Discussion: Acting Career and Its Major Problems. Part 2.
I know people are in the midst of enjoying or critiquing (or both) island living....however I figured its time to re visit the acting career and talk about how its still fundamentally unrewarding and a waste of sims time investment.
Part one for interested readers:
forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/951936/discussion-acting-career-and-its-major-problems/p1
Since I broke down and outline the acting system in that earlier post I won't spend to much time re-explaining everything, so I'll just outline the important highlights and new developments.
So let me restate this again. I like this career. Its my favorite sims 4 career. Its probably my favorite career outside the acting stuff from sims 1. But its not rewarding and its unrealistic. Every career in the game makes more money, gets raises, requires fewer skills and the semi active careers even have less time actually spent doing work than acting. There is no upside to picking this career other than you find it fun. But part of fun for me is making my sims rich, its how I enjoy playing the game.
And I think its important to point out that this isn't realistic at all. Famous and high level actors make bank. They typically make more than the majority of most jobs. Its usually because they are A:) famous and B:) good at acting. Sometimes its just A (lol) but most of the time its A and B. In the sims 4 fame does not benefit you by making more money in acting, and acting skill does up to a point, but at that point it still falls below all other careers.
Here is the best part and I really want to emphasize this point. Because its hilariously unrealistic and kinda dumb. The military career that came with strangerville makes 3376$ per day at level 10. 5 days a week. That's 16880$ per week. 3-2k more than a famous actor. But wait....there's more. It requires only two skills to max and your work from home option only takes a few hours. But wait there's even more. Easy street doubles the pay check of normal careers so that 16880 just became over 30k a week. Man that's alot of....wait you didn't think I'd forget about raises! They get those too. Does anybody not see a problem with a government employee making nearly 2x more money than a famous actor? This is just hilarious actually and if it sounds like a joke that's because it is. That the pack focused on becoming rich and obscenely, obnoxiously wealthy has the lowest paying least beneficial career to achieve that.
Me and many others have already made suggestions on how to fix this. I think a good base point would be to just increase the pay of all gigs after the low tier ones (up 2-3 thousand at high end) and Make easy street work with the acting career so that gig pays are double. I'm not sure it would fix all the issues I've talked about but it would be a quick and easy first step to improving the career.
I know some might not find this to be a big deal or why they play the sims. But to me its important. I only play rags to riches stories. I tailor each sims story I make to a career that will fit them. It drags me out of my immersion to find that my government employed tier 10 secret agent makes more than my world famous actor. I was designing a house for him thinking I had to be on a stricter budget than my actor when.....he could afford more luxuries than my actor. To add insult to injury, my covert agent was definitely ready and funded for island adventure while my actor would have never gotten there without cheats.
Anyways these are my opinions on the matter, most are not facts or right way to look at things, just my observations. I hope this gets changed in the future but at this point I have my doubts. I'd like to hear your view points (likes/dislikes) if you have anything to add, I'd definitely appreciate hearing it.
Back to the regularly scheduled island living discussions.
Part one for interested readers:
forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/951936/discussion-acting-career-and-its-major-problems/p1
Since I broke down and outline the acting system in that earlier post I won't spend to much time re-explaining everything, so I'll just outline the important highlights and new developments.
- You can only work two days a week.
- You can skip auditions with a fame perk but you still have a two day wait before the gig making it....pointless. You save two hours of your sims life what a great perk /s.
- Highest skill requirements of any standard career. With roughly the same skill requirements as being an effective treasure hunter in Jungle Adventure (non-standard career). Except you can make probably 30k a day selling relics from treasure hunting if you happen on a lucky streak.
- The max you can make is no greater than around 14k~ (can vary depending on talent agency). Usually its around 13k.
- Median pay was corrected so I don't have to rant about that again. Downside is its correctly terrible now.-updated via patch.
- No retirement adding less rewards to an already reward dry career. Good call there /s.-updated via patch.
- Easy Street doesn't work for acting or any active career. But the active careers from GTW have pay raises at max level and acting doesn't there for making it lowest paying career over time.
- Fame fundamentally does not effect you monetarily as an actor.
So let me restate this again. I like this career. Its my favorite sims 4 career. Its probably my favorite career outside the acting stuff from sims 1. But its not rewarding and its unrealistic. Every career in the game makes more money, gets raises, requires fewer skills and the semi active careers even have less time actually spent doing work than acting. There is no upside to picking this career other than you find it fun. But part of fun for me is making my sims rich, its how I enjoy playing the game.
And I think its important to point out that this isn't realistic at all. Famous and high level actors make bank. They typically make more than the majority of most jobs. Its usually because they are A:) famous and B:) good at acting. Sometimes its just A (lol) but most of the time its A and B. In the sims 4 fame does not benefit you by making more money in acting, and acting skill does up to a point, but at that point it still falls below all other careers.
Here is the best part and I really want to emphasize this point. Because its hilariously unrealistic and kinda dumb. The military career that came with strangerville makes 3376$ per day at level 10. 5 days a week. That's 16880$ per week. 3-2k more than a famous actor. But wait....there's more. It requires only two skills to max and your work from home option only takes a few hours. But wait there's even more. Easy street doubles the pay check of normal careers so that 16880 just became over 30k a week. Man that's alot of....wait you didn't think I'd forget about raises! They get those too. Does anybody not see a problem with a government employee making nearly 2x more money than a famous actor? This is just hilarious actually and if it sounds like a joke that's because it is. That the pack focused on becoming rich and obscenely, obnoxiously wealthy has the lowest paying least beneficial career to achieve that.
Me and many others have already made suggestions on how to fix this. I think a good base point would be to just increase the pay of all gigs after the low tier ones (up 2-3 thousand at high end) and Make easy street work with the acting career so that gig pays are double. I'm not sure it would fix all the issues I've talked about but it would be a quick and easy first step to improving the career.
I know some might not find this to be a big deal or why they play the sims. But to me its important. I only play rags to riches stories. I tailor each sims story I make to a career that will fit them. It drags me out of my immersion to find that my government employed tier 10 secret agent makes more than my world famous actor. I was designing a house for him thinking I had to be on a stricter budget than my actor when.....he could afford more luxuries than my actor. To add insult to injury, my covert agent was definitely ready and funded for island adventure while my actor would have never gotten there without cheats.
Anyways these are my opinions on the matter, most are not facts or right way to look at things, just my observations. I hope this gets changed in the future but at this point I have my doubts. I'd like to hear your view points (likes/dislikes) if you have anything to add, I'd definitely appreciate hearing it.
Back to the regularly scheduled island living discussions.
