The Color of the Starlight Accolade

My musician and writer celebrities have won around 15 total accolades since that other thread as well, and they also always received the gold one in terms of what it looked like up on stage.

I haven't actually paid attention to what color they are in inventory and when I put them on the shelf, but I have used the color-picker after placing them in the sims' homes to make a few bronze and silver, simply because I don't want them to all look the same when they are out on display. :lol:

"Stormkeep;c-18095308" wrote:
My musician and writer celebrities have won around 15 total accolades since that other thread as well, and they also always received the gold one in terms of what it looked like up on stage.

I haven't actually paid attention to what color they are in inventory and when I put them on the shelf, but I have used the color-picker after placing them in the sims' homes to make a few bronze and silver, simply because I don't want them to all look the same when they are out on display. :lol:

People talk about this color-picker, tooltip something or other, but I have never been able to make it work. As far as my noticing the color of the trophies I tend to be a detail-oriented person. I thought this Erik was lagging behind, but I made a chart to keep track of which song was nominated and whether it won, by striking highlighting it. I've also started this save by doing the same. I'm using another page to note what Erik was wearing when he won, since that helped tremendously in the count-tracking for the one who has seventeen Accolades when we last saw him. That save is safe-guarded (I've marked it very clearly) and I won't play it again, until RTF is updated. This could be as far away as June. This is the final semester of the creator's time in university. Good for him. :) You'll be happy to note that I didn't change the color of the trophies for his Fan Meet & Greets. One is gold, the other bronze, even though it stated he won gold for both events. So, see? I can relax. LOL

Congratulations to Erik!

My author had no problem winning a gold Starlight Accolade for his book, and it was one of his firsts! Maybe it’s actually bronze, though? I’ll have to check.

I wish my musicians could win an accolade, but they’re unable to license the songs they’ve written. It keeps saying they’ve already licensed one that week and I need to wait. But they haven’t done that. I started a bug report on AHQ but it seems I’m the only one with this problem? I took mods out to see if that would clear things up but it didn’t. I want Cassandra and Sofia to be as prolific as Erik Cantrell. ?

@babajayne, something is definitely glitchy right now related to song licensing. Though I do use mods, I don't use any related to that and I have the opposite problem as you with one of my households...I can license songs over and over as much as I want without needing to wait a week.

@Stormkeep oh, that’s interesting! I’d much rather have that bug!

I use a mod that makes sims put instruments back in their personal inventory after use, but even with all my mods out, I still couldn’t license any songs written on violin or guitar.

"babajayne;c-18095462" wrote:
Congratulations to Erik!

My author had no problem winning a gold Starlight Accolade for his book, and it was one of his firsts! Maybe it’s actually bronze, though? I’ll have to check.

I wish my musicians could win an accolade, but they’re unable to license the songs they’ve written. It keeps saying they’ve already licensed one that week and I need to wait. But they haven’t done that. I started a bug report on AHQ but it seems I’m the only one with this problem? I took mods out to see if that would clear things up but it didn’t. I want Cassandra and Sofia to be as prolific as Erik Cantrell. ?

Do a game repair. If all else fails, do a Game Folder Refresh, by simply adding _Old to your Sims4 game folder via Documents>Electronic Arts? Sims4. (If you have a PC.) Keep your renamed folder. Start your game and a new one will regenerate. See if the problem still exists. If not replace the saves and Tray folders with the ones from your _Old folder. You should be good to go. Hope this helps.

Thank you @babajayne . He's up for yet another one :) He's got a long, long way to go to catch up to an earlier iteration of himself, though.

@GalacticGal I have repaired the game to see if it would be corrected, but no luck, sadly. I ended up cheating the milestone to be completed for the aspiration where one wants to earn 500 simoleons through licensing music.

"babajayne;c-18095949" wrote:
@GalacticGal I have repaired the game to see if it would be corrected, but no luck, sadly. I ended up cheating the milestone to be completed for the aspiration where one wants to earn 500 simoleons through licensing music.

I have to cheat that sometimes, too. The game will recognize when a Sim's skill is where they need it to be, or above, but when a Sim has written close to fifteen songs they aren't noticed when they get to that set of aspiration goals. Face/palm. So, I give it to him. What? It's not like he hasn't already fulfilled it in spades. LOL

I use a mod to stop the cooldown on licensing. It helps. Before that Erik was never recognized for his music, except for the one time I placed him in the Entertainment field. He was then approached by his boss to submit some of his music. He won, but wasn't invited to the actual Awards Show. Huge let-down. Happily, for the sake of the story, I had some pictures of him winning an accolade for acting I had never shared. Now, he's winning for his music outright. So much fun. Although some have said lyrics can win, from my experience it's only the written song that wins. We'll see if I can break through that barrier at some point. Already, I have mentions music and lyrics by Erik Cantrell. ;) He is a singer, after all. Kinda hard to sing a melody without words. I wish we could have the singer career from Sims3, with the award show we have in Sims4. So, it's my story and I'm sticking with it. LOL