What is playing with celebrities like?

"TreyNutz;c-16233761" wrote:

"StrawberryYogurt;c-16233477" wrote:

"TreyNutz;c-16233429" wrote:
I didn't care for it and turned it off in my game. The free stuff was indeed nice, but the paparazzi basically forced my sims to live in a gated house (which I didn't like) and the disgrace system is a bit harsh. You can tone down the worst of it with mods though.

Is there a way to limit how many celebs are in a neighborhood or a way to lock the one who are celebs in?

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.

I started playing BP once with the celebrity system disabled and there were no celebrities. Later I enabled it (figuring it was a nice idea to try it out again) and the celebrities in town were different sims than what Wiki says. Also they weren’t really big stars. So I guess also BP needs the system enabled too.

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!