HELP! Celebrities are invading my game!

"JackOnYourBack;c-16844772" wrote:
It would be cool if there were a lot trait that would prohibit celebrities from showing up. So you could just equip your restaurant with that for example if you didn't want any of them disturbing the peace.

I hope they look into the "issue" of famous sims going to community lots and the staff (and visitors) stop what they are doing to look at them. I think a lot trait would solve that, that way you can opt in or out. You can have your burger joint with no celebs and your upscale experimental restaurants with them.

Obviously your active household (if one or more of them are a celebrity) should be able to go regardless of lot trait if you direct them to visit.

This. Celebrities turning up on lots can be overkill. A lot trait would so fix this. Thorne Bailey is the worst for turning up in every nook and cranny of my Sims world. I'm very close to deleting him :lol:

"IngeJones;c-16834300" wrote:
I wish we could set celebrity NPC walk-bys and visits by world or neighborhood, so we could choose which of our locations were the sorts of places celebrities would be, like in real life. (Except for the ones we homed, if we homed them in a non-celeb hood then they could still appear there normally.

THAT is the main reason they needed more residential lots in the new world as they will be where ever you are forced to place them and created havoc unless you have no celebs. They totally messed up by putting only 6 residential places in DSV. So it loses the point of having your sims become a star and dragging their status to all the worlds or you have to shut them off and have no stars. What is the point of this pack in the Sims if they cannot put more residents for your stars in the world they belong?

MY argument exactly. DSV huge fail! Exact reason not to buy this pack.

"Writin_Reg;c-16845184" wrote:

"IngeJones;c-16834300" wrote:
I wish we could set celebrity NPC walk-bys and visits by world or neighborhood, so we could choose which of our locations were the sorts of places celebrities would be, like in real life. (Except for the ones we homed, if we homed them in a non-celeb hood then they could still appear there normally.

THAT is the main reason they needed more residential lots in the new world as they will be where ever you are forced to place them and created havoc unless you have no celebs. They totally messed up by putting only 6 residential places in DSV. So it loses the point of having your sims become a star and dragging their status to all the worlds or you have to shut them off and have no stars. What is the point of this pack in the Sims if they cannot put more residents for your stars in the world they belong?

MY argument exactly. DSV huge fail! Exact reason not to buy this pack.

I don't quite get this argument. While it would be nice if there were more residential lots (although I personally am okay with the total number of lots right now) Sims don't put stay in their housed worlds. They travel all over. This doesn't have to do with the number of lots in the world. Celebs will still go everywhere hog the spotlight too much.

"Pegasys;c-16845298" wrote:

I don't quite get this argument. While it would be nice if there were more residential lots (although I personally am okay with the total number of lots right now) Sims don't put stay in their housed worlds. They travel all over. This doesn't have to do with the number of lots in the world. Celebs will still go everywhere hog the spotlight too much.

Yeah.. my thoughts exactly. They'd be roaming the other worlds regardless of which one they live in.

"JackOnYourBack;c-16844772" wrote:
It would be cool if there were a lot trait that would prohibit celebrities from showing up. So you could just equip your restaurant with that for example if you didn't want any of them disturbing the peace.

I hope they look into the "issue" of famous sims going to community lots and the staff (and visitors) stop what they are doing to look at them. I think a lot trait would solve that, that way you can opt in or out. You can have your burger joint with no celebs and your upscale experimental restaurants with them.

Obviously your active household (if one or more of them are a celebrity) should be able to go regardless of lot trait if you direct them to visit.

Brilliant idea! Lot-traits are a great way to influence your game. Maybe a modder will help out.

"SilentKitty;c-16845313" wrote:

"Icewolf;c-16843789" wrote:
I got fame turned off since I only wanted a few of my own sims to be celebrities, but the game still generated new ones. Often elders too. It's super annoying. I'm so tired of these auto generating sims! :weary:

Hmm, I thought that this is what you would avoid if you turned fame off :/ I can imagine having a few dedicated stars but no way no how do I want to have random generated celebrities. Haven’t bought the EP yet, want to see what happens in people’s saves first.

Unfortunately, it looks like the game "needs" a certain amount of celebrities, so it will spawn random ones even if you have fame turned off. The Starlight Accolades happened in my game yesterday, and the game spawned new ones continuously during the ceremony. I noticed the game also spawned new celebrities when my sim was simply exploring Del Sol Valley. It's the exact same problem that we've had since City Living, too: 9 out of 10 spawn with the same Japanese names, most have weird body shapes, and once they're in the world the game prioritizes them over other NPCs so they'll show up everywhere.

I have all the celebrity premades in my game, plus five that I made myself, but the game still felt the need to spawn new celebrities and even gave one of them an award at the ceremony.

I'm going to see if MC Command Center has a setting that will prevent this, because this is super annoying. There's literally no point to the celebrity system if the game is going to ignore the ones that already exist.

"UnDutchable;c-16845801" wrote:

"SilentKitty;c-16845313" wrote:

"Icewolf;c-16843789" wrote:
I got fame turned off since I only wanted a few of my own sims to be celebrities, but the game still generated new ones. Often elders too. It's super annoying. I'm so tired of these auto generating sims! :weary:

Hmm, I thought that this is what you would avoid if you turned fame off :/ I can imagine having a few dedicated stars but no way no how do I want to have random generated celebrities. Haven’t bought the EP yet, want to see what happens in people’s saves first.

Unfortunately, it looks like the game "needs" a certain amount of celebrities, so it will spawn random ones even if you have fame turned off. The Starlight Accolades happened in my game yesterday, and the game spawned new ones continuously during the ceremony. I noticed the game also spawned new celebrities when my sim was simply exploring Del Sol Valley. It's the exact same problem that we've had since City Living, too: 9 out of 10 spawn with the same Japanese names, most have weird body shapes, and once they're in the world the game prioritizes them over other NPCs so they'll show up everywhere.

I have all the celebrity premades in my game, plus five that I made myself, but the game still felt the need to spawn new celebrities and even gave one of them an award at the ceremony.

I'm going to see if MC Command Center has a setting that will prevent this, because this is super annoying. There's literally no point to the celebrity system if the game is going to ignore the ones that already exist.

I could be wrong but I think the issue is that it is usually faster for the game to just generate a new random Sim for a role than loading a pre-made one. The devs really want to avoid long loading screens but to me that would be a small price to pay for not having random weirdos roaming in my game.

"UnDutchable;c-16845801" wrote:

"SilentKitty;c-16845313" wrote:

"Icewolf;c-16843789" wrote:
I got fame turned off since I only wanted a few of my own sims to be celebrities, but the game still generated new ones. Often elders too. It's super annoying. I'm so tired of these auto generating sims! :weary:

Hmm, I thought that this is what you would avoid if you turned fame off :/ I can imagine having a few dedicated stars but no way no how do I want to have random generated celebrities. Haven’t bought the EP yet, want to see what happens in people’s saves first.

Unfortunately, it looks like the game "needs" a certain amount of celebrities, so it will spawn random ones even if you have fame turned off. The Starlight Accolades happened in my game yesterday, and the game spawned new ones continuously during the ceremony. I noticed the game also spawned new celebrities when my sim was simply exploring Del Sol Valley. It's the exact same problem that we've had since City Living, too: 9 out of 10 spawn with the same Japanese names, most have weird body shapes, and once they're in the world the game prioritizes them over other NPCs so they'll show up everywhere.

I have all the celebrity premades in my game, plus five that I made myself, but the game still felt the need to spawn new celebrities and even gave one of them an award at the ceremony.

I'm going to see if MC Command Center has a setting that will prevent this, because this is super annoying. There's literally no point to the celebrity system if the game is going to ignore the ones that already exist.

Thank you for an informative post!

I assumed as you said that a certain number of celebrities were needed and could have made that work with my saves. Make a few ghosts, vampires and powerful individuals that were famous and then let it roll in the background. If the game ignores these celebrities that are already in the save and continuously generates new ones then that is a problem. Thank you again, this is exactly the kind of information that I am looking for.

This pack is a “fun-to-have” for me but then there has to be some kind of control over the celebrities. Maybe MCCC will save us? I am currently slowly getting my game in order. Updating old mods, taking a look at my saved households and loots. When I’m back in full swing I will get my Patreon going again. If I can have my celebrities in the game, how many as the game needs to keep rolling, and it won’t spit out new ones all the time then I will get it. Patch or mod, somehow I want to be able to choose myself who will be a celebrity in my saves.

In my game, after switching from a test save (before all the important mods were updated and the CC hair and CAS aging bug got fixed) back to my main save, all of a sudden every single Sim became famous, on the Newcomer level. I didnt know about the option to turn fame off, and now it looks like I have to put every single household onto a lot one after each other, to remove their fame.

I wished there was an easier way, like a stop-being-famous-cheat.

If you want the game to spawn less celebrities, the best thing you can do is just creating a lot of celebrities yourself (ideally 20+ 3 star or higher celebrities). The game generates new celebrities when there aren't enough celebrities in your save.

Celebrities everywhere really isn't a problem at all when 1) you're not in Del Sol Valley, and 2) the venue you visit doesn't have lot traits that attract celebrities. I have over 20 celebrities in my save but I rarely see them at all in Willow Creek for example.

Having very few celebrities in your save just isn't ideal. Do you want to go into a VIP area behind the bouncer ropes only to find out there are like two other Sims? That'd be TS3 all over again.

"hmae123;c-16844324" wrote:

"IngeJones;c-16836287" wrote:
In fact, I'd love a way to mark any sim as to which worlds they can appear in as NPC visitors. I mean if you live at the seaside, would you really pop into the desert for a quick cup of coffee?

This has been an ongoing annoyance for me as well. Just like I don’t want to see the Goths at the spice market in tourist clothes. I like that we can send our own sims whenever, but I really wish the housed sims would only leave their own world if you’re sim invites them somewhere.

The thing is San Myshuno must to have some tourists. So either they need to use Sims from other worlds (like the Goths) as tourists, or the game needs to generate new Sims as tourists. Most people don't want the game to generate new Sims.