Starlight Accolades

@Simmerville Unfortunately having the Accolades on a restaurant lot doesn't work. The biggest problem is the host never showed up. I was puzzled, where were they? Then it dawned on me, the restaurant generates a host to seat guests and the game sees that there is already a sim tagged as a host and it never sends another one to conduct the event. I don't know if would work if the game generated a hostess instead but since the role seems to be randomly assigned every day and every shift change it would be a total mystery every time. The Accolades might work or it might not and if it didn't you'd have skip some or do a lot of rolling back to the previous save point until you got one that worked.

The test as a lounge worked great. More attendees sat on the floor than in chairs which was odd. They did do the musical chairs thing but I'm long past worrying about that. Some of the NPCs wandered in and out but only Holly Alto missed her award because she was late. She had just spawned on the lot when she was announced.

So I'm going to fix the lot by removing the restaurant part and just make a larger lounge area and then it should be ready to upload.

I can't ever remember to have my sims go when they have been nominated. I wish there would be a notification when the event is on.

"Sharonia;c-18209179" wrote:
I can't ever remember to have my sims go when they have been nominated. I wish there would be a notification when the event is on.

Hm, I think there used to be a notification?* I played rotationally, so I didn't focus much on this event.

Had a sim attend last night in the hope of her getting an award, but nope. She is a 4 stars celebrity, but I'm not sure the game actually recognizes that she works as a singer. Will the game only nominate sims with real creative careers, like Musician, Actress or Novelist? And is there a rule they must have minimum 3 fame stars to win? I noticed there were plenty of 3 stars celebs attending, saw nobody with fewer stars.

Added: seeing haneul's reply below - perhaps the notifications stopped when the calendar was added to base game?

"Sharonia;c-18209179" wrote:
I can't ever remember to have my sims go when they have been nominated. I wish there would be a notification when the event is on.

It's every Sunday at 6. It should be on the calendar.

@Simmerville I've had at least one Sim nominated for just doing something celebrity-worthy that was not career-related. If you don't get a nomination pop-up during the week, you won't win.

If you do get a nomination pop-up, winning seems to be random. In one save, I had to teleport my Sim into the venue because she didn't have enough fame to walk through the door. Then she won. In my current save, my 5 star celebrity gets nominated every time she does anything of note, but she's never won.

*shrug*

I had an elderly character who retired from a career as a conservationist. With more time on her hands, she decided to get back into her DJ mixing hobby. Apparently her new mix tape made quite a sensation, because she was immediately nominated for a starlight accolade, and she won.

The trick to winning for something that isn't an official career is that you have to license something. So, you're singer will have to compose and license a song to be noticed by the awards panel. She can't just sing live.

"Eleri;c-18209532" wrote:
I had an elderly character who retired from a career as a conservationist. With more time on her hands, she decided to get back into her DJ mixing hobby. Apparently her new mix tape made quite a sensation, because she was immediately nominated for a starlight accolade, and she won.

The trick to winning for something that isn't an official career is that you have to license something. So, you're singer will have to compose and license a song to be noticed by the awards panel. She can't just sing live.

Thanks. My Singer does earn royalties regularly though, so I think she might have licensed something in the past. But I'm playing on rotation, so I probably did not play her household on the day(?) the nominations are announced.

"Simmerville;c-18209566" wrote:

"Eleri;c-18209532" wrote:
I had an elderly character who retired from a career as a conservationist. With more time on her hands, she decided to get back into her DJ mixing hobby. Apparently her new mix tape made quite a sensation, because she was immediately nominated for a starlight accolade, and she won.

The trick to winning for something that isn't an official career is that you have to license something. So, you're singer will have to compose and license a song to be noticed by the awards panel. She can't just sing live.

Thanks. My Singer does earn royalties regularly though, so I think she might have licensed something in the past. But I'm playing on rotation, so I probably did not play her household on the day(?) the nominations are announced.

Generally speaking, when a Sim licenses a piece of music, you'll get the popup right then letting you know the song was nominated. I originally thought it would come in the mail. But, it's far more instantaneous than that.

I've started using one of the longer Starlight Accolades mods and I must be having a mod conflict somewhere. It starts at 3 like the mod says but the host doesn't arrive until 6:30 or 7 which is the time they showed up before the mod. They take off sometime between 10:30 and 11:30 like before. The event is technically longer but the actual part with a host and awards being passed out is still the same length.

"DaniRose2143;c-18221447" wrote:
I've started using one of the longer Starlight Accolades mods and I must be having a mod conflict somewhere. It starts at 3 like the mod says but the host doesn't arrive until 6:30 or 7 which is the time they showed up before the mod. They take off sometime between 10:30 and 11:30 like before. The event is technically longer but the actual part with a host and awards being passed out is still the same length.

I've got both the eight hour mod and the twelve hour mod to extend the show. It (the twelve hour) is supposed to begin at eleven in the am, but notoriously starts later. I still use it because I've yet to have the show run out before Best Song is awarded. I'm starting to think I don't have to have Erik race home from church, though. The shorter one didn't fix the problem I was having, so I now use the longer one. I'm very happy with it, actually. I do notice that sometimes they do the Best Song at the top of the show, and other times they go through the other categories. It's hit and miss, but so far, so good for Erik. He's still on top of his game. Seventeen Best Songs, in a row. Yay. (This goes such a long way to salve my wounds when he was never acknowledged, even for the music he put out on the mix/machine thingie. His music was being played, too. He would hear it at venues he visited and stop and listen, as if in awe he was on the radio. LOL But, did he ever receive anything for it? No, sadly no.) So, if I'm a bit braggadocios, it's only because I'm still so excited by it. The shorter mod I believe sets the show to begin at three, midday, but there's seemingly a lot of pre-show shenanigans that goes on, pushing the starting point way off the mark. The show still ends at eleven pm. I would go, if I were you, with the one that is twelve hours. Your Sim might wait around in chairs for a bit before things actually start (around 2:30-ish) but that does leave time for all else to be accomplished. At least, that's my experience with it.