Brave Sims who love the mysterious can perform illusions and daring escapes as a Magician.
Deep Concentration
Career Facts
Recommended Traits
- Social Butterfly
- Ambitious
- Natural Born Performer
Not recommended Traits
- Absent Minded
- Clumsy
- Coward
- Loser
Skills
You do not need to build up any skills for the magician career, there is only the hidden magician/entertainment skill. This skill you build up naturally by performing for tips or on stage (or practicing the different songs yourself). If you cheat your way to the top, will not be a good performer without practice.
However, it is recommended for all the performer careers to up your charisma skill, that way you can talk to the audience during a performance and get a nice performance boost.
Note: There is a nice quirk in Showtime, while performing for tips you get a LOT of friendship from all the Sims watching you. Great way to gain friends for the friendship requirement for the Charisma skill.
Work Location
Gigs: Park, Coffeehouse, Live show venue, Private venue and Big show venu
Play for tips: Can be done everywhere, but would recommend a busy location like a park.
How to get the job
Via newspaper or computer, use the ‘find a profession’ option. You can also find a proprieter on one of the community lots, you can get the career through them too.
Work Week
Varied.
In the beginning you will spend a lot of time playing for tips.
At a higher level you can have a gig every night.
Do not forget about Simport, you Sim can get spend 12h of their Simday on tour too!
Responsibilities:
- Perform for Tips
- Perform Illusions
- Get Gigs
Salary
Magicians get a weekly stipend, see this table, in the beginning the stipend helps but the most money they get from gigs and tips.
Magician Career Fact table
| Level | Title | Weekly Stipend (§) | XP Needed to Advance | Outfit/Object Unlocks | Trick Unlocks | Interaction Unlocks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Novice Trickster | 275 | 400 | Outfit 1 | Instant Cards, Wand Into Flowers | Social: Coin From Ear |
| 2 | Newbie Illusionist | 340 | 500 | Outfit 2 | Free Birds | Social: Appearing Butterflies |
| 3 | Sim of Mystery | 400 | 600 | Outfit 3, Box of Mystery | Box of Mystery: Swords of Destiny | — |
| 4 | Conjurer | 532 | 800 | — | Fireball | Social: Hot Hands |
| 5 | Sleight-of-Hand Savant | 640 | 1,000 | Outfit 4 | — | — |
| 6 | Illusionist | 840 | 1,200 | — | Box of Mystery: Vanishing Sim, Appearing Objects | — |
| 7 | Purveyor of Danger | 1,160 | 1,500 | Outfit 5, Box of Danger | Box of Danger: Buried Alive | — |
| 8 | Spellcaster | 1,480 | 1,800 | — | — | — |
| 9 | Master Illusionist | 2,000 | 2,100 | Outfit 6 | Box of Danger: Watery Grave, Levitate Self | — |
| 10 | Master Magician | 3,600 | 2,500 | — | — | Social: Levitate Sim |
Specific Magician – Badges and Achievements
| Badge | Achievement | Description |
|---|---|---|
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Abracadabra | Have a Magician perform 20 tricks |
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Double Magic Legend | Perform a Legendary Magician Show in a Big Show Venue as a Genie |
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Kid Party Stuff | Have a Magician perform the Free Birds, Wand into Flowers, and Instant Cards tricks 5 times each before becoming a Sim of Mystery |
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Magic and Mystery | Have your Magician WooHoo in the Box of Mystery 10 times |
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Master of Illusion | Have a Sim fulfill the Master Magician Lifetime Wish |
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Rising Star | Have a Magician Sim levitate themselves 20 times |
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Sleeping with the Fish | Have your Magician Sim perform the Watery Grave trick 30 times |
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Stage Magic | Have a Magician Sim perform at least once at each venue type |
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The Magic of Money | Earn §20,000 in tips as a Magician |
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Vanishing Act | Have your Magician Sim perform The Vanishing Sim trick 20 times |
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Winner in the Park! | Have your Singer, Magician, or Acrobat Sim win a SimFest in a Park |
Performing for Tips
At the start of every performance career you first play for tips, Magician career is no different. Find a busy location (Big Park for example) and start performing for tips! Do not be surprised if your Sim fails a bit at this in the beginning, but their skill increases!
Magician career takes a while to advance to level 2, making this the most difficult performance career to advance in.
Gigs
Gigs are your main source of income, you can earn up to 27k per gig! Perfoming on stage with an magician is quite easy compared to the other careers, it is no problem to list all the actions in a row to create a varied full 2 hour show.
How to get a Gig
You have to be at least level 2 before you can audition for gigs.
Then you can audition for a gig, you can find the proprieter on the world map, he or she has an orange icon. You start with only be allowed to perform at the park, as your level increases you can open up more locations, see the following table.
Performance Locations
| Career Level | Location |
|---|---|
| level 2 | Big Park |
| Level 3 | Coffeehouse |
| Level 5 | Live Show Venues |
| Level 7 | Private Venues |
| Level 8 | Big Show Venues |
Tip: When you are a high level in your career, go to the world map and you will see many propieter icons, click them all and line up all the different auditions in a row to quickly get a lot of gigs.
Note: For Big Show Venues you cannot always line up the audition by clicking on the orange person icon from the world map. You will have to go to the lot itself and summon the propierter out of their building and then ask to to audition.
Stage Setup
When you are low on funds just use the venue setup, as you get more money it is worth investing into your own stage setup to increase your performance score. The higher the score the bigger the chance of a steady gig, steady gigs pay much better than One-off gigs.
Performance
At the start of the performance its best to pause the game, as a magician you can list all the actions you want to do that show immediately and fill the full two hours.
You have option to talk to the audience, only do this if your charisma is high otherwise you are just telling a boring story.
Gig Earnings
While you would think that steady gigs always earn you more than one-off gigs, read the following tables carefully. When you are a higher level you get less money at a steady gig at the ‘lower level’ locations (park/coffeehouse) than you do when you have a one-off gig, but you can earn astronomely more at the big venue location with a steady gig. So be careful what gigs you choose!
One-off Gig
| Level | Weekly Stipend (§) | Park | Coffee-House | Live Show | Private | Big Show |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 275 | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2 | 340 | 170 | – | – | – | – |
| 3 | 400 | 200 | 400 | – | – | – |
| 4 | 532 | 266 | 532 | – | – | – |
| 5 | 640 | 350 | 700 | 1,225 | – | – |
| 6 | 840 | 450 | 900 | 1,575 | – | – |
| 7 | 1,160 | 700 | 14,000 | 2,450 | 3,850 | – |
| 8 | 1,480 | 1,110 | 2,220 | 3,885 | 6,105 | 9,990 |
| 9 | 2,000 | 1,300 | 2,600 | 4,550 | 7,150 | 11,700 |
| 10 | 3,600 | 2,000 | 4,000 | 7,000 | 11,000 | 18,000 |
Steady Gig
| Level | Weekly Stipend | Park | Coffee-House | Live Show | Private | Big Show |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 275 | – | – | – | – | – |
| 2 | 340 | 255 | – | – | – | – |
| 3 | 400 | 300 | 600 | – | – | – |
| 4 | 532 | 399 | 798 | – | – | – |
| 5 | 640 | 525 | 1,050 | 1,838 | – | – |
| 6 | 840 | 675 | 1,350 | 2,363 | – | – |
| 7 | 1,160 | 1,050 | 2,100 | 3,675 | 5,775 | – |
| 8 | 1,480 | 1,665 | 3,330 | 5,828 | 9,158 | 14,985 |
| 9 | 2,000 | 1,950 | 3,900 | 6,825 | 10,725 | 17,550 |
| 10 | 3,600 | 3,000 | 6,000 | 10,500 | 16,500 | 27,000 |
Cheat Sheet to a Good Performance
This cheat sheet is made with a lvl 10 magician, but can be translated to earlier levels.
1: With the Magician set up your stage (use props!)
2: Pause game
3: Fully line up a lot of actions, but do not pick the same one twice in a row. I start with regular illusions > box of mystery > box of danger > talk to audience > illusions > etc
4: Let the performance play out, keep an eye that there always new actions lined up.
My Sim always gets an excellent or legendary performance.