I love the idea of an art gallery! Also, there's the new photography thing. Do you think it would be possible to create a photography studio? I remember someone wanted to set something up like this in either S2 or S3.

I haven't tried photography so far, because there are so much other things to do. Right now I'm having a baby-flood, so that I have enough folk for Newcrest.

My shop is a little disorganised at the moment, I sell a little this and that... maybe I create a decent gallery later.
In my other Sims-game (laptop) I made a gypsy-looking couple, very colourful, and I plan to let them live as witch and magician, so they sell "magic" things. I only have to find out what IS magic.

I did an art gallery/photo studio. It was pretty fun. I ran it with a husband and wife team. The wife was the photographer, and the husband worked to keep the customers served and the store running most of the time. I had her taking pictures of the sims that came into the store, she sold her photos, as well as other artwork from the build/buy catalog. It was a pretty successful store, and fun to play with. :D

I pretty much let my sims go to work alone if they're in one of the new careers. If nothing is going on in the household then I'll go with them and explore.

I do have a family that uses the retail business option though. Here's the things I learned:

1) Do not let your employees work over 8 hours.
2) "Faster Checkouts" only works on your active households, however if your employees max their skills they'll be just as fast as your household.
3) Make an advertisement when you first start up.
4) To increase customers go to the retail section, there's a ton of items there that will increase the amount of customer that come to your store. But be ready for them, because I do think that the items stack. (Ex: If you only have 1 person working your store, don't put up 5 paintings for people to come to your store. You'll be on customer overload).
5) Try and treat the business like a career. Pick a set time and go everyday. Then your motives will work with you instead of against you.
6) Make sure that you have bathrooms, food, whatever if you're going to stay at your retail business for a while, or else it'll be super hard on your sim.
7) Don't raise the item markup. You really end up losing profits. The only time this is okay is if you have customer overload and you don't want to hire any employees.
8) If you have a couple of adults in your household, bring them with you to the business and cycle motives. So if one sim is tired, send them home, then bring them to the lot again after. That way you'll have a 24-hour open business.

My "Eureka!" moment for the day: in a clothing store, don't bother Restocking--just do "Dress Mannequin." It costs the same as Restocking, and it's INSTANTANEOUS! (So your Sim doesn't waste 30 minutes.)

You don't get the 10 Perk Points for it that you would for Restocking, but it's a worthy trade-off, because your Sim can easily make 10+ points doing Sales interactions during the 30 minutes she would otherwise spend Restocking.

This also means it's not worth spending 400 Perk Points on "Faster Restocking"! Save your points for "Faster Checkout" (450 points) and "Serious Shopper" (1,300 points)--the perk that makes customers enter your store with their Buy Bar already 1/3 filled.

Edited: It's not "Curious Shopper" it's "Serious Shopper"!

Playing the Doctor career, once you're down to "Compelling Diagnosis" and you have 3 choices, and you've run every possible test on the patient, is there anything else you can do to come up with the correct diagnosis? I had a choice of Itchy Plumbob, Sweaty Shivers, and something else, and picked Itchy Plumbob because I'd seen the patient scratch herself. (It was the wrong diagnosis.)

Is this just like a "chance card"?

I'm thinking not. It looks fairly complicated, but Carl's guide suggests there are clues and symptoms to look for: http://www.carls-sims-4-guide.com/c...ttowork/doctor/

I haven't gotten that far with the doctor's career and now I need to start over.

GIVING SIMS FOOD IN THE HOSPITAL CALMS THE PATIENTS DOWN AND LETS THEM STAY A LITTLE LONGER. IT DOES GET A LITTLE BIT MORE COMPLEX.

BECOMING ACQUIANTED WITH THE WORKERS AND PATIENTS ALLOW THEM TO FUNCTION MORE ACCORDINGLY. E.G. THE WORKERS ARE NOT WORKING IS BECAUSE OF BEING IGNORED BY THE DOCTOR SIM. THE PATIENT ISSUES ARE BECAUSE NOT ENOUGH TIME BEING SPENT WITH PATIENTS. GOOD LUCK!

Is it really worth it? Does it make the game more fun and less bland? I personally find the sims 4 bland and seems like it is missing something. But if I got GET TO WORK would it become fun?

This is your very own decision.
Half of the players will say: yes, it is fun - while the other half will tell you, that it is boring and not worth it.
If you don't like the game so far, then don't buy it. My advice.

After buying it I'm kind of on the fence. Was it worth it?

Partially.
Then again I experienced it with a bunch of bugs in tow and a lot of things didn't work properly in my existing world.

I would say it's worth buying now that a lot of things have been fixed.

Thank you, I decided not to buy it.

You can create alien characters though, and it has other features like the photography skill.

CreepyPixel if you're still interested you might want to check out the Get to Work overview on Carl Sims site.

Hopefully it will list enough to help you get an idea of what's in it and how it may change your desired gameplay.

A mod that converts Granite Fall as a normal world , or at least remove the restriction to travel only by the tefelone : /

Indeed. That's why I just merged it into an existing thread that seemed fitting.

Eh...not sure about the merge. When I started this thread, I wanted to talk to other players about what they were specifically doing in their games with this expansion. I was hoping we'd have a place to share tips and strategies and share how we've played the features. The posts that were just added discuss whether it's worth it to buy the expansion or not and also wish for mods to be created. That's not what I had hoped to see in this thread and I would agree that those two topics are brought up quite frequently.

This thread was almost dead, however, so I guess it doesn't matter so much anymore.