Author Topic: Check for adventure (Read 5106 times)

skybaker · « **on:** December 02, 2010, 08:48:44 AM »

I don't know whether this problem occurred after installing Late Night or not.
Once my sim travelled to other countries and tried to check for adventure at the board outside base camp. However, no dialog box about the adventure pop-out!

Andrew · « **Reply #1 on:** December 02, 2010, 09:38:36 AM »

Any mods or CC? My sims just went to France and they could obtain adventures.

Slingsby · « **Reply #2 on:** December 03, 2010, 01:05:46 PM »

Several threads mentioning this problem ... some people have it, some don't. Nothing to do with LN, it possibly came with a patch (we just have WA and Amb).

Egypt and China can be intermittent.
France can be completely useless ... possibly a small adventure on the third click, then absolutely nothing.

Having struggled with this one for ages, using different (and new) families, my WA game (like yours) is incomplete/broken. All I can say is that I'm positive and upbeat that EA will eventually fix this.

jen2912 · « **Reply #3 on:** December 11, 2010, 01:05:36 PM »

I have been having the same problem, I click once and get a small adventure but after that none but only happened in France

Slingsby · « **Reply #4 on:** December 11, 2010, 01:22:21 PM »

Quote from: jen2912 on December 11, 2010, 01:05:36 PM

I have been having the same problem, I click once and get a small adventure but after that none but only happened in France

You only have the problem in France? That seems to be the standard problem.

I'm just doing a complete re-load of TS3 and EPs to see if that de-bugs it. Just posted in the Technical Forum.

Castastic · « **Reply #5 on:** December 11, 2010, 03:30:26 PM »

Quote from: Slingsby on December 11, 2010, 01:22:21 PM

You only have the problem in France? That seems to be the standard problem.

I'm just doing a complete re-load of TS3 and EPs to see if that de-bugs it. Just posted in the Technical Forum.

I have the exact same problem. China and Egypt is fine (for now), but in France I've only been able to complete my adventure from China and one major adventure (Landgraab Mansion), plus one smaller one (searching for Titanium) on an 18-day trip.

Thing is, I completely re-installed my Sims 3 + WA AFTER the patch was released (since my comp had been suffering from a broken hard drive which is now replaced), I even had to re-install it again because the patch wouldn't download properly the first time, so I don't think a new re-install will help. I only have one family (two different saves, one for home and one for adventuring) which was made after I re-installed it. No custom content or mods, but I think it's already very clear that this is a game bug and not caused by any third parties.
EA definitely must fix this. What's the fun in adventuring if you, uh, can't get any adventures to do?

Leto85 · « **Reply #6 on:** December 11, 2010, 05:09:08 PM »

Try, try, try and try again. If that doens't help; sleep a night an try again the next day.
My sims has soffer the same thing, they got more luck the next day however.

Slingsby · « **Reply #7 on:** December 13, 2010, 05:40:27 AM »

Quote from: Leto85 on December 11, 2010, 05:09:08 PM

Try, try, try and try again. If that doens't help; sleep a night an try again the next day.
My sims has soffer the same thing, they got more luck the next day however.

It seems to be variable, and not everyone is getting the same results. I agree the "new day" seems to help a little, but I've just sent an experienced explorer [all he needs is the last 2 adventures at the Nectary. The results of clicking the board for 2 days were ....
Day 1 = 010000000000000
Day 2 = 001000000000000

At this point we gave up and sent him home. However, we have created a new family, and so far the Board seems fine, so it may be caused by some sort of corruption to existing family files/logs.

Agnes · « **Reply #8 on:** December 13, 2010, 07:07:56 PM »

I'm getting some adventures in France, however they're tombs my Sim has already done (this was a family before the patch), and now they have seemed to reset themselves. Other than that, I can't get any new adventures, except "On Patrol." I can't finish it though, my Sims can go through the tomb, but they can't get the remains out of the hole, it just says it's empty.

I really hope the next patch fixes this.

Slingsby · « **Reply #9 on:** December 14, 2010, 08:07:53 AM »

Quick update after a game reload ... we sent a new Sim to France for 3 days. The Board worked just fine, no problems at all and the 'expected' collection of adventures.

However, after the 2-day gap, we sent her to France again. The results for each day [she's still there at the moment] were:
00001
1000000000 [we cancelled the first offer, as she'd done that on the previous visit]
000001
1

So - definitely broken in France!

Leto85 · « **Reply #10 on:** December 14, 2010, 05:00:12 PM »

I don't really understand your tesings Slingsby, but I can say that it would be difficult for sims to get adventures while another sim in the same family has already explored a lot of tombs before him. It looks like it bugs the adventures the new explorer can do or so. And that really bugs me.

Slingsby · « **Reply #11 on:** December 15, 2010, 05:09:23 AM »

Hello, Leto ... perhaps I should have explained my 'testing' results a bit more. Using binary notation, where 1 = yes and 0 = no, the figures show whether the board gave an Adventure or not.

So:

Day 1 = 00001 [it took 5 clicks before getting an adventure]
Day 2 = 1000000000 [we cancelled the first offer, after which no Adventures were offered]
Day 3 = 000001 [it took 6 clicks to get an Adventure]
Day 4 = 1, 0001, 00001, 001 [i.e. she got 4 adventures on day 4, but only after several 'failed clicks']

The Sim doing this testing is from a new [EA-created] family, which we started after re-installing the game. No previous exploration anywhere, and only going to France at the moment.

Anushka · « **Reply #12 on:** December 15, 2010, 07:04:57 AM »

Now I don't really understand all the discussion here. I had this issue with my dynasty explorer, she did almost all adventures in China and was on her way to France for Dragon Cave key. Once there opportunity disappeared, and I returned her back home. After that, she got one last big adventure in China (Terracotta army tomb) only after several clicks on adventure board. And never got that Dragon Cave one again, so now she only miss one china tomb symbol

. She went to Egypt and no problem at all, board is fine, did all exploring available. Not shore about France, haven't send her there still. It is obviously a bug, since adventure board is not behaving as it used to.

Leto85 · « **Reply #13 on:** December 15, 2010, 07:16:38 AM »

Quote from: Slingsby on December 15, 2010, 05:09:23 AM

Hello, Leto ... perhaps I should have explained my 'testing' results a bit more. Using binary notation, where 1 = yes and 0 = no, the figures show whether the board gave an Adventure or not.

So:

Day 1 = 00001 [it took 5 clicks before getting an adventure]
Day 2 = 1000000000 [we cancelled the first offer, after which no Adventures were offered]
Day 3 = 000001 [it took 6 clicks to get an Adventure]
Day 4 = 1, 0001, 00001, 001 [i.e. she got 4 adventures on day 4, but only after several 'failed clicks']

The Sim doing this testing is from a new [EA-created] family, which we started after re-installing the game. No previous exploration anywhere, and only going to France at the moment.

Ah, okey! That is a clever way of typing things down. Does sure decrease the amount of words you need to use otherwise. Long live the binary 0 and 1.

IloveLlamas · « **Reply #14 on:** December 15, 2010, 07:17:16 AM »

Did you get the game used? Because that sounds like a pirate copy problem. Or just a glitch either way hope it gets fixed!

Slingsby · « **Reply #15 on:** December 15, 2010, 07:55:34 AM »

Quote from: IloveLlamas on December 15, 2010, 07:17:16 AM

Did you get the game used? Because that sounds like a pirate copy problem. Or just a glitch either way hope it gets fixed!

If that's for me, I assure you it's 3 proper, purchased, licensed and registered disks.

No CC either, apart from a few free bits from the EA Store.

IloveLlamas · « **Reply #16 on:** December 15, 2010, 08:40:07 AM »

Oh well in that case I you'l have to wait till a new patch.

Leto85 · « **Reply #17 on:** December 15, 2010, 11:57:35 AM »

Quote from: IloveLlamas on December 15, 2010, 07:17:16 AM

Did you get the game used? Because that sounds like a pirate copy problem. Or just a glitch either way hope it gets fixed!

In case the question was for me I can say that Slingsby and I share the same answer. Totally legal games, all of them. Which is logically, in my opinion, because if you are a fan of the game you should buy it. Yes, I am a bit against piracy actually.

Slingsby · « **Reply #18 on:** December 15, 2010, 01:10:49 PM »

Quote from: IloveLlamas on December 15, 2010, 08:40:07 AM

Oh well in that case I you'l have to wait till a new patch.

I'm waiting .... and waiting .... and waiting ....

mtglady · « **Reply #19 on:** January 02, 2011, 09:40:22 PM »

I have had NO problems with the Adventure Boards in any of the countries, or with any of my games, until last night my Vampire Sim Adult Male went to France and could not get an adventure to pop up for all of 5 days. I clicked and clicked to no avail

. His Vampire YA daughter was with him and an adventure popped up for her on the first try.
My games are all legally purchased and I am fully patched up. I also have no mods in my games.
I am going to try it again tonight with another family to see what happens.

Leto85 · « **Reply #20 on:** January 11, 2011, 04:53:50 PM »

Quote from: mtglady on January 02, 2011, 09:40:22 PM

I have had NO problems with the Adventure Boards in any of the countries, or with any of my games, until last night my Vampire Sim Adult Male went to France and could not get an adventure to pop up for all of 5 days. I clicked and clicked to no avail . His Vampire YA daughter was with him and an adventure popped up for her on the first try.
My games are all legally purchased and I am fully patched up. I also have no mods in my games.
I am going to try it again tonight with another family to see what happens.

And have you tried it with having success? In my game the only solution is just clicking the board the next day. No other thing that may help.
Btw, I had this problem times before Late Night came out, so it does not have to be the problem your adventures are vampires.

Side question: Does it really matter for them to sleep in tents during the day? Or do they sleep in tombs where the sun can not shine through?

mtglady · « **Reply #21 on:** January 12, 2011, 12:54:32 AM »

Quote from: Leto85 on January 11, 2011, 04:53:50 PM

And have you tried it with having success? In my game the only solution is just clicking the board the next day. No other thing that may help.
Btw, I had this problem times before Late Night came out, so it does not have to be the problem your adventures are vampires.

Side question: Does it really matter for them to sleep in tents during the day? Or do they sleep in tombs where the sun can not shine through?

Yes, I have tried it again with another family and no problems. I also tried him on a different trip and he still couldn't do anything. He made it to level one but I think that is as far as he is going to go. He has no problems in the other two countries - at least not yet

.

For your side note: His wife has a level 3 VISA so they own a home in France. He stays in the home during the day or else he is in the museum, nectary or one of the stores. He does sleep in the tent during the day in Egypt unless he is at one of the stores or is visiting a tomb. The tents are sunproof - lol! He is also an author so he writes plenty of books during the day while traveling

.

Frey · « **Reply #22 on:** January 27, 2011, 03:22:34 PM »

I'm having the exact same trouble. It's terribly hard to get an adventure, and even when I get them they're only minor ones, or the ones my sim already completed. I've sent my sim 3 times to France already waiting for the Nectary Cellar (or whatever it's called in english hehe) oportunity to show up with no success. China works perfectly, and I haven't sent him to Egypt yet but I hope it works fine. Sleeping a night will sometimes help in France but it seems a little random to me. My game and all 3 expansion packs are original, properly purchased, installed, registered and fully patched up. I had never had this bug before Late Night (it actually started yesterday), but I guess that might have been just luck. I have no mods, just some CC... but everyone seems to be having the bug, with or without CC, so I doubt that's the source of it.

Is there a specific time of the day when the board sort of 'resets' itself and new opportunities show up? if so, maybe we could just wait until then to check for new adventures. Or maybe just go to Edit Town and build new base camp with a new opportunity board... that fixed my consignment store at least.

mtglady · « **Reply #23 on:** January 27, 2011, 03:34:52 PM »

My Sim I mentioned earlier in this thread has no problem with opportunities showing up in both Egypt and China. He is now an elder and the Adventure Board in France still will not work for him. His wife, a non-vampire, has no problems and both of his children, who are vampires, have not had any problems (they are both level 3 now). His son is married with a non-vampire wife and a YA vampire son and both the wife and son receive adventures.

It seems to only be a problem with this particular vampire Sim in France. I have tried resetting him and also have taken everything out of his inventory and he still can't receive an adventure in France. He will stay at level one forever.

Frey · « **Reply #24 on:** January 27, 2011, 04:00:15 PM »

Quote from: mtglady on January 27, 2011, 03:34:52 PM

It seems to only be a problem with this particular vampire Sim in France.

I think it's just random. My sim was lucky enough to reach visa level 3 in France before the board got bugged. He also got to explore 6 tombs there - enough to complete his LTW. His wife is level 1 and has not been able to get a single adventure in France ever, but their daughter doesn't seem to be affected by this issue. Maybe it's one of those random bugs that affect only some sims or savefiles. Not like the excavation bug for example, which seems to affect all of them.

mtglady · « **Reply #25 on:** January 27, 2011, 04:25:41 PM »

Could very well be random as this was the only Sim I experienced the bug with (so far). And then again, maybe deep down, he doesn't want to go on any adventures

! He is a bit of a coward even though he is a Vampire.

Anushka · « **Reply #26 on:** January 28, 2011, 02:46:40 AM »

My Sim had this in China, she had visa 3, and was left to explore Dragon cave, and since then now adventures, same as everyone. But, she had no problems later in France and Egypt. Only thing missing now are Dragon Cave Tomb Symbol, and Landgraab Basement Tomb Symbol.

Slingsby · « **Reply #27 on:** January 28, 2011, 05:57:12 AM »

Just a few thoughts, which may help [or not

]

1. The Board usually resets after midnight, so things are usually better the next day. But not always. I have a feeling [no more than that] it is worse if your Sim is on a long trip.

2. The Board in France is definitely the worst, regardless of which Sim from whichever family I send. However, it also happens in China [had to abandon a trip yesterday] and in Egypt.

3. Does it help to visit a different country before returning to where you had a problem? I have no idea ... just a thought, although I can't see any logical reason for that.

4. We don't play Vampires at all, so it's nothing to do with them. And our troubles started before we installed NL anyway.

Good luck to those who are suffering.

Frey · « **Reply #28 on:** January 28, 2011, 03:24:14 PM »

Thanks Silinsby!

I tried to delete the adventures board to buy a new one (by cheating, obviously) but I couldn't find a new one in build mode so that doesn't work. I also tried to bulldoze the base camp to put a new one but it says that I need to cheat to make the base camp available for editing so no idea. Not that I'm sure it would work anyway, but it did with my consignment shop so I thought I should give it a try.

Oh and I also think it gets worse during long trips. The longer my sims have spent in France, the worse the adventures board will behave. And apparently now it's giving me only one adventure option per day (all of them minor or already completed); if I cancel that adventure no other pops out during the rest of the trip, until I get tired of it and send my sims home.

Hosfac · « **Reply #29 on:** February 10, 2011, 11:46:02 PM »

This is a common, sporadic problem, and most everyone has it. It will work fine some trips, then hardly at all other trips. Also, if you travel with more than one sim, if one can't get adventures, it's possible that one of the others can. For me, China is the worst of the lot. France messes up from time to time, but I have never had a problem in Egypt (yet).

Sometimes going home and coming back later fixes it, sometimes it doesn't.

Missa · « **Reply #30 on:** February 16, 2011, 12:03:24 AM »

I have the same problem, my sim was a level 2 visa for France when she began her 11 day trip. She was 43% to level 3 and when her trip ended she was at 83%!!! it was so frustrating. I didn't notice the problem in china, but I only went there to buy a training dummy and a board breaker since her lifetime wish is bottomless nectar cellar and I wanted to zenoport to the island. I sure hope they fix this soon because it is really messing up my game

Joria · « **Reply #31 on:** March 11, 2011, 11:56:15 AM »

So it sounds like I may as well send my dynasty family home from France because no matter what I do or how often I visit and click on the adventure board, there are no adventures available for my visa level 2 founder or several other members of the family EXCEPT the spouse who is mortal. Even he only gets the minor adventures.

Hosfac · « **Reply #32 on:** March 11, 2011, 12:20:24 PM »

Quote from: Missa on February 16, 2011, 12:03:24 AM

I sure hope they fix this soon because it is really messing up my game

I don't really see that happening, to be honest. The excavation glitch has been around since the first WA patch. And with there being 2 (soon to be 3) expansions that have come out since the release of WA, I can't really imagine that this expansion would be high priority for them anymore. I'd like to be proven wrong on this, but I don't dare to hope.

TheChronicR · « **Reply #33 on:** March 11, 2011, 12:34:02 PM »

Quote from: Hosfac on March 11, 2011, 12:20:24 PM

I don't really see that happening, to be honest. The excavation glitch has been around since the first WA patch. And with there being 2 (soon to be 3) expansions that have come out since the release of WA, I can't really imagine that this expansion would be high priority for them anymore. I'd like to be proven wrong on this, but I don't dare to hope.

Maybe, someday, EA will release a patch for ALL expansion packs, and this will fix the problems?

Looks like I am having the same problems as the others too. But mine is in Egypt, instead of France. When my Sim clicked the adventure board in the base camp, she got only low-visa level adventures, aka the adventures that tell you to collect bugs or metals, gems. Then I clicked again and again, she got all the same. Finally, the pop-up notified me that there were no adventures on the board. Luckily, it was 11:30 PM, so the new day and updated board would come pretty soon. It fixed itself! How? When I clicked on the board at 12:01 PM, I got the 'In Search of Love' adventure, which is rather rare. Then everything went just okay. I think this is just because the daily adventures on the board are random. Some players get common ones, others don't get at all, some get rare ones. Somehow, my Sim managed to reach visa level 3 in Egypt WITHOUT doing the Tomb of Discovery adventure, and never getting it. Lol, it's supposed to be the first thing you do there

Filly · « **Reply #34 on:** March 11, 2011, 12:48:13 PM »

France was bugged for me too. I was trying to acomplish the LTW where they have to explore six tombs in each location. Here is how I bypassed the bug.

Find the main entrance to the tomb.
Hover your mouse over the place where you put the key into and it will tell you the name of the key that is required.
Open the cheat box and type in "testingcheatsenabled true" and "buydebug on."
You either need to hold the shift key or both the shift and ctrl key and select buy on this lot. Find the cresent shaped key under the ? section and place it on the lot.
Then again hold shift or both the shift and ctrl key and click on the key and choose "name."
Look through the menu until you find the name that matches the tomb and click on it. Drag the key into your inventory and voila! You can now carry on with tomb exploring.

I later took my Sim to finish up in Egypt and she was able to achieve her LTW. Hope that helps. If needed I can take screen shots later.

I just realized this doesnt help the Visa points issue. Sometimes it helped if I renamed the save file, exited the game, made my Sim go home, used the cheat "resetsim *" and just kept clicking on the board. I was able to max her Visa finally.

Hosfac · « **Reply #35 on:** March 12, 2011, 09:49:59 PM »

Quote from: TheChronicR on March 11, 2011, 12:34:02 PM

Maybe, someday, EA will release a patch for ALL expansion packs, and this will fix the problems?

I would certainly like to think so, however optimism isn't exactly my strong suit lol.

TheChronicR · « **Reply #36 on:** March 13, 2011, 07:13:36 AM »

Quote from: Hosfac on March 12, 2011, 09:49:59 PM

I would certainly like to think so, however optimism isn't exactly my strong suit lol.

I really hope so.

Slingsby · « **Reply #37 on:** March 16, 2011, 01:33:29 PM »

This MAY be of some comfort to those suffering from "French Adventure Board Syndrome"

The Story So Far ... Harry Hotspur is a full-time adventurer, and he's done all the Tombs except two [in France, of course]. We had given up hope of him ever getting the last 2 Adventures in the Nectary Cellar. However, we sent him again today ... on an 11 day trip.

The Board was rubbish, as usual. Either nothing during a 24-hour period, or just one small 'filler' like "Deliver a bottle of wine to ...". So we kept Harry busy clearing up everything he could find in every Tomb he's done before, and excavating everywhere he could. The days went by. Boring, but very profitable [I think he made §200,000]. But we were very patient on this occasion, and checked the Board every day after it reset. Then, on the 9th day of 11, BINGO!! The adventure that leads to Isael's Tomb in The Nectary [after the side trip to Egypt with 6 beetles, to get The Ruby of Sikhara]

Harry will finally get his last two French Tomb collection items.

.........

Now see what Frey said back on 28 January ...

Quote from: Frey

Oh and I also think it gets worse during long trips. The longer my Sims have spent in France, the worse the adventures board will behave. And apparently now it's giving me only one adventure option per day (all of them minor or already completed); if I cancel that adventure no other pops out during the rest of the trip, until I get tired of it and send my Sims home.

I have a feeling that the game might just be programmed to 'save the good stuff until last', so that you have a bit of time pressure to get things completed before your Sim runs out of travel time. And perhaps we just get bored, and send our Sims home?

Look at it another way ... with a finite number of adventures, how is EA going to program them to fill the time when Sims go on LONG trips? Perhaps they fill the Board adventures list from the end of the trip?

Only my opinion, of course. But some folks might like to try testing with short trips, and see what happens.

Hosfac · « **Reply #38 on:** March 16, 2011, 02:01:23 PM »

Even when the adventure board acts all wonky, I will still get the biggies from time to time. One thing that has recently occurred to me as a possibility is that if adventures are given randomly, the more big ones you complete, the less often you will get big ones...simply because there are more small ones to choose from. When you add that to the boards just not working from time to time, it will seem like an epically long time to finish up the tombs.

I have not actually tested this, however. It's just a theory that seems reasonable enough.

Author Topic: Check for adventure (Read 5106 times)

Andrew