Party Planner
An event is not over until everyone is tired of talking about it. -Mason Cooley
Select Aspiration
As with any other aspiration in game, select the Party Planner aspiration for your Sim either through CAS or the Select New Aspiration screen. You can find it under the Drugs category.
Objectives and Milestones
Level 1
- Add 2 DJ’s to Team
- Add 1 Drug Dealer to Team
- Add 1 Promoter to Team
Start by building your team. Head over to a nightclub and get friendly with the local DJ to get the option to ask them to join your team as a Team DJ. As for the Drug Dealers, befriend an NPC Dealer (if you haven’t already), and ask them to join the team as a Team Dealer. For promoters, you can ask any of your friends, but you need a substantial amount of friendship built with them for the option to appear to recruit them as a Team Promoter.
Level 2
- Set Admission Fee for 1 Rave
- Get Promoter to Spread the Word
- Hire Security for Rave
- Host a Rave
To prepare for your upcoming rave, click the Drugs tab on your phone, and select Party Planning.
This will bring you to a menu where you manage your upcoming events. Most of the stuff required for this level of the aspiration is handled here.
The admission fee cost and size of promo campaigns will factor in to how many Sims showing up to the Rave. Meaning, a low admission fee and large promo campaign will bring in a bunch of Sims, but the campaign will also take longer until it’s completed, and since the admission fee per Sim is low it won’t necessarily net you more cash when the total is tallied up. A large promotion campaign is also more expensive than a small one.
As for Security. Hiring security is not really a definite requirement to host raves, but if you get troublemakers that starts picking fights with the other ravers it’s good to have security on lot to throw them off the premises.
Level 3
- Book 1 Celebrity DJ for Festival
- Add 2 More Drug Dealers to Team
- Add 2 More Promoters to Team
To book a celebrity for your upcoming Festival, head over to Party Planning again on your phone, now that you are at level 3 on the Aspiration you will get the option to do that from here. First, though you must specify that the event you will be hosting is a Festival and not a Rave, then you select one of the 3 available celebrity DJ’s from the list.
To add more Dealers and Promoters to your team, follow the steps outlined under Level 1 of the aspiration.
Level 4
- Set Admission Fee for 1 Festival
- Get Promoters to Spread the Word
- Hire Security for Festival
- Host a Festival
These are pretty self explanatory, just follow the steps under level 2 of the Aspiration. However, note that the expenses and incomes will be substantially higher when hosting a festival. The main difference from hosting a rave is that you can only host a festival on weekends after 6 PM, and you won’t need a specific venue for it.
The default venue for your festivals will be the Chalet Gardens in Windenburg.
Host Rave
When the promotion campaign has ended you can host the rave through the Drugs menu on your phone. Note that raves can only be hosted after 8 PM, and you need to set up one or more Rave Locations first.
To set up a Rave Location, edit any lot in game and assign it the Rave Location venue. Make sure you have the required items for the venue in order for it to work, including the Universal Venue List found on this website under Other Mods.
Now you should be all set to host the rave. When you click the Host Rave button, you will shortly get a call from your promoter, asking if you want to start the event. Click OK.
Rave
The rave event is a situation with various goals, the main one being to collect the cut from your team dealer. Whenever your dealer sells drugs to Sims on the premise you can get a cut from the sale, but you can only collect the cut from the dealer once during the event, meaning the longer you wait to collect the cut the bigger the cut you will get. But if you wait too long you might risk the event ending before you get your cut.
There is also a chance of cops showing up throwing your Sim in jail. This will cancel the event and giving the admission fees back to all the Ravers, meaning you will end up with only expenses and no actual income from the event. What this means is also: More ravers on lot = more dealer sales = higher probability of cops ruining the party.
When the event ends you will get the total expenses and income in a notification in the top right hand corner of your screen, and it will be deducted or added to your Sims funds.
Endgame
When the aspiration is completed, you can still keep hosting raves and festivals as long as you have a Rave Location set up for it.
