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[Slingsby]

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]

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

[Leto85]

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]

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

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

[mtglady]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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.