The Unlucky Thing About Being a Celebrity

@GalacticGal thankfully there's the Quirk-B-Gone potion to remove those pesky quirks, so you can easily get Erik back to normal ?.

.. and when you've followed that advice, always use the lecture podium to practice speeches. Not in game right now, but do a search for Podus, you'll find it. Vain is honestly one of the most annoying quirks.

mostly just the paparazzi and fans and accolades sims etc because I'm trying to avoid game making new randomized townies and taking your famous sim anywhere spawns them like mad

also it just interrupts like everything your sims may want to do out of their house

One of my minor celebrities got the vain trait but I found it funny rather than annoying since she had the self-absorbed trait anyway, it made me just fill her house with mirrors. My other celebrity was into media production and doing beauty tutorials and product reviews, she picked up the refined palate quirk which was fine because she had level 10 in cooking and a roommate who kept bringing home gourmet dishes for some reason. I actually like the quirks because it makes my sims feel more unique and Get Famous is strangely one of my favourite expansions.

The worst quirk for me is emotion bomb. I don't mind it at all for sims like Judith Ward that aren't among my played households. Bombs away! I guess its the combination of being a recovering micromanager and wanting my sims to lead happy, relatively stress free lives that makes me dislike it. It has the power to really bring the friendship and romance bars down quickly if the bomb happens to be an angry one. Sad bombs can be disruptive for couples in my game. For some reason, probably a feature of a mod I didn't know about, both sims will get sad moodlets. The sim who doesn't have the emotion bomb moodlet will get a sad one out of sympathy for a sim they care about feeling bad. That sympathetic sad moodlet can be so strong it prevents them doing anything for a while.

I love refined palate. It is so easy to manage because every household in my game has at least one highly skilled cook. I want my sims to enjoy the gift of tasty meals. It's a focus of mine to get someone in the household good at cooking quickly. Vain and paparazzi darling are ones that I go either way on. They can be annoying under the right circumstances, but mostly I find them fun. I can't think of the name of the quirk, but it's the one where fans send gifts. I love that one too. It's so easy to work with and some of things they send can be hilarious at times.

"Starfree;c-18185224" wrote:
@GalacticGal thankfully there's the Quirk-B-Gone potion to remove those pesky quirks, so you can easily get Erik back to normal ?.

Yes, I love using the points this way! And he just got rid of the sudden vain trait he acquired. Far be it from him to ever practice speech. :open_mouth: Like none of the other celebrities don't. This is one Quirk that is simply out-of-control. I can't even tell you how very many times he went all the way downstairs, just to check out 'his fine self'. Oi.

"Jade47;c-18185286" wrote:
One of my minor celebrities got the vain trait but I found it funny rather than annoying since she had the self-absorbed trait anyway, it made me just fill her house with mirrors. My other celebrity was into media production and doing beauty tutorials and product reviews, she picked up the refined palate quirk which was fine because she had level 10 in cooking and a roommate who kept bringing home gourmet dishes for some reason. I actually like the quirks because it makes my sims feel more unique and Get Famous is strangely one of my favourite expansions.

I don't mind some of the Quirks. Vain is so unlike who my Sim is, for one and the Emotion Bomb is just as destructive. Bad news, in my book. ;)

@GalacticGal if you want/need Erik, or any sim, to practice speech would it be better to get a podium? That way you don't run the risk of him getting the vain quirk.

To me, Emotion Bomb is hilarious, and it sometimes saves their life because they can't die from being enraged; if a celebrity I have does get enraged, I usually just let them be and stew in their rage before they quickly get over it. Plus, when some stranger dies, they get a very powerful sad moodlet but emotion bomb causes it to go away much more quickly like it should and is something I can appreciate.

Also, I know how to deal with paparazzi and I love them visiting my house. I just pose them as dead corpses with the pose player mod (or having them repeatedly do death animations) and carry with my day.

I tend to use MCCC and 'make them leave'. Thanks for the tips on the quickly vanishing death of a friend problem.

"JustinB113;c-18185547" wrote:
I have the dont touch me quirk.

My one star fame sim Lorraine loves her long term neighbour Sofia and every time she sees her she gives her a big hug. And then she freaks out about Sofia having touched her ?

It's not working correctly then. The do not touch should only apply to strangers.