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The Secret Agent Career has the Diamond Agent and Villain Branches
The Sims 4's Secret Agent Career Track features the only Career with 11 levels (Villain Branch). Diamond Agent has the usual 10. This Guide to the Career will show you the various ideal moods, daily tasks, promotion requirements and a comparison of rewards for each branch. Here are the first 7 levels of the Career, which need an Ideal Mood of Focused.
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Press Control + Shift + C then type testingcheats on and press enter. You can now get promotions with careers.promote secretagent - you can also see all Career Cheats or visit a full list of Cheats in The Sims 4.
Because of the differences in the two's Promotion Requirements, the optimal traits are a little different. The best all-around for both Careers is to go with Genius to help your Sim get Focused. For Diamond Agents, Self Assured will help a lot as will anything that aids in Charisma. Hot-Headed can be good for Villains, as angry Sims level Mischief faster.
Diamond Agent Tux on left, Villain Uniforms for M/F on Right
The Browse Intelligence Database (under Web on the Computer) can give your Sim a Focused Moodlet if they find a good lead. This Moodlet lasts a whopping 2 days, providing +1 Focused and will particularly help Villains, since that is their Ideal Mood. Intelligence Research is mainly for promotion requirements and doesn't seem to do much. Investigate Sim will reveal a Sim's Traits and is useful for socializing as well as Promotions.
For the early stages of the Career, have your Sim ponder chess Moves at a chess table, drink pitch black tea, or 'Browse Simpedia' on a computer to get a quick Focused boost before Work. Here are the first seven levels of Secret Agent and the things you must do to get Promoted, in order to help you plan ahead:
-->| Rank | Job | Wages | Schedule | $/Day | Daily Task & Promotion Requirements | Reward for Promotion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Agency Clerk | $17/hour | Mon-Fri, 7AM-3PM | $136 | Browse Intelligence on a Computer | Nothing, but Browse Intelligence Interaction with Computers |
| 2 | Intelligence Researcher | $19/hour | Mon-Fri, 7AM-3PM | $152 | Browse Intelligence. Reach Level 2 Logic. | $349, The Swiveler, Intelligence Research on Computer |
| 3 | Agent Handler | $21/hour | Mon-Fri, 8AM-4PM | $168 | Friendly Interactions. Reach Level 2 Charisma | $384, Reconnaissance Workstation, Tranquilizing Handshake Interaction |
| 4 | Field Agent | $37/hour | Mon-Thu, 10AM-6PM | $296 | Browse Intelligence. Reach Level 3 Logic, Level 3 Charisma | $422 |
| 5 | Lead Detective | $47/hour | Mon-Thu, 10AM-7PM | $423 | Friendly Interactions. Reach Level 5 Logic, Level 5 Charisma | $599, Nerves of Steel Desk Lamp, Investigate on the Computer |
| 6 | Government Agent | $52/hour | Mon-Thu, 10AM-7PM | $468 | Browse Intelligence. | $851, Tactical Map |
| 7 | Secret Agent | $87/hour | Sun, Tue, Thu, 2PM-10PM | $696 | Browse Intelligence. Reach Level 6 Logic, Level 6 Charisma | $936, Unlock Hidden Bookcase Door, New CAS Parts |
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Diamond Agent Career Rewards
The Diamond Agent's Ideal Mood is Focused. They get a mid-range Computer, and the chair/computer both put off a Confident Aura that helps a little with Romance and Friendly Interactions, and can help them build Charisma. The rest is Decor, but you do also get the nice tuxedo that is featured above. Overall, this is a rather simple Career with few interesting bonuses compared to Villains. They do, however, require just 3 days at work, but they are very long shifts - the longest of any Career thus far.
This is clearly inspired by James Bond, since it encourages Romantic Interactions as a Daily Task to help you advance. It's possible to get by without doing that, but you will get promoted much faster by doing so. This Career used to require a whopping 8 Friends to get the last promotion, but it's no longer required thanks to a well-thought patch that made getting promotions much easier.
| Rank | Job | Wages | Schedule | $/Day | Daily Task & Promotion Requirements | Reward for Promotion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | Spy Captain | $173/hour | Sun, Wed-Thu, 2PM-10PM | $1384 | Romantic Interactions. Reach Level 8 Logic, Level 7 Charisma | $1039, Spy Satellite |
| 9 | Shadow Agent | $208/hour | Sun, Tue-Wed, Fri, 2PM-11PM | $1872 | Romantic Interactions. Reach Level 10 Logic, Level 8 Charisma | $2078, Information Database |
| 10 | Double Diamond Agent | $284/hour | Sun, Tue, Thu, 9AM-12AM | $4260 | Romantic Interactions. Go to Work! | $3741, New CAS Parts |
Villain Career Rewards
The Villain's Ideal Mood is Focused. Browsing Simipedia on the Computer can help with that, as well as drinking Pitch Black tea from the Tea Brewer and playing Chess. This one makes substantially more money than the other Branch, but its rewards' auras are Playful. There isn't anything here other than a $13k chair, statue, and decorative freeze ray (all Playful Auras). All other items pictured above are from the first 7 levels of the Career. I consider this to be the easier of the two branches, and an overall better choice. All it's really missing is the computer. You get the best abilities of Secret Agent early on. Level Mischief by using a Computer to 'Troll teh Forums' at level 2. This will give consistent Skill gains, as opposed to going about using the actual interactions and gaining small bits of XP at a time.
The CAS Parts featured above are really nice - both villain outfits for Male and Female look appropriate for a Villain.
| Rank | Job | Wages | Schedule | $/Day | Daily Task & Promotion Requirements | Reward for Promotion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | Double Agent | $191/hour | Sun, Tue, Fri, 2PM-10PM | $1528 | Mischief Interactions. Level 8 Logic, Level 2 Mischief | $1039, Evil Am Eye Swiveler |
| 9 | [Redacted] | $278/hour | Sun, Tue, Thu-Fri, 6AM-1PM | $1946 | Mischief Interactions. Level 10 Logic, Level 4 Mischief | $2286 |
| 10 | Supreme Villain | $479/hour | Sun, Tue-Wed, Fri, 2PM-8PM | $2874 | Mischief Interactions. Level 6 Mischief | $3886, Commemorative Freeze Ray |
| 11 | Triple Agent | $515/hour | Sun-Wed, Fri, 2PM-7PM | $2575 | Mischief Interactions. Go to Work! | $5743, Our Founder Statue, New CAS Parts |
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Comments (12)
You had to have tons of friends to advance in that career and the ideal mood was confident. They switched to focused and the simple skill requirements in order to level up, because players were finding it a struggle to get promoted.
Anyone knows if it got harder to get promoted, in terms of time?
Before i could do like 3 promotions in a row and now i cant.
Im talking about different sims not like the 3 first and 3 last promotions.
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