Get Famous annoyance

Ugh. I totally agree. I hate when my sims' relatives freak out over them being celebrities. They shouldn't do it if they are friends level or are family.

"alan650111;c-17573754" wrote:
Ugh. I totally agree. I hate when my sims' relatives freak out over them being celebrities. They shouldn't do it if they are friends level or are family.

Relatives too?? I'm playing a single sim with no relatives so I didn't experience that. How annoying!

Send your celeb sim to a club for the worst experience of all. DJs abandon all professionalism and just stand around gawking for hours, so no one can dance. I can't understand why this hasn't been sorted by now, or at least the gawking period reduced to about half a sim hour from about four. Since a celeb or two *always* show up at clubs, this stupidity has practically broken them now.

"Aleia1;c-17573858" wrote:
Send your celeb sim to a club for the worst experience of all. DJs abandon all professionalism and just stand around gawking for hours, so no one can dance. I can't understand why this hasn't been sorted by now, or at least the gawking period reduced to about half a sim hour from about four. Since a celeb or two *always* show up at clubs, this stupidity has practically broken them now.

This happened when I played the first time two years ago but did not happen this second time around. My sim is in a dance club so he goes to nightclubs all the time to dance with his club and the DJ has never stopped. Maybe that will change when he's at level 5 celebrity? Right now he's still in level 4.

Totally agree. It's a shame really because the pack would actually be a lot better without the overreacting to celebs. They just should have left these animations for randomly spawned fans.

It's so annoying! It's very short-sighted and that's one of the main problems with these EPs. It feels like the devs aren't considering gameplay longevity, just instant gratification in a new pack. There are too many features building up that get repetitive and irritating.

I really wish there were more serious players on the dev team so they would think of these things.

"Less Celeb React" is the best mod you can install for this. The devs are unfortunately never going to change this and I am surprised they didn't think of taking it down a notch especially for the vital NPCs like DJs and Mixologists.

Anyway here's the link to the mod, it rarely needs to be updated and helps solve the problem without completely removing the "fans" functionality: https://deichschafblog.de/bienchen/werde-beruehmt-get-famous/
It's the second from the top "lesscelebreact"

Aaronrulz, glad to hear this infuriating issue hasn't manifested for you yet. It happens with my one and two star celebs all the time. It also happens when my non-celebs go clubbing and Venessa or Izzy or whoever show up there. My workarounds are:
1) Turn on stereo instead so sims can carry on dancing (but music choice is limited)
2) Get any sim for whom it's vaguely in character to learn how to DJ, so they can take over (practically all my celebs have 6-plus skill)
3) Give up and take my sims off to the bar when Venessa or whoever shows up.

SimmerGeorge, thanks for the tip and I hope others see it. I play vanilla myself but it's good you're spreading the word about this helpful mod. I also can't fathom why the devs don't turn up professionalism a notch for DJs and mixologists, although I do find the latter more diligent and my sims do usually manage to get served. But do DJs actually behave like this irl when celebs show up at clubs? Wouldn't they get fired for not playing any music?! Wouldn't any club that stopped playing music for hours at a time so people couldn't dance go out of business??! I Just Don't Get It. I have considered posting on the feedback discussion about this, but like you say the devs are never going to fix this so is there any point.

I think if DJs abandoned their booth when celebs come in, in real life, it would be very, very bad and the celebs would never visit again.

So yeah, this is the worst "feature" of the EP imho, just badly balanced/implemented.

"SimmerGeorge;c-17574630" wrote:
"Less Celeb React" is the best mod you can install for this. The devs are unfortunately never going to change this and I am surprised they didn't think of taking it down a notch especially for the vital NPCs like DJs and Mixologists.

Anyway here's the link to the mod, it rarely needs to be updated and helps solve the problem without completely removing the "fans" functionality: https://deichschafblog.de/bienchen/werde-beruehmt-get-famous/
It's the second from the top "lesscelebreact"

Unfortunately the whole celebrity situation has to be modded, as suggested, otherwise it is one of the worst features ever added to the game. I also use the mod mentioned above and in addition I have a mod from LittleMsSam called 'Celebs Undercover'. This Mod adds a Lot Trait which keeps fans and paparazzi from entering a lot. These mods have become essential to me and fortunately rarely need updating. There are just places where the insane excitement around celebs doesn't make any sense - I think I started to look for mods after a bunch of Sims fainted at a library because Thorne Bailey showed up - and the way it interferes with gameplay can be infuriating.