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Testing Cross-World Career Oppotunities

Post by theapoo » June 7th, 2018, 5:58 pm

Recently one of my Sims in the music career got an opportunity to go to Egypt and talk to some locals. When I sent her there, that opportunity dropped immediately. I did some searching and I see that I'm not the only one having this problem. There was an in-depth discussion about it in this thread: http://nraas.wikispaces.com/share/view/82346973

In this thread Chain suggested taking out Traveler and seeing what happens, but the OP decided not to try that and chose to go around the issue using DE. I thought I would try taking out Traveler and see what happened. I thought about posting there but I assumed that resurrecting an old thread would be frowned on.

Anyhoo, I tried taking out Traveler, deleted my cache files (which I always do when adding or removing mods), and I had the same problem. The opportunity still vanished when my Sim got there. Interestingly, the careers panel was still open. I thought that it was the Traveler mod that made the career panel visible on vacation, so I didn't know why it was still open without the mod there. I tried removing Careers and deleting my cache files, just for testing purposes. The panel was still open, saying "Unemployed." I wonder why. Isn't that panel supposed to be closed on vacation by EA Standard? If it's not Traveler keeping it open, then what is?

Also, the OP had noted that when they tried to give the Sim back the opportunity in the vacation world, it didn't work, giving them the message that the Sim didn't meet the requirements. For me, in Egypt after the opportunity disappeared, I found that I could give my Sim the same opportunity back using DE, even though she was now considered "unemployed." However, when I do that, the opportunity panel still says "Go to Egypt," not realizing that the Sim is already in Egypt.

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Post by theapoo » June 7th, 2018, 6:57 pm

Okay, I did some more testing and I found a workaround that works for me! In Egypt, when the opportunity disappeared, I saw that using DE, I could select any step in that particular opportunity chain. I selected the second step, which she was supposed to get after arriving in Egypt. Now the opportunity panel said "Talked to 0/3 locals" or something like that. I thought that the interaction to talk to the locals about music probably wouldn't come up (because the game still wouldn't recognize that she was already in Egypt) but it did. And after I put my Sim where she supposed to be at in the opportunity chain, she was able to complete the rest of the chain without a problem.

I hope that this workaround works for others as well. :)

I still wonder why the Careers panel was visible in the vacation world without Traveler being installed, though...

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