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Be Honest - or am I the only one.......
Hawkflight1066
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I'll admit to being impatient, short attention span, poor observation skills, give up easily and very bad at logic....
So am I the only one - or at least the only one prepared to admit it - who has lost their temper in World Adventures when they couldn't find the goal, or when they didn't manage to "full explore a tomb". I have never tried the life time award of fully exploring tombs or finding all the lost islands because I just can't do it. Rich sims yes - pockets bursting with treasure, but I don't think I've ever fully explored any but the easiest tombs. I HAVE obliterated offending tombs even though it took - a very long time to demolish a large pyramid..... Am I the only Tasmanian Devil playing Sims 3? Did you ever knock down a wall, create yourself a missing key using buydebug or teleport your sims into impossible corners in order to cheat the rules and get the treasure?
So am I the only one - or at least the only one prepared to admit it - who has lost their temper in World Adventures when they couldn't find the goal, or when they didn't manage to "full explore a tomb". I have never tried the life time award of fully exploring tombs or finding all the lost islands because I just can't do it. Rich sims yes - pockets bursting with treasure, but I don't think I've ever fully explored any but the easiest tombs. I HAVE obliterated offending tombs even though it took - a very long time to demolish a large pyramid..... Am I the only Tasmanian Devil playing Sims 3? Did you ever knock down a wall, create yourself a missing key using buydebug or teleport your sims into impossible corners in order to cheat the rules and get the treasure?
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Other than that, I actually love exploring tombs. I admit to using Max Motives so that I don't have to pitch a tent, eat food, or have my sim pee themselves, and they can keep on raiding the tomb without issue.
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Zenporting can be learned through martial arts meditation.Zenporting was the method for which the sims team added impossible to reach areas in the first place.There is a tie in between all areas which is why you have quests sending you back and fourth and have smashable rocks in France but need an axe gained in China and having high martial arts to beat mummies is required in Egypt
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Think of it as a Archeology career the sites are just in jungle areas by lakes or streams out in the open etc
I do cheat with motives now and the first thing I do now when I send a sim to a WA tomb is go into buydebug and buy the ax so we don't have to discover it!
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I agree with this almost completely except for that one tomb in France where you cannot pass to where the floor switch is. You can't zeneport there either. From what I heard, it was broken with the Generations EP patch that made it impossible to get to. But other than that, I don't cheat either as I completely love the whole expansion and experience.
However, if you know of a way to do this one tomb (it's the butterfly one with the 3 rocks in the middle of nowhere) I'd be so happy to know how to do it without cheats. It frustrates me every time!
@CravenLestat : thanks for trying to help me to get a bit fun in the WA worlds, but I think they are the least interesting worlds, sorry
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/953447/streuner-a-cat-s-tale
Thank you so much for that info of course i just never thought about doing it that way until now when you mentioned it-) it's a shame you are not keen on the WA worlds much but each to their own in sims games that's what choice it is all about
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/953447/streuner-a-cat-s-tale
When I did the Pangu's Axe quest a few months ago, I was quite frustrated that I couldn't get into a couple of rooms near the axe. (It's because the hidden door causes a route fail along the narrow passageway.) I really REALLY didn't want to cheat so soon into my WA experience, so I resisted the temptation and left it alone for the rest of the vacation. On this trip, though, my sim could zeneport, so I sent her directly to the other end of the hallway. After collecting some treasure, she could open the hidden door and access the last room, then close the door again and walk back through the hall to the rest of the tomb.
I also haven't resorted to maxmotives. Sims can eat dried food or fruit and sleep in a sarcophagus if necessary. Steel bladder is one of my sims' first rewards anyway. And the really long tomb in France under the burial mound has a tent a couple of levels down if you need it.
For people that like vacations but want something different, ask igazor how he *refurbished* a few tombs. I believe some of them now host clubs and bowling alleys and the like.
@SPARKY1922 You can also use Traveler to pause a vacation clock whenever you want. While your sims are in the vacation world, click on the base camp tag, NRaas > Traveler > Pause Travel > True. You also get three free extra days vacation from the Prepeared Traveler LTR.
Thank you so much for reminding me of this option I thought i had tried this with the clock ages ago in WA worlds and didn't think it had worked I will try again at some point and come back and let you know
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I would like to hear more about your refurbished tombs.. and some pics would be even more awesome
Since I have had my fill of adventure chains, and now prefer to just explore my favorite tombs without all the time-consuming steps, I now use NRaas Debug Enabler to open any of my favorites that require a key from an adventure chain. I also give my sims level 3 visas with Debug Enabler, so they can buy a house right away. If I ever again feel a desire to go through the adventure chains again, I will do it without cheating, except for those two narrow passages that were not intended by the developers to require zenoporting, but were made impassable by the Generations update.
I guess I prefer other goals for my Sims when traveling/vacationing—skilling up in martial arts, photography and nectar-making, collecting/gardening/fishing, meeting the locals, shopping & dining... and I really like the idea mentioned involving renovating some of the tombs! I think I’ll try that.
On the odd occasion that my sims have done exploring, I "cheated" from start to finish. I don't see the way I play as cheating. I see it as creative game play and me getting to where I want with the least possible effort
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When I first played WA the novelty wear of rather quickly because I culdn't stand the whole loading screen time... so I almost never played WA (I only played like two adventures from Shang Simla and Al Simhara). But this was on my old laptop, now in my new one I started a lepacy and I got an adventurer sim (and a photographer) and I've been playing the EP like there's no tomorrow and I'm here like... "No wonder so many people love it, I've been missing on so much fun!
With that being said, I find the puzzles entertaining and I did cheat... I don't remember the name of the adventure, but it was in Al Simhara, had to find 3 relics, when I was searching the third one I think...? (the relic of eternity) I reached a room in the tomb that I thought was the end, what with the nice treasure chest and all... but I did not get the relic from it
As for teleporting, like @CravenLestat mentions, I only have used like a couple of times Zeneport, I thought that the hability has to have a reason to came with WA... (I hope) and my sims don't sleep because... Moodlet Manager
I mean, I know the Moodlet Manager it is kinda cheaty for some... but it cost my sims a lot of lifetime happiness points! they're allowed to use it!
Last time I played, I did cheat again, I miscalculated the amout of time I'll need to clear one of the adventures in Shang Simla, my sim already got all the visa levels, but I thought I'll be fine with the days I chose and ended up needing like two more days
So, you're not the only one who cheats... in one way or another, I do too
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You probably know this as a super experience Sim on these forums, but Sims don't age while on vacation. And the families at home don't age either. I had my Sim couple take a 3- day vacation right after their child was born and they came back to their freshly new daughter.
As to this conversation, I never cheat in my games. I've always been leery of damaging my game and just don't like cheats personally. I send my tomb raiding Sims out with tents, food and spray cans to get cleaned up. I was delighted to learn of this Zenport thing! I'm not good at puzzles and this will help my adventuring Sims get much further in their journeys!
Sometimes I use the tents & shower in a can, but mostly I use the moodlet manager for those things. I do carry around a shower in a can in case my explorer catches on fire though.
I did do all the tombs the "right" way, when WA first came out. These days, I mostly skip them and use the worlds just as vacation spots.