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Offline skybaker

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Check for adventure
« 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! ???
Now I realize playing the Sims 3 on Mac is playing the game of installation and uninstallation...

Andrew

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Re: Check for adventure
« 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.



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Offline Slingsby

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Re: Check for adventure
« 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.   ;)

Offline jen2912

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Re: Check for adventure
« 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

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Re: Check for adventure
« Reply #4 on: December 11, 2010, 01:22:21 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.  ;)

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Re: Check for adventure
« Reply #5 on: December 11, 2010, 03:30:26 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?
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Leto85

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Re: Check for adventure
« 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.



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Offline Slingsby

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Re: Check for adventure
« Reply #7 on: December 13, 2010, 05:40:27 AM »
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.

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Re: Check for adventure
« 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.

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Re: Check for adventure
« 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

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Re: Check for adventure
« 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.

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Re: Check for adventure
« 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. 

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Re: Check for adventure
« 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

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Re: Check for adventure
« Reply #13 on: December 15, 2010, 07:16:38 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. ;)

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Re: Check for adventure
« 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!