Ways to Earn Fame - The Quicker the Better

Here is a spreadsheet of all the ways to earn fame.

My sim reached 3 stars pretty quickly by livestreaming while he was painting, and then selling the paintings. The quickest way to go from 3 to 5 is to buy the perk that lets you donate objects and then donate a bunch of expensive objects, of course, doing that would require money : )

"Cupid;c-16842181" wrote:
Here is a spreadsheet of all the ways to earn fame.

My sim reached 3 stars pretty quickly by livestreaming while he was painting, and then selling the paintings. The quickest way to go from 3 to 5 is to buy the perk that lets you donate objects and then donate a bunch of expensive objects, of course, doing that would require money : )

I’m having problems opening the spreadsheet.

I took my sim to 4 stars without (much) acting or uploading any videos. But it has been a slow process!! She didn't have enough money to donate a lot of objects and I wanted to try "old school" fame without using a drone. For her it was primarily performing in public and licensing songs. She also won an award, although it was a little hard to figure out how much that increased her fame. She has the perk that increases her royalties (and I think fame?) through licensed/skill items--songs, paintings etc.

She also has the perk that increases her fame when she interacts with other celebrities, but I was unclear how that worked. Did that mean only the interactions that were listed as increasing fame? Or friending another celebrity? In some cases the only "fame" listed interaction was "Give Repair Tips" which seemed a little odd.

In terms of performing in public, the most important factors seem to be skill level and number of sims watching. Skill level seems to be very key. So rather than doing a lot of different fame-based things at lower skill levels, hone your sim's skill in one area first. It appeared to me that the difference between say, acquiring fame at skill level 7 vs 9 was significant - faster at higher levels. This is just my impression I haven't looked at any of the spreadsheets yet.

Also, make sure your sim goes to an area where there are a lot of sims milling about. For the first couple levels of fame, the fame uptick comes every time they are tipped. At higher levels, simply doing anything in public increases fame, including posing for photos, dancing, or playing an instrument.

"Nectere;c-16843500" wrote:
I found for my fledgling rather by accident that she gained fame just from doing the things she had been doing all along, performing in public and selling paintings.

I am kind of curious how to navigate not becoming famous and just continuing to be a free agent instead.

That's what opting out of fame is for. I've got two families whom I don't want to become famous. I opted them out, and now whiele they could still say sell photos, they won't game fame form it.

I've found the social media career with the internet personality branch was a good route. It unlocks a lot of quick interactions that increase fame which you use a lot as part of the career. Internet personality unlocks live streams which are very useful. Id start streaming with a drone, while livestreaming games which kind of worked.

I've tried painting and writing. I got higher faster by publishing books but it takes a long time to write and paint, and its hard to tell what interactions provide more fame. I know promotions in the acting career and proposing provide more fame because the icon next to the sim when theyre performed is ++

Thanks to @Cupid for the awesome spreadsheet. I now now what other fame interactions I can try out

I’ve got a household of four different sims all trying to be famous in different ways (an actor, a style influencer, a travel/cooking blogger and a social media personality) and the one who gained fame the quickest was the social media one. I think it’s mostly bc so many of her jobs tasks are fake gaining tasks. And the goals of how many followers she needs to be promoted makes me have to have her do sooooo many of those interactions that she gained a first star of fame very very quickly while my actor sim keeps losing her first start bc her gigs aren’t getting her enough fame yet. I know that’ll change soon as she gets promoted and gets tv gigs and such but yeah. That’s my experience so far.

For me, once I had my Sim reach level 3 of fame, it was easier to get to level 5. But getting from 1 to 3 is really challenging. My Sim had a drone and I had her do several livestreams. There's also a perk, I think the networking track.....but basically you can ask a celebrity or anyone, to hype up anyone in your household, including your Sim....& that's a quick way to boost fame.

My current household I'm playing, my Sim is a comedian. It's been a struggle to get fame going for him....as he's not even level 1 yet. But I started doing the live streaming as he does his comedy routines....and it's starting to boost faster.

Out of all ways...I'd say live streams is the fastest boost.

I found for my fledgling rather by accident that she gained fame just from doing the things she had been doing all along, performing in public and selling paintings.

I am kind of curious how to navigate not becoming famous and just continuing to be a free agent instead.

Publishing books is surprisingly quick to bump up fame at a certain point. My author sim has published a few and he has 1 star now. His wife is a painter, and in my experience, selling paintings to collectors doesn't build fame as fast.

"icmnfrsh;c-16898280" wrote:
Publishing books is surprisingly quick to bump up fame at a certain point. My author sim has published a few and he has 1 star now. His wife is a painter, and in my experience, selling paintings to collectors doesn't build fame as fast.

Yup I noticed it too. Author sims
earns a a boost in fame especially when they published a beat Seller