The Sims 3 Into the Future: Laser-Rhythm-a-Con
Playing for Tips and Skill Challenges for this Musical Instrument
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| Laser Rhythm-a-con | Plumbots | Trait Chips | Astronomy Career | Bot Arena Career | Nanites |
The Laser Rhythm-a-Con is a new Musical Instrument that Sims can learn to play and may earn tips from. This Guide will teach you the basics of this new skill. No known Traits seem to boost skill gains, although Virtuoso may help. This new instrument is played through beams of light and buttons a Sim will press with their feet to create music. While the music is enjoyable, please note that you cannot use the Laser Rhythm-a-con in a band. It does not fit into the musical stylings of the others, or well, was not coded to interact with Late Night much like the Fit as a Fiddle Violin introduced with a Sims 3 Store set.
Leveling the Skill: Classes and Books
You can't read skill books to learn the Laser Rhythm-a-con Skill, you must play it. You can find the item in Buy Mode > Sort by Room > Study > Hobbies and Skills for $950. A class can be taken at the Theater whether your Sim is in Present or Future Worlds. Children may not use the Laser Rhythm-a-con, but Teenagers can. Only Plumbots with the Musical Machine Trait Chip can use the instrument, along with all others.
New Musical Compositions
You will learn new musical tracks as you reach level 6 automatically. Others are learned from Books that can be bought at the Book Store, but only in the future. Click the Laser Rhythm-a-con to learn a new track when you own a book and are the appropriate level or click the book itself.
Using the Skill
Since you can't play in a band and it's hard to get Tips, Serenading and entertaining friends and family are the main uses of the skill. You can change the laser harp's primary color or the color when they pick the strings to match your own style.
Skill Unlocks
As you level the Skill, you will unlock only one new Social Interaction for your instrument - Serenade, and that comes at level 6. Otherwise, you are merely unlocking new musical tracks. Here is a table of the various musical pieces you can learn. Some are very beautiful, but you'll have to try the skill and hear them for yourself to find your favorites:
| Level | Skill Improvement |
| 0-3 | Nothing but slight sound improvement |
| 4 | Better Skill Animations |
| 5 | Play for Tips, learn Better Plucky than Good from Bookstore |
| 6 | Serenade Interaction (Romantic), learn Dungeon Crawler from Bookstore, automatically learn Airships with Neon Billboards, My Summer with Cecil, and Cloudscapes in May |
| 7 | Learn The Chattering Classes from Bookstore, Learn A Country Drive, Dragon Scales, and Noodling the Ramen automatically. |
| 8 | Expert Skill Animations, Learn Ghost in the Moors from Bookstore, Learn The Third Extinction and Building a Clockwork Unicorn music automatically. |
| 9 | Learn Whistle While you Twerk from Bookstore, Automatically learn The SLow Creep of Fog, Polonaise in A-Flat Major, and Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor. |
| 10 | Learn automatically the As Steel Bison Awake, Slow Pistons, and Wubbing in B Flat |
Playing for Tips
I will inevitably have to rewrite this part. Playing for Tips is a bust for me. I earn no money and Sims simply pass by, while Plumbots have a look but pass on. I have not received one tip that did not involve playing in Bridgeport's Subway System - which performed wonderfully, but you might as well be using any instrument in that case.
According to code, your base is 3x Skill level for Tips, plus 2 for every time you have played a composition. If you want to permanently raise the amount your Sim will earn for tips, simply play compositions over and over once level 5-6 to level the skill and continue on until your tip amounts are satisfying. You can grow it as high as you like, but it will take quite some time. The chance you earn a tip doubles from level 5 to level 10. Some Sims are more likely to tip - Good, Friendly Sims and those with the FutureSim Trait, which means Sims from the Future, essentially.
Laser Musical Skill Challenges
Master Laser Rhythm-a-con Artist
Learn every track and you'll unlock an extra track: Stomping on Flutes
Laser Rhythm-a-con Star
Just like Guitar Star, this Skill Challenge's description is deceptive. Playing at ten parties and venues essentially means you need to do 10 skill opportunities, and wait on those to pop up. When done, you will get a boost to the amount of Simoleons earned from Playing for Tips and any future Skill Opportunities.
Money Maker
Once you've earned $25,000 playing for Tips, you will learn another Master Track.
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