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What is playing with celebrities like?
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Steam is having a sale and all sims 3 games and expansions are 5 bucks. Ive never played them. How is the celebrity system? I heard it can be annoying? Im thinking of buying late night.
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Your well-known Sims get a lot of free/discounted items, which is nice. There are also moodlets that raise your Sim's mood when out in public such as "got recognized."
But I'm not really into it, overall and I sometimes consider turning it off for my town, but one of my Sims is an actress and that can be prove difficult.
I wish there was a way to turn off he celebrity system for certain households that I'm not playing because I can't stand when a regular townie starts getting celebrity stars just because they talked to a certain Sim at a bar.
So you can turn it off for a neighborhood? Does a townie act differently once they start earning stars?
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Is there a way to limit how many celebs are in a neighborhood or a way to lock the one who are celebs in?
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You might be able to do it for specific sims with a mod from NRAAS.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuW44b3uCMtCSaq4gwC8EZg
Yes they do. If your sim isn't a celebrity, or is a lower level celebrity, they can't socialize with anybody with more stars than them, until they impress them enough to be accepted. The higher their celebrity level, the more work it is to get them to accept your sim. And some traits they might have can make it almost impossible.
The only way celebrities can lose their celebrity is if they are publicly disgraced. They'll also lose friends by it. But if you have NRaas Story Progression, you can make them gradually lose celebrity points if they don't do anything to keep gaining more. You can also prevent some sims from becoming celebrities or ever losing whatever celebrity level they start with, by giving them personalized Story Progression settings. You can also limit how many celebrities can be in the town.
Here's a link to the SP mod at NRaas: nraas.wikispaces.com/StoryProgression Follow the link to the Interactions page to find out what all the mod can do. It will also tell you if any given setting you would like to use requires an add-on module. There's a lot there, and it can be overwhelming just trying to get through it, but the default settings work pretty well, so you can just start with the settings for celebrity, and let the rest alone. Then as you get used to that, if you find something else you'd like to tweak, you can gradually learn how to set it best to suit how you want to play.
It took me something like three months after I first went there and looked at the interactions page to finally add it to my game, because it was very overwhelming. But now it's totally familiar, and I tweak settings all the time.
Not without mods. If you disable the celebrity system before starting a game then I think the only premades who will have celebrity stars will be sims in Bridgeport. Other worlds won't get celebrities unless the system is active. I don't recall whether the game seeds new games in other worlds with celebrities or not.
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But being the only celeb or attempt at celeb status if is your wish or involved in your LTW you will still get pop up opportunity events even with options off.
Most fun to create just one RL celeb in sim version and put her/him in town and try to hook up.
My celeb of the week is Julianne Hough in my towns.She is the only one and a 2 star,I can choose to use her to climb the ladder to success if needed
EDIT: If you are a CC user/player there are tons of created celebs out there you could get one and use them in your town.To see if it exists type in Sims 3______________________ <-- Insert celeb name in a google search you will be surprised how many there are.
I find the system mainly annoying. Flaws: any sim will become famous by talking to the right people, just as fast as they would by being a movie star. In fact, career doesn’t matter at all, it’s all about talking to the right people. Or being the kid of a famous person, which makes sense to some extent but 3 stars? Really? Annoying. Another annoying thing: kids can’t speak with grantparents who are more famous than them. And they never will because there’s no way for them to impress the oldies. Viva cheating, a grantparent loves their grandkids, whether they are famous or not. Oh, and the paparazzi are a pain. Which makes sense when you play a real celebrity, but when you play a normal John Doe who accidently became famous because his parents were and his boss, it’s annoying.
By the way, regardless the celebrity system, LN is totally worth it!
Being a celebrity mostly gives you a bunch of extra opportunities that make you go out into the world and behave like a celeb. For example a club will call you to ask if you could order a drink at their place for a certain amount of cash. It's quite a challenge to reach 5 celeb stars, so if you are looking for something that actually makes you work hard, trying to gain 5 celeb stars can be fun. Especially when you don't have a ton of celebrities live in your town.
I also love the way other townies react around your sim when you are a celebrity. They will take pictures of your sim with their phone, ask for an autograph or just scream from excitement when your sim walks by. Besides this, people will also send you gifts through the mail so it's a nice extra income haha.
I personally like creating celeb sims who will only hang out with other celeb sims and have a VIP lifestyle together. It's also fun to combine it with the singing profession from Showtime.
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@GITTE2001 Active celebrities will talk to anyone because you control them. Which is why grandparents will be a problem, because quite often you don't play them anymore. So it was the kids in my active family that couldn't talk to their grandparents who lived elsewhere. What I did was fill the relationship bar using testing cheats. When you do that the famous grandparents will talk to them.
I once had a sim hack into the Prosper Room's list so he could get in with his wife, who was already a celebrity. They couldn't go upstairs to the VIP room to use the hot tub though. And while they were eating at the bar, Matthew Hamming caught him and had him thrown out. He didn't even get to finish his meal!
That sounds really fun. Thanks for sharing
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It's been a couple of years, so the details are a bit fuzzy, but I think the reason they couldn't go into the VIP room was because his wife wasn't a big enough celebrity. I don't remember even trying to get him in there, since she couldn't go in. In fact, I think he himself must have been a low level celebrity, but not enough to get into the Prosper Room, because I am pretty sure he was publicly disgraced for it. Another thing I do remember is that the bouncer for one of the rooms was his ex-girlfriend from before he married my sim. He was Barry Tenderlove.
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In my experience I don’t find the celebrity system to be all too game changing by any means, sure it has its perks and it’s downfalls, but my gameplay style is generally the same when I’m a celebrity or when I’m not a celebrity, except for the occasional dramatic outbreak and I lose friends and all that nonsense.
One of the things I decided to try just because I had never done it before was working my two sim's celebrity status to 5 stars (my evil sim married). I quickly realized that as a 5 star celebrity, many more opportunities are thrown at you for your high level skills, and when you add the Lifetime Opportunity Reward "Opportunistic", the dollar (simolean?) value of the rewards is doubled. When you combine that with the constant gifts, your sim never has to work, and the money builds up like crazy. Recently my 5 star evil sim was given a CAR, and I sold it immediately for more then 100k.
Someone in an earlier post griped that the disgrace system is a pain... but I think what you guys don't realize is that the disgrace system is a money maker. I love it when my sims are accused of misbehaving in public. It means I can sue and make 4k - 8k in an afternoon. Yes, sometimes you don't win. But then you just sue again immediately, and I have only ever lost once.
I almost never get my sims a job. I find having a job limiting and inconvenient. There are too many better ways to make money - like hacking for instance. I have never seen a post online that says hacking is worthwhile, but my evil sim is a computer wiz / hacker, and he makes 3.5k - 5k per night (using the best computer and having a level 10 logic).
Anyway... that's my 2 cents.
If you are playing Sims 3, they need to be impressed by your sim to be able to socialize with. Here are two good guides for celebrity gameplay in Sims 3:
Carl's Sims 3 forum
https://www.carls-sims-3-guide.com/latenight/celebritystars.php
Sims 3 wiki
https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/Celebrity_status
If the change in celebrity status did not take maybe exiting the game and deleting the cashes in the Sims Folder might make it so.
If you play Sims 4, Carl's got a guide on Get Famous EP too
https://www.carls-sims-4-guide.com/expansionpacks/getfamous/
Posting in the Sims 4 section of the forum would get better answers for that game.