SimPort leading to nowhere.

For the last days (almost a week now) i have been trying to get further with the SimPort stuff.

So far i had one (!) succesfull host, where a friend showed up in my town to do a show, but for days now, not a single show works. I can't accept a friends request, nothing happens or the sim just doesn't show up.

As far as my own sims on tour, my singer has had 3 succesfull shows, my acrobat 0.
I keep sending them off to do tours but it always ends up with a message like, your friend missed the show or your sim took a wrong turn or some other bullshit, resulting in no rewards/stamps.

In short SimPort seems bugged like hell.

I have been going through the forums to find some solution or just find something that might be causing this, but other than finding more and more posts with the same kind of problems i am having there is nothing to find.
I find it disturbing that it looks like the devs (or Gurus) just don't seem to care, there is hardly any post to be found by a guru, let alone a helpfull one.
Trying to find out if there are any known issues with SimPort is just as hard and comes up with very little helpfull info.

I also find it very funny that in a bug thread a guru is actually recommending to use a THIRD party mod to help with some of the bugs, i mean it is awesome that there are actually mods out there that fix stuff, but come on, they should be fixing this not telling you to just use some third party mods...

Maybe i should not be so surprised, afterall this is EA, everything they touch goes bad.
For once i would like to see some new sims expansion without any problems, i was hoping that showtime would be that one, but i once again got burned..

I am still playing the Sims, but i am awefully close to just quit and never touch the Sims again.

SimPort me!

The latest expansion for The Sims 3 is Showtime.
It adds 3 new professions to the game, Singer, Magician and Acrobat.
It also adds a nice new feature to the game called SimPort, this is where you sent your sim off to do a tour, your sim dissapears from your city for 24 ingame hours to simulate the tour, any of your friends can accept the tour/performance and have your sim perform in their city/game, after the show the sim leaves again, so they're not staying in your city.

You can also host a friends sim to perform in a venue in your city, after a friend sends his/her sim off to do a tour and you accept it or you can ask for a specific performance by posting a "help wanted ad" and any of your friends can accept that and do the show for you, by doing this you can unlock "stamps", achievements and unlock stage props and some new costumes.

There are also a lot of new features added to your personal sims profile page, it almost looks like a facebook now and the best part is you van access a lot of this stuff from ingame now :)

Initially i though that all this might be quite invasive, but it is not at all.
You or your friends will only recieve an ingame message/notification once when a request is made available and when you log into the game after that the requests will only show up in your SimPort window.

At this time i have both a singer and an acrobat and i am definitely having a lot of fun playing them, of course i am also looking for gigs to perform and am always looking to have other sims perform in my city :)
So if you have showtime please add me to your friends, you can find me as Hauntshade or go to my profile here.

Have fun simming.