I'm on a quest in China and have to become a Grand Master in a martial arts tournament. The problem I'm having is that my rival is one of the local merchants and every time I ring her she says "I'm at work and I don't know when I'll be finished", I've tried going to the market and talking to her, we're now friends but the 'spar' option still won't come up in our interactions. Has anyone got any good suggestions about how I can fix this?
Thanks,
Ellie
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I googled it and here's another suggestion:
If you use NRaas Register you can set another sim to be the merchant for that register which should free up the martial arts opponent.
I've had the same problem before and I always use the MasterController method.
The problem with inviting foreign guests and asking them to move in is that doing so can cause corruption in your game, as far as I understand. Use MC or ask them to move in while in the vacation world, they should join the household when your sim returns home, from what I hear (never done it though). This all comes from what I've read on the NRaas site.
If you don't want to use mods, maybe you could try the enablelotlocking cheat in edit town so you can enter buy/build mode on the market lot, sell that particular register which the shopkeeper is assigned to, spar with the opponent, then replace the register once your sim has completed the tournament. You might need the buydebug cheat to find the register, and make sure you know how to replace it before leaving the lot in build/buy mode. Of course, save your game, then back up with "Save As" before doing anything drastic.