Suggestion to the developers: I've noticed in the acting career half of the kissing scenes go against the preference of the sim performing it. Can you please make it so it matches the preference of the sim actor? Even in the your sim world if 99% of your sims are of one preference, it makes no sense to have your acting scene kisses be 50/50. Thanks for considering it.

In real life, there are plenty of actors and actresses that play roles in which the character they are playing is not of the same orientation as them.For example, Jack Falahee who plays a Connor Walsh, a gay character, on How to Get Away with Murder is actually straight in real life.Luke Evans, who is gay in real life, played Gaston in the live action Beauty and the Beast. The list goes on. So, yes, the way it is makes perfect sense because it matches the real world.Plus, it's literally just ACTING.

We're talking about a game, not real life. And I never mentioned homosexuality. But if I want preference abc in my game, I don't want the game forcing a difference preference upon my game, let alone in a career.And since you mentioned real life, 99+% of "kissing" scenes in real life acting are heterosexual, which if this game is supposed to model real life as you suggest, then neither of our opinion's matter: the game should model 99+% heterosexual kissing scenes in the acting career. So back to my actual point: if I want preference abc in my game, I don't want the game forcing a difference preference upon my game, let alone over half the time, let alone in a career.

Acting is acting. The job is to act like someone unlike yourself. To me it would be totally wrong if the actor's preferences should have any impact at all on this. PS - I work a little bit with acting in RL, and getting to play a character miles away from myself is both more fun and developing. The opposite would quickly become a bore ;)

It's a game, not RL. What next, force the opposite "marriage" upon your game character than you want in your game because it would become boring for you playing the game if they didn't?

"ReflectedLight;c-17759578" wrote:It's a game, not RL. What next, force the opposite "marriage" upon your game character than you want in your game because it would become boring for you playing the game if they didn't?I was only referring to the acting career, not to the sim's "RL". And also, only what goes on on stage, not during the rehearsal/waiting which normally takes longer than the recording. When I play a sim on the film set, I some times add a private story going on there, like my sim actually hating the co-actor, or another actor who is there is a rival fighting over the Director, or my sim deeply admiring another person on the set. You don't need to do the listed tasks in order to get gold, so instead you can make up misc events. There are always a handful random sims present, and we are free to do whatever we want when not on stage. The staging is preset, but I assume you could add some drama up there as well, would be fun :) Btw, once my sim was acting in some sort of a classy mansion, Father Winter actually showed up by the "fake" fireplace on stage - I almost fell of my chair. Thinking of it, I must have set the Winter Fest to not be a holiday, or there would be no gig on that day... Would also be fun starting to interact with someone on stage, your choice, to see how much fuss it would cause on the film production - you'd probably earn some pay even with a poor result. Hm, would be fun playing a sim who was the worst cast ever, LOL.

Acting career kissing scenes: match the preference of your sim

ogo4141
4 years ago
I think that's funny. It is acting. One sim that I have is an exception, she's constantly paired with female leads, probably because she's diva (self absorbed) and refuses roles if that condition isn't met. :D
logionX
Seasoned Vanguard
4 years ago
I think I have seen people post about this before, maybe even over at Answer HQ but I'm not sure if Maxis did something about it. I have not seen it happen often in my game and most of my sims are hetereosexual.
timurjr96
4 years ago
My male Sims always get male partner in acting career, I wonder what his wife would think if she finds out, thank goodness his movie never shows up in Sims TV.
ogo4141
4 years ago
I have an actress married to female style influencer during university days. She's already a superstar and every movie she shot was with female co star except one. :D
Ladynightsin
4 years ago
I do get this often but the one person hard to crack is Judth even though my sims have higher acting skills than she is she turns off the action cause she doesn't want to kiss. =.=
Bmm209
4 years ago
"NorthDakotaGamer;c-17932648" wrote:
"StrawberryYogurt;c-17932541" wrote:
"NorthDakotaGamer;c-17760198" wrote:
There are mods that help with that. At least that is how I get around it.

What mod?

I made that post in December of last year. Not sure if that mod has been updated. I stopped using the acting career as it was too much of a structured check list and I hate those.

Do you remember what mod it is? Perhaps it may be updated. Ive only recently got Get Famous so this is a big peeve rn. Or if not some other mod that allows us to change the npc? I used cheats but couldnt enter CAS to modify because it was a nonplayed sim. So i took control and used "change sim" instead and changed their clothing, body type and etc. But it caused them to leave the acting garage and my sim couldnt finish her scenes.
Scobren
4 years ago
"StrawberryYogurt;c-17932688" wrote:
"NorthDakotaGamer;c-17932648" wrote:
"StrawberryYogurt;c-17932541" wrote:
"NorthDakotaGamer;c-17760198" wrote:
There are mods that help with that. At least that is how I get around it.

What mod?

I made that post in December of last year. Not sure if that mod has been updated. I stopped using the acting career as it was too much of a structured check list and I hate those.

Do you remember what mod it is? Perhaps it may be updated. Ive only recently got Get Famous so this is a big peeve rn. Or if not some other mod that allows us to change the npc? I used cheats but couldnt enter CAS to modify because it was a nonplayed sim. So i took control and used "change sim" instead and changed their clothing, body type and etc. But it caused them to leave the acting garage and my sim couldnt finish her scenes.

I use MCCC mod to help with that, it is a must use mod and Deaderpool updates it frequently. https://deaderpool-mccc.com/#/releases Just warning you on the MC woohoo one is the NSFW addition to the mod, so you just need the command center which pretty much is a multitool mod like NRAAs mod for the Sims 3 and insiminator mod for the Sims 2. It saved my households when the game tried to ruin my save files culling Sims with the addition of NPCs.
AgnesXX92
New Spectator
4 years ago
My main actor sim is bi, so he doesn't mind kissing whoever his co-star happens to be. Most of the time it ends up being his best friend (male), who is currently married to his ex-fiancee, who also happens to be working on set as a producer. So the gender of his kissing partner is actually the least weird thing about this situation.
The most recent time he had to kiss a female co-star, it was his much older (immortal) distant cousin. So yeah. Maybe it would be better for him to stick to kissing guys.
Scobren
4 years ago
"StrawberryYogurt;c-17932838" wrote:
"Scobre;c-17932747" wrote:
"StrawberryYogurt;c-17932688" wrote:
"NorthDakotaGamer;c-17932648" wrote:
"StrawberryYogurt;c-17932541" wrote:
"NorthDakotaGamer;c-17760198" wrote:
There are mods that help with that. At least that is how I get around it.

What mod?

I made that post in December of last year. Not sure if that mod has been updated. I stopped using the acting career as it was too much of a structured check list and I hate those.

Do you remember what mod it is? Perhaps it may be updated. Ive only recently got Get Famous so this is a big peeve rn. Or if not some other mod that allows us to change the npc? I used cheats but couldnt enter CAS to modify because it was a nonplayed sim. So i took control and used "change sim" instead and changed their clothing, body type and etc. But it caused them to leave the acting garage and my sim couldnt finish her scenes.

I use MCCC mod to help with that, it is a must use mod and Deaderpool updates it frequently. https://deaderpool-mccc.com/#/releases Just warning you on the MC woohoo one is the NSFW addition to the mod, so you just need the command center which pretty much is a multitool mod like NRAAs mod for the Sims 3 and insiminator mod for the Sims 2. It saved my households when the game tried to ruin my save files culling Sims with the addition of NPCs.

Ok thanks I will test this out! And will avoid the NSFW

Yeah I wanted to warn you about that. It has a lot of nice toggles for supernaturals too. I didn't realize how many features were tied to story progression until I got this mod. Egwarhammer is a great person to ask about customizing the mod to fit your needs too since she helped me out with it on forums. I think you will enjoy the mod and hope it helps with a lot of your Simming needs too. Happy Simming and patch day.
Indiieparadise
3 years ago
Those who are disagreeing with the initial suggestion- i’m gay and also agree that they need to make a preference for acting. 90% of my scenes in the game is of my character kissing a same sex character, which I obviously don’t mind in a general sense lol but for the sake of the Game and story line I want to create for my character, it’d be nice to have a decision in whether or not most of my gigs are with a same sex character or not. I created a character I want to pair with my sim- same career and everything, and I can’t get them to act together because the game keeps generating same sex scenes