Unable to invent miner and Time Machine

[Blanchflower]

OK, my Sim has reached level 10 of the invention skill but he is unable to invent the Time Machine and the Miner. Why is this so?

Am I missing something?

Thanks!

 

[Twinmum]

You just need to keep inventing. Eventually, he will invent one, it's a random thing, so just be patient.

[Blanchflower]

OK, thanks for the kind reply but I am facing a new problem here. I am not able to sell off my harvester in My Sim's inventory. Why is this so? I tried creating a new harvester and was able to sell that but not the earlier one.

Is there any way to delete the harvester. And yes, I am self-employed as an inventor by the way.

 

[Blanchflower]

OK, I found a way to delete the pesky harvester. All I needed to do was travel and when I was in China, I just sold it.

This is indeed an irritating bug!

 

[Hosfac]

Things getting stuck in a sim's inventory is a long standing bug, and regularly changes to different items as the patches upgrade your base game.  It all started with the balls, and they often became "family heirlooms" that would get stuck in new sim's inventories as older sims died off lol.

Sometimes you can unstick items by transferring them to another sim by dragging and dropping the item on their portrait.  This doesn't always work, though.