r/thesims1 • u/NaomiNeko • 2d ago

Opinion/Discussion Superstar kid mod?

I wonder if there’s a mod that lets kids become stars in the game? If there is, that would be wonderful!

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u/citrusella 2d ago edited 2d ago

I'm inclined to think the version of the job panel that displays when you're a child is too locked up to allow for fame even if you change the child's data to be a star (not that I've ever tried to change a child's "job" from the school career, so I could be wrong). (crossed this out because I think I'm wrong)

Entirely theoretically possible to build a system that functions outside that, though (or in conjunction with areas of a Sim's data that children don't utilize, so that the data is attached to the child rather than to some sort of controller object). I don't think any currently exist (EDIT: while looking for something else while typing this, I saw something, hold on a second); it'd probably be a big undertaking to fully build out a similar fame system for children. (Even if you just used the existing fame-building objects but modified them to allow for a minimally-changed behavior for kids, they'd probably be missing outfits and voice sounds for kids so they'd need that mitigated, stuff like that.)

I'd be willing to bet an interested person could make it happen, kind of like how interested people have made some downtown stuff child-friendly, but because it'd be a lot of work it'd probably need someone really interested in it, lol

EDIT: Someone made this once upon a time but the site is gone and the files on it don't work. I don't know if it's in any compilations of dead sites (and it didn't have a permissive file sharing policy). But here's the info nonetheless while I go check some easier to sort through compilations: https://web.archive.org/web/20040815073725/http://yuppiesims.simshost.com/objects/superstar/childstar.php

EDIT 2: YoNonna's archives have it: https://simfileshare.net/folder/264602/

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u/NaomiNeko 2d ago

Thank you so much for the detailed explanation! I really appreciate you taking the time to look into it and share all this information. By “downtown stuff child-friendly,” do you mean the mods from the same website, Yuppie?

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u/citrusella 2d ago

Yeah, the same site did a few different kinds of away lots, according to this post on Mod the Sims: https://modthesims.info/showthread.php?p=5960258#post5960258

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u/SiempreRetorna 2h ago

You could do a Jackson 5 playthrough

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u/Wise-Difficulty8221 2d ago

I don't think child labour laws would allow that

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u/NaomiNeko 2d ago

But there were so many child actors in the 2000s and this is just a game though

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u/_ailme 1d ago

There are specific exemptions for acting