • Engineer (either branch) – requires a university degree
    • Entertainer (either branch)
    • Freelancer (all branches)
    • Gardener (either branch)
    • Interior Decorator
    • Law (either branch) – requires a university degree
    • Military (Officer)
    • Military (Covert Operator) – males only
    • Painter (either branch)
    • Politics (either branch)
    • Salaryperson (either branch)
    • Scientist – requires a university degree
    • Secret Agent (either branch)
    • Tech Guru (Start-Up Entrepreneur)
    • Veterinarian – requires a university degree
    • Writing (either branch)
  • Permitted part-time work for any Sims:
    • Babysitter
    • Diver
    • Fast Food Employee
    • Fisherman
    • Lifeguard
    • Manual Laborer
    • Retail Employee
• Financial:
  • Vietnam War veterans can receive a pension of §250 per week per veteran (money cheat).
• Holidays:
  • Add a new holiday: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (Winter Monday): No Decorations, Day Off, Traditions – Remembrance, Tell Stories, Art & Music Spirit
• Miscellaneous:
  • Spas and Karaoke Bars are both now a “thing”, feel free to add them to your world.
  • Domesticated hedgehogs are a thing – you can own a hedgehog (but still not a bubalus).
  • In CAS, top surgery scares are allowed.

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