Yesterday one of my sims finished her first vacation in Selvadoria, a highly successful one in terms of finding things and building the Selvadorian Culture and archaeology skills (3 and 6 respectively). Today, she was home in Windenburg and got a call from Madame Freyes asking her out to ladies night at the bar. Sim accepted. The bar turned out to be the cantina in Selvadoria, which logically shouldn't happen since it's a foreign country. My sim didn't bother much with ladies night as she was busy stocking up on expedition supplies, filling up the need bars and otherwise getting ready to go exploring again. Chatted up a lot of locals, enough to get culture up to 4 in the process. Was able to do a regular travel to the trailhead with no vacation attached. I don't know if it's a glitch, or a very good 'roll of the dice', but that game generated outing has given my sim (currently deep in the jungle exploring) limitless access to Selvadoria with no vacation limits or rental charges.
I don't know if this is available as a general thing, but it's a golden opportunity for those who want to go exploring but have limited budgets. Thought I'd pass it on.
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There needs to be a way to get more of those flower things. Bees seem to be the most common problem, and have the fewest defenses on the market tables. Not in secret stuff, either.
and yeah, gates seem to have a 24 hour period where they'll reset, which can mean trying to sprint to unlock the temple before that happens if you have bad luck with earlier bits of the jungle