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[Metropolis Man]

The rules say that the Vacation specific skills need to be learned while on Vacation and not with books, my sim just got a Career Op in her home town to learn the photography skill and bring a picture to work.  Is it ok to accept/complete this Opportunity or do I need to cancel it out since I have not yet been to Egypt, where we are supposed to learn the Photography skill?

Accepting it is fine as long as you do all skilling up to lvl 3 on vacation.

[rubywyld]

Are the Vacation Location visits Town specific?  So if I complete all the China requirements while in Town #1, and then I get the Opportunity asking for the Photography skill could I go to Egypt while still in Town #1 and start on that Vacation Locations requirements or do I have to wait until I move to a new town to start a different Vacation Location?

[Nutella]

wait until I move to a new town to start a different Vacation Location?

This one, you must wait.  You can't take 2 different vacation to two different location while in Town #1.

**You must take 3 different vacations (you can only take one vacation while in each town) — one in Egypt, one in France, and one in China.

[Playalot]

I'm sorry to say I'm out as my hard drive catastrophically failed and I have lost all my data (including my kids photos  of the last three years). So even when I get my new pc I won't be restarting this challenge. I had thought my pc was running very slow but I thought that was because I was using any mods... just goes to show you should always have backups of your photos/data.

Thanks though for the great challenge I was really enjoying it...

[rubywyld]

Thank You Nutella, that's what I thought but wanted to double check because of the opportunity the game tossed at me.

[Metropolis Man]

I'm sorry to say I'm out as my hard drive catastrophically failed and I have lost all my data (including my kids photos  of the last three years). So even when I get my new pc I won't be restarting this challenge. I had thought my pc was running very slow but I thought that was because I was using any mods... just goes to show you should always have backups of your photos/data.

Thanks though for the great challenge I was really enjoying it...

I am really sorry to hear this. So you did actually start an official scoring file?

[Kirstie]

I'm having trouble finding my saved spreadsheet (even though I was being careful to save it). As soon as I can find it I'll post those times.

[Playalot]

I did start an actual scoring file and got as far as the first day in my second town... and then of course the complete and utter death of my pc. I can't continue as the only other computer I've got is my mac which really doesn't play sims very well. So thats me DNF;  on this challenge anyway.

[Tandrael]

@Playalot: I'm playing with a Mac and I understand plenty of other players do too (I think MarianT mentioned she played in a mac) and it runs just well. We can't use the program recommended in the General rules to pick the EP so what I do is just uninstall them for good for a while, with the Origin app I find it easy to install-uninstall EP. Other than that I haven't had a problem because I use mac.

[MarianT]

Tandrael, I don't use a mac; I'm not sure who you're thinking of. I do use a laptop, though, which limits my graphics settings, but is pretty reliable. Playalot, I'm sorry to hear about your computer, and not just because of the challenge.

[Metropolis Man]

Sorry to hear about your woes, Playalot. I am on a Mac by the way and Sims runs great, but I have a high end iMac, so I have no idea what kind of Mac you have.

[SassySimmer]

Do you have to learn the skills whilst on vacation? Like Martial Arts whilst in China?

[Metropolis Man]

Do you have to learn the skills whilst on vacation? Like Martial Arts whilst in China?

Correct. From the rules...

On the skilling — All of the vacation requirement skilling must be done while on vacation and no reading skill books.

• NOTE: You can go to a given vacation destination more than once if necessary to finish requirements — for example, while your home town is Sunset Valley you end up going to France two times (but you would not be able to go to China or Egypt).

[SassySimmer]

Thank you

[MomOfMany]

I play on an iMac as well. I thought mine was high end but I can't play with high graphics. It was the best they had just with a lower gb graphics card but the guy assured me it would play sims no prob. Well he lied. LoL. My brother in law play on a macbook pro and his runs better than mine even though mine is newer. So I don't really know but I do know Macs are capable of running sims without problems.
For photography does that mean we can't take picture in our hometown or just that we can't gain a skill level while in our hometown?

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