Shorten the lead time on band gig opportunity?

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Shorten the lead time on band gig opportunity?

Post by FreakyRufus » February 19th, 2023, 6:25 pm

I have a band that I want to play gigs. Whenever they get a gig, it is always 24+ hours in the future. There is some mod in my game that makes it so that when I have a gig opportunity and I save and exit, when I load the save again, my sim has the opportunity in their opportunity tab, but the description that shows up above their moodlet panel is empty. The pop up is there, but it has no text in it. Also, prior to exiting, the gig shows up with a blue star at the location of the gig, and going to the venue and clicking on an instrument shows the "audition for gig" disabled, and an item for "perform gig" is there, even when it is not time yet for the gig. After loading the save, the "perform gig" item is missing, and the "audition for gig" option is enabled.

I know I can give them a new gig with MC, but it is always 1-2 days in the future, and I usually end up having to quit and reload before they can actually play the gig, due to errors, or due to how slowly it takes to advance time in my world. Is there any way to get a gig opportunity on the same day? I read another comment where someone said to use Debug Enabler to "schedule gig tonight", but that doesn't seem to do anything for bands, and the documentation on it says it is only for Showtime career gigs.

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Shorten the lead time on band gig opportunity?

Post by C-Dark » March 10th, 2023, 9:45 am

I really like to know this too.

On this mod page https://modthesims.info/d/532058/update ... -gigs.html
The creator noted that:
"default band gig opportunities, it just forces them at the end of a successful audition ignoring all the usual restrictions:
By default these opportunities can only be generated for Late Night Bars and Lounges with bartenders only, and were written such that you started out at bars and worked your way to lounges but once you start playing at lounges you would never get the opportunity to play in bars again. Other than that they are notoriously rare to come by (I've personally NEVER gotten one without the Gig Scheduler mod) and when you finally get one you still had to wait at least 2 days before you can play the gig.

You can still receive gig opportunities from the phone or using an external mod like the Gig Scheduler or Master Controller but keep in mind that the default restrictions will be applied to them. (To change these restrictions you'll need a separate mod editing the Opportunities_EP3 XML)"
This opportunities_EP3 is what was is already edited in this mod by NonaMena, so we can get the varity we want
More or Less Gigs for Bands and Music Opportunities for your Sims

So I wonder which part in the opportunities xml is responsible for the restriction to have to wait 2 days???

New idea:
And I wonder if it is possible to add more places so we are needed to have all different kind of location types divided by Comma?
Like
<TargetData>DiveBarCriminal,DiveBarIrish,DiveBarSports,CocktailLoungeAsian</TargetData> to only name some
- to add all locations to all HobbiesSkills.Band.GigOpportunity parts

This would be awesome too, because I don't like to place all locations in my town.
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