Sims who have chosen to forgo the spotlight will no longer gain unwanted fame.
Fixed in Patch 1.103.250/1.84
Please create a new thread if you're still experiencing this issue,
I just had this happen with my playable sim where I have the option to opt sims out of fame, but the game keeps putting my sim back in the spotlight even when I go into her profile and opt her out. I've had to opt her out of the spotlight about 4 times in the last day because the game keeps turning it back on.
I've got this happening too on Xbox Series S. It's happened today for the first time. I've got fame settings disabled, all Sims start opted out of fame. I've had other Sims who have done some things that famous Sims would do but did not gain fame because my Game Options have it disabled. I've got a songwriter publishing music and a yoga instructor streaming with the drone and publicising sessions on Simstagram both absolutely fine. They didn't gain fame so my settings worked. But today, my Art Critic Sim wrote her daily column for her job and all of a sudden she was a 1 Star Celebrity. All she had done was write her daily work columns and sell a few paintings.
When I opened up the fame panel to exit the spotlight however, it still said Step into the Spotlight despite her suddenly being a 1 Star Celebrity but it had her info at the top of the page as if she was a celebrity. So I had to click that to then step into and then out of the spotlight. That worked but I don't know if it will happen again.
I've attached images of each stage and it clearly shows what happened.
Edit: It's still happening. My Sim working in Social Media had the same thing happen. It almost happened to my next Sim too but I kept checking their fame panel and I noticed it had changed to Step out of the Spotlight so I clicked that and it stayed off.
I have all kinds of problems with my Game Options not working and this is yet another one.
It's just happened to the same Sim twice after she had some treasure authenticated and then yet again when she donated some to the museum.
