Computer team member is a career track in The Sims 4: High School Years. It is classified as an afterschool activity that is only available to teens. Completing this career track awards the L33T Hacker trait, which makes the programming skill increase faster and guarantees an E-Sports scholarship when applying to university[TS4:DU].
The team meets from 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM on Monday and Thursday for practice, and participates in a computer competition every Tuesday. Sims can progress through the career track by leveling up their programming skill and practicing programming on the computer.
The chess team members are rivals of the computer team, and the "Rivals" relationship bit will be visible in rival Sims' profiles.
Career Levels
| Computer Team Member Career Levels
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| Description: "Get out that RGB keyboard and join the High School Computer Team! Work on your coding experience by practicing programming on a computer. If you join this activity, you'll be able to request a Science Fair where you'll get to participate in a Game Jam and compete against guests! Make your way up in the team to reach captain level where you can earn a golden laptop, team flag, and trophy!" | ||
| Workplace: High School Computer Team | ||
| 1) Computer Team Fresh Recruit | ||
| The team may call <Sim name> a noob at the moment, but <Sim name> is ready for the challenge. Time to get the keyboard ready, there's a lot of coding to do to reach the next level. | Wage: Unpaid | Days: S M T W T F S |
| Hours: 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM | ||
| Promotion Tasks: Reach Level 2 Programming Skill |
Daily Task: Practice Programming | |
| Bonus: None | Pension: None | |
| 2) Computer Programming Teammate | ||
| Level up! <Sim name> has cleaned up the spaghetti code and is in with the crowd now. <His/Her> code is becoming so clean and readable that there is respect growing with the others, next up might be a captain title if <he/she> keep up the programming skills and make it to practice with the skill to keep up. | Wage: Unpaid | Days: S M T W T F S |
| Hours: 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM | ||
| Promotion Tasks: Reach Level 4 Programming Skill |
Daily Task: Practice Programming | |
| Bonus: Computer Team Flag | Pension: None | |
| 3) Computer Team Captain | ||
| <Sim name> has been named captain! From "Hello, World" to being able to write a fairly accurate photo classifier. Who knows how deep this rabbit hole goes but <Sim name> certainly has the skill to find out in the future. | Wage: Unpaid | Days: S M T W T F S |
| Hours: 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM | ||
| Promotion Tasks: N/A |
Daily Task: Practice Programming | |
| Bonus: TONO Gold Programming Laptop, High School Computer Programming Trophy, L33T Hacker Trait | Pension: None | |
Chance Cards
Like all other career tracks and afterschool activities in The Sims 4, there are chance cards for the computer team. However, one major difference is that for all but one of the chance cards, each option the player can choose from has only one possible outcome, rather than the typical two possible outcomes: success and failure. The chance cards are available for computer team members at any level, and appear on practice days. Six of the chance cards are generic, meaning they are available to all four afterschool activities. The two other chance cards are specific to the computer team. There are no fame chance cards.
On Tuesdays, Sims will participate in a computer competition known as a "hackathon". A pop-up notification similar to regular chance cards will appear, informing the player of whether their team lost or won the competition. These chance cards have only one response for the player to select, and the outcome is always the same.
Like usual, the outcome of chance cards can have an effect on a Sim's emotions and afterschool activity performance. Chance cards can also affect a Sim's relationship with their teammates, rivals, or crush. If The Sims 4: Parenthood is installed, character values will sometimes be affected.
 High School Team Generic Chance Cards
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| Team Practice | |
| A guest coach came to practice today to prepare the team for the upcoming competition. This could be a good opportunity to prank them. They won't even see it coming! | |
| Prank! | Don't Prank |
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| Team Practice | |
| Just like that, a fight breaks out in the middle of practice between two teammates. Hard to say if it was instigated from the heat of the sport or something to do with social media drama. Regardless of the logic or reason, the fight is starting to get good and folks quickly gathering around them. | |
| Cheer them on | Calm them down |
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| Team Practice | |
| Stretching is really key to being at top performance for team activities. Being sure to keep a balance of mental and physical health is very important! However, <Sim name> may have forgotten to do some much needed self-care time and stretch it out before going into practice today. Even though being a top achiever feels great and often portrayed as high reward, taking care of <himself/herself> should come first. <Sim name> will remember to take a stretch break next time. | |
| Will be mindful next time! | |
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| Team Practice | |
| Focus was the goal for <Sim name> today during practice but that is abruptly interrupted when <Sim name>'s crush shows up! This was unexpected. Now, the focus is all on them. <Sim name> can either show off some cool moves or keep calm. | |
| Show off | Play it safe and keep calm |
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| Team Practice | |
| While meeting with the team to discuss competition strategy, <Sim name>'s crush suddenly joins the meeting! <Sim name> is stunned this could even happen, but apparently the captain let them stop by since they were interested in what the team was up to. <Sim name> could really take this chance to look cool. Should <he/she> speak up and recommend a strategy in front of the whole team? | |
| Speak up | Share idea after meeting |
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| Team Practice | |
| Just before starting practice for the day, the team notices that a rival club member has messed with your gear. This will really set back practice for the day while the team cleans up the mess and makes arrangements for replacements. <Sim name> feels upset about the audacity of the other team to do something like this! <He/She> can get payback by doing the same to them or try to talk things through with the rival team in an attempt to make things better. | |
| Get Revenge | Make Amends |
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| Computer Team Member Chance Cards
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| Team Practice | |||
| Another classmate who has skipped a few classes asks <Sim name> to hack their grades for an improved score. While the programming challenge is a good one, should <Sim name> take the risk and let another student use <his/her> skills for their own devices? | |||
| Do it | Don't do it | ||
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<Sim name> humbly declines the challenge. Their fellow classmate will just have to attend class like everybody else or ask another Sim to hack the system. | |
| Team Practice | |||
| <Sim name> has been practicing <his/her> programming skills and built a chess simulation model while learning the ropes. Turns out the model is pretty cool. <Sim name> set up an algorithm that plays against a Sim player to mimic a real game based on various player learning capabilities. This might actually be a handy tool for some chess players. | |||
| Release Chess Simulation | Keep Simulation Private | ||
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<Sim name> decides to use the simulation only for personal practice purposes. Seems like a good opportunity to practice improving the code without sharing it for public use. The time put in for personal growth and risk taking paid off in terms of personal performancce on the team. | ||
| Computer Team Competition Outcomes
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| Competition Day - Loss |
| The Copperdale team gathered and settled in for the hackathon. The team decided to work on developing a freezer bunny augmented reality face filter for sims to try on their phones. It was a highly ambitious idea, given the short timeframe they had to complete the project. Each team member had worked on a piece of this application during practice but they did not cohesively put together a final product . As time began to run out, it was up to <Sim name> to complete the project with adding the correct art asset to the face detection tracker. As <he/she> was finishing up the code, the judges called for all coding to STOP. Now it was time for the judge to try the tech...It did trigger the activation but it was definitely not the freezer bunny art asset....the judges head was turned into a giant poop swirl with a talking mouth. How embarrassing! Copperdale did not win the hackathon. |
| Ouch! |
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| Competition Day - Win |
| The Copperdale team gathered and settled in for the hackathon. The team decided to work on developing an augmented reality face filter for Sims to try on their phones. There was not anything like it and the team was jazzed about creating it. The hackathon was short in time but the team was strong together, so they had practiced code beforehand and just needed <Sim name> to replicate it with the computer vision recognition for the face detection. When it came time to present the app outcome, the Copperdale computer team was able to pull off the cutest face filter! The judge even tried it themselves, showing off the freezer bunny face filter that even blinked when you did! The cuteness won over the judging panel, making <Sim name>'s tech the winner! |
| Way to go! |
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Sims on the Computer team
- Savannah Price - Computer Team Fresh Recruit