Dragon Cave adventure chain

I had similar problems with a different quest line (one that starts in France and requires you to travel to Egypt). I had to send the sim back to France to get the quest again and then travel to Egypt (about a dozen times before it finally worked). Trying to spawn the opportunity via MC never worked for me. I don't recall if I also had problems with the Dragon Cave quests.

I have completed the Dragon Cave quest line, and did have the amulet. In addition to the amulet and training martial arts, there's another intermediate quest to actually win the tournament. I think you've got at least 3 quests after coming back with the key before your sim battles Don Hua.

So, drawing on different experiences I've had with WA: I would try going to France and trying to pick up the adventure on that adventure board, then traveling to China. If you are using Nraas Traveler you can travel directly from one WA world to another. I don't know if that's possible without Traveler.

I did not use the key to the inner sanctum part before I was directed to do so in the adventure line. I did explore part of the cave earlier though.

Good luck.

Is that what it takes to get it to work - to go directly from France to China? You can't do that without Traveler. You have to send them to their home world and let them rest a couple of days before they can travel anywhere again. I have a bunch of Twallan's mods already, what's one more? But I'm getting awfully tired of trying to complete that one cave. My sim's on her fourth trip to China, and has already spent 36 days there on her previous trips. She's only made one trip each to Egypt and France, and spent 6 days in each of them.

She already has the keystone, so I tried sending her there without going through the martial arts tournament and getting the amulet, but they key doesn't work. I'm sorely tempted to just open the door with debug enabler. I think I'm going to send her to Egypt instead. It's the only place she doesn't have a level 3 visa and a house. But first I'll have her get the adventure to get into the Terra Cotta Army tomb. It's the last tomb left, other than the Dragon Cave.

On her third trip to China, after she had gone to France and got the dragon cave key, when she arrived, the game asked which place to make her home there, instead of just taking her to her vacation house. After I selected her house, that's when I got the message that she couldn't complete the opportunity. So I had her do other things until her time was up, got the dragon cave adventure back with MC, sold her house in China, in case it was connected with the opportunity glitch, then go home and stay only until she could return. But she still got the message that she couldn't complete the opportunity.

So, I bought her the bigger house I wanted her to get, the West Royal House, and had her plant her garden and invite over the next two tournament opponents. She's now ranked at 4. I guess I'll have her finish the tournament too, before she goes home. She has the wish to win it, and I'd like to get that finished, so she has room for others connected with current places and events. It's worth 10,000 points, so I'm not going to cancel it, or her wish to master cooking.

IreneSwift wrote:
Is that what it takes to get it to work - to go directly from France to China?

No. I was thinking it might take getting the opportunity in France for it to work once she gets back to China. It sounded to me like your sim was getting the opportunity again in China, not France. Maybe I misunderstood.

I only mentioned traveling directly with Traveler because I found it convenient myself, and saves you from having to wait 2 days in between trips.

Yes, she was getting the opportunity in China. I didn't think she could get it in France. I'll try that next time she goes there. I'm going to have her go to Egypt first, to get her visa level up, buy a house, and fish for the crocodiles the sim in France wants, plus exploring as much as possible.

I think I would rather get Traveler and go directly, because I'm so tired of trying to get that opportunity to work. I'd rather save the time in between, instead of having her waste time at home, especially if it takes more than one try.

Does it still cost as much if you use traveler? that's another thing I'm not happy about, is wasting money going and not being able to do what she went for. But I guess if it does, I'll use MC to give her back the money for every trip I cut short to get to the one where it finally works.

Thank you for your help. I'll let you know if/when it works.

No matter how dumb it sounds to travel from France to China directly (skipping homeworld via Traveler) it's actually a working solution to advance the quest and to register your arrival to China.

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