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Arguably the biggest feature included with Showtime is Simport. This feature allows you to send your Singer, Acrobat, or Magician out "on tour" to perform at venues in your friends game. Since participating requires both the Showtime professions and the new venues that came with it, you cannot take advantage of this new gameplay feature unless you have Showtime installed. You must also have at least 2 Sims in the household to send a Sim on tour, and your performing Sim must be the appropriate level to participate at the venue at which they're performing. This means that your performing Sim must be at least level 2 in order to Simport.

When you send your Sim out on tour, he/she disappears into a rabbit hole building for a period of 12 hours. After that time expires, they'll receive a payment to their household funds immediately. Once another person on your friends list accepts your tour request, you'll receive a report on how well the show went. There is also a chance that they'll receive some of the objects that were thrown at them (except for fruits/vegetables) at this point. Your friend does not have to be online at the time you send your Sim on tour, and you do not need to be online at the time they accept the tour. SimPort requests remain active for 24 hours, or until accepted. You can only have a total of 4 SimPort requests active at any one time.

Completing or accepting a tour gives you a "stamp," which is essentially a marker that shows that you sent or hosted a performer of a certain level or higher to perform at a specific venue. Each performance profession has 15 tour stops that you can make, and each venue has 9 tour stops to accept, for a total of 90 stamps. These stamps are applied across all games, so you'll only have to unlock them all once.

It's a great way to unlock some really neat content. It offers new outfits and stage props to buy for obtaining stamps. Going on a tour also offers a great deal more job experience than simply performing in your own town. Hosting a Sim will also add some simoleans to your household's family funds.

Invasive. You and your friends will only receive an in game notification when a request is made available and when you log in to a game. Aside from that, the requests will only show up in the SimPort window.

Tips: Your SimPort progress is only stored on your hard drive, so it isn't a terrible idea to back this file up every once in a while in case something catastrophic happens to your game or PC. It's located in a sub-folder titled with a long string of numbers inside your Downloads folder, and is named "PassportData.package". Also, certain mods that recover missing Sims will recover your Sim if the process occurs while they are on tour. You still get credit for the tour, but it creates a situation where your Sim has two cellphones when they return. If you send a Sim on tour, you should temporarily disable the recovery function, and re-enable it upon their return.

Notes

There was initially a glitch where SimPort was allowing unwanted custom content to be transferred to the host's game. This has been confirmed as 100% fixed.