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The Case of the Cop Gone Rogue - Need Help!!
MoxieAndShadow
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My Sim has the investigator career. I haven't had any problems solving the previous cases. But right now I am stuck on The Case of the Cop Gone Rogue. I have the whole thing solved, actually, except for the last part, 'Confirm Criminals Presence'.
At City Hall, my Sim is suppose to Confirm Criminal's Presence, but Bill Racket is never there! I've had my sim stake out the place, take a tour of the building. I'm on the third day now -I think- and still every time I check, and move my cursor over the yellow 'Confirm Criminal's Presence' option, a grey box momentarily pops up to tell me that I have to wait for Bill Racket to arrive first.
Has anyone else had this problem? Has anyone else had this case and solved it? If so, just how long, how many days Sim days does it take before Bill Racket goes to City Hall so I can have my Sim confirm his presence and close this case?
I've had her tour the building, stake out the place a few times, keep checking on it.. Am I doing something wrong?!?!!! PLEASE HELP!!
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My Sim has the investigator career. I haven't had any problems solving the previous cases. But right now I am stuck on The Case of the Cop Gone Rogue. I have the whole thing solved, actually, except for the last part, 'Confirm Criminals Presence'.
At City Hall, my Sim is suppose to Confirm Criminal's Presence, but Bill Racket is never there! I've had my sim stake out the place, take a tour of the building. I'm on the third day now -I think- and still every time I check, and move my cursor over the yellow 'Confirm Criminal's Presence' option, a grey box momentarily pops up to tell me that I have to wait for Bill Racket to arrive first.
Has anyone else had this problem? Has anyone else had this case and solved it? If so, just how long, how many days Sim days does it take before Bill Racket goes to City Hall so I can have my Sim confirm his presence and close this case?
I've had her tour the building, stake out the place a few times, keep checking on it.. Am I doing something wrong?!?!!! PLEASE HELP!!
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In my game I can't do that even if I got this case cause my Racket household moved away
I really wanted to keep at least Shark Racket in my game.
It never even occurred to me to cancel the opportunity. Staking out his house was a great idea, wish I had thought of that! But turned out alright.
Oh, while I got your attention. In a previous sim incarnation my sim had the scientist career, one of her opportunities was to catch three frogs. Went to the nearest place of water where sims can fish, noticed something in the water, moved cursor over it -didn't say what it was but I had her catch it because I was hoping it was a frog. It wasn't, it was a water beetle. Anyway, the problem was that after I caught it, my sim could no longer fish! Nor could she take a fishing class, the fishing class option wasn't 'clickable', and none of the lakes where she could previous fish .. I'd click on them and no fishing option would appear. I had her free the beetle, she cried, but still couldn't fish!
I tried everything I could to fix it, and nothing worked. So I deleted that saved game and started a new one. The one I'm playing now, I just made her an investigator instead of a scientist.
But just out of curiosity, did anyone else have that problem? And if so, how did you fix it? Or did you fix it? 8)
I'm stuck on the same case and it's been over a week now... what's frustrating is, I stand at City Hall waiting for him to show up, and at 1:00 pm every workday I actually SEE him walk into the building - but I can't call the cops! He's right THERE... but I can't do anything! This happened once before and I just cancelled the opportunity after a few days out of frustration... I don't want to do that again, especially since this appears to be a special case that your investigator has to solve before he/she can move on.
I just don't get it... I've looked everywhere on the Internet and nobody has said how to get around this issue, how to solve it or how to skip it. I'm stuck!!
Excellent idea, but I just tried that... didn't work.
I've tried doing a stakeout while the politician walks in, I've tried going to his house and chatting him up, I've tried inviting him to City Hall and touring with him. This is weird... has anyone else experienced this? Is it a bug, or am I just missing some vital piece?
(I can't call the cops on my own while I'm standing there... you can't call for services when you're away from home)
Yep I had the same problem. I tried waiting for the opportunity button to change so I could click on it, touring, I even tried doing a stakeout when he came and left work, but nothing seemed to work, so I canceled after about Sim week. I was at level 10 of the Investigator career and had mastered Logic. I guess I just wasn't patient enough.
Kudos to you for being patient enough to solve that case.
The only work-around I found to get this type of case solved where the the investigator needs to confirm the presence of the suspect at their workplace has been to invite the suspect over for a visit and then ask them to spend the night; this assumes the investigator is friends with the suspect and that the next day is a workday for the suspect. The next day when the suspect's work start time rolls around, they'll leave and go to work. Once they are inside, you can have the investigator click on the building and there should be a yellow menu option to "confirm presence" should be available, should also to be able to do this from MAP mode but I've not tried this. Doing so makes the investigator enter the workplace. In my experience, once this is done the investigator didn't get immediate credit for completing the case but rather the completion occurred when the suspect arrived at the workplace on the following day. Definitely odd and buggy.
Good luck, hope this helps.
I did see my Sim's suspect go to work 2 days in a row. Both times I clicked on the suspect as he was going to work and got the message that he was going to work, but I couldn't interact with him. Once he was at work I clicked on the building, but the yellow button didn't show up. I also clicked on him when he was leaving work and got a similar message to the first.
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Come to think of it, I don't think I actually ever met the suspect, so next time it comes up, I will try that and see how far they make me go until I can confirm their presence.
You can only catch Frogs in France. Dunno about the problem with not being able to fish though.
Like the others, the "Confirm Criminal" is always greyed out. Hover the mouse over it, and it says I need to wait for Harry Marks to show up.
I've saved the game, gone to Edit Town, and verified that Harry does work at City Hall, 1 PM to 6 PM Mon - Fri. (This is in Brideport.)
I had to reload the save, since one loses oppotunities after switching families like that.)
The last straw was when I saw Harry enter City Hall shortly after 1:00 PM. The "Confirm Criminal" button remained greyed out.
My investigator is Level 10 Career, Level 10 logic, so it can't be lack of skill.
It looks like this case is simply bugged, and EA has no intention of ever fixing it, and probably never even tested it. I reckon I'll just have to cancel this case.
It's really just a collection of things that can go wrong with PI cases. I got them all on this case because it's so !@#$ long.
First, the stakeout failed. The first time she attempted it, one guy showed up, but the other guy he needed to talk to never did. I tried about five more times, and nothing. So I reset my PI sim. Then the stakeout worked. It looks kind of like you can get into a hung state if only one person shows up at a stakeout.
Second, at the 8th (I think) step, you have to go talk to a criminal. I'm playing in Aurora Skies, and the criminal was Oskar Olsen. I kept getting the whole case dropped because he was "unavailable." So I reset HIM, and I was finally able to go talk to him.
I'm pretty sure the politician would have come to work properly, but I didn't understand. I just invited her to the lot, and it didn't work. I was pretty ticked off. I eventually tried using NRaas Mastercontroller to send her to work (Sim->NRaas->MasterController->Sim->Intermediate->Career->Go to Work.) Then the case worked. The last bit was cheating, but I did that stakeout FIVE TIMES. I put in the effort :-P.
If you mod, NRaas DebugEnabler is invaluable. If you click your PI Sim, you can select NRaas->DebugEnabler->Opportunities->Add Opportunity->Career->Case and add back the step of the case that dropped or had to be dropped due to glitching out.
With few rare exceptions, NRaas DebugEnabler just makes it easier to use the existing EA game cheats, so there's probably a way to add back an opportunity without the mod. Carl's Sims Guide alludes to one: http://www.carls-sims-3-guide.com/cheats.php.
I don't cheat in general, but I am more than willing to cheat when the game glitches out on me.
HTH.