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1930s – The Great Depression

All rules from 1920s still stand with the following changes:

• Health and Aging:
  • Traits: Any Sim who comes of age (14 years old) during this decade must take one of the following traits when they become an Young Adult: Gloomy, Mean, or Noncommittal.
• Home/Building:
  • The “Science Lair” Lot Trait opens up this generation.
• Education:
  • High school no longer has a fee.
  • University: Kegs are now allowed.
• Career:
  • Anyone who has a career at the start of the 1930s must lose their job. After 1 Sim week (one year) they may get a job again. 
  • Same careers available as the last gen, but see the next bullet point for more info.
  • Maximum career level is 6! If you get to level 6 in a career, you must quit and get a job in another industry!
  • Teens who do not go to school, Young Adults, and Adult Sims MUST scavenge, fish, or garden during the week of unemployment.
  • Sims may NOT join the Business career anymore.
  • The silent film era has ended. Your Sims may have the Acting career.
  • Part-time work: Men can be a fisherman, lifeguard, or manual laborer. Women can be a babysitter, lifeguard, manual laborer, or retail employee. Teens under the age of 14 and Elderly cannot have part-time work.
• Financial:
  • To simulate the stock market crash, reduce your total household funds by 40% at the start of the decade (money cheat). (Multiply your household funds by 0.4 and then subtract that amount from your current funds.)
  • Bills are only allowed to be paid once the electricity is cut off.
    • Added Difficulty: Wait until the water has also been cut off to pay the bills.
  • World War I veterans receive a pension of §100 per veteran per sim week (money cheat).
• Holidays:
  • Add “Mischief Spirit” to the Halloween traditions.
• Miscellaneous:
  • Prohibition ends, and you can drink alcohol again. (Also, remember to remodel your Speakeasies back to Bars, Nightclubs, or Lounges.)
  • Sims may only have one hot-cooked meal per day. Otherwise they must eat food found from scavenging, fishing, and gardening. No cheating with quick meals from the fridge!
  • Sims cannot create medium or large paintings, only small paintings.
  • Sims may now purchase a camera and tripod.
  • Small pets began to gain popularity, you can own a pet hamster or rat (but not a hedgehog or bubalus).
  • Sims may shop at a Thrift Store.
  • No events during this decade! Weddings must be done by eloping.

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