Always coming in Third in Finchwick Fair

At least you're getting something. I've had Sims participate in three separate festivals and there's no announcement at all. The fair just fades away, one stall at a time. It's quite disconcerting, really. The mods I use are all updated/compatible, so I'm uncertain if something is blocking the game play. I may get brave enough to remove the Mods folder just to see what happens, but then some of my Sims will walk around next to naked and/or bald for lack of the cc clothing and hair. LOL

"GalacticGal;c-17955572" wrote:
At least you're getting something. I've had Sims participate in three separate festivals and there's no announcement at all. The fair just fades away, one stall at a time. It's quite disconcerting, really. The mods I use are all updated/compatible, so I'm uncertain if something is blocking the game play. I may get brave enough to remove the Mods folder just to see what happens, but then some of my Sims will walk around next to naked and/or bald for lack of the cc clothing and hair. LOL

This is what keeps happening to me, I enter the fair with excellent quality goods or well looked after animals and there's just no judging at all, the fair just ends at the end of the day and my animals/goods just go into my sims inventory.

I'm rather disappointed with the Finchwich Fair... I enter a perfect crop and the other two that were entered by other sims were of normal quality and I still only win 2nd place?
I enter an Excellent pie, the other pie's entered are of lesser quality, because I do check and I only get an honorable mention?

The bribe the Mayor is just nuts that NPC's seem to be able to do this, turning it into a popularity contest rather than a quality of each submission. I think I am pretty much done trying to enter anything anymore and will simply check the two vendor stalls for interesting purchasable's and that's it.

This makes me sad.

I too have come in second or third to either inferior entries or no competition. When it’s inferior entries I just assume my competition bribed the mayor and if there’s nobody else running well, that’s just proof of how corrupt she is. ??

I don't expect to win every time, but it does become annoying when there are only three or less entries and my sims still end up with participation ribbons or nothing at all. I wish the contest wasn't random, what would be the point of entering oversized crops or excellent quality items then. In one save my sims did manage to win twice. Once with a rainbow llama with the neck warmer and once with an oversized pumpkin (no bribes involved ). I haven't manage to win yet in my other save.

It looks like you do need the bribe. I just tested this at the garden fair. I had 3 sims from the same household enter different plants. One entered a glowfruit. One entered a death flower. One entered a cherry. The one who entered the cherry bribed the judge, and he won.

BTW, the one who entered the death flower has a strong relationship with the judge, and a romance with her too. His entry still lost to the cherry. Now I know how to win this thing, and my characters will stop sacrificing their best wool and eggs just to have them lose to average products of lower quality.

"CelSims;c-17954270" wrote:
it seems to be completely random, an illusion of a competition. Bribing the mayor can work, as does inferniating the competition pie or eggs, etc. Don't think you can inferniate the competing animals though. Being able to use Morphiate on the competing animals would be amusing, EA please.

You can destroy the competition's entries? That's kinda funny. I think I'll have to do that, just to see what happens.

I have participated twice and both times my sim's pumpkin won the first prize. If I remember right there were two participants each time.

I wonder if it would help to be good friends with the Mayor and maybe a few other people.