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ChapelParalysis's avatar
ChapelParalysis
4 years ago

Re: Acting Pro Sim has yet to recive an award from Staright Accolades

@MrX220 I was having trouble accomplishing the “receive an award” achievement for the actor goal, too. Yesterday my Sim went to the Starlight Accolades and won an award for one of the books she published, and it counted for the “award” goal for her acting aspiration!

It doesn’t take that long to max out the writing skill and pump out a few bestsellers. It might be faster for you to try to have your Sim win an award for something other than acting, since it seems to count towards the aspiration anyway!

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  • TactfulTay179's avatar
    TactfulTay179
    4 years ago

    Thank you so much!! My sim was actually a writer before he was an actor so I think I may have better luck!! I’m going to try to force my other acting sim to do a gig or two to see if it helps, then I’ll try the book route!! ☺️

  • TactfulTay179's avatar
    TactfulTay179
    4 years ago

    Yeah I’ve been getting nonstop gold for movies so idk what it is!! Thank you so much for this guide tho! It’s nice to have percentages!

  • Psychotps's avatar
    Psychotps
    Seasoned Ace
    4 years ago
    @ChapelParalysis

    That article is mostly correct but not completely. Getting nominated and winning are two different things. You won't win without attending the awards show, but you don't have to actually be "watching" it. Just have to be on the lot.

    Getting nominated is all about percentages. And you can get an award without being nominated too.

    Winning an award is a completely different thing. It's all about timing. Even if you are nominated, winning is strictly a matter of if the host can get through all the other awards from 7-11 before getting to you. The more famous sims in the world, the more they have to get through in that short 7-11 timeframe, and less likely you'll win.

    If you have a world with a lot of famous sims, 4 hours simply isn't enough time and you tend to practically never get awards. This is why I made a mod that extends the awards show and doubles the time. Instead of 7-11, I changed it to 4-12. More time available means more likely you'll win in a world overpopulated by famous sims.
  • ChapelParalysis's avatar
    ChapelParalysis
    4 years ago

    @PsychotpsThat’s cool, that would be very useful for folks on PC!

    I’m more interested in gameplay-related suggestions, since I’m on console.

    I think diversifying your options is a good bet for those who aren’t interested in mods/simply want to achieve this without them. It seems you can be nominated for multiple categories.

  • Psychotps's avatar
    Psychotps
    Seasoned Ace
    4 years ago
    @ChapelParalysis Well, you only need to be nominated once. Getting multiple nominations may not help.

    Once you're at the ceremony, it's all random. The host will randomly choose someone (nominated?) to win. Then you just have to wait for them to finish their speech before the host progresses to the next one.

    I wonder if you have multiple nominations, and the host only chooses from nominations to win, maybe having multiple nominations will increase your chances?

    I don't know. But I DO know that four hours isn't much time. There's only time enough for 3-4 awards before time runs out. More famous sims means more nominations, which means less chances you'll win. It's too short.

    Maybe having multiple nominations will increase your chances. Instead of 1 out of 10 total nominations, you'll have 2 out of 10?

    Hope it works, because on console, you don't have much other choice.
  • TactfulTay179's avatar
    TactfulTay179
    4 years ago

    So this worked for me!! In real life I have nine scripts and I just pumped each one out in Sims and submitted them all at once! I had two bestsellers and the rest were excellent and I finally won an award!!! Thank you so much everyone!! 

  • ChapelParalysis's avatar
    ChapelParalysis
    4 years ago

    @TactfulTay179Congrats, I knew you would! I tested this with the books for a couple different save files to see if having a lot of more famous celebrity competition would have a major impact, but my Sims still won book awards on their first attendance of the Starlight Accolades in three separate scenarios.

    Glad we could figure out a simple solution with gameplay!

  • JonaO703's avatar
    JonaO703
    Hero
    4 years ago

    @ChapelParalysis Hey! My sim finally got an award for a book!  So many gold level gigs and no awards.  He writes one bestseller and BOOM!  Your tip was the solution for me, so thank you very much!

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