Thriftea events and Autonomy
So far I've found out about two events being "held" at Thriftea. One being a "Fashion Show" and another one "Amateur Comedy Night". For both of them a player is notified once they are already starting to happen. In both of them there's no way to direct your sims to "participate". You can not talk to shop NPC's to join. There are no participate/join action on any object of ground or sim itself.
1) Fashion Show is "strange" to say the least. Contestants seem to appear in the same randomly generated situational outfits for "Fashion Browsers". Nobody cares about the "show" aside from other contestants. And everybody seem to only "boo" each other. No positive reactions. No taking pictures. Sims just randomly pose in the area not far from the mic. one after another. And then everyone simply goes away. No results, not even a formal notice that "show/competition" has ended. And from my observation a sim under your control is never taking a part in this one autonomously unlike in a comedy one.
2) Amateur Comedy Night happened for my sim around 3PM in the day :D During this time my sim managed to perform "amateur comedy routine" autonomously using mic, but when selecting mic there's no option to perform it (only when sim already performing). There were 4 more sims in "contestant" roles. One of them - father Winter. All dressed similarly and none of them performed in the end. They just sat and stand around. Also apparently unlike fashion show during this time the venue was closed. No Tea/Thrift sellers NPCs and no visitors. At 8 PM these four contestants just get up and leave. After that all NPCs immediately reappear in store. Again no conclusion to the "event". No results, no notice.
Amateur Comedy Night looks pretty intimidating and not fun at all :s
https://i.ibb.co/M2f3Wc0/Screenshot-748.png
Selecting a mic during this event when a sim is already performing autonomously (has an option to perform amateur routine):
https://i.ibb.co/4pcdb7B/Screenshot-750.png
Selecting a mic during this event when a sim is not performing (has NO option to perform amateur routine):
https://i.ibb.co/J23gD25/Screenshot-751.png
3) Browsing interaction on clothes racks is not available per command, sims only can do so autonomously.
Conclusion. I can not understand the purpose of these two events. Obviously both a very poorly coded. Can't properly involved the controlled sims and are more of annoyance than a fun experience. Especially the "fashion show" since so many simmers were dreaming about the proper fashion shows and fashion career since Sims1.
