UGH! Nightclubs and Celebrities!

"hadklax;c-16866813" wrote:
Sadly, I agree. I do like GF but this is hugely annoying.

Bars are useless (even pre GF) as they only ever sit or stand around the bar rendering the rest of the lot totally useless. Even groups you struggle to sit together. Karaoke bars aren't much better. Lounges are ok but now the celeb hotspot and night clubs are as above. I also find they only seem to attract adults and seldom young adults. Where the hell can my sims now go?

VIP areas help a bit in clubs but if you place a bar or DJ booth in there, the rest of the club can't access it. If you leave it outside, then the VIP area is nothing more than a place to sit (and pour your own drinks). Celeb disguises kind of work in that they reduce the effect after the inital buzz of seeing the celeb (it doesn't last forever though). It also doesn't help with the other celebs your sim might be out with or who might turn up. Removing the lot traits don't seem to help neither.

Turning off celebs again, kind of helps but its not perfect. I do love there is some choice in the game but totally agree, once a celeb shows up, the entire lot goes into meltdown.

I took my Sim down to the Blue Velvet in Willow Springs. I solved some of these issues by having him (he's a Global Superstar) sit down at the piano and 'jazz the place up'. He played the piano and sometimes sang all evening long. The crowd gathered around the instrument. It was fun.

Wow, I thought that stuff would only happen at lots with the Get Famous traits. It doesn’t seem like celebrities should be even showing up at everyday lounges.

I thought I was the only having this issue! It's really annoying and I wish they'd fix it. Or a mod.

"Cassandra52182;c-16875711" wrote:
Does anyone know if this is an actual bug or if it was intended to be this way? Also if this was intentional is there any way they can actually change it because it's extremely annoying.

I think it was intentional but the Law of Unintended Circumstances kicked in. We could see some tuning down of some of the features, but it might take a while (look how long it took leaf piles to get fixed).

Whomever it was who suggested removing speakers from venues, thank you; I downloaded a karaoke bar from the Gallery (it's perfect for Windenburg) and it has a stereo; maybe if I take that out Dirk Dreamer won't show up and start dancing (he's not even that good!) and distract everyone from watching my Sim do karaoke.

Should we claim a "no-celebs" lot trait?

There are two mods that help tuning down celebrity hassle:

townieoverhaul_lessfame: https://www.deichschafblog.de/s4/sonstige-mods/
lesscelebreact: https://www.deichschafblog.de/s4/mods-fuer-werde-beruehmt/

I never had a problem with celebrities in the night clubs, the service sims did randomly stop djing before if there fun or social bar is low. DJing time period at the nightclub is from 7:00pm 3:00am after that they will most likely ignore the booth. Also only certain DJ are likely to stop when a celebrity strikes a pose. Also only certain celebrities have the famous perks unlocked to do it. I do think it is somewhat random.

Edit: I almost forgot, which this may be your problem the DJ just happens to be a fan to the celebrity that shows up, but because he is the service NPC for the DJing right now you don't see his fan label, because lot specify jobs override random temporary names. I seen a bar tender get up go up to celebrity and faint on a lounge lot, than went back to bar tending when the celebrity left.

I found the problem assuming the stuff is not randomly assigned. Thorne in my game has perk fan favorite strike pose, he also has quirk of paparazzi Darling and Dain, they all reinforce the perk fan favorite. Just celebrity cleanse the sim and set the perks you want.

I don't know if that clears the quirks.

Yes, that is what I am talking about, 5 star celebrities, can choose between the 2 summon squads, the first one is called squad, the second one is called Star Treatment. The major problem here is in order to get to the summon squad, you need to unlock the levels below it which is fan squad for the track in the middle and which isn't really a problem as long as there is only one celebrity on the lot other than your sim, however, the level 4 perk gives strangers the ability to stop what they are doing to introduce themselves to you and since DJ are most likely going to be strangers there is a conflict there. The fans you spawn will stick around until you are gone, but they are not just your fans they are fans of any celebrity, so here is the problem you get a celebrity that starts playing guitar, or dancing, thanks to the talent showcase thing and the music station, sims will be prone to listen and rate the music they are hearing or the dance moves of the celerity or song on the speaker or radio, they can than do two choices cheer or do something else. The problem is it is a number of things that are causing your problem, part of it is the perks, that spawn stuff. A good example your a 4 star celebrity and you spawn fans, because you got fan favorite, well they will stick with you until the sim that spawns them leaves and than, the problem occurs since fans are fans of any famous sim, fans will react to anything any famous sim does above level 4, now you add the squad spawn for your inner circle and it gets even more confusing or the star treat and sometimes it even happens when your around I seen a level 3 sim spawn fans, than a level 4 sim came onto lot with the instate besties perk she even spawned more fans, so all her fans stopped what they are doing to request to be there best friend. This was on the get famous lot though so was not too worried about it though. Even though with CL it shuts down the festivals when a 5 star celebrity comes with her/his famous squad that also has perks of their own, that can range from spawning more fans or celebrities, or other squad from other celebrities. This has broken the restaurants. Another problem is the speaker system and stereo from the dj, if sims like the songs the DJ is playing they will stop for a few minutes and cheer with the music with a thumbs up. Than you add the quirks and it further adds to the problem. If a 5 star celerity comes into a night club and starts playing or dancing, and the DJ is not a 5 star celebrity he will actually break his job to go rate his playing with a head of the 5 star celebrity and a thumbs up. If that 5 star celebrity also has the instant besties the NPC celebrities will auto spawn requests because the DJ is a stranger to them. Unfortunately because Get Together, came before Get Famous, though venues don't know how to handle the problems. One way is to use clubs system to spawn the DJ as long as people are dancing on the dance floor the DJ can't leave. As soon as the level 5 sim enters the nightclub if your in a club and dancing the Get together club spawns will override the Get Famous spawn train.

I will have to see if I can reproduce it. Also I am wondering if lot traits can also stop the spam squad from the level 5 and 4 celebrities.

I use the dancing not performing mod from coolspears
http://simsasylum.com/tfm/index.php?/topic/13857-fame-tweaks-sims-worker-npcs-no-reacting-to-fame-level-5-celebrity-disguise-no-clothing-change-no-reacting-to-dancing-famous-sim-get-famous-ep/&tab=comments#comment-326546
and the small get famous reaction overhaul from LittleMsSam (you'll have to find the file called random small mods and it will be in the get famous folder)
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/108OkTcLr8DlV673xHU8zjVtcdmUoe5bC
Since downloading these 2 mods I haven't had any problems with the dj's or the mixologists leaving their post to gawk at celebrities, and most of the time the sims that do have any reaction are ones labeled fans.