Sim canīt fish any more
Writin_Reg:
As my adventure Sim is also a collector, he does indeed have all kinds of seeds in his inventory. Also Jowe, I don't really think the destination matters after all or the quest, as i was playing last night with a different household and they have never been to China yet, but they have had 2 French trips and 3 to Egypt. It is a family of 3 - the dad, the mom, and a daughter who is now a teen. Also being an angler doesn't have any bearing on this, as none of the members of this family are anglers, but the teen is already on her 8th level in fishing, the mom is 4th level, and the dad is also 8th level. But suddenly the teen cannot fish or go to the grocery store in their hometown, but she can fish and shop on Vacation. The dad does not have a problem - yet anyway - but he has only bait in his inventory, no seeds whatsoever. The mom has seeds and the teen has seeds as they both have the green thumb trait. They also have special, rare seeds - but it is only the daughter who cannot fish or use the store in their town. This makes me conclude it was as i suspected that a sim has to be a specific fishing level before this affects them, as like I said my previous Sim was 6th level, but his predicessor is only 5th level. In the family group the daughter is 8th level, but the mom is only 4th level. The only other sameness in my teen and my first Sim on the other lot is they both have the green thumb trait - but then so does this teens mother. I will try and get her level up and see if she also loses the ability. I would guess this happens at level 6 in fishing - as the same Sim in my second rendention after I restarted him is still fishing and shopping, but he is only up to level 5 right now.
Could any of you either confirm if your Sims also have the green thumb trait, what level are they in gardening and in fishing when they can no longer fish or go to the store.
Also where one of you said you don't have WA yet, then I'd have to guess this problem had to have happened due to the patch for the base game, but not the newest patch as I had this happen to my Sim like 2 days after I installed the 1.7 patch and WA. I just assumed it was a fault of WA - which it can't be if one of you do not have WA.
I usually patch my game the minute a patch is announced, so I was patched to date when I installed WA.
leepyrzqxgl:
I had a sim with this same issue. He could not click on the local Grocery store and Fishing in China with Plum bait caused him to jump back to base camp but fishing with a lure did not. He had fishing 10 and gardening 10 but was not an Angler or a Green Thumb, but could have been carrying seeds. I did nothing special that I know of, but after a few trips, including a second to China, he can now click the grocery store and fish. I did not restore from a backup, but just kept playing. It is possible that he had been carrying a seed and then that got cleaned out.
I have the 1.8/2.3 TEST VERSION of the Awesome mod. I apologize that I don't have any more information.
SonnetCeles:
Try going ahead and making a new sim and fishing with him/her. If fishing is fine, I can upload a sim for you to test who has level 10 fishing.
If you can fish with both those sims that means that your save file is corrupted. You can try making a copy of that save game via the menu, though I do not know if that will change anything.
If you still cannot fish with all those sims, and the fixes mentioned in this thread don't work for you that means your game install is corrupted and you need to reinstall the game.
FWIW it does not happen in my game either though I can test further.
Writin_Reg:
Well I did try a brand new Sim and used the other neighborhood and sure enough got this fellow to Level 6 in fishing and level 7 in gardening and he suddenly lost his ability to fish. He only had 2 seeds in his inventory, but a lot of bait, and fruits from all 3 adventure locales. He also had completed three trips to France, 3 to China, and 1 to Egypt when he suddenly couldn't fish or use the local hometown grocery store. He got a quest from the science lab in town to go to Egypt and bring back 2 aligators - and seeing he had just returned from France when he got the opportunity, I figured I'd have him get his level up until he could travel again. Sure enough when I commanded him to fish, the command dropped from que. Even making him go stand by the water and him getting his own thought to fish, the minute he pulled out the rod, before he even could cast, it dropped out of que again.
Then I tried sending him to the store just to see if he could purchase something, and it also dropped out of que. Oh and the kicker, I made sure this guy did not have either the anglar or the green thumb traits, instead I gave him adventure, athletic, loves the outdoors, brave, and dare devil. So to me it seems to be getting worse.
Also something else to note is there is a taxi stuck in front of the science building, that I noticed has been there since his first trip and every time he comes home from a trip he enters the hood through that same taxi with the orange haired female driver. There are 2 icons next to his picture, one says sitting in taxi and the other says go home. When I checked my game in the other hood, there is likewise also a stuck taxi so I don't know if this has anything to do with the glitch or just another glitch as I can't say if the taxi was stuck there before my Sims lost the fishing and use of grocery store abilities or not.
So, I just decided to do a manual uninstall, reinstall myself as quite frankly I am tired of messing with it. It will be a few days before I can actually deal with it though as we have a lot of family coming for the holidays and I've got a ton of cooking to do. But anyway thanks for the imput. It most likely is a corrupt install if both hoods have the same silly problem and not everyone else has these problems. Like I said my game is about as vanilla as they come and there's nothing else it could be. So thanks again.
Nienor:
I might have something to help those whose Sims can't fish and are at a skill level lower than 10. My Sims are constantly getting the problem when they are at level 9. It has now happened with three Sims in three games (I used one Sim in two games, and the problem persisted; the other two are a couple I'm currently playing). The affected Sims are unable to interact with ponds or rivers. I only see the gear symbol when I point the mouse, but nothing happens on clicking. When I had two Sims at different skill levels, it only affected the one at level 9. The problem tended to go away for short intervals, but never for long enough to do any serious fishing.
What I did was place the affected Sim in front of a TV with the fishing channel until they had moved up to level 10. The problem has not yet re-occurred for a Sim at level 10. So, those whose Sims are not yet at 10, you could try if you get them to a point where they can fish again by TV training.
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