This mod introduces several tweaks for awards from Get Famous expansion.
Before using the mod, please read at least Known Issues section :)
*Download options are as always at the end of the post.
WHAT'S ADDED:
1. NEW AWARD CATEGORIES
Apart from the ones existing already in game (for best video, best song, best acting, best book and best painting) it adds 9 new categories:
- Starlight Accolade for Best Sense of Style
- Starlight Accolade for Best Photo
- Starlight Accolade for Best Satire
- Starlight Accolade for Best Scientific Achievement
- Starlight Accolade for Best Techology Achievement
- Starlight Accolade for Outstanding Achievements
- The Simmy Award
- The Llama Choice Award
- The Plumbell Prize (thank you @Naturalitarian for this name!!!)
2. NOMINATING OR APPLYING TO CELEBRITY TILE
You can nominate famous Sim to receive a Celebrity Tile. In this case, if nomination is accepted, a celebrity tile is delivered to the mailbox and your Sim can later hand it over to the famous Sim. Famous Sim doesn't have to be 5-star celebrity, however the chances are bigger if fame ranking is higher.
The same way, if your Sim is famous (but not necesarily 5-star celebrity), they can apply to receive their own celebrity tile.
*You have to wait few days after each nomination/application, before nominating/applying again.
*If you received a celebrity tile for a famous Sim, you cannot nominate any other Sim, until you hand over the celebrity tile to the right owner.
3. WATCHING STARLIGHT ACCOLADES CEREMONY ON TV
Every Sunday at 6 pm special channel on TV is active and your Sim can watch if they got a reward. This will work ONLY for a Sim who was nominated.
If your Sim won the award, you'll get notification, a Sim will get a buff and an award will be delivered to your mailbox the next day.
4. NOMINATING TO AWARDS (working now only within your household)
You can nominate any famous Sim (1 to 5 star celebrity) to any award from the list (also for best book and others already existing categories). You have to wait few days after each nomination, before nominating again.
BIG PROBLEM I DID NOT SOLVE YET IS - YOU CAN ONLY SUCCESSFULLY NOMINATE A SIM WITHIN YOUR HOUSEHOLD. I tried various approaches already and I did not succeed with nominating NPCs or even other active families :( I will continue trying, but I need some break from this, maybe I'll get fresh perspective if I give myself a time, or maybe other modder will come up with some advice for me.
A nomination does not mean that your Sim will get an award! This is different from the current game system. The higher fame rank, the bigger chance your Sim will get the award after nomination. And also each nomination increases these chances, so if you have more Sims in your household, each of them can nominate their famous relative/friend.
5. GETTING AUTONOMOUS NOMINATIONS WHILE PERFORMING VARIOUS ACTIONS
Since I introduced new awards categories, I decided to override various actions, so there is a chance your Sim will get a nomination while performing following actions. If your Sim gets a nomination - there is 100% they'll get award. But chances to get nominated this way are of course limited and can be increased by reputation rank, fame rank, very high career level, very high skills level, quality value of objects (e.g. of sent photos) etc.
- writing articles, felietons, manuals, research papers
- sending photos to publication/simstagram
- writing comedy routines
- submitting a concept (Civil Designer job)
- exploring space in rocketship
- observing sky through telescope
- curing patients (doctor career) or animals (veterinarian)
- solving cases (detective career)
- uploading viral video
- doing charity actions (voluntering, donating by computer, throwing charity event)
- promoting clothes by Trendi
- writing fashion blog etc. (as Trendsetter)
- programming mobile app or new game
- creating some robotics inventions
- analyzing various elements using chemical analyser or microscope
- organizing a fan meeting event
- being at 10 lvl of some careers (athletics, social media, writer, actor, entertainer, activist)
- fighting Mother Plant
- licensing songs written for pipe organs and also licensing lyrics
and I could have missed something :)
This is mostly covered in Addon, because there I had to override a lot of in game interactions. I decided to separate it from the main file for the compatibility reasons.
6. GENERAL OVERHAUL TO AWARDS
The award name is changed to include the name of the recipient.
Also you can change its description to better describe for what exactly this award was given.
The Llama Choice Award, The Simmy Award and The Plumbell Prize have their own statues. All other award have the "regular" Starlight Accolade look.
7. AWARD CEREMONY
If your Sim receives any nomination, they still can go watch award ceremony in Del Sol Valley and the event will also work for all new categories.
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KNOWN ISSUES
- As I already wrote above, you can successfully nominate to award only Sims within the current household (this does not apply to celebrity tile, this nomination will work for any Sim, also NPCs). I hope, I'll solve this at some point.
- Watching Award Ceremony on TV might get interrupted if another Sim decides to... change a channel and watch something else :) In this case, I am sorry, but your Sim needs to start over again watching the ceremony channel but it can mean than the ceremony will end and your Sim will not receive the award.
- While being given award during event in Del Sol Valley - the animation will be always with Starlight Accolade award, even if Sim won The Llama Choice Award, The Simmy Award or The Plumbell Prize. However the correct award will appear later in Sim inventory.
- I would really appreciate your feedback - if you get nominated too often or almost never, so I could put more realistic chances. I will also observe this in my own save.
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LANGUAGES:
English (default, by me)
Polish (by me)
Russian (by Origamika Group)
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Requires GET FAMOUS and CITY LIVING packs, and XML injector (the current version) to work.
Change log:
15/04/2024 - removed the possibility of sending autonomous nomination via computer by Sims. Now your Sim will not autonomously sit in front of the computer and nominate whoever they want to nominate. *Still, it doesn't change the option that a Sim can get nominated to an award while doing some tasks.
03/03/2024 - updated for the Patch from 27th of February (1.105.297) and compatible with Hotfix from 28th of February.
16/12/2023 - updated with small tweaks after Patch Dec 5th.