"Cupid;c-16849392" wrote:
I agree with some of this. For me, the only changes I find necessary are raising the pay to reflect the shown median of $9800 and fixing Easy Street. With just that, I believe the career would pay out enough.
80K a week is excessive to me. I wouldn't mind the payout being so high if the career were more difficult, but it's brain-dead easy. I get that movie stars should be wealthy, and It's fine to throw money at me for deciding to make my sim a movie star... but at least make me work for it. Otherwise, the other careers that are harder to play and pay way less will feel so unsatisfying to choose.
I very much agree that 80k is unreasonable and It likely won't happen. I will be surprised if they bump it up at all, its not something they usually touch in their patches. But I should state if they raise their pricing to reflect the median AND make easy street work 80,000$ a week will be the results (these are rough estimates of course it might be more or less). But I somewhat disagree with you on being a brain dead easy career. Its straight forward maybe but not necessarily easy. I think its very deceptive in the sense that you can get promoted off one gig no matter what level you are if you do the requirements. But you have to realize that you need to level the 5 skills necessary for the career up to 7 and do your daily tasks (which admittedly are not hard) to progress. AND you can only progress once every 3 days. Of course you can do none of these things but you will eventually fail in one area by pigeon holing yourself into only taking gigs you have the skills for which eventually results in a pay cut in an already payment dry career. Its takes a lot of babysitting one sim to excel and then you might have a family too!
Just my opinion however not necessarily fact :smile:
ONWARDS!
"alan650111;c-16849786" wrote:
"MadameLee;c-16849496" wrote:
"pdent;c-16849305" wrote:
I agree so much with everything you’ve said. I’ve had to supplement my sims acting career
sounds like real life to me.. and I don't even have Get Famous
THIS! The OP needs to realize how true to life it is to have to have a supplemental job when you are an actor! I actually like this! I bet the big bucks are somewhere in the game. The stars must align!
True to life is why I made this post. Median pay in game currently not how median pay works in real life (from my understanding). But much more so is there are actors every day who do nothing but act and are richer than most. Supplementing income for lower levels is very understandable and with the two days down time even maybe optimal. But level 10 global super star actors should not be making less money than every other career. Its just not realistic or very fair (that's also an opinion).
But if you want big bucks look no further than media production. Very easy to level and even easier to compound royalty payments into massive paychecks. Its actually more beneficial to take the media production side (left) of the celebrity perk side than the right side which is career focused. I honestly can't think of a perk in the right side that actually effects acting in a meaningful way. I can go down into my studio and crank out a song in 5 seconds which makes me 450$ a day in royalties for a few weeks. Its even crazier with actually making vlogs and other things.
But my point of the post was that I shouldn't HAVE to do this to see massive returns. Acting is the star (get it) of the pack. Its a big feature. I feel like it should stand out from the others and it does in a lot of ways. Just not in the payment department. Especially when they game wants you to spend 100,000's of thousands on burning money, throwing it, sleeping pods, vaults, tiger stripped furniture etc. You wont be making that kind of money from acting. Skills still dominate the money making department: painting, media, writing, etc. And even regular careers got a major bump with easy street doubling their paychecks (that 30k from smuggler is no joke). I just want actor to feel the love too.
