How is your SHOWTIME experience so far?

[emino]

Just got the game. First few minutes into the game.

I dont get the 'feel' of a new expansion with this one yet. Sure, there seems to be tonnes of 'community lots' with lots of new stuffs, but I think thats about it. My sim doesnt have much money yet to afford all the new stuffs, and I dont like to cheat.

Will try make my sim pursue the singing career and report back later.

[leesester]

Yay - I knew I could rely on you Emino - lets see some pics :D .

[emino]

Only have the dvd pics so far:

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0gaswEusg1r1dakxo1_500.jpg

Currently seeing new stuffs in CAS. The male clothes are alright. Seems like stuffs I would wear. The hair however I wouldn't dare to do it onto myself.. lol

I take back my word... WTF is this? Why EA? WHY?!!

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-gbfz1Xci1Vc/T1XJw7gVvJI/AAAAAAAACeI/JYE7HcRGBZI/s800/TS3W%25202012-03-06%252016-21-05-41.jpg

[Zokugai]

Oh, hell, no one said anything about grown men dressed in bunny costumes. This EP has potential after all.

[emino]

So as a singer, the guy started by singing telegrams, performing for tips and getting gigs.

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-KzuvGaWqXt4/T1XPqMWfhPI/AAAAAAAACeY/aJKDBivx_30/s800/TS3W%25202012-03-06%252016-37-25-43.jpg

Anyway, sims with Natural Born Performer trait will do everything with Flair. Like how daredevil sims do everything extreme.

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-7DUWu9Z3hXg/T1XPqajpyxI/AAAAAAAACec/PD0U_D0f-yA/s800/TS3W%25202012-03-06%252016-48-42-77.jpg

[HystericalParoxysm]

Psssh, that "with flair" thing sounds lame, unless the sim does jazz hands while getting into the shower.

(Please tell me they actually do jazz hands while getting in the shower.)

[emino]

Psssh, that "with flair" thing sounds lame, unless the sim does jazz hands while getting into the shower.

(Please tell me they actually do jazz hands while getting in the shower.)

It is lame. And I cant tell, really. No blur removal mod yet.

[Simsdestroyer]

I think the new town of Starlight Shores is kind of bland, however there was a simfest in my game, and it went really well, there were about 3 acts. And no one goes to work, they just perform all day. I kind of get the feeling that EA's SP has improved also, because a sim came up to my sim and started to autonomously flirt with him. That's NEVER happened in my game with vanilla progression. Your going to have to do some major tweaking to this town, which has me kind of disappointed because they did such a great job on Apaloosa Plains, and Lunar Lakes. Or maybe because we've had so many great player made towns, I'm kind of spoiled to mass detail. Anyway as far as content, this expansion pack has LOADS of stuff. However the kids,teens, toddlers didn't get anything new (didn't expect that with this kind of EP anyway). All in all, it's pretty good with all the potential things we can do now. Only disappointment is the new town.

[Nyami]

Thanks for the pics and info emino! That bunny suit is ridiculous!
I'm hoping to get the game tomorrow :D I've been on the fence (because of the social features/Simport) until the patch came out and I found out the social features weren't nearly as hard to block out as I'd imagined--at least for me--so now I'm looking forward to this EP. I really missed Superstar so I think I will probably love it.
Now if only we get weather next everything would be perfect. I forgot how much I liked weather until I went back to TS2 for awhile :P

[ani_]

lol at the hair, it looks so eighties, just saw similar hair on a "Love and Marriage" re-run last Friday when I was in the gym.

[christmas fear]

A bunny suit? Now we're assured we will get our money's worth. :p

[SommarBlomma]

Ow, some ppl have it already... I'm in Europe, we have to wait a bit, but I'm not going to install the new EP anyway, before all my mods are updated. What about the new town? I saw pics of it on youtube, you know, that online chat where they presented the town, and I thought it was quite small, with lots located sparsely, not close together. Is the town really so little, and is threre a room to expand it (like, can empty lots be place along the roads?).

[emino]

The new town is boring. And it seems like it would be a hassle to convert anything else in our old town to include stages, since they have these rugs to arrange the audiences.

[GnatGoSplat]

Does the bunny suit at least come with a bunny head and feet to complete the look?

[ani_]

What about the people, are they pretty or pudding?

[matrix54]

A hassle? To rearrange/add some tables and chairs? o_O

:rofl:

[Zokugai]

Yes! Most important. How horribly hideous are the premades?

[aGOLDENbox]

Does the bunny suit at least come with a bunny head and feet to complete the look?

The suit is already connected with bunny feet and there are seperate bunny heads.

[fraavio]

Can you use the bunny suit as a pajama? If not, I hope modders will figure it out so we'll have footies. I love them footies.

[Simsdestroyer]

What about the people, are they pretty or pudding?





They are hideous lol, seriously EA did a terrible job on the townies.

[SommarBlomma]

A hassle? To rearrange/add some tables and chairs? o_O

:rofl:

Hm, I usually do much more serious rearrangements in the town, like add lots, custom apartments, take down some buildings to place new ones, and delete almost all families but a few. Any time I start playing an EA town, I try to make it more townlike (but without skyscrapers, they lag), and it is not always easy. Judging from what I saw, it will really be a hassle to rearrange SS if the lots refuse to get placed in all those gaps. The town's really sparse, like, a bunch of buildings here, then a bunch of buildings there, and huge green areas between them.

But the terrain paint is not bad, must i say! And i like those little paths. I'd add more flora, though. But, unlike placing new lots, it is easy to do.

[aGOLDENbox]

Can you use the bunny suit as a pajama? If not, I hope modders will figure it out so we'll have footies. I love them footies.

Yep, the suits are available for adults (and I think teens) for everyday and pj outfits.

[fraavio]

I just realized that the hair on emino's sim looks like Christian Bale's in American Psycho. Hello Patrick Bateman sim.

[matrix54]

^I meant just tabled and chairs though lol
I'm going to get some pictures of Sims for people. This is going to take a while though. :rofl:

[Zokugai]

lol at the hair, it looks so eighties, just saw similar hair on a "Love and Marriage" re-run last Friday when I was in the gym.

Actually I believe that hair is CC converted from the Sims Medieval.

[matrix54]

Alright I was going to do them all, but I like being sane.
http://s1058.photobucket.com/albums/t419/michaelqclancy/?albumview=slideshow
As you can see, they range from pretty alright, so fugly - but they way they look and there class make sense.

Interesting fact: I've never seen EA do this before, but some of the cheap home (with Sims in them) have trash in them. :rofl:

[ReyaD]

Alright I was going to do them all, but I like being sane.
http://s1058.photobucket.com/albums/t419/michaelqclancy/?albumview=slideshow
As you can see, they range from pretty alright, so fugly - but they way they look and there class make sense.

Interesting fact: I've never seen EA do this before, but some of the cheap home (with Sims in them) have trash in them. :rofl:

O_O Oh... oh god... that last girl, with the blonde twin braids... what is wrong with her FACE?

[goteampink]

Hmm, I think no one in town is a 'celebrity' Kind of find it odd/annoying that there isn't the movie lot/actors in town, since this new place seems like California to me.

[matrix54]

Empty Lots:
Residential:
1 64x64 (in the hills)
2 40x40 (in the hills)
1 25x25 (downtown)
1 40x38 -_- (Cliffside)

Community:
1 60x60 (Cliffside)

As you already know, there is VERY little room for expansion. :/

[Enjoji]

Lolol, I wondered the same thing about her face too, lolol... in all honesty though, I think these townies look better than the Bridgeport lot - had to go through all of them and re-do each one, they were so fugly to me, lolol...
Thanks for the pics, matrix54 :)

[matrix54]

Your Welcome - now I have no idea what to take pictures of next. It's all laggy and stuff, but my game has always been that way. :rofl:

Any requests, within reason. :p

[Margaret Pendragon]

I just got mine installed. I thought it was kind of dumb that the installation process asked for my code...considering I downloaded the game through Origin, and the code was right there on the info screen. I've never had to do that before, it's always just started installing automatically after downloading if the game was through Origin.

Here's a list of the new lots available:
http://i1225.photobucket.com/albums/ee396/missiejohnston/newlots.png

[Misanthrope]

http://i.imgur.com/5UiG5l.jpg

Oh my god, it's E.T. :blink:

Seriously though, why are EA townies so ugly? D:
I always have to kill off the premades and populate the towns with my own sims.

[Margaret Pendragon]

Oh my god, it's E.T. :blink:Holy cow, it sure is :blink:

[matrix54]

Random Facts and About Big Show Shells:
Big Shows:
The crowd marker is 30 x 20. O_O
They are composed of empty, oversized rooms, 4 storys up
The only enterance for the shell is the backdoor.

It's the most depressing thing ever. <_<

There's also a second page tab for the other categories in buy mode. :rofl:

[lewisb40]

Oh my god, it's E.T. :blink:

Seriously though, why are EA townies so ugly? D:
I always have to kill off the premades and populate the towns with my own sims.

Got dammit! I just got through eating, can you all give a fellow simmer a warning before you show stuff like this? :!:

*Is feeling queasy* :P

Glad the motivation wasn't there to get this EP. Still haven't inquired to my game shop about it. I know the manager is wondering where is the old, crazy, hair all over her head, lady screaming that she wants the new EP on Monday before the release? :anime:

[~MadameButterfly~]

I must say that after killing off a large portion of the town with MasterController, my experience is going a lot better. I mean, why should I lag myself out with ugly sims? (My game is running smoothly, and my eyes are no longer bleeding.)

[Redhead Creations]

Random Facts and About Big Show Shells:
Big Shows:
The crowd marker is 30 x 20. O_O
They are composed of empty, oversized rooms, 4 storys up
The only enterance for the shell is the backdoor.

It's the most depressing thing ever. <_<

There's also a second page tab for the other categories in buy mode. :rofl:

Can you post a picture of what the empty shell looks like, so that builders can get an idea of what there is to work with?

[Periandre]

Is the coffeehouse a rabbithole? a community lot? or a combination of both? I saw the Flying V listed (on SimsVIP) as if it were a rabbithole, but people have been complaining about no barristas... so I'm confused.

[DigitalSympathies]

That first sim in the slideshow looks a lot like a good friend of mine.

http://images.wikia.com/sims/images/2/2e/Goopygc.jpg

http://i1058.photobucket.com/albums/t419/michaelqclancy/Screenshot-212.jpg

[ani_]

matrix54: lol at the pictures. Are you sure you took pictures of SS not your hillibilly game? those can't be the brightest stars of America.

What Periandre asked, is the coffee house a RH? can you buy take-away coffee? if yes, can you buy it from the register?

Also, what is the "dummy" crowds like? does it make your clubs look more filled? how do they interact, can you interact with them? or how do they work.

The rag to riches thing, is there any low end housing, low end deco, low end furniture that looks trashy?

[cameranutz2]

Moar pics via PB slideshow...

http://s248.photobucket.com/albums/gg195/cameranutz2/Showtime/?albumview=slideshow

[ani_]

cameranutz2: thanks for the pictures, I really liked the ad with the two girls with a coke. I hope it's a spoiler for future bottle drinking. Sims don't really drink from bottles, except in TS2 you could drink water from the bar.

There were a few nice looking community lots and low end houses but other than that, the town looks quite dull.

[Zokugai]

Does the dummy crowds thing mean your town winds up with fifty billion new sims generated every time you have a concert? Because if so, KILL IT WITH FIRE.

[matrix54]

matrix54: lol at the pictures. Are you sure you took pictures of SS not your hillibilly game? those can't be the brightest stars of America.

What Periandre asked, is the coffee house a RH? can you buy take-away coffee? if yes, can you buy it from the register?

Also, what is the "dummy" crowds like? does it make your clubs look more filled? how do they interact, can you interact with them? or how do they work.

The rag to riches thing, is there any low end housing, low end deco, low end furniture that looks trashy?

The Sims in town look the way they live, to put it simply.

I'll try my hardest to test out the dummy crowds. I really will. :)

-The "coffeehouse" rabbithole does nothing new. It's a new "diner". It even looks like a diner (on the inside).

-The only really low end item that I've seen in the game is a stack of news papers Sims can sit on, which is quite cheap. There's also a plain, but not exactly cheap bed. But, it's stats say otherwise.

Oh, and you CAN buy drink on the new community lots, but it's nothing like LN. There needs to be a proprietor on the lot - i'm not sure how that works out, I haven't played it enough yet -and you have to find him/her (hopefully, somewhere near the bar, but I think you can call him/her), and then ask for a drink. Then you WAIT for the Sims to find the bar, and get you a drink (hand delivered to you). It's not coffee, but it's something, I guess. They get the "juiced" moodlet when ordering drinks.

Does the dummy crowds thing mean your town winds up with fifty billion new sims generated every time you have a concert? Because if so, KILL IT WITH FIRE.

I'll test that now.

[himawara106]

Alright I was going to do them all, but I like being sane.
http://s1058.photobucket.com/albums/t419/michaelqclancy/?albumview=slideshow
As you can see, they range from pretty alright, so fugly - but they way they look and there class make sense.

Interesting fact: I've never seen EA do this before, but some of the cheap home (with Sims in them) have trash in them. :rofl:

Actually I like that when sims aren't all beautiful. :llama:

[clc1983]

I am loving it! I can't remember the last time I had so much fun initially with an EP. Maybe World Adventures? Perhaps Weather before that in TS2?

[tizerist]

matrix, about that crowd spawner, how useful is it?
I mean can we just plop a few down in nightclubs to get busy clubs?

[Zokugai]

I actually quite like the look of the town. Possibly because I'm from Florida. I see palm trees and my subconscious goes "Oh this isn't that bad..."

[SommarBlomma]

Moar pics via PB slideshow...

http://s248.photobucket.com/albums/gg195/cameranutz2/Showtime/?albumview=slideshow

Thanks for the pics, really nice! I actually like the community lots and RHS, but the houses... meh. Anyway, you can't expect too much from EA houses. They at least did good job with community lots design. And landscape. We'll see, what can be done to improve this little town...

[QUOTE=matrix54]Random Facts and About Big Show Shells:
Big Shows:
The crowd marker is 30 x 20. O_O
QUOTE]
O_o, why the hell so big! I do have a huge empty lot await in my current town (wanted to make a park there, but saved it in case i need it for SHT, and it was the righ thing to do, as I see now). Anyway, they could've made this marker smaller, at least a bit.

[matrix54]

matrix, about that crowd spawner, how useful is it?
I mean can we just plop a few down in nightclubs to get busy clubs?

The Crowd spawner is 20x30. It WOULD be the club, but the spawner only works in Stadiums/Concert Halls (which I'm still trying to figure out. It's odd.

I'm going to try and post a video of a concert. ^_^

[Pyba]

Has anyone tried it on Mac?

[Dramamine]

It would have been nice if the crowd spawner was a little smaller, like 5x5 or something so we could just join them together and make our crowds however big we'd like. Wonder why it only works on specific lot types.

[matrix54]

^It works that way because it's intended for shows. Crowds are only active during shows. :)

If you use collection folders, you can put whatever you want on stage. Like, if you wanted a bedroom scene for a sing, you can do that, BUT you cannot use build mode, so if you want walls, I assume you have to do that before hand. it's in the video I'm uploading now, and I discovered it while on stage.

-Sims pop in to the scene when the concert starts
-When in the vicinity of the stage, the entire world goes back, until you leave the arena.
-Sims are rendered as the following: Actual Sims, Semi-renders Sims (they look like crap), and then sprites. No addition lag what so ever, so no worries.
-I, honestly, have no idea where rabbit holes for big shows are located. at all. :(

Video:
http://youtu.be/dZj-T_6tr00

[jenieusa]

I love it so far...my bar has...a pool table(almost wanna cry over this)....just had my sim join the singing profession....

the game loaded just fine...no hiccups as of yet :)

[emino]

A hassle? To rearrange/add some tables and chairs? o_O

:rofl:

Like I said, its not that simple. they have special rugs now, people doesnt just randomly gather around.

Actually I believe that hair is CC converted from the Sims Medieval.

Yes. Like I said earlier, I wont touch the new hairs. :P

[matrix54]

Actually, people do gather at random. You don't have to put down anything. It's just that is you want to designate seating, you can. :)

[emino]

Ah. Thanks for that intel. I'm too lazy anyway, will probably just download some random buildings with stages.

[matrix54]

Alright. :rofl:

[Margaret Pendragon]

Yeesh, I've been playing with Showtime for a few hours now, but I was playing in my own world. I just checked out Starlight Shores and I've gotta say I'm less than impressed. There's not much to it, and *I* can do a better job blending terrain paints.

http://i1225.photobucket.com/albums/ee396/missiejohnston/Screenshot-34.jpgThat's all there is to it.

http://i1225.photobucket.com/albums/ee396/missiejohnston/Screenshot-35.jpgSee how blotchy the terrain paint is? :-/ Although I do like the 'Hollywood' sign.

[matrix54]

Not to be a turd or anything, but EA's world is better, but your world is much more interesting and pleasing to look it

And the "Blotchyness" is intended for the look from a far, but I know you mean. When you get close up (which we are most of time) it loses it's effect, and look muddy.

[Mishy]

OOps....wrong thread!

[lolohoho]

throwing cow plant at performer doesn't do anything!

[Llihnae]

Can you workout with the mp3 player or do you still need a tv or hi-fi?

[lemonez13]

I have to ask, is there any way to preference what kind of singer you are? Everything I find on the internet is mostly hip hop/pop singer stuff. Really wonder if there is like an Opera singer choice. D: If you can be a Opera-ish singer I will go buy this right now lol.

But overall everything looks interesting, only expansion I haven't gathered on release, and slightly regretting it. :P

[matrix54]

MP3 player thing, I'll check now, but there is no opera in the game. BUT you do decide what songs you sing, but you can't keep a steady genre of music, though. :/
--------------------------------------------
You cannot work with the mp3 player.
And technophobes have no problem listening to it.

[Nyami]

Got the Katy Perry edition today :P
I'm wondering, do Twallan's current mods work with Showtime? Because there was no other patch and my base game still says 3.1. It would be awesome if they did!

[cameranutz2]

Got the Katy Perry edition today :P
I'm wondering, do Twallan's current mods work with Showtime? Because there was no other patch and my base game still says 3.1. It would be awesome if they did!

All mods are compatible with 1.31

[Nyami]

Sweet! I'm reinstalling my Twallan mods right now :D
I love Showtime so far. The gameplay reminds me a little of Superstar, one of my favorite EPs of all time. I have a sim in the singing career, only level 1 so far. The sing-o-gram animations are cute.
I love how your sim can have a stage name. Now I don't have to name my Lady Gaga sim 'Lady Gaga'. She can just be Stefani Germanotta and have her stage name! :P

[~MadameButterfly~]

I am having a hard time with the whole simport thing. It could be due the fact that I've had very little sleep over the last 48 hours.

But, I've managed to get my sim stuck at one of her tour locations. She came back to me, but her travel papers say that she hasn't completed that tour. It's been a couple of hours now, and the person who hosted the sim has been very active with simport overall. It should have completed. So I thought, maybe I should just delete the tour and try again, but the travel papers won't let me. It crashed the game the first time I tried to delete, after that it just refused to recognize that I was trying to delete the tour.

I currently don't have many people on my list, but those who are...they have been whipping out the tours out left and right. A couple of them even have 3 different sims out at a time! And here I am...I sent my sim out the one time, but I've some how managed to screw it up. I feel like a simport failure. :sobs: :D Also, I kind of think I need more friends to port with. The ones I have are too busy for me, perhaps. Hard to squeeze me into the schedule. (Pity me...I know I do!)

[fraavio]

installing...

let's see how it is...

[yesme88]

gee well I would love to tell you but my games been crashing and its my fourth try :/ :cry:

[sunnyside83]

My simport also has failed. I got a request for my sim to perform at a fellow simmer's park and when I go to accept and send her every time it says "failed to book tour. Try again." Yet it then pops up that she will leave when her ride arrives and then nothing. LOL so I don't know. Maybe it's this certain stop. We'll see I guess, I wasn't going to even give it a try but I am intrigued now that I have Showtime.

[~MadameButterfly~]

Well, I tried again...this time, instead of just sending to the one girl...I spammed the whole friend list. The original girl was able to host my sim. But that one failed tour is still on my tour list, and I still can't cancel it. I have yet to get a friend to accept me as a host. I have one posted, but it's just sitting there waiting.

I will defeat this thing called SimPort. I will.

EDIT: The failed tour has finally deleted itself, I see.

[soylentfiend]

That first sim in the slideshow looks a lot like a good friend of mine.

http://images.wikia.com/sims/images/2/2e/Goopygc.jpg

http://i1058.photobucket.com/albums/t419/michaelqclancy/Screenshot-212.jpg

GOOPY! I've missed Goopy.

[rockergrrl37203]

Video:
http://youtu.be/dZj-T_6tr00

That was great, thanks so much! I thought the concert was very cute and I like that one of your songs is called "It Hurts Both Ways" :lol:

[kiwi_tea]

That blotchiness is flat out lazy terrain painting. Impressionism is a necessity with CAW and terrain, but the lack of any serious attempt at blending stands out. EA usually does this well - as with Champs Les Sims, you barely notice how few terrain paints they're using. But that is one colour slapped clumsily onto another colour. Even going round the edges with a medium pressure/high falloff brush could have improved that painting enormously. Not impressed.

[DigitalSympathies]

Moar pics via PB slideshow...

http://s248.photobucket.com/albums/gg195/cameranutz2/Showtime/?albumview=slideshow

I adore the trailers and the two modest homes, those are lovely. Finally some REAL poor sims! :D I'm actually glad a lot of them have fallen out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down. It adds VARIETY. Plus, plastic surgery is cheap when you're a millionaire. ;) Patching right now and then I'm going to install. Sigh. I really am being won over because of all the wishes on my list granted: pool tables, trailers evoking the style of Heavy Rain, mp3 players, snack bowls, more crowds . . . I FEEL LIKE A TRAITOR TO MY KIND. :P

[matrix54]

Ea's not that far off...

http://img851.imageshack.us/img851/2517/ssref.png

[christmas fear]

I played a bit before it crashed. My opinion is that it's actually an alright expansion but you really need to have an interest in those things like magic and singing etc. The neighborhood is very 'California-ish' and it's a lovely change, at least for me. I think by now we have more than enough clubs and things to do at them so hopefully they can focus on different things for the next expansions. That's all I can think to say for now except that not everyone in the town is ugly!

[mithrak_nl]

Just finally managed to get rid of most of the lag in Pets. :beer: I want to enjoy this for now, so I'm hesitant trying out a new ep. But I like the style of the new neighbourhood. Just would like to see more empty lots. Maybe it is time I learn how to CAW so I can create my own nitpickproof neighbourhood, hmm.

[Nyami]

My sim performed her first gig! It was pretty cool. She could talk to the audience between performances, there's even an option to 'Tell Dirty Joke' which I thought was funny.
I think the stuff sims throw at you (the good stuff at least) you actually get to keep! I got an outstanding quality steak in my inventory which I didn't cook or buy so I assume someone threw it at my sim during the performance.
I feel sorry for all of the performing Justin Bieber sims right now (including the one I made) as I don't think most of them will get useful items :rofl:

[ani_]

I was reading the VIP guid, and it said there is a hidden Gambling skill. How do Sims gamble? and how is the gene? now I'm off to watch matrix54 youtube video.

[mithrak_nl]

My sim performed her first gig! It was pretty cool. She could talk to the audience between performances, there's even an option to 'Tell Dirty Joke' which I thought was funny.
I think the stuff sims throw at you (the good stuff at least) you actually get to keep! I got an outstanding quality steak in my inventory which I didn't cook or buy so I assume someone threw it at my sim during the performance.
I feel sorry for all of the performing Justin Bieber sims right now (including the one I made) as I don't think most of them will get useful items :rofl:

I might just get this ep if the underlined part is true :) That sim probably ran out of rotten tomatoes :p

[kiwi_tea]

@Matrix

I'm not basing the comparison on a view from the distance, nor is it even really a comparison with the landscape close up. It's more an issue of technique - of attention to detail. Even though it's painting that's meant to be seen from afar, and it might look okay from afar, with very little effort it could have looked better.

[Nyami]

The dangers of Simport!

http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/510523.page

So glad I haven't/won't use it now.

[matrix54]

^I agree. EA's technique was quite lazy with this world. Everything about the world is quite bland, though - except the interiors of lots. For some reason, they are surprising good/better compared to their usually glowing exteriors. They seems to have switched roles this time around. But some of those exteriors are quite beautiful, especially on the mansions.

And I remember EA says that everything wouldn't fit on stage. For an acrobat and a Magicial that's true, what with the props and what not, but the singer has one item: Lighting - a very small item, btw. would it fit on a LN + SHT stage LOADED with props and rigs, btw:
http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/9936/screenshot215x.jpg

The main issue being nothing snaps to the grid, like the other items for the pack (makes sense), but it's kind of sad how stuff like this happens, and make them look stupid.

[kiwi_tea]

The OP of that thread sounds semi-hysterical - there are, as yet, a lot of possible ways that Sim might have gotten there. It could have been part of the store bundle, seeing as other parts of that are showing the CC icon. It could be that without sending anything beyond the unique ID for the Sim, those sims are saved in the custom sims (which I would find very helpful AND annoying). I agree with the player who recommends: "Proceed with caution."

[Nyami]

It just bothers me that a sim someone sends could become playable to the other player without the sender knowing, if that's what happened.

My singer sim just got snubbed. It happened the day after a bad performance. Which was ruined by the way, by sims walking over the stage. I don't know if it was a glitch or just rudeness. It was the stage at Flying V's Coffeehouse, for those who want to test it.
My sim has all these bad relationships I've got to mend now. I don't know if it came from the snub or from her yelling at them for running on the stage! :P

EDIT: Game crashed. At least I get to redo that performance. Also, I meant to say the steak was of Great quality. The fertilizer quality was outstanding, which is what I was looking at while typing >-< Sorry.

[clc1983]

Well it seems my excitement was premature. I can't click on my Sim. Her custom career outfits (she's a Level 9 Acrobat) are gone and most irritatingly of all, every time she has a gig I prompt her to set up her stage and she wiped it clear and promptly zaps back off the stage, the queue cleared. And though she's able to audition at the big arenas and those lots have the orange tags over them in World Map view, I can't click on them (even during the available time). I just had to scrub my game because it got stuck loading Create a Household. *sigh*

[haricots]

Katy! Perry! Aaaaargh! >,<

[Nyami]

Has anyone had constant crashing after installing Twallan's mods? It seems like after I installed Overwatch, SP and MC I've been crashing every sim day. They're the only mods I use other than rabbit hole rugs, animation and pose players, and sliders.

[fraavio]

two things: can you play with your LN band on those stages and stuff AAAAAND how do I start singing? just karaoke?

[~MadameButterfly~]

I read more into the thread, and the SimsVIP said that sims a person hosts get saved to the bin.

So, I guess I'm going to be populating MadameButterflies across the simporting world. :thinks about this a moment:

Bwahahahaha...

[secretsim]

Is anyone going to attempt to place the new community lots in Bridgeport? I've managed to stick with BP through even through pets (and squeezed my equestrian center and pet parks in). Or maybe I'm the last person still playing BP.

I was on the fence but this thread convinced me to order. I'm also curious if there's an opera track for singers.

[MaryVann]

Has anyone tried it on Mac?

I'm playing it on Mac. Mostly it's been fine. Had some random freezing when doing stuff in Parks with a large amount of sims but nothing too bad. Overall it's been a pleasant experience.

[kennyinbmore]

I'm relieved. Looks like I'm not missing much by not getting it. Thanks everyone for the comments and enjoy your game :)

[secretsim]

Perhaps due to a lack of content, but it took like a minute to install. Expansion packs usually take me forever. Starting it up now.

[hey_howdy_hey]

I'm having some problems when it comes to performing shows. I can't see friends performers or my own performs do shows. They just walk to the stage, change outfits, and then poof back off it. :(

[babypaw]

Moar pics via PB slideshow...

http://s248.photobucket.com/albums/gg195/cameranutz2/Showtime/?albumview=slideshow

Thanks for the pictures! I'm loving some of the new house designs. Although they vary style-wise, there is enough consistency that they all feel like they "fit" thematically. And that's a big plus for me!

Anyone care to give us some background info on some of the townies?

[Pyba]

Got my game fixed. (Was stupid Mod's folder ruining the experience. ;_;)

Im having SOOO much fun with the Sims 3 Showtime.

The townies are average looking - some of the playable sims are really cute :D

The only thing I don't understand is how do you record an album?
I also cheated (ehe.) and boosted my Magician character to level 10. Using his Lifetime Achievement points I bought the genie lamp. Next goal is the free the genie and hopefully his girlfriend and have secret relationships, muaha.

[cameranutz2]

Has anyone had constant crashing after installing Twallan's mods? It seems like after I installed Overwatch, SP and MC I've been crashing every sim day.

I have just about all of them and not one crash problem.

[~MadameButterfly~]

Thanks for the pictures! I'm loving some of the new house designs. Although they vary style-wise, there is enough consistency that they all feel like they "fit" thematically. And that's a big plus for me!


I actually really like the houses. I haven't seen all of them, but the interiors I've seen so far aren't decorated up like a trainwreck that I've seen in previous neighborhoods. I think, overall, I like this EA town best. It's mellow; it's laid back...it just fits my personality the best.

[secretsim]

Nekonyami, I have several of Twallan's mods and I'm not crashing. I assume your mods are up to date?

[secretsim]

Dude, does this really pass for an ep? There is seriously hardly anything here. Ive been playing a few hours and I have yet to even be mildly entertained by the new features. I guess the chin up bar is okay... A very hollow ep if I'm enthused by exercise equipment.

[AdamantEve]

I am really liking the expansion. :) my sim is a magician. It took me a while to figure out how to be a Magician (for all the other careers you can apply somewhere, but as far as I see for the new ones you have to look for Professions in the newspaper). But now my sim is performing some lame tricks so he can get to level 2 and hopefully start doing more cool stuff. He can take coins from behind peoples ears, too, but he messes up a lot and drops the coin. The coins are HUGE. Apparently Simoleon coins are big giant cookie-sized coins. I love it.

I haven't used any stages yet but there are a LOT of props and stage effects, that will be a lot of fun to use for things like clubs. There's even the floor FX machine from The Sims 2, the one that shot fire and set fire to everybody's houses! :D The new rabbit holes are also very pretty. The only thing I don't like is there aren't crowds of sims following me around anymore, I think. I went to a park and nobody was there to see my sim perform for tips.

I can't wait to get the magician's sword box thing and put his roommate in it.

This EP is basically Ambitions, but for people who want to be eccentric celebrities. I love it. Also there's A HUNDRED MILLION NEW OBJECTS! :D

[KeiraLou]

I am quite pleasantly surprised.

I must admit I thought the game would be quite young-person based (like World Adventures) but I've had fun playing it the last few hours.

I'm currently playing a new Sim and put her in the Singing profession. Haven't got very far yet, she is still performing for tips and doing Singergrams!

Here are some pics I took anywho;

http://i1182.photobucket.com/albums/x442/MissLuB/Screenshot-18-1.jpg

http://i1182.photobucket.com/albums/x442/MissLuB/Screenshot-17-1.jpg

http://i1182.photobucket.com/albums/x442/MissLuB/Screenshot-16-1.jpg

http://i1182.photobucket.com/albums/x442/MissLuB/Screenshot-15-1.jpg

http://i1182.photobucket.com/albums/x442/MissLuB/Screenshot-14-1.jpg

[AdamantEve]

Oh yeah, my sim was doing tricks outside the Karaoke bar and you could hear someone singing inside. He was awful! :D He jumped up onto the speakers and did a weird flip thing while screeching terribly to the music, it was great. When theys aid the audio was re-used from Sims 2 I was worried, but it's not noticably sims 2 speech, the animations are much different, and I think the game increases/decreases the karaoke pitch to match your sim's pitch.

[Nyami]

I made sure they were up to date about 3 times :/ The only other mods I have are the animation and pose player, rabbit hole rugs (Pets fix) and sliders. It seems to crash when I install Story Progression. I also installed the Vampires and Slayers Progression and Master Controller Cheats add ons.

EDIT: I removed the animation player and rabbit hole rugs while keeping all of my Twallan mods and no crashing so far. It may have been those instead.

[owl_face]

I'm actually really enjoying it. I don't like the town, though--it's way too small and it feels like a boring version of Sunset Valley, though some of the houses are cute. I'm currently updating Hidden Springs (don't judge me! I love that neighborhood!) by adding stages and the like.

I've only played a magician so far, but she's super cute and I like the tricks they can do. I'll echo the disappointment about singers not being able to be in bands, though. I decided not to play a singer just because of that. The items are so-so, though I really like the new rabbit holes for the grocery store and the diner. Simport is strange and I don't want to use it.

My conclusion: It's not as bad as Generations.

[psivampyr]

I got it midnight of release and well I am enjoying it. I have one of each profession in game, which is hard to do when they all are doing something at the same time. The one thing I noticed however is the bars in SS are missing bartenders! You cannot order food, just juice from someone else who seems to work there. I hope the mods can fix that because when your sim is hungry and having a good time, bar food was the best. As for the actions of the performers, they are great. When my sim is trying to summon birds as a magician and he fails, lots of rubber ducks fall out of his hands. Also the acrobat folding herself in half is insane. I did notice the songs were from sims 2 when they do karaoke, I am so happy! I miss the sim 2 songs. When she was singing ooogy ooogy, I was like Hey! I know that song. The house I built for my family however had a block of clay inside of it that bugged out. I googled how to fix it, and the only way to fix it was to delete the house and rebuild :( so I moved them into the 7 bedroom house in SS. Its on a beach cliff, its a really nice house, but yard isn't very large.

[AdamantEve]

Okay, this is definitely cool. :) My sim experienced a SimFest. He went to the park to get a gig, but Simfest started, so he participated in that instead!

A sim went first as a magician. He did some really cool tricks. The whole time more and more sims were showing up to watch- more than I'd ever seen on a single lot before. Then it was my sim's turn. He failed at every trick he tried to do and the audience really hated him. I had him do a comedy routine to finish. When he was done he got a Celebrity star! The SimFest event knows whether or not you have Late Night. If you do, you get celebrity points for doing it, and if you don't, you don't. So Showtime careers DO meld with Celerbity status. :D

So now my sim has one fame star from the whole town talking about how much he sucks at basic magic tricks :lol:

Here is my sim on a bare stage trying to hype up the crowd :lol:

[AdamantEve]

The one thing I noticed however is the bars in SS are missing bartenders! You cannot order food, just juice from someone else who seems to work there.

All the bars are base game bars. Manned bars are from Late Night. Someone could probably easily mod all the base game bars to summon bartenders on community lots! I hope they do, I don't want to go redo all the lots in SS to have proper bars. :faceslap:

[heaven]

That's because EA only makes the expansions compatible with the base game. So those of us who have Late Night will have to replace the juice bars with regular bars and rework things. It's annoying but I suppose, logistically, it makes the most sense. It would still be nice to have the OPTION to have things work with other EPs (singers with bands, cough, cough) though.

[Srikandi]

I'm finding the game a lil lightweight too. I'm enjoying my acrobat sim (Javed Meir, an EA sim that I picked to test with), and I think he is pretty good looking (if EXTREMELY hairy, lol... ). Here he is eating breakfast at his Showtime counter island, in his sleepwear from the last SP:

http://www.modyourpanties.com/hosting/34725_120307212641acrobat.jpg

Playing the hands-on career is fun for me, similar to Ambitions careers, and there are a lot of cool new interactive objects... but the EP is definitely light in other categories, such as furniture, lighting and so on. One thing that really ticked me off is that I haven't discovered a single new pattern... would be the first EP that didn't include any >< And there is a small handful of new walls (variations on concrete, under Misc) and no new floors at all. After Pets, which had a LOT of very nice patterns, walls and floors, furniture and lighting in addition to awesome new gameplay features, it's a disappointment.

Town is small, as stated, although I have to say that living in Southern California myself, it seems kinda familiar ;) Lil like Malibu, really.

Also, I am playing for now with social features turned on, and the interface for that is not at all ideal IMO. There's a window where you can post to your wall that covers the main notification window in the top right... and it keeps coming back... why not put it someplace else? >< But to SEE your wall, and other people's comments, you have to go to the options menu in the bottom left. Seems like those things should be integrated... and to share a screen from in-game, you have to make a memory of it and share the memory. Just not very well thought-out IMO.

I like the achievements though :) Haven't tried Simport yet, but I will.

Edit: Testing the Simport system... seems... unnecessarily complex, lol. You have to send out a request to host a sim, and you have to be very specific about what kind of performer, what level of sim, and what venue you want. And to send your sim OUT.. you have to have at least two sims in the household, which makes me think that your sim actually disappears from your game while they perform. But I guess I'll have to find my sim a partner before I explore that further :)

[Rushifell]

Tried it for a couple of hours. I played as a singer, and I'm currently at level 6 in the singing career.

Something that bothers me a lot is that I can't pick a genre to sing, all I can do is spam the same songs over and over. All the songs I have are either pop songs or slower pop-love songs.

It's possible to choose how you want to perform a song, by clicking "sing chorus" or "sing verse". But that's about it, I was hoping for more choices. It really bugs me that this will mean that all my singing artists in town will be pop singers, and that all of them will sing the same boring songs.

Does anyone know if there will be more songs to choose from later on? There was hip hop lookin' sims in the trailers, did they also sing the "oogie boogie" song just like everybody else? :lol:

Another thing that pisses me off even more is that store items popped up in CAS, with a "buy now" button over it. Seriously EAxis? The glowing store button wasn't enough? And the log in page at the menu? You have to be all in my face with the store crap in CAS too? Even more than before? Makin every CAS menu take forever to load?

Checked the options menu, it was possible to get rid of it. But still.

[Arisuka]

Srikandi He looks HOT, gotta find that guy in my game. :D BTW that hair, it's totally Morrissey's hairstyle! I love Morrissey, now I need to make a sim of him! :)

I'm also soooooo bummed about the fact that there is no rock music! I mean, WHAT? You got a bunch of posters named "Heavy Metal Titans of Doom" and a huge billboard at the side of the business building showing a dude walking away from an explosion with a guitar in his back... not to mention stacks of amplifiers on the edges of stages. Sure we get dubstep but no rock... nice. Also I attached a pic of Broadway themed stage prop set... another opportunity missed by EA, why didn't they make showtunes or something of that sort, it would have been perfect for this theme. :(

Also despite we get A LOT of nice, grungy looking posters to slam on sides of buildings... where are the graffiti and street art? Knowing this world would be based on Hollywood I was eagerly expecting some huge graffiti to put on sides of buildings since LN didn't have them... The world looks a bit too clean, too sterile for such a lively theme of the EP revolving around expressiveness!

The suburban homes look awesome though, I was afraid we'd get only huge mansions. The middle-class homes in the new world look the most believable out of any EA suburban homes I've seen so far in TS3. :gjob:

[AdamantEve]

I dont like the colors in the houses. The houses EA makes always have the same boring light tan focus. I moved into the cheapest buyable house by the beach, and it has just super boring colors! The house is creative, though, the front porch is actually made of walls with an archway, and the window is a big cutout with no glass, and there's this weird fence-grate object on the outside of it.

Another one of the houses had a bathroom that was, itself, two tiny rooms- a 2x3 room with a toilet/tub, and a 2x3 room with counters and a sink, separated by a 1x3 stretch of wall with the middle wall piece missing. It was weird, I'd never seen anything like that.

[Srikandi]

House that came with my guy was decorated in mission style... beige and dark wood. That is actually pretty authentic for this part of the world, but it didn't fit him as an acrobat, so I redecorated, as you can see in the screen, heh.

I tried the Simport thing, but so far it is not a success ><. Haven't been able to send my sim out yet, since he needs a girlfriend first :p (must have two sims in the household). But I accepted a friend's sim. HE got a message saying she had "died" on tour... and she came home without her inventory items >< Meantime, my sim had not seen her yet. I had a map tag saying she was performing at the park at 7 on Friday, so I hung out there all evening, but she never turned up. You cannot save or use Edit Town while somebody else's sim is visiting... so after I missed her at the park, I went ahead and saved my game, and got a message saying that would send her home. At which point... both me and the other guy got messages saying she'd visited and performed successfully ><

I think there's a bug!

Anybody get this feature to WORK yet?

[AdamantEve]

Speaking of Simport I can't wait for somebody to mod out the new wants. "Host an X at Y" wants...my sim keeps getting them. I'm not using Simport! Stop making my sim wish to use it!

[carlydunham]

im loving it!!!!! im not using simport i never got into all the social stuff of sims i like playing by myself lol

[skmt999]

It would have been nice if the crowd spawner was a little smaller, like 5x5 or something so we could just join them together and make our crowds however big we'd like. Wonder why it only works on specific lot types.Something that I'm sure will get modded eventually.

I find it interesting to hear that we can use anything in a collection folder for stage deco. Which means I'll actually be MAKING collections now, lol. I liked having the option, but I've been to lazy to actually make any so far.

I'm still a little confused about the crowd mechanics. Can anyone tell me how the crowd actually works? Is the 'crowd' really a crowd of Sims at all? Like NPCs summoned and vaporized at need? Or is the 'crowd' actually one big entity 3D item? Can you talk to individuals, do they ever show up again? I could see that Sims actually in the world can randomly show up and get Mosh Pit access, so that's cool.

[kristie91]

what kind of singing is there? is there different genres?

[frito]

do you have to actually know a person to be able to do the simport thing?

[Simsdestroyer]

Something that I'm sure will get modded eventually.

I find it interesting to hear that we can use anything in a collection folder for stage deco. Which means I'll actually be MAKING collections now, lol. I liked having the option, but I've been to lazy to actually make any so far.

I'm still a little confused about the crowd mechanics. Can anyone tell me how the crowd actually works? Is the 'crowd' really a crowd of Sims at all? Like NPCs summoned and vaporized at need? Or is the 'crowd' actually one big entity 3D item? Can you talk to individuals, do they ever show up again? I could see that Sims actually in the world can randomly show up and get Mosh Pit access, so that's cool.


The crowd is Sims from the neighborhood, the more sims you have, the bigger the crowds.

[AdamantEve]

They mean the giant fake crowd object.

Which I am pretty sure is just a fake object. :) The room for the giant shows turns black just like a basement. Then there's a big object that creates a bunch of fake sims. The only real sims are the ones up front. The save files and loading would be ridiculous if the crowd sims were all real. You can't see them anyway (99% of them are in places where they're too dark to see details) so there's no need for them to be unique sims anyway.

That's probably why the fake crowd can't be used in bars and stuff. It only makes sense in a pitch black environment.

[Nyami]

My singer is level 8, and she can blow kisses to the crowd!

Still having crashing problems. I think it may be linked to editing my in-game sims multiple times in a row (when all my teens age I restyle their hair and outfits, and I dyed my singer's hair a lot), but only a guess.

I've had one of those simlish songs my sim sings on my mind all day. :P

[Dramamine]

That's probably why the fake crowd can't be used in bars and stuff. It only makes sense in a pitch black environment.

I totally understand the concept of the fake crowd in the dark and everything, but I remember reading in a couple different places (although I can't think of any sources, sorry!) that they were excited about using this feature to create more crowded LN bars. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I remember some gurus even admitting that bars were too empty, so they were all tickled about this new feature fixing that. That was actually one of the things I was most looking forward to, I go out a lot in real life myself, so I thought it would really enhance the LN experience for me. So... whatever happened to that?

And aren't there stages in some parks? What if you have a show during the day? Does the crowd show up then, even if it's noon?

Sorry if these are dumb questions, I don't have the expansion yet!

[Arisuka]

And aren't there stages in some parks? What if you have a show during the day? Does the crowd show up then, even if it's noon?

The shows can be at any time of the day and sims will just show up at the scheduled starting time to the venue. The "fake" crowd will also appear in the day time (provided that your sim is at higher level of the profession), if I remember correctly...

[Nyami]

The most frustrating thing of all just happened.
I got to level 9 of the singer career, and now I CANNOT CLICK MY SIM. OR my cellphone!
I reset my sim, moved her out and back in, took ALL of my CC out. Still, she and her phone are unclickable.
WTH? :faceslap:

EDIT: Thankfully it fixed itself after I waited a few sim hours. I got to keep my mods in too. So hopefully if anyone gets this bug just wait a few sim hours and maybe it will fix itself.

[Srikandi]

do you have to actually know a person to be able to do the simport thing?

No, but you have to be in-game friends ;) Can do that without (really) KNOWING them though!

I managed to send my sim out to perform at another friend's coffeeshop (thank you Granthes :) ), and that seemed to work OK. It is not really synchronous; your sim returns a day later (your sim time), and they perform in your friend's world the following day (your friend's sim time), and obviously either of these things might happen first in REAL time, depending on what you and your friend are doing. My sim came back before Granthes saw him perform; basically, if he comes back first, he gets a promise of money and lifetime happiness and a career boost, which is fulfilled when your friend actually watches the performance (and that's also when you get the Simport stamp). You have to do about 15 gigs per career to get the unlockable stage sets... that's a lot, and I'm not sure it's worth the trouble ;)

My sim performing in Granthes's town:

http://www.modyourpanties.com/hosting/34727_120308003507Screenshot-21.jpg

[simzfreek89]

This is depressing me. I bought Showtime, got all my CC out and updated drivers, did everything you're supposed to do in preparation of a new EP (even added the base game and the EPs to the DEP list), and when I install it (and run it without any CC), I get the loading screen, I start to play a sim, and within 2 seconds....TWO LITTLE SECONDS, the game crashes. I haven't even been able to try anything new out (besides CAS and Neighborhood View...for some reason those work perfectly fine). No matter what interaction I pick, sim I choose, or whatever, it goes "The Sims 3 has stopped working" and crash. It actually did this with Pets, which caused me to lose interest for a while (I also had that issue with the non-fluffy fur....it was the blob-fur people had issues with). I just don't get it. My system more than meets the requirements, it worked PERFECTLY FINE before these two EPs, and yet I can't enjoy them. It's a sad moment when you notice you're reading other peoples' posts about a game you have in your possession, just to find out how it is. :cry:

Sorry for the pity party. I just needed to vent. I don't have much time in my day to play this game, so when I do, I cherish it. That, and this is the PERFECT EP to help with a machinima I've been planning for over 3 years. I was gonna start it ASAP, but now I can't. That's why I'm even more incredibly frustrated than just the matter of it not working. I'm a left handed-Pisces, so not being able to realize my dream (or creative thoughts) makes me miserable LOL.

[Simsdestroyer]

I was able to host a sim, but every time I send my sim out, the other player gets a message that my sim got lost on the way. Is anyone else having this problem? I do have Mastercontroller and Overwatch in my game, alot of CAS CC, but that's it. My mods are updated, so I'm not understanding the problem. :|

[ticklish]

I read more into the thread, and the SimsVIP said that sims a person hosts get saved to the bin.

So, I guess I'm going to be populating MadameButterflies across the simporting world. :thinks about this a moment:

Bwahahahaha... I am bol756 on the ea site had madme butterfly in my saved sims :rofl:

[Zokugai]

You know, if you ignore the social features, the new careers are hysterical. Or at least the animations are. I'm really glad they took it in a "street performer" direction, it's much more entertaining than something like the Rockstar LTW is.

For the folks who don't have the pack yet, the actions work a lot like the "Perform" action for the guitar skill, except (for magician and acrobat at least) they actually act it out. For instance...

Altin just pulled a coin the size of his fist out of this townie's ear. I think the look on the townie's face pretty much says it all.
http://i.imgur.com/o5tYD.jpg

Acrobat sims take the "invisible box" mime trick to a whole new (and apparently painful) level.
http://i.imgur.com/Atf9W.jpg

MAGIC. Or something.
http://i.imgur.com/KhkQ9.jpg

And tricks can fail...for instance, making flowers appear out of thin air.
http://i.imgur.com/MpKMP.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/giDuK.jpg

[AdonisPluto]

Well so far so good. I love it and have not had any problem. My addiction is of course the pool table.
http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae8/adonispluto1/Screenshot-159.jpg
http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae8/adonispluto1/Screenshot-158.jpg

[noxnoxnox]

This is the banana plant...wa...hahaha:
http://i1136.photobucket.com/albums/n494/nox_nox_nox/Screenshot-492.jpg

[Sprue]

painfull . lack of quality :(

[golyat]

I installed showtime and i realized that my sims hair is seemd pixel by pixel now is this graphic issue or is it because of the showtime ?? please immmediate help :( :(

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B3GD9ZUjacrGMk1kMWVrclRRWWlrOFlaM2lDSUJDQQ

[frito]

thanks srkandi =)

[cokeshesays]

I literally just started up a new game and I'm severely disappointed with how boring the town is. Random buildings here, random buildings there.. then random spots of green nothingness. I hope it won't be too much of a pain to add a few buildings/lots to the town (and honestly building is my least favorite part of the sims D:

[Black Zekrom]

This is the banana plant...wa...hahaha:
http://i1136.photobucket.com/albums/n494/nox_nox_nox/Screenshot-492.jpg

WHAT! THAT is the Banana Tree? :lol: I bet EA never see a banana tree before... :lol:

[crocobaura]

WHAT! THAT is the Banana Tree? :lol: I bet EA never see a banana tree before... :lol:

That banana tree is really disappointing, but I guess it should have been expected. The other vegetables in game aren't portraied realistically either. Too bad because it would have been a nice touch to be able to create a realistic tropical setting with realistic looking banana trees.

[Volvenom]

I made sure they were up to date about 3 times :/ The only other mods I have are the animation and pose player, rabbit hole rugs (Pets fix) and sliders. It seems to crash when I install Story Progression. I also installed the Vampires and Slayers Progression and Master Controller Cheats add ons.

EDIT: I removed the animation player and rabbit hole rugs while keeping all of my Twallan mods and no crashing so far. It may have been those instead.

I haven't got Showtime yet. Just the patch. I had troubles crashing. I found out it was the rugs too. I had mastercontroller and removed it, didn't improve. I think it was a bit difficult to figure out what rugs I needed from Customsims, but finally got it to work.

btw. I first installed the patch vanilla and then added bit by bit ;) So I knew it wasn't the game.

[himawara106]

I'm still a little confused about the crowd mechanics. Can anyone tell me how the crowd actually works? Is the 'crowd' really a crowd of Sims at all? Like NPCs summoned and vaporized at need? Or is the 'crowd' actually one big entity 3D item? Can you talk to individuals, do they ever show up again? I could see that Sims actually in the world can randomly show up and get Mosh Pit access, so that's cool.

The "crowd" is a collection of zombie sims with whom your sim can't interact with... Only in the first row there are "real" sims.
http://thumbs2.modthesims2.com/img/5/8/7/1/5/6/MTS_himawara106-1278786-crowd.jpg

They are looking creepy aren't they? This reminds me of the fact that I so want a horror EP!

[~MadameButterfly~]

I am bol756 on the ea site had madme butterfly in my saved sims :rofl:

Oh...hi there bol756!! Glad to see you...... lol :beer:


Well, I've discovered a problem with my game. People are ending up in the ocean. Drowned during Simport. (Bad flight in, I guess.) Anyway, I've taken out the NRAAS mods, but that wasn't it. I'm going to try those rabbithole rugs next.

[secundo]

It is lame. And I cant tell, really. No blur removal mod yet.
Not even Twallan's decensor?

Moar pics via PB slideshow...

http://s248.photobucket.com/albums/gg195/cameranutz2/Showtime/?albumview=slideshow
Looks... uh... sparse :wtf:

Got the Katy Perry edition today :P
I'm wondering, do Twallan's current mods work with Showtime? Because there was no other patch and my base game still says 3.1. It would be awesome if they did!
All mods are compatible with 1.31
Thanks for the clarification! :beer:

I can't live without Twallan's mods :)

I am quite pleasantly surprised.

I must admit I thought the game would be quite young-person based (like World Adventures) but I've had fun playing it the last few hours.

I'm currently playing a new Sim and put her in the Singing profession. Haven't got very far yet, she is still performing for tips and doing Singergrams!

{--pic here--}
The Singergram uniform is cute :D

This is the banana plant...wa...hahaha:
{--epic banana fail pic--}
:facepalm:

[secretsim]

Have you guys had problems with performers showing up to parties? Only the magician and singer came. DJ ditched out even though I had a booth. Had to reset the singer after she just stood there and clapped for 8 hours straight. The magician did nothing except eat my food

[matrix54]

It's very annoying now being able to place the Proprietor marker. What if I want to make my own venue, and the lot is smaller than 30x30 (I can't place a lot and edit it from there)? Sims can't audition there now.

Must EA be difficult with this game? :wtf:

[~MadameButterfly~]

It's very annoying now being able to place the Proprietor marker. What if I want to make my own venue, and the lot is smaller than 30x30 (I can't place a lot and edit it from there)? Sims can't audition there now.

Must EA be difficult with this game? :wtf:

Actually, I made my own venue, and the proprietor did show up. I placed a stage from buydebug, the coffee house rabbithole, and the table w/crowds group. I am not sure if I did the tables right, but the proprietor did show up at least.

[jenieusa]

you do have to watch out for twallans OW mod bringing your sim back if you send it to another person game....

you have to set to false the "recover missing sims" before you send anyone....

[matrix54]

Actually, I made my own venue, and the proprietor did show up. I placed a stage from buydebug, the coffee house rabbithole, and the table w/crowds group. I am not sure if I did the tables right, but the proprietor did show up at least.

That's very reassuring. This is a bigger fiasco than making apartments with the base game. I just like the comfort of knowing that all the pieces are in place and working properly. The stage, the chairs and all the markers. Thank you for the information. :)

[AdamantEve]

I totally understand the concept of the fake crowd in the dark and everything, but I remember reading in a couple different places (although I can't think of any sources, sorry!) that they were excited about using this feature to create more crowded LN bars. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I remember some gurus even admitting that bars were too empty, so they were all tickled about this new feature fixing that. That was actually one of the things I was most looking forward to, I go out a lot in real life myself, so I thought it would really enhance the LN experience for me. So... whatever happened to that?

And aren't there stages in some parks? What if you have a show during the day? Does the crowd show up then, even if it's noon?

Sorry if these are dumb questions, I don't have the expansion yet!

They probably meant the "drawing sims to come watch" feature. The game seems to pick sims who are absolutely not busy at all and pulls them to a venue to watch an event. When I did SimFest there were 15 sims watching, which is a pretty good number. 15 sims all sitting in a bar watching a stage would be pretty impressive, to me. That's at least 4 tables of sims, instead of 3 or 4 wandering around. And the way venues work the game tells sims "A show is going on!" and draws them to pre-set spots to sit and watch. That way, you don't have to HOPE sims are interested in the show- the game forces them to be interested in the show, so they forcibly sit in the right chairs and come watch.

The banana tree looks like a joke :rofl: An intentional one, I mean. Reminds me of something that'd show up in Sims 1! :anime:

[heaven]

Oh yay, I got my first crash. Well, first about 5 crashes. I always update all of my mods before I even install the patch (benefit of waiting) and I keep all of my mods in their own folder. However, any time I tried to either install the registration gift or play the game, it would immediately stop working. Removed the mods folder, it works. Now just to narrow down the problem. Unfortunately, I have to work today so it might have to wait until I have more time to find the culprit. And no, no rugs for me.

Buahaha! I am an idiot. I just realized that I updated all my mods in one of my AGS profiles instead of my main launcher game. So yeah, all fixed now. It is way too early for this!

[Miss Puff]

Actually, I made my own venue, and the proprietor did show up. I placed a stage from buydebug, the coffee house rabbithole, and the table w/crowds group. I am not sure if I did the tables right, but the proprietor did show up at least.
I don't have the game yet and was wondering if this work without the rabbithole and on other lot types? Like, could we create a LN bar and add a stage and crowds group and a proprietor will show up? I guess what I want to know is if the proprietors come with the stage, the coffeehouse rabbithole, or the lot type, if anyone knows.

[~MadameButterfly~]

I don't have the game yet and was wondering if this work without the rabbithole and on other lot types? Like, could we create a LN bar and add a stage and crowds group and a proprietor will show up? I guess what I want to know is if the proprietors come with the stage, the coffeehouse rabbithole, or the lot type, if anyone knows.

Actually, I am curious about this also, now that it has been brought up. I'll test this momentarily. (Have to start some laundry first...so boring...lol.)

[surprised_by_witches]

I adore the trailers and the two modest homes, those are lovely. Finally some REAL poor sims! :D I'm actually glad a lot of them have fallen out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down. It adds VARIETY. Plus, plastic surgery is cheap when you're a millionaire. ;) Patching right now and then I'm going to install. Sigh. I really am being won over because of all the wishes on my list granted: pool tables, trailers evoking the style of Heavy Rain, mp3 players, snack bowls, more crowds . . . I FEEL LIKE A TRAITOR TO MY KIND. :P

Me, too, and it's all your fault, thanks to your awesome slide show. So, thanks? I really wasn't going to get this EP, but I already have the stupid patch and some of that architecture is just too cool to pass up.

I don't know that the town is all that unrealistic: it's been ages since I've been to California but I'd say this town is fairly accurate. Not sure I'll play it as made, of course: I'll probably just re-use the buildings for my own evil purposes.

Sigh. I'm such a pushover.

I've been working on a "realistic" sims project. I've found that the uglier I try to make them, the more like real people they turn out. I could post a couple of pictures if anyone's interested.

[megativity13]

It's very annoying now being able to place the Proprietor marker. What if I want to make my own venue, and the lot is smaller than 30x30 (I can't place a lot and edit it from there)? Sims can't audition there now.

Must EA be difficult with this game? :wtf:

This mod makes it buyable from buy>debug>misc
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,21296.0.html

[~MadameButterfly~]

I don't have the game yet and was wondering if this work without the rabbithole and on other lot types? Like, could we create a LN bar and add a stage and crowds group and a proprietor will show up? I guess what I want to know is if the proprietors come with the stage, the coffeehouse rabbithole, or the lot type, if anyone knows.

Okay! I made a totally empty lot and designated it to be a LN sports bar. I placed only a stage, and then let the game run for a moment. A proprietor showed up a few minutes later.

[AdamantEve]

Proprieters come with the stage. The EP itself already comes with of venues that don't have a rabbit hole or bar, like the Karaoke bar or the Park.

[lexylu]

Can someone tell me about the new fame system? And how does it work with the already existing celebrity system for those who also have Late Night? I'm not buying this ep for now, but I'm really curious about it and this may help me decide if I want to buy it in the future.

[AdamantEve]

Pretty sure there is no "fame system". You have to be better at your job to do it well, for proprieters ro respect you, to play bigger venues, but that's all there is to it. All shows work with the celebrity system and you are awarded celebrity points for doing them.

[lexylu]

Pretty sure there is no "fame system". You have to be better at your job to do it well, for proprieters ro respect you, to play bigger venues, but that's all there is to it. All shows work with the celebrity system and you are awarded celebrity points for doing them.

That's probably good. Because another system would be ridiculous. But then if someone doesn't own Late Night the whole "rise to fame" is basically measured by your own storytelling, yes?

[cameranutz2]

Extracted the icons for SHT if anyone needs them for forums, blogs, etc... http://www.simscrossing.net/smf/index.php?topic=779.0

[psivampyr]

Does anyone have ghosts on the house lot and notice anything weird? I am only asking because when I moved my sim family from Sunset over to SS I took off of the family tombstones with them. That night all of the ghosts woke up and have not left at all. They don't despawn in the morning and they are constantly cooking food, cleaning the house, playing with various things. They also are interacting with my sims. I don't mind any of this, but they honestly haven't been this active before. It's almost like having twice as many sims in the house. The only thing I wish they would do is play with my pets, they get so lonely and it would make more sense for them to interact.

*******OH and before I forget this, one of my sims died from fixing the dishwasher and the CAT pleaded to the Grim Reaper and saved her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was like WHAT????????

[AdamantEve]

That's probably good. Because another system would be ridiculous. But then if someone doesn't own Late Night the whole "rise to fame" is basically measured by your own storytelling, yes?

There's no big symbol on your sims aying "Your sim is THIS AWESOME!!!!", no, but there's a very obvious rise to fame regardless. My sim couldn't even get a gig on a tiny piece of crap stage outside a diner because he sucked so much. But then after a couple shows and simFests he could. If I "Enthused about upcoming show" with a proprieter, they'd make up some weak excuse about how they couldn't be there- they didn't want to see me make a mess of their venue by being a sucky magician. :lol:

But once I got better, the Proprieter would be enthusiastic. One even said my show was great, but that I knew I could do better. She expected more. Then I finally got an indoors gig and there were a lot more people there and I could turn off all the lights but my stage effects and it looked a lot cooler than it did outdoors.

Then of course eventually you get giant indoor stages with huge crowds, and better equipment and skills unlock for your sim.

Again, there's no number next to your sim like the celebrity stars, but you don't really need that to feel like you've gone from nothing to something special. :)

[ticklish]

I still can't host any sims other than a singer. Trying too figure it out.

[clc1983]

The most frustrating thing of all just happened.
I got to level 9 of the singer career, and now I CANNOT CLICK MY SIM. OR my cellphone!
I reset my sim, moved her out and back in, took ALL of my CC out. Still, she and her phone are unclickable.
WTH? :faceslap:

EDIT: Thankfully it fixed itself after I waited a few sim hours. I got to keep my mods in too. So hopefully if anyone gets this bug just wait a few sim hours and maybe it will fix itself.

It happens after your Sim takes a shower. I'm experiencing the same thing and I thought it was making my game unplayable. After moving her in and out a few times I realized it goes away on it's own. Super annoying but at least the game isn't broken.

[cameranutz2]

OK what's the deal with the candy dish? How to find, place, whatever, please.

[AdamantEve]

Does anybody know how to use the table spot things for a venue? I made my own venue out of the little 25x25 park, and the stage works all right...but the chairs don't. If I tell a sim to watch the show he complains that the umbrella on the table is in the way. If I remove the umbrella, he complains the table itself is in the way! :(

[Zokugai]

OK what's the deal with the candy dish? How to find, place, whatever, please.

Apparently you "summon" it in normal play by clicking on a counter.

[Dramamine]

I read over on the official forums that the snack bowls only work on island counters and Showtime bars. But yes, as long as it's one of those, you just click on the surface and it should pop up as an option.

[cameranutz2]

OK, I guess I need to add SHT island counters/bars to lots now...sheeeeesh. Thanks.

Zokugal: Is there another way to "summon" it other than "normal" play?

[jenieusa]

OK, I guess I need to add SHT island counters/bars to lots now...sheeeeesh. Thanks.

Zokugal: Is there another way to "summon" it other than "normal" play?

I just clicked on one of my counters(from the sci-fi collection) and it showed up right away....

[justin1010]

So far I've made a brand new sim who is in the Acrobat career and it's kind of amusing watching him do some of the tricks that they do. Starlight Shores is nice to look at, if a little small. Only issue so far is that I can't seem to interact with the new workout bar thing for some strange reason. Anyone else encounter this?

[Zokugai]

So, if it helps anyone, in the early levels of the singer career I'm finding that playing for tips is better for experience/promotions, but singagrams are better money. I've now several times finished a 5hr tips session and made $30 or so (compared to minimum 70 or so on singagrams for 60 seconds of work), but the singagrams barely raise the experience bar at all.

Also, has anyone gotten a SimFest to work? I only had the one, but as soon as my sim showed up, everyone reset. Granted, she took a couple extra hours getting there so they may have finished, but...

Also, imo the music is pretty darn good. Surprisingly so. The karaoke and Perform... songs sims sing are quite catchy.

In contrast, some of the clothing is ridiculous. Half the "new" clothes EA added are old clothes with a stencil (often a BAD one) slapped on the front, like the drama masks tshirts, or that tanktop with the rainbow unicorn, or the "scifi" leather jackets, or the "scifi" leather jumpsuit...or the OTHER "scifi" leather jumpsuit...

OK, I guess I need to add SHT island counters/bars to lots now...sheeeeesh. Thanks.

Zokugal: Is there another way to "summon" it other than "normal" play?

Not that I've found. Pretty sure it works on ones from all the expacs, though.

[cameranutz2]

Since you mentioned music...the jukebox has a custom music option but it isn't playing anything in the custom music folder, at least not for me - stereos still play it just fine. Anybody come across anything on where the custom music is for the thing or possibly any bugs with that option?

[AdamantEve]

Custom Music is on all the radios. For me, though, it stops playing after one song or sometime doesnt play at all and I have to turn it off and back on again for it to reset. :)

[Simsdestroyer]

Custom Music is on all the radios. For me, though, it stops playing after one song or sometime doesnt play at all and I have to turn it off and back on again for it to reset. :)



Really? Well that's just freaking awesome, I saw a way it could be done, but it's way to technical for me to attempt. I would love it, if we could add our own rock music to rockabilly, our own hip hop etc. Maybe they will allow that for sims 4. I can't play a lot with out a stereo on it.

[Arisuka]

I can't wait for the day someone figures out how to have custom songs for the singers to sing... I totally want to see my Morrissey sim sing Morrissey! :giggler:

[matrix54]

EA locked a smaller stage away in the game files.

Why, tho? :wtf:

[cherry85]

It has taken me forever to get this thing running.
I had to uninstall WA because I ran out of space and then had to reinstall my base game.
Im looking at the loading screen now
*sigh*
I wanted to be in bed like 2 hours ago lol

[kiwi_tea]

It's official. In terms of routing, Starlight Shores is the best EA world to date. I've found no holes in the routing paints, and ONE disconnected road. EA are learning - partly by making their worlds more simple.

However, the main reason I went looking was because on rare occasions I'm getting lag catching that world up, and other players are too. It's the kind of lag that is usually caused by routing problems. I think one of the lots has a routing "hot spot" that is trapping Sims.

That terrain paint, though. That's worse than ever when viewed in CAW, and it's not even in the distance in game, it's right there near lots!

[LadyLollerskates]

Custom Music is on all the radios. For me, though, it stops playing after one song or sometime doesnt play at all and I have to turn it off and back on again for it to reset. :)

I found that was happening too, but it turns out it was the song that was the problem. For some reason my custom music station would always cut out after playing a certain song, so I removed it and it suddenly worked perfectly, no more randomly cutting out. Not sure why, but it's worth a shot. :)

[cameranutz2]

Custom Music is on all the radios...

Yes, it works fine on my stereos also...it's the jukebox that it isn't working with custom music. Won't play what EA put in there and won't play what I put in there but the stereos do.


It's official. In terms of routing, Starlight Shores is the best EA world to date....

Great...thanks for checkin' that out! They need to stick with simple then and send their creators to art class to work on their painting skills.

[Miss Harlequin]

Just got Showtime today and I think that it's probably one of the better expansions EA has produced for Sims 3 thus far. Saying that, however, it's still a far cry off Maxis, but babysteps.

I didn't experience any crashes, all credit which I give to my superstar computer, although the game did freeze for a few seconds occasionally. It came right back though, and I never had to restart. There were some glitches, such as when my simlet was booked for steady gigs, the venues no longer allowed her to perform, which was annoying since she was earning a lot of money by that point.

I don't know why, but I'm really fond of EA hair and clothing, more so than CC, and was delighted to find the massive update of clothing that came with Showtime, plus there was some nice hairs. Then EA threw in some extras with the Showtime set at the store, although it really annoys me how they're trying to get EXTRA money off of the expansion.

I'm really tired right now, so sorry if this doesn't make much sense. Showtime is awesome by EA's usual standards and far exceeded my expectations for this EP, and I'm hoping that this means that EA are becoming more creative and actually *gasp* care about their players' experiences ingame. Then again, given how they've already released a second patch fixing up some of the things they messed up in the first one, I don't know how accurate that is.

[noxnoxnox]

I think EA's exhausted all their world building resources to develop the consistent theme looks of Appaloosa Plain and recent Lunar Lake thus dropped Starlight Shore to a bland, boring level with no inspiration. The new rabbit holes may suit a more glamorous, urban city than the tiny Starlight Shore. In no way it can compare to the like of Charlton Island, Jericho or the upcoming New York city...It looks like a small district than a coastal fame capital for my rising star.

[rian90]

I must admit, I had fewer issues with this EP than any other EP. I still see silly glitches from pets that are unfixed..but Showtime seems to run smoothly...so far. I haven't played with all of the Showtime features yet though. But..may game is running and no problems with the patch. My CC works and most important mods were updated quickly. Usually I wait a month before installing..this time I only waited a day.

[kiwi_tea]

I have noticed that, while my game saves fine if I use the normal save function, it gets caught in a loop when saving to Simport - so I can't use the feature without the game crashing usually without saving either. The Processes window shows TS3 with huge memory usage climbing gradually forever. A crash log from the one time it actually generated one says something about pointing to invalid memory, but I'm in no position to interpret crash logs.

[ladycroft16]

Hi guys. This is my first time sending a message on this site, I don't even know if this is the right place to ask this but, I need help with the Sims 3 Showtime. So it's like this. I have all expansion packs installed for about 3 weeks and nothing wrong ever hapened. I installed showtime yesterday and everything was fine, no problems at all. I just bought a new computer so it goes really fast, doesn't stall or anything. I was playing for about 4 hours or so, and it started to freeze, but then it went back to the game. I played for another 2 hours and sometimes here and there it would freeze for some seconds but then it would go back to the game. Then it froze and didn't move anymore, I exited the game thinking that my computer was probably tired (I don't know why I'd think this, since I've been playing the sims with all the expansion packs up untill now for the same amount of hours and nothing like that ever happened). So I gave it a break and this morning I tried playing and and It's impossible because it freezes 10 in 10 seconds, but the ZzZzZzZ, and the trees are moving and everything. Could this be because I haven't installed the latest patch 1.32? Please help!!!!

[christmas fear]

I'm actually really content with the new town, it's actually playable and doesn't lag at all.

[acid_fairy]

I'm enjoying it, although it does feel like a bit of a skill grind at times. It runs nicely on my laptop (Dell XPS M1530) and only slows down when my sim gets a bit of a crowd watching her perform.

Question: how does the celebrity star system from LN work with SHT? My singer sim got a celebrity star after her first stage performance, but she has yet to receive any more. She is now a level 6 singer, gets her picture taken by the Paparazzi all the time, won Sim Fest... and yet she still only has 1 star to her name. Has this happened to anyone else? I don't know how else to give her more stars without cheating since there aren't any other celebrities in my Starlight Shores.

[heaven]

So, I am taking a break from my legacy family just to try out some new stuff. I decided to start a singer and she was only at level 1 when Simfest came around. Not high enough to perform. So, being the diva that she is, she decided to sing for tips over in the corner of the park. And this is what happened:

http://www.modyourpanties.com/hosting/34741_120309120300Screenshot-4.jpg

Even the acrobat on stage who was performing left to come see her. I'll take it! She is a force to be reckoned with. On the other hand though, it seems that she is a Milli Vanilli singer. Every time she sings, she sounds different: karaoke, sing for tips song #1, and sing for tips song #2 all sound like different people. Ah, well, such is the nature of show business. :lol:

[megativity13]

The celebrity star system seems to not be too well integrated, into SHT. I have the same issue with a level 9 singer and only one celebrity star.
After gaining the 1 star, I thought- oh great, prepare for the onslaught of agent phone calls/opportunities- but there have been none.
My sim got one opportunity to gain celebrity points, by singing for sick people at the hospital- but after that, nada. I've also found that there are typically
two paparazzis stalking my sim in public most of the time (whereas with LN, I would get 1 and when the 2nd one would appear, the first one
would leave shortly thereafter.) My sim also received 2 (small) freebies, 1 discount and was recognized once at level 8.

*ETA* If you place a guitar in their inventory, you get the option to sing w/guitar. Also if playing for tips, they will randomly pull out the guitar
and sing with it.

[Zokugai]

Does anyone recall what the "hide this specific item in CAS" mod is called? Because there are NINE of the stupid little Singagram pillbox hat in CAS. NINE. And TWELVE of whatever the other thing is, the...I think it was the mini top hat. WHY?

However, the main reason I went looking was because on rare occasions I'm getting lag catching that world up, and other players are too. It's the kind of lag that is usually caused by routing problems. I think one of the lots has a routing "hot spot" that is trapping Sims.

Yes! The, um...the gym? I think it might be a gym. It's an L-shaped building with the inside of the L being completely walled in and containing a swimming pool. The entrance into the building is only a one-square door and the sims gather up there like nobody's business to use the pool, and then none of them can get in. I had to reset all of them and add more doors to the lot, and fences to the backyard. There were a good TEN sims gathered up or so, on both sides of the door.

[Dramamine]

Every time she sings, she sounds different: karaoke, sing for tips song #1, and sing for tips song #2 all sound like different people. Ah, well, such is the nature of show business

I bet her producer's just a little heavy-handed with the auto-tune. Haha

[AdamantEve]

Yeah, I only have one Celebrity star too. I was excited when my first SimFest gave me points, but it seems not EVERY simfest or gig gives celebrity points. Someone will have to mod them in. Maybe a low value for public gigs and a high one for private, and a medium one for SimFest? :)

I don't understand Celebrity points anyway, so I don't know how to even get past 1...

[999rozes]

I've been trying to play Showtime but there is this raining effect that is happening at Starlight Shores when I concentrate on my Sim while on top of my sim there seems to be a haze. Is anyone else having that problem? Or is this an ingame thing?

[Zokugai]

So uh, am I the only one that can suddenly set makeup per outfit category? And have it work successfully? Because right now my sim is walking around in different makeup combinations for all six (including career) outfits.

Is this an unannounced feature? Magic? Or the world's most convenient glitch?

[AdamantEve]

That was a pretty well known and looked-forward-to feature. ;)

[EmotedLlama]

So uh, am I the only one that can suddenly set makeup per outfit category? And have it work successfully? Because right now my sim is walking around in different makeup combinations for all six (including career) outfits.

Is this an unannounced feature? Magic? Or the world's most convenient glitch?

That was always a feature, to my knowledge, though I think lots of people had glitches with it.

[Zokugai]

AdamantEve: I'm going to go ahead and pretend you said magic. ;)

That was always a feature, to my knowledge, though I think lots of people had glitches with it.
No way, I pay attention to my sims' makeup and I've never had it before Showtime.

[ani_]

The fat guy who was singing karaoke in the trailer, does he exist? I couldn't seem to find him in SS.

[EmotedLlama]

AdamantEve: I'm going to go ahead and pretend you said magic. ;)


No way, I pay attention to my sims' makeup and I've never had it before Showtime.

Sorry, I meant always a feature with Showtime.

[acidsugar]

I've been enjoying the game...I actually like the new town and am having a fun time playing with my singer sim :)

I think they did a pretty good job with this expansion...

[chezpmrricks]

.i like the Showtime.But one thing that really gets me.theres not that many songs for the singer.I like that fact they have michael jacksons moonwalker style dance

[lisfyre]

Seriously though, why are EA townies so ugly? D:
I always have to kill off the premades and populate the towns with my own sims.

I've been doing that since Sims 2. I never play those canned EA sims... too ugly, too unpredictable and so out of control!!!! I hate them!!

[sheeda233]

I have all of the expansions that have been released for the Sims 3. I only have one expansion, which is the fast lane. I've played with them all before. When the Sims 3 showtime released i installed because i pre-ordered it. Since downloading it NONE of my Sims games work. I uninstalled and reinstalled the games twice. it did nothing. I spoke with EA they didn't know what to do. Is any one else having this problem, or any advice please? Thank you everyone. and FYI all of the games are installed in order of release.

[pico22]

I only started to play SHT yesterday, or rather "play", since I spent most time hunting for updated mods and then installing "professional" bars, etc., in SS. Some problems with custom skins - they only appeared for me after I loaded the game the second (or third?) time; I hope someone can do something about that - Eaxis certainly won't. No other problems.

Pleasantly surprised by the new town; it looks much better "live" than on those aerial photos. Some great architecture, especially the library - very imaginative use of space. Looks like they've got a new team for that part of the game, or at least someone who really cares. - Made a new Sim, to become a singer; got tired of grinding and proceeded to play TS2 instead.

[Ive]

I'm pleasantly surprised seeing as I didn't expect much at all. The fact that I've today been playing TS3 for 12 hours straight says it all.

The new town is really nice except for a lot of houses with walls that miss paint in a couple of places. When you paint a room, how can you miss ONE tile if you shift it anyway :wtf:

Been playing as a singer only so far and it's cool. Just think maybe in the long run it will be boring to have to do the gigs manually every time.

[JRD7]

So, if it helps anyone, in the early levels of the singer career I'm finding that playing for tips is better for experience/promotions, but singagrams are better money. I've now several times finished a 5hr tips session and made $30 or so (compared to minimum 70 or so on singagrams for 60 seconds of work), but the singagrams barely raise the experience bar at all.


I added one subway stop to enable me to play for tips, and I found that you can't sing for tips, but playing guitar for tips raises your experience as well as being a goldmine. I would recommend anyone on the singer career path doing this, it really speeds up the worst parts of the game. The constant repetition of doing gigs night after night isn't much fun.

Does anyone know if the gig scheduler works in the self employed band career?

I have found that pretty much everyone in town has a negative opinion of me for some reason, even though I've kept my sim to simself as I wanted to play this career.

I'm finding celebrity status nearly impossible to increase, too. My simhas those weekly on-going gigs at both the stadiums, and has reached level 10, but I'm still a 1 star celeb. When in late night, woohoo-ing a celeb or two, would have you at 5 stars.

[lemonez13]

I finally broke down and bought it. Started playing a Magician and its a lot of fun. Singer, was ok, I didn't get very far. I made a Diva and it was kinda eh, everyone hated me. :P So was kinda annoying.

Magician costumes I love though. :) And the stage props I like a lot, wish there was more, but theres some decent sets for starters.

As far as how the Gigs and Professions work compared to Ambitions Professions. Its actually a little more work imo. You 'can' send your Sim to a Gig and like ignore them and they will do the gig with the own queues, but can't guarantee it will turn out Legendary, or be what the fans want. Granted you wouldn't really do this with a lot of Ambitions Professions either (think only one you really could like just send them on is low level Ghosthunter ones and they'd automatically hunt). But you can end up getting a full week of steady gigs and it seems like you never really have a break (yes you can go ask to cancel a steady gig if you want) since the game bombards you with "Gig today!" every 2 hours. Seems like days fly by too. :P I advise trying to get one day off, especially if you want to play a family.

As for the Starlight Shores, I actually like it pretty good, the house layouts are nice, and I like the theme of the place. It is a rather small town though.

But I have one odd "bug" that has caused my game to crash twice, and further so, think my Magician is now broken.

Odd thing, I got the Magician Box that you can do "Buried Alive" in. Obviously I knew there was a chance of death, but my Sim is Unlucky so no problem there. First time I "died." It waited till after the show and Grim came and stuff, and everything played out normal. Second time I did it, Grim kinda showed up for a split second, like -in- the stage and glitched out. All the townies were mourning cause I was supposed to expire, etc, but of course nothing happened, Grim never talked to me, and now I get random "expire" pop ups and the townies mourn my loss. Didn't think it was a huge issue, tried resetting sim, and had to reset the whole town multiple times cause the townies would get stuck mourning for something that never finished. Anyways, got to level 10 Magician, got a Genie lamp, used it, can't talk to Genie. Odd. Then went to try to get a gig with a new proprietor, can't talk to them. These are the only ones I can't interact with. O.o (Don't have any mods installed that affect scripting of any kind.)

So uh, am I the only one that can suddenly set makeup per outfit category? And have it work successfully? Because right now my sim is walking around in different makeup combinations for all six (including career) outfits.

Is this an unannounced feature? Magic? Or the world's most convenient glitch?
I didn't notice it till 1.31 patch. It was broken before I got Showtime though. Especially on Sims that were in my Bin. I'd have to reset the makeup for every outfit, even if it was locked. But now, it seems to be working for me.

[Zokugai]

I added one subway stop to enable me to play for tips, and I found that you can't sing for tips, but playing guitar for tips raises your experience as well as being a goldmine. I would recommend anyone on the singer career path doing this, it really speeds up the worst parts of the game. The constant repetition of doing gigs night after night isn't much fun.
Oh I don't know anything about that, I never play for tips in the subway. Unbalances the game too much for my taste.

[simzfreek89]

AdamantEve: I'm going to go ahead and pretend you said magic. ;)


No way, I pay attention to my sims' makeup and I've never had it before Showtime.

Just for the record, I didn't install Showtime (or Pets for that matter) on my laptop that I'm on atm, and I have the "makeup-per-outfit" option as well. I didn't notice it till lately, but yet my game is only up to Generations, without updating or anything of the sort (as far as I can tell....in retrospect I might have it on the 1.31 patch lol) :duck:

[justin1010]

So after playing a little longer, I'm actually enjoying this pack. Have only touched the Acrobat professioin but so far I'm very impressed with a lot of the animations that EA came up with. Sure it gets a little repetitive, but I imagine that's what it can be like in real life too.

Also really liking a lot of the objects that came with SHT (particularly the karaoke maching, pool table, photo booth, golf range, and the chin-up bar) and can't wait to use them more in the future.

[kiwi_tea]

Every since Showtime performance slowly deteriorates the longer I spend in Build/Buy mode. After 30mins things are lagging periodically. Longer I go, worse it gets. Anyone else? I suspect Flabaliki is seeing it as well, he had the same thing happen on his latest tutorial video. It's not *terrible* as long as you return in-game occasionally. :/

[matrix54]

I have it, but I needed a mod to unlock it.

Kiwi: Turn the lighting settings, lots and draw distance to low. Helped for me. The shadows are gone, but it's not too different.

[lemonez13]

Can anyone confirm for me whether this particular object "Persephone's Exile" is in their Showtime game at all? (see screenshot)

It's a decorative table object with a plant on top of it. I couldn't find it in my game all, in any category, ANYWHERE, so pictured is a cloned version of it which I provisionally placed in Buy Debug/Misc, which was after discovering that by default, it was not set to be shown in the catalogue at all!

A "lost" object of Showtime perhaps?

I looked everywhere and in debug and it wasn't in mine. Wonder where it came from, its rather nice.
edit: nvm re-read you put in yourself. :faceslap:

[AdamantEve]

Since everybody is curious but nobody is bothering to post pictures, here's what the audience looks like. :lol: They're all animated, it's pretty impressive.

Unfortunately Twallan's Saver saved the game in the middle fo my show and broke it...my Sim was infinitely doing nothing but "Buried Alive" and I couldn't finish the show, so I never got paid for my first ever private show. :(

[kiwi_tea]

"@Pasimfic_Wiki heya. That's a good question. We tried to open up as much as possible for players to use in buydebug. Unfortunately some of the pieces associated with the shells and show venues are really fragile and super easy to break. We tried to balance what was and wasn't in the catalog to make the best user experience."

Eff you, EA. You make crap.

Fundamentally, if the objects aren't safe to give to players in a sandbox game, you've failed as a designer.

[Zokugai]

Heads up, guys, this might be important.

If you have lag in Starlight Shores, go to the gym. It's shaped like an L, with a door on the inside of the bend of the L and on the outside of the bend of the L. Replace those one-square doors with more open ones (archways, multiple doors, whatever), and then delete at least part of the halfwall around the pool.

The pool is making townies want to use it, but that double one-square-door setup and the fact that there's no other way to get to the pool makes them bottleneck like nobody's business and it's generating MASSIVE lag when they get stuck there. I've seen ten or more sims try to get through that door, and I know that specific spot has affected at least one other player that I know of.

So fix that, do a full reset of the sims in your town (type "resetsim *" in the cheat console), and see if it helps your lag. Apparently there are no holes in the town's routing paint so that's probably where your routing lag is coming from.

[kiwi_tea]

I've done some testing with the gym removed from town. It's not the primary source of the lag.

[Zokugai]

I suppose it depends on what particular lag you're having.

[Laisanae]

Since everybody is curious but nobody is bothering to post pictures, here's what the audience looks like. :lol: They're all animated, it's pretty impressive.

Unfortunately Twallan's Saver saved the game in the middle fo my show and broke it...my Sim was infinitely doing nothing but "Buried Alive" and I couldn't finish the show, so I never got paid for my first ever private show. :(


The picture you posted... the sims look weird. What's wrong with their face? :wtf:

[simbalena]

The picture you posted... the sims look weird. What's wrong with their face? :wtf:

They aren't sims, they are evil Steiner dolls!

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KN8sYlURkZw/SZUIfi20nbI/AAAAAAAAANE/9tUU6glB2_s/s400/baby2.JPG

[TrillianRikku]

I think I would Like showtime if it didn't keep crashing every 5 minutes of game play

[Nyami]

I think I would Like showtime if it didn't keep crashing every 5 minutes of game play

It's probably a conflicting mod. I had the same problem until I took out all of my mods and figured out my rabbit hole rugs were incompatible.

I got a Genie, by the way. A whole family of them in fact, a mom, dad, and son :P No pics though because I just started over. They're actually pretty cool, at least I thought. They're not TOO much different from normal sims once you free them but they can summon any food in the whole game (unless it's one of my mods) and clean the whole house with a cool magic power. The magic is what makes them cool, their 'run' animation is hovering above the ground. And their idles are cute. My genie son had the ability to start a fire wherever he wanted to, but he had the loser trait so that may be why.

[chyrun]

My showtime experience is extremely buggy. For starters my sims don't get any mail anymore. Except for the bills, they can pay the bills just fine but when I click "get mail" on the mailbox to get wedding gifts or skill rewards, stuff disappears into oblivion. Nothing goes into the personal or family inventory. Nada.

My singer auditioned for a gig at the park and got it. It was due the next day. But on the day she audition a magician was later doing a show in that park. The next day when it was time for my sim to do the show, the darn magician was still there, doing hers. I couldn't give her the boot so my singer was forced to helplessly watch how someone else was stealing the limelight. I was expecting an angry proprietor telling her off , but nothing happened. On the third day I was pretty pissed off at that magician and resetsim her. I'm pretty sure it glitched something up, though.

Also whenever my singer does the "Ever heard of me?" interaction, she won't receive an answer.

Selling albums is a complete mistery to me. It works once in a blue moon. Most of the time the options isn't there.

My game is CC free, so I'm left to wonder if these are EA's bugs or if it's time for a complete reinstall. Anyone else experiencing complete weirdness?

[Nyami]

My showtime experience is extremely buggy. For starters my sims don't get any mail anymore. Except for the bills, they can pay the bills just fine but when I click "get mail" on the mailbox to get wedding gifts or skill rewards, stuff disappears into oblivion. Nothing goes into the personal or family inventory. Nada.

My singer auditioned for a gig at the park and got it. It was due the next day. But on the day she audition a magician was later doing a show in that park. The next day when it was time for my sim to do the show, the darn magician was still there, doing hers. I couldn't give her the boot so my singer was forced to helplessly watch how someone else was stealing the limelight. I was expecting an angry proprietor telling her off , but nothing happened. On the third day I was pretty pissed off at that magician and resetsim her. I'm pretty sure it glitched something up, though.

Also whenever my singer does the "Ever heard of me?" interaction, she won't receive an answer.

Selling albums is a complete mistery to me. It works once in a blue moon. Most of the time the options isn't there.

My game is CC free, so I'm left to wonder if these are EA's bugs or if it's time for a complete reinstall. Anyone else experiencing complete weirdness?

Ohh yes. My Showtime game has been buggy. But only the Showtime features. I had this glitched inventory where I had multiple front stage sets that I couldn't do anything with. Overwatch couldn't even get rid of them. That particular sim with the glitched inventory could not perform on stage at all. She'd 'jump' right back to her house if I tried to get a gig from the NPC. I hope it doesn't happen again because it was so annoying.

[kristie91]

I haven't had any lag. My singer was playing for tips in the park and got 81 simoleons. Six people gathering around him and watched. I've done two sing a grams so far.. I find them amusing. I've only seen two houses so far. The one I live in and another one when I did a sing a gram. They seem to be improved at least in my eyes from other worlds houses. I haven't performed on stage yet. I like the new clothes for the most part. My sim is wearing the volume tv shirt. I could care less for the sim port thing. I swore there was a mod on here that unlocked simport rewards or whatever they are called but its gone. I'm quite sad I was going to download that. I wonder if they were made to take it down.

[chyrun]

Kristie91, it's still there http://www.modthesims.info/d/470934

[kristie91]

Oh okay. THANKS!
Well that makes me happy!
I better go to bed now.. its 5:22 am here... I'll sim some more later and tell you guys my wonderful experiences! :)

[acid_fairy]

My showtime experience is extremely buggy. For starters my sims don't get any mail anymore. Except for the bills, they can pay the bills just fine but when I click "get mail" on the mailbox to get wedding gifts or skill rewards, stuff disappears into oblivion. Nothing goes into the personal or family inventory. Nada.

My singer auditioned for a gig at the park and got it. It was due the next day. But on the day she audition a magician was later doing a show in that park. The next day when it was time for my sim to do the show, the darn magician was still there, doing hers. I couldn't give her the boot so my singer was forced to helplessly watch how someone else was stealing the limelight. I was expecting an angry proprietor telling her off , but nothing happened. On the third day I was pretty pissed off at that magician and resetsim her. I'm pretty sure it glitched something up, though.

Also whenever my singer does the "Ever heard of me?" interaction, she won't receive an answer.

Selling albums is a complete mistery to me. It works once in a blue moon. Most of the time the options isn't there.

My game is CC free, so I'm left to wonder if these are EA's bugs or if it's time for a complete reinstall. Anyone else experiencing complete weirdness?

Selling albums only works on a sim your sim has only just met.

[Volvenom]

As a builder I'm beginning to like this. I used to have troubles finding good building piezes that worked together, but now it's much easier to make good houses no CC. I really like that white fence with the metal poles, perhaps the poles is a bit understated. I also have lots of community lots I can make now. Would be fun to make a small venue of some sort.

[Zokugai]

My genie son had the ability to start a fire wherever he wanted to, but he had the loser trait so that may be why.
Was one of his parents a firefighter? He may have gotten the pyromaniac hidden trait.

[AdamantEve]

My genie was HIDEOUS. So I changed him into this guy:

http://i.imgur.com/um42l.jpg

[TheLB]

I've been playing for a couple days now and so far my Showtime experience has been a resounding "eh." I made an acrobat and a singer, and the acrobat career is pretty alright, but I swear if I have to hear one of my singer's three songs for the millionth time I'm going to gouge out my ears. I think I would like the acrobat career a lot more if I was allowed to wear my own costumes. I'm not a fan of EAs costumes for any of the careers, really. The neighborhood is also bland to me. I was kind of hoping for a city.

[crocobaura]

I think I would like the acrobat career a lot more if I was allowed to wear my own costumes. I'm not a fan of EAs costumes for any of the careers, really.

I thought they made it so you could choose your career outfift, didn't they?

[TheLB]

I thought they made it so you could choose your career outfift, didn't they?Did they? How do I do that? That would be so much better.

[Ive]

Did they? How do I do that? That would be so much better.

Just do plan outfit from a dresser. You can't edit the original one but you can add a new one for all professions now :) And the Sim will change into the one you previously used every time they go to work/ do professions.

But the outfits you "originally" use will get unlocked. So you can make anew outfit with the same clothes, just CAS them etc.

[Nyami]

Was one of his parents a firefighter? He may have gotten the pyromaniac hidden trait.

The 'Start a Fire' option had the pyro icon next to it now that I think about it, so he did have the trait. I don't remember if the parents were ever firefighters (I played as another family for awhile) but probably one of them was at a time. Either that or genies can have children with hidden traits? Man, I wish I still had that town to check but my main family got bugged so I started over. :/

[ticklish]

My sim had a genie baby. The baby is a child now. She can't do much except make sims her slaves for 4 hours at a time. And can summon food group servings also can auto clean herself and other sims. Is all i see for now that she can do. One more thing she can click on the ground in the house and she cleans the whole house and it has a sparkle effect

[emino]

Did they? How do I do that? That would be so much better.

Err... by clicking on the wardrobe?

[aSimmersLife]

Selling albums only works on a sim your sim has only just met.

Not sure how true that is, 'cause I was able to sell an album to a love interest and also to a good friend...a few days after meeting/knowing them. Perhaps it is random?

ETA: Also, I have yet to see the option available when clicking on a Sim I've just met. This is a bit annoying, because sometimes my Sim just wants to hang out in front of the hot spots and sell sell sell...

[aSimmersLife]

So far I'm disappointed with this expansion, and I really wish I could return or exchange it for something else, because this EP would be off my computer.

My new Sim is only into her 5th week in the neighborhood, but she is already at Level 10 of her singing career and is getting calls to do steady gigs. It's still too easy to gain prestigious career levels, achievements and fame that should take some great effort to get. At least I'm not sky-rocketing to the top as a celebrity (only at level 2), but I'm sure that's due to having a mod installed. Twallan's, I think? I forget.

Singing: The sing-a-grams are amusing -- at first -- but quickly become predictable and just plain boring after a few iterations. Plus, why would my Level 10 career Sim still be doing the same sing-a-gram moves and making the same stumbling mistakes she made at Level 1 of her career? At least the singers do get new on-stage moves as they progress...but they're all so cheesy. Though, I did laugh a bit when I saw my Sim do the moonwalk one time at about Level 2 of her singing career. I haven't seen the moonwalk move since then.

Gigs: Another thing that doesn't make any sense -- I showed up nearly 2 hours late for a gig. It took me a little over 30 minutes to set up the stage, so I ended up only having less than 30 minutes to actually perform. I still got a great review from the venue and got paid over $2,000. The next day I auditioned for the same venue and was hired for another gig. Really? :wtf: What owner would do this? At least make it so that the proprietor will pay me only a few bucks if I showed up late for a gig -- especially that late -- and be less likely (if ever!) to hire me for future gigs.

Overall, I find myself just fast-forwarding through a lot of the performances -- even the SimFest ones, because I've already seen the same thing far too many times. Bore-frakking-dom.

Lots: The residential lots are done better than EA's previous residential lots and the community lots are nice too. However, I really wish they had left some room for expanding the neighborhood and placing custom lots without having to bulldoze left and right.

Lag: There is far too much lag. Yes, my graphic driver is up-to-date. It feels like my textures are not caching and they're redrawing each and every time the camera is on them. I know I'm not the only one experiencing unusual lag with Showtime. My computer is not the greatest, but my Sims 3 games have never lagged like this (even with Pets) and I've played much much larger worlds that have a lot more elements in them and with a lot more Sims in them than Showtime does. I find myself holding my breath when a patch of lag happens, because I'm thinking my game is crashing and "Oh frak me, I I haven't saved for awhile."

Sound: The sound can randomly drop when a Sim is performing. Yes, my sound driver is up-to-date. I thought it had something to do with the singing career, until I watched a SimFest where a magician was performing -- and my sound decided to mute itself. So, it seems to be with performances in general.

CC and Mods causing the new lag? Nope: I have tried playing with no CC and no mods installed to eliminate these as reasons for the lag and sound dropping, but nope -- I still had lag and random sound drops. I've tried not signing in and not using the social features, but nope -- still had lag and sound drops. I read on the official forums that clearing your cached folders and files before each game fixes the sound problems, and it seems to -- but why should this be something a gamer has to do before playing? Come on EA. Was this expansion fast-forwarded through the Quality Assurance phase?

I have more fun playing the Jericho and Lunar Lakes worlds, than I do playing Showtime. I haven't played those with 1.31 patch yet, and I'm crossing my fingers. I really hope the lag and sound problems have something to do with Showtime content and not the 1.31 patch. If the problems are due to changes introduced in the patch, and EA can't fix them and then blames them away on the user -- I will definitely be saying goodbye to The Sims 3. I have no intention of upgrading a computer just for The Sims 3 when it works and plays perfectly fine with a number of high-end graphic games. The Secret World is coming out in a few months anyway.

But, since I do have the EP, I may as well try to get my $ worth and play some of the other new careers to see how those are.

By the way, it felt really strange playing without CC and mods -- hahaha! :lol: Way too plain for me. How do people do it?

[mephistox]

So far now, Showtime has been very nice EP to enjoy, I'm a singer (that reach the max level) and i love to go to the venues (specially the big venue) and give some performances they really put you into the game and for the people that would love to be a guitarrist and do some shredding or whatever is quite nice. and also they put an 'effect' to show a lot of people in the venue.

The new objects are very cool, the bull, the skeeball, the table arcade and the karaoke just the jukebox and the mp4 player are buggy because you just can select from a predefined list of songs (about 20) not the total.

The new recipes are fine, but a little, EA should add more recipes with the banana, i don't know if can be used in nectars, i hope so.

SimFEST nice also, you can throw rancid fruits and things, and of course act.
___

Things I didn't like:
- Low number of new recipes and ingredients
- No custom songs on gigs (because they're splitted on chorus and parts)
- Jukebox and mp4 player buggy (no all songs)
- No katy perry songs (i don't like her, of course, but please, she was the face of the game)
- Short time of gig ( 2 hours just for 1 Song)
- You play the guitar, even if you don't know how to play it (in gigs)
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Of a 10 score, this game deserves a 7, it's nice and well done.
For the people that say that is buggy (in terms of game) so far, i tested the singer, i haven't seen any bug yet (i have the 6 eps and 5 sp, plus some store content and all of ATS3 and some tsr items), no lag or none.

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If you're planning to buy it, do it, but just the normal version, the katy perry stuff is shit and LE is nor so great, here is a video that i made in the ultimate venue (better the default).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=wb_RzuMg0GQ

[AdamantEve]

A tip if you think progressing is too easy- don't practice. Ever. You get progress from doing shows and junk. Practicing is basically cheating. My magician performed for tips for 10 hours a day to grind career levels and it made the whole experience boring. I barely ever had to do shows to get to level 10 and I didnt get to see him progressing on stage from bumbling at crappy tricks to being great at amazing ones.

Also if you use Awesomemod, the config file can make it so the EXP for Professions is lowered, and it works for Showtime professions. Put it on Half and it'll take ages to get to the top.

[mephistox]

@aSimmersLife: Rarely i defend a game, surtout an EA game, but now i can assure some things.

1. About ascending to fast, i thinks is because you just focus on the career, there a lot of players that have an entire family and easy can be a month trying to get the hight of the career. Plus the pet, the garden, go to the parks, nightclubs, nectar, inventions, etc. It's easy to reach the top if one just play the career and a lot of hours a day. (i reach the top playing about 6 hours a day but just focusing on the career, sleeping going to work, eat, rinse and repeat).

2. About the gigs i totally agree, a little ammount of time to play music and a lot prepareing the scenary and going to the venue. And too much money, but i read someone's that it's true, an artist get a lot of money for 2 hours of show. (very close to the game pay)

3.About the lag, totally disagreed, I don't have a huge computer (HD6770, athlon x2 250, 2x2 value rams, medium-low pc, game update to 1.32), and as i said, i'm not having lag at all, maybe you should try to clean the caches again (also the worlds caches), and testing the CCs for corrupted or non-compatible archives.

Another thing that i tested and worked when i was having some lag (after uninstalling bad cc), move your house and sims to the box and put them again in the same place.

Also try to check how much memory are you using running the sims, plus the cpu use, maybe before you haven't problems with lag, but remember that you added another game and more files for processing.

Not disgreed with you in the part that the Quality part of EA is bad, but sometimes the problem comes with the 8th layer.

[aSimmersLife]

@mephistox: Thanks for the info. I'm not sure whether it's a good or bad thing that you were compelled to defend the game based on my comments, but they weren't meant to be in disagreement with anyone. They are just my personal experiences with the game so far. :D

1. I have done other things besides career-related actions. My Sim is in a few relationships (unbeknown to the others, hahaha! ;) ), she attends/crashes parties, is constantly chatting on community lots, practices other non-career skills (writing, painting, etc.), and she has 2 pets. This is the first time I've only played with one human Sim the household. All of my previous households have had a minimum of 4x human Sims. Perhaps the relative ease at career leveling is definitely due to that, but I've always found it a breeze to level my Sims careers. Maybe I'll install a mod for that, but AwesomeMod has way too much for what I need.

2. I'm not questioning the large amount of money paid for a 2-hour show. I was saying "Huh? Why?" over getting paid a lot when she shows up late and plays less than 30 minutes of a 3-hour gig. To top it off, the same venue accepts her for another gig. A performer should be penalized for doing something like that, black-listed from the venue, if just for a short Sim-week -- or something other than being rewarded for making bad career moves.

3. I've already tried playing with no CC and no mods installed, to include having cleared all the necessary caches beforehand. If my computer has become unable to handle the addition of "another (Sims) game and more files for processing" -- then so be it. However, I can't help but go "Huh? What's going on?" :wtf: when I'm able to smoothly play high-end graphic games that have much higher requirements than the minimum reqs of Showtime.

Even putting the lag aside, my overall Showtime experience has been thumbs down. Perhaps I just expected too much from this EP. Perhaps I'm just getting bored with the predictability of The Sims 3 in general. This is one reason why I love mods and cc so much -- the changes they bring are nice. Plus, I actually find myself playing less of the game and spending more time learning and enjoying how to build nice lots.

[HEAVEN-SENT]

I got Showtime yesterday,as soon as i started playing it i knew that there wont be much change to the game and i was right.
I like how they give the male sims some nice in game hair and clothes for once and the new jobs are good but they do take along time to gain the skills so you can do other skills related to the job.
Other then that so fair the game is a little bit of a let down i would have expected more from a EP,but maybe i will find other good things when i play it more.