How To Become A Celeb

Ready to impress? It’s not easy out there for a Sim trying to get known in this city, but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible. It does, though, mean that you have to put yourself out there. Very, very few Sims can become famous by not even leaving the house.

Order a round of drinks for the bar to pick up a few Celebrity Points.

Celebrity Socials

Okay, you spotted your first celebrity in a club or bar...now what? Now you muster the courage to go over and introduce yourself. Let’s presume you are doing this from a zero-star vantage point.

The first thing to do is look for a free moment in the celeb’s routine for you to walk up and use the Impress social. The Impress socials are the main point of entry into a relationship with a soon-to-be fellow celeb.

Will you pass through the first checkpoint to fame? It depends on the celeb status of the target celeb. If that Sim is a two- or three-star celeb, there is a very good chance the Impress social will fail and you’ll suffer embarrassment. Not good.

So, instead make sure you are within the range of the target celebrity.

As a zero, you should stick to a one-star celebrity. (If you are a two-star, for example, go for a three-star or perhaps take a chance on a four-star.) If the celebrity is not in the mood or the social fails, they brush you off. It is so humiliating.

However, there is a chance the celebrity will not totally blow your Sim off. If that happens, then you need to start talking to the celeb Sim and make them want to know a little more about you, or at least not be totally annoyed by your presence.

There are several variations on the Impress social you may use, such as boasting of a skill or talking about a career that the target celeb might be into. (The Film career seems like a reliable starting point for this.)

Getting shut down by a celeb decreases your relationship rating.

Now, if the Impress social fails, you can try again. You can actually try a few times. But after a number of failures, you are told to stop trying for a little while. The celebrity is irritated by you and is not going to even humor your next attempt to impress.

Once you successfully impress a celebrity, you can then start treating them like any other Sim and build the relationship.

Building relationships with celebrities is another way to earn Celebrity Points. Every time you raise the relationship level, you earn Celebrity Points.

One thing to note about celebrity interactions after that initial meeting: Just because you met a celebrity and have them on your social radar, you cannot select them with the Cell Phone.

If you pick up the phone to chat or organize a party, the celebrity will not appear in the list of available Sims. Only the normal Sims you know appear. You must pass the impress test before the celebrity will appear in the phone window.

Try to Impress

This is your entry social with a celebrity Sim. It is only available on celebrities that you have just met and not previously impressed. This social has several variations.

You must pick one of the variations and hope that it lines up with the celebrity’s interests, if it does, the celeb will speak to you and this inches you toward impressing the target celeb and beginning an actual relationship.

Name Drop

The Name Drop variation requires that you already know another celebrity. When you use this, you insert the name of a previously impressed celebrity into the social. If the social is a success, the celeb Sim reacts positively that you share an acquaintance.

If that celeb thinks you’re cool, then you must be cool enough for them, too. If the social fails, though, the celeb dismisses you as a sad name-dropper. Better think of another way to impress the target.

Talk about Skill/Career

Some celebrities can be snared by talking about certain careers or skills. The catch, though, is that you need to actually know something about whatever skill or career you mention.

If you opt to discuss a skill—say, Mixology—your chance of succeeding depends on your development of that skill. If you are only level 2, a one-star celeb might be impressed.

A four-star will not. If the celeb target shares the same skill, though, there is a much greater chance of success.

Traits can affect the success of a skill-based Impress social. If your Sim is an Angler and enthuses about Fishing to a celeb who also likes to drop a hook in the water, there’s another boost to your chance of succeeding.

If you go the career route, you can then bring up your current job (if you have one). The higher your level in that career, the higher your chance of impressing the celebrity.

And, as you might expect, if you share the same career with the target celebrity, that too increases the chance of success.

If the target celebrity possesses traits related to discussed careers, that also boosts the chance of success. A Natural Cook Sim has a better chance of smooth-talking a celeb in the Culinary career than one who is not.

The Easily Impressed and Ambitious traits also boost your chance of succeeding with a career-based Impress social, no matter the career you choose to speak about with the target celebrity.

Talk about Wealth

This avenue of impressing a celebrity is directly related to how many Simoleons you have in the bank. If you have only $500 to your name, this is simply not an option. But if you do have some cash in your name, you can attempt to use this as a way to impress.

The higher the celebrity level of the target, the higher your household budget must be for this social to succeed. And if the target celeb is a Snob, you need to be very wealthy to impress them.

Celebrity Opportunities

As you work your way up the celebrity ladder, you will receive special opportunities to increase awareness of, well, you. These celebrity opportunities are offered via your phone, so when it rings—answer it!

Opportunities include promotional appearances at venues, dancing at clubs, and supporting the local school. Here is the full list of celebrity system-related opportunities:

If you are excelling at a career or a skill, you may encounter several related opportunities that pay out in Celebrity Points.

These opportunities are not always easy—in fact, some of them are multi-part opportunities that will take some time to complete. But the longer the opportunities, the more Celebrity Points you receive for completing the task.

Celebrity Opportunities

Celebrity Skill-career Opportunities

Other Celebrity Gambits

There are celebrity-boosting opportunities related to many of the new features in Late Night. As mentioned previously, joining a band and performing successful gigs will result in Celebrity Points.

You can also bank Celebrity Points with the Mixology skill by putting on a great show at the bar, or try splurging a little at a club and buying a round of drinks for all nearby Sims.

After they finish guzzling the free beverages, they’ll definitely be sure to pass around word of your generosity.

Celebs in Bridgeport

Because getting to know celebrities is a good entry point into the fame game, it’s a good thing that there are many celebrities already living in Bridgeport. The existing celebrities are also spread across the five-star range.

There are many one- or two-star celebs running around, hanging out in lounges and enjoying their fame. The four- and five-star celebrities are much harder to find at first because, well, you aren’t able to easily enter the hotspots where they hang out.

It’s not difficult to identify a celebrity. Just mouse over them and look at their name plate. If the plate is gilded, that’s a celeb and you better start figuring out if you have the ability to meet them.

It’s embarrassing to get shut down by a celebrity, so if you are a nobody and you happen to bump into a three-star, you may wish to save yourself the humiliation and let this sighting go by without any fuss.

You may notice that celebs tend to only visit with other celebs. That’s by design. Do not interrupt celebrity conversations. Just hold on and look for openings.

When you spot a free one-star celebrity, that’s when you should make your move and start the socialization process that leads to a foothold in the fame circuit.

You will never run out of celebrities in Bridgeport, even if you play through several generations and elder celebrities pass on.

Late Night takes the flow of time into account and makes sure that there are always a set number of celebrities in the city so you can continue playing the fame game generation after generation.

However, if you turn off the Story Progression feature in Options, the you also shut off this auto-manager for the celeb scene in Bridgeport.

When You See a Celebrity

Even if you opt to not go for personal celebrity in Bridgeport, there are still two ways to interact with the popular folks you see walking around town or in clubs.

Use these socials/interactions on celebrities—and if you do choose to become a celebrity, expect them to be used on you.

Ask for Autograph

When you encounter a celebrity, you may ask them for an autograph. Your Sim extends a pad of paper and a pen. Hopefully, the celebrity is gracious and accepts it. There is, though, a chance that they will refuse.

The higher the level of celebrity, the lower the chance that this will succeed. And if you happen to encounter a celebrity who is Mean and Evil, watch out for them to rip your pad in half right in front of your face.

Take Cell Phone Picture

This interaction is very similar to asking for an autograph. You approach a celebrity Sim and request a photo. If the target accepts, you get to snap that photo and walk away happy. Should the celebrity refuse, you just put your camera away and leave all dejected.

Be Star Struck

Star Struck is a very basic interaction on a celebrity that is harmless. It’s also automatic—you do not actually initiate this reaction to spotting a celebrity. If you come in close contact to a celeb, there is a chance your Sim will get extremely excited.

The celebrity will not react to this display, but at least you get the Star Struck positive moodlet.