Awards Tweaks
This mod introduces several tweaks for awards from Get Famous expansion.
Before using the mod, please read at least Known Issues section :)
Requires GET FAMOUS and CITY LIVING packs, and XML injector (the current version) to work.
WHAT'S ADDED:
1. NEW AWARD CATEGORIES
Apart from the ones existing already in game (for best video, best song, best acting, best book and best painting) it adds 9 new categories:
- Starlight Accolade for Best Sense of Style
- Starlight Accolade for Best Photo
- Starlight Accolade for Best Satire
- Starlight Accolade for Best Scientific Achievement
- Starlight Accolade for Best Techology Achievement
- Starlight Accolade for Outstanding Achievements
- The Simmy Award
- The Llama Choice Award
- The Plumbell Prize (thank you @Naturalitarian for this name!!!)
2. NOMINATING OR APPLYING TO CELEBRITY TILE
You can nominate famous Sim to receive a Celebrity Tile. In this case, if nomination is accepted, a celebrity tile is delivered to the mailbox and your Sim can later hand it over to the famous Sim. Famous Sim doesn't have to be 5-star celebrity, however the chances are bigger if fame ranking is higher.
The same way, if your Sim is famous (but not necesarily 5-star celebrity), they can apply to receive their own celebrity tile.
*You have to wait few days after each nomination/application, before nominating/applying again.
*If you received a celebrity tile for a famous Sim, you cannot nominate any other Sim, until you hand over the celebrity tile to the right owner.
3. WATCHING STARLIGHT ACCOLADES CEREMONY ON TV
Every Sunday at 6 pm special channel on TV is active and your Sim can watch if they got a reward. This will work ONLY for a Sim who was nominated.
If your Sim won the award, you'll get notification, a Sim will get a buff and an award will be delivered to your mailbox the next day.
4. NOMINATING TO AWARDS (working now only within your household)
You can nominate any famous Sim (1 to 5 star celebrity) to any award from the list (also for best book and others already existing categories). You have to wait few days after each nomination, before nominating again.
BIG PROBLEM I DID NOT SOLVE YET IS - YOU CAN ONLY SUCCESSFULLY NOMINATE A SIM WITHIN YOUR HOUSEHOLD. I tried various approaches already and I did not succeed with nominating NPCs or even other active families :( I will continue trying, but I need some break from this, maybe I'll get fresh perspective if I give myself a time, or maybe other modder will come up with some advice for me.
A nomination does not mean that your Sim will get an award! This is different from the current game system. The higher fame rank, the bigger chance your Sim will get the award after nomination. And also each nomination increases these chances, so if you have more Sims in your household, each of them can nominate their famous relative/friend.
5. GETTING AUTONOMOUS NOMINATIONS WHILE PERFORMING VARIOUS ACTIONS
Since I introduced new awards categories, I decided to override various actions, so there is a chance your Sim will get a nomination while performing following actions. If your Sim gets a nomination - there is 100% they'll get award. But chances to get nominated this way are of course limited and can be increased by reputation rank, fame rank, very high career level, very high skills level, quality value of objects (e.g. of sent photos) etc.
- writing articles, felietons, manuals, research papers
- sending photos to publication/simstagram
- writing comedy routines
- submitting a concept (Civil Designer job)
- exploring space in rocketship
- observing sky through telescope
- curing patients (doctor career) or animals (veterinarian)
- solving cases (detective career)
- uploading viral video
- doing charity actions (voluntering, donating by computer, throwing charity event)
- promoting clothes by Trendi
- writing fashion blog etc. (as Trendsetter)
- programming mobile app or new game
- creating some robotics inventions
- analyzing various elements using chemical analyser or microscope
- organizing a fan meeting event
- being at 10 lvl of some careers (athletics, social media, writer, actor, entertainer, activist)
- fighting Mother Plant
- licensing songs written for pipe organs and also licensing lyrics
and I could have missed something :)
This is mostly covered in Addon, because there I had to override a lot of in game interactions. I decided to separate it from the main file for the compatibility reasons.
6. GENERAL OVERHAUL TO AWARDS
The award name is changed to include the name of the recipient.
Also you can change its description to better describe for what exactly this award was given.
The Llama Choice Award, The Simmy Award and The Plumbell Prize have their own statues. All other award have the "regular" Starlight Accolade look.
7. AWARD CEREMONY
If your Sim receives any nomination, they still can go watch award ceremony in Del Sol Valley and the event will also work for all new categories.
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KNOWN ISSUES
- As I already wrote above, you can successfully nominate to award only Sims within the current household (this does not apply to celebrity tile, this nomination will work for any Sim, also NPCs). I hope, I'll solve this at some point.
- Watching Award Ceremony on TV might get interrupted if another Sim decides to... change a channel and watch something else :) In this case, I am sorry, but your Sim needs to start over again watching the ceremony channel but it can mean than the ceremony will end and your Sim will not receive the award.
- While being given award during event in Del Sol Valley - the animation will be always with Starlight Accolade award, even if Sim won The Llama Choice Award, The Simmy Award or The Plumbell Prize. However the correct award will appear later in Sim inventory.
- I would really appreciate your feedback - if you get nominated too often or almost never, so I could put more realistic chances. I will also observe this in my own save.
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Change log:
19/03/2026 - updated for patch 17th &18th March (1.122.205 + hotfix)
28/02/2026 - updated for all February patches
20/09/2025 - fixed for Patch 18th September (1.118.242)
03/07/2025 - Updated for patch 1st July (1.116.202) - pre Enchanted by Nature EP.
05/03/2025 - updated for the Patch February, 25th
24/10/2024 - updated for the Patch from 22nd of October (1.110.265.) Pre-Life & Death EP
27/07/2024 - updated for the Patch from 23rd of July (1.108.289.) Pre-Lovestruck and compatible with Hotfixes
05/06/2024 - Chinese translation added
15/04/2024 - removed the possibility of sending autonomous nomination via computer by Sims. Now your Sim will not autonomously sit in front of the computer and nominate whoever they want to nominate. *Still, it doesn't change the option that a Sim can get nominated to an award while doing some tasks.
03/03/2024 - updated for the Patch from 27th of February (1.105.297) and compatible with Hotfix from 28th of February.
16/12/2023 - updated with small tweaks after Patch Dec 5th
12.10.2023 - small changes/fixes for issues that I found
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Overwritten files:
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LANGUAGES:
English (default, by me)
Polish (by me)
Russian (by Origamika Group)
German (by Blubbie; to download from: https://simfileshare.net/folder/216408/ )
Chinese (by Jonas (林))
Comments (20)
thanks for making this mod, i really like it! i was wondering if there's any possibility of you making it modular in the future? i was just wondering because i've been trying to debulk my pie menu for computers, no worries if not & thank you for all your hard work!
What do you mean by modular? To make main mod and addons? What would you see as a main mod then?
Hi thank you for the mod ! I have two questions 1. is there a way you could update this to make the awards heirloom eligible? unless i'm doing this wrong i don't seem to be able to do it :( and 2. is there a way to cheat to generate an award for a sim? or like shift-click ässociate award to" i moved my legacy household to a different save and i would like to associate a previous award my founder got to her if possible thank you !
I can work to add these. This should not be difficult.
I'm confused is the computer the only way to nominate someone? Is that also how we only can apply for ourselves? Just want to make sure there wasn't something I missed.
It's on my to do list to enable self nomination, but somehow it doesn't work, what I try to do. It's very confusing for me, cause it only happens with filters for celebrities. This is why I still didn't complete it. For now you can only nominate someone else within the current household. Also there are some autonomination, while you do something, you can get them, but they are rare, very rare.
also, (sorry) is this compatible with the Longer Starlight Accolades Events by gettp on modthesims?
It should not conflict with longer event mod.
so excited to put this in my game!! i play rotationally and have a designated release week for my entertainment skill sims, would that work as a go around to nominating out of household sims? like would i be able to nominate them while playing them and then continue doing the same to my other played households and they’d still be nominated/have a chance at winning those certain categories when i go to the award ceremony with whatever household i’ve chosen to attend the event in?
Hi! So I am not sure exactly.... but - once you nominate a Sim within your household - this nomination will stick to them, until they receive an award - just like with award system from the game. However - for them to get the award - they still have to be the active ones. It will not work, if you go with other Sim to award ceremony, then no, the nominated Sim will not be called up for an award (unless by game generated choice, but they won't get it in the inventory in that case). And it will not work if other Sim watch the ceremony on the tv. It must be the active Sim, the same as the system from the game works. I didn't find a workaround for it. At least not yet. All my attempts so far failed :(
does this work with LittleMsSam award overhaul or does it replace starlight accolades?
I came here to ask this as well! TYSM for the mod <3
Hello, I would like to share some observations I noticed in the mod, and I'm unsure if they are errors or if the mod actually operates this way. As stated, the TV ceremony begins at 6 p.m., but it doesn't last the expected time, which would be from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. On the contrary, around 8 p.m., the ceremony is already wrapping up. Additionally, I noticed that not all nominated categories are presented during the award show. For example, several days before the ceremony, I made nominations for my sims in various categories, but during the ceremony, only one of the categories was presented. I'm not sure if this is related to the fact that the TV ceremony lasts only two hours. These are some details I noticed during my gameplay. I tested the mod without other mods to see if there was interference, and I observed the same occurrences.
Hi, thank you for your remarks :) I don't want to sound like developers do, but actually, it's designed this way :D I couldn't make it working exactly like real Award Ceremony. So I limited the "fake" awards to number 3, and after that, if a Sim gets award, it's the award number 4 and then the end of ceremony. That way, even if your Sim starts watching at 9pm, they still have a chance to get award by 11pm (these are the timeframes from the game and I didn't want to change it). Also, as per design in the game (and I didn't change that either) your Sim can get only 1 award during 1 ceremony. An interaction of receiving a reward removes all other potential nominations. I didn't change that mechanism because I was afraid of creating some bad loop in the game, if something goes wrong and glitches. On the other side, I didn't want to limit 1 Sim to just 1 nomination, cause a nomination via computer doesn't mean a Sim will 100% receive an award! So I enabled that various people can nominate the same Sim - but this Sim will get anyway just 1 award, not more. And after that, all other nominations are removed from the queue, as I mentionned before, not to cause any error loop. The award system was quite complex and I didn't want to mess up too much. I hope that my explanations are somehow clear, and I am sorry if they are not.
hii is it just me or is it when I win an award and try to costume place it on my lot, the game doesnt recognise it so i cant pick it up, so all i can do with it is place it in world, where you cant choose the location of putting it down, or put it in inventory.
It's not only you, I am not an expert in CC creation and here I had this issue that I couldn't make this object moving freely in Live mode (I tried several things, I am sure the correct instruction to do it is somewhere there in the internet, but I didn't find it). BUT! After placing the award in the world, you can go to build mode and freely place it anywhere you like. I reduced the size of awards so they all should be placeable in the tiniest place on the surfaces.
Hey do you know if this mod conflicts w/ my game , the mailbox doesn’t work properly with it, unable to use? Love your mods.
Hi, 1 other person reported this issue some longer time ago, but I didn't get from them more details so I couldn't investigate it furtherly. So first of all, I can't replicate this issue in my game - all mailboxes work for me and I can use normally the options. So I would assume it can be a conflict or a glitch. Please try to: step 1. Clear cache (you can follow instruction from this site: https://www.carls-sims-4-guide.com/help/cache.php) step 2. Repair your game step 3: open completely new save (just for test) and check if there the mailboxes work. 4. If you still have the issue (in the new save and in the old save), please tell me if the issue persists for all types of mailboxes, or maybe just certain types. Do you get any Last exception report when you open the game with this mod? I will try to help as much as I can, but I need more details and some troubleshooting :) Thank you!
This is so cool! Thank you for making this mod and sharing it! And thank you for including my suggestion on the name and the shoutout! I am Naturalitarian on Twitter!
Oh, I didn't know that's you!! YES, your idea was TOP! :D I had to use it and of course I had to credit you :) Sorry I reply just now, but this week was so busy for me at work, and then of course I fall sick on weekend, probably from all this tiredness xD