I played last night and so far so good. I haven't used Simport yet, but hopefully tonight after I put another Sim in my Singer's household I can send Billie DuRone on tour. I am hoping to host someone soon. I felt a little uncomfortable sending out requests, but that's my own issue not a game issue. I didn't want anyone to feel obligated or spammed.
The two highlights for me were
- Performing for tips. Wow! I was surprised and very pleased when my sim whipped out her guitar and started singing for a whole group of people...it was even more fun when she performed on stage in the park and the audience threw things at her; good things: A teddy bear and A Ducksworth Bathington.
-Secondly, going to see an acrobat perform. I saw in the paper there was a show that night at 7:30 in the big venue that doubles as the theatre. I got there in plenty of time but didn't know what to do, couldn't enter or make a selection to watch the show. The show was supposed to start at 7:30 but at 7:45 my sim and every other sim in the area walked to the door on the side of the building on their own and went inside where the sim was performing. I was -very- surprised at the quality of the show, the way the sims looked and every little thing about the show. It was like they looked better? A higher quality graphic than I was expecting.
What I don't particularly like and I don't exactly dislike it, either is when performing sing-o-grams and how many pop ups for work appear later in the career. Your sims are running from job to job for a quick little song. Edit: This is in line with what a singing telegram person actually does do but they seem to roll in right after another with no real set hours save you don't seem to get any at night. Which also makes sense.
I also learned not to take all the new traits at once. I got way too many social butterfly wish rolls (which makes sense, you are a social butterfly) and the It's Like I'm Invisible negative moodlet popped up at 8:01 am Sunday, Day 1 Week 1. Managing my Social motive was a little interesting. It drops real quick if you have this trait. I noticed the social bar continued to lower while on the phone with the occasional big boost during the conversation, but not a continuous green arrow boost. It still wasn't completely full when the call ended, a sim hour or more later.
I am curious to any benefit Diva has besides the social options and doing everything with Flair kind of like Evil and Daredevil Sims.
My singer got heckled on her way to the bookstore without ever having performed anything at all yet. It was kind of funny but gave me a brief Unlucky Feeling negative moodlet.
I give my overall experience 8 out of 10.
I razed the equestrian center and reoriented the salon, consignment and fire station. I added my favorite club from Late Night. I think the clubs can be easily adapted for Late Night (if that's your thing) with dropping a proper bar in place of the default ones inside.
I thought I would be able to go into the coffee shop, but it doubles as the Diner rabbithole with a stage outside. A little disappointing.
Finally, I couldn't find my Katy Perry fruit dress in CAS.
