Re: Actors not getting option to practise romantic scenes.
@Psychotps Thanks, I'll give that a try. I even reinstalled the whole game two days ago and still the problem is there. I'll try what you said and get back to you. Thanks again! 🙂
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- @Gednaa Wooaahh! I just got one of my sims to join the acting career again, chose Melodies of the City and before taking out all my mods, I was compelled to try once more to do the romantic scene with another sim in the house. And there were all options there, not just action and Sci-fi!!??? So I'm guessing it must have been that I had too many actors in the career as all 8 sims were actors before today. Weird! The Plot Thickens. So now, my sim is all prepped for his gig! Yay!! Wondering if there is a limit on how many sims in your household you can have in the acting career. Really would like to find out. Anyone know? Thanks, my friend. You bought my day to a nice end! 🙂
@PsychotpsHiya! No same house, just one actor, same sims and it all just worked! Mystery to me! Yes it was hard with all 8 acting in one household, TBH, so I'm going to test and see how many I can get in the career before it bites back again! I'll find out the limit. Determined now! I had to get more mics and chairs at PBP Lounge to cater for us all at the Starlights. We packed the place out! We still shall next Sunday after Locke Faraday's gig. We also get awards for music and Daniel gets tons for books he wrote (sims) years ago! Weird, he's acted his socks off but never got an award and earned a gold every gig he did. We have over 200 awards between us! No room for them all! I keep them in my inventory and marvel at how hard my sims work! When they're not acting, they're burning the dance floor at Discotheque Pan Europa. Daniel overthrew the leader of Spin Masters, Dominic Fyres. Ruthless? Me?? Hee hee! See you later or in another thread about the wonders of gardening!
- @Gednaa Ha! Person after my own heart. I can't tell you how many times I did just that in the Sims 1 and 2. Pushing the boundaries of the game to see what it was capable of. My experiments were mainly genetics and parenthood. "How many times can I breed an alien with a human before there's no trace of alien left?"
Haha! Love it that you do that too! how far can we take this!?? That's a cool idea, to keep breeding aliens with humans... so how long does it take to remove all alien traces? :D. Meanwhile, back in the acting career... So, I got 2 actors into the career. Both got all the options for performing scenes. Added a third, got him a gig - No Options!!!! So it seems that you can only have two actors in the acting career in the same household, unless you want to skip the prep tasks for certain gigs, or choose a suitable gig that you can do. I'm not a happy bunny about this. I think I'll have to just put the two Best Actors into the career. Kahana and Boone. Shame, we never got less than gold at all our many, many gigs. Well that's that established, peeps. No more than two actors in one household. In fact I think I'll start a new thread to warn people. And thanks again. You got my brain in gear to do some experimenting. 🙂
FYI... in case you're interested, in Sims 3 and 4, it takes about 4-5 generations. In the Sims 2, the alien gene is dominant. I took a family 15 generations once and they never lost looking like an alien.
That's very interesting! As I said, I never had more than one in a single household. That definitely sounds like a game bug. Very good to know! Kudos!
You said you added a third and lost the options... does the same go for the first two? The first two have the options but the third doesn't? Or when you add a third, does ALL of them lose it?
- @Psychotps Ahhh! Now there's the thing, I'll have to test it after the first two have done their current gigs. Well done you! Another experiment coming up! Yes, I'll get Kahana back in to the agency and see if they all lose the options or not. This is definitely helping me to understand a lot more about the structure and limitations of the game. For that, I thank you! 🙂
@GednaaWell, good news and bad on the modding front. I figured out how to change the Award show hours, problem is, it won't work on an existing game. You have to start an entirely new game in order for it to take. I can change the hours on the defined event, but once the event is on your calendar, I can't change it. It only creates the event on your calendar after 6am the next day after your nomination.
Maybe if I can figure out how to delete the event off your calendar, it might re-create it with the correct hours... I dunno. Maybe it'll just work after the event cycles through to the next week? Still testing...- @crinrict Thanks, I did post in general discussions and also bug reports but it's early days yet for answers, I guess. Thanks for moving it and we have been chatty. Though through our chats I've learned a lot from @Psychotps, which I'm trying to share with other users, so kind of between our chats, we're still trying to get issues fixed. *offers hand to Crin for slap* 🙂
That's fine. There are a few good things in this thread, about how it was determined, but the meat of it is in the other post.
Turns out, the Awards ceremony is re-added onto the calendar every week. The second week it ended up having my new schedule. It announced the award show at 4pm, but the host didn't show up until 6. I kinda expected this, the host is considered a "job" so I have to update it with the new schedule. Same thing with the fans crowding around the door during the ceremony. Have to change the hours there. Once I get a good full test I'll put it up on MTS.
Ace! 😎
- @Psychotps Just to let you know, and I'll post this on the other thread I created, I have found that having more than 3 members of the household in the acting career stops the romantic and horror actions. I had added a 4th actor and only one had a gig lined up, but no options for romantic or horror. So is this by design? I'd really like to find out from a Dev here. So to clarify, only 3 actors allowed in one household. Thanks again.
- @Gednaa Laff. More than likely it's an unforseen bug. They probably never figured someone would have 3 or more active actors in the same house so they never tested it. Heck, they rarely test the MAIN features, let alone odd situations like this. 😉
Btw... I released that Longer Starlight Accolades mod on MTS. Works like a charm. You just have to wait until the following week if you already have one on your calendar.
I noticed there's usually an HOUR delay on the original event because it takes so long for the Host to arrive and make their way to the mic. So, I scheduled the Host to arrive an hour early. :P - @Psychotps My! that was quick. Thanks for letting me know. I'll be at Google very soon! Yes, that darn host taking ages to come to the awards, while my sims sit there bored out of their brains! (Because I become God then and take full autonomy off them!). Would you believe, my sim who I moved to another house, can't get a gig now? I had to cheat to get him the gig he wanted! It started off he couldn't get the gig he wanted but could get the one he did last week. Then I decided I didn't want him to do the same gig twice, so I checked for gigs again and he couldn't get one! Do these GF problems never end. Might have to start a new thread. Yawn... Oh and I did test without mods.
Try changing agencies. Different agencies offer different gigs. (And different payouts) "Well Suited" tends to offer a lot of movies. "Everyday" tends to offer mostly commercials and tv shows...
I've been modding a VERY long time. VERY LONG. Been hacking into game files for more than 20-30 years. I wrote a program back in... when was it... 1992? I cracked the Ultima 7 game files and made a map editor/viewer program. Been making save-game editor programs longer than that. I still have an old Ultima 4 save editor I made back in the 80's stored away somewhere. Have made hundreds of mods for Skyrim and Fallout... I even have a custom launcher program for Detroit on Nexus.
These little mods for Sims are nothing.- @Psychotps Stuff of legends!
Sadly, and I don't know what's caused this, but I can only have one actor in the household now or not all the practise scenes will show up. Couldn't get the romantic one again, while another sim was in the acting career. So I had one quit his job (he's won tons of awards anyway and I thought it nice to let a younger member of the house to keep going) and my workaround until this is fixed (and I emphasise FIXED because this is not how GF should work, surely???) is to have just one sim in the acting career. Yeah! You bet I modded our pay up because of this! Please, guys. Please tell me what this is about, why this is happening, if it's by design, or a random bug. I was happily playing 2 sims, but now I'm down to one! This doesn't sound right or sit well. You know I've removed mods, tested, done all I can, so begging for a logical answer and/or fix. What's GF pack for if only one can succeed? I know they can all walk around just being famous for famous sakes, but that's no fun! I don't want a bunch of posers, I want hard working actors, which I thought I would get. Sorry if I sound harsh, but can you imagine my frustration at this simple bug that's ruining the purpose of my storyline and whole game? Thanks if anyone can think of a way to sort this. I have only about 5 saves in my folder, clear cache, nothing that would impact the game. I await a Devs reply.
