Cannot complete "Who Keeps Sending These?" badge achievement

Can't really help you with the achievement.

Sometimes it doesn't work in  a specific game. Maybe just try a new one just to do get the badge ?

Here's a thread that might give you answers: http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/686510.page

Thanks for the reply. I have posted on that thread as well as individually in the IP forum, and the other large badge/achievement forum. No bites/answers.

Guess all I can ask is whether you got it yourself and if so how you did it?

I have already tried about 8 "new" games at this point, and have finished every other badge.

I've removed cache files at the beginning of every attempt. like I said I've played through nonstop.

- I've done the "maybe it's only bottles from dive spots" attempts.

- I tried putting spawners on dive spots to see if that would expedite it attempt.

- I tried the land attempt.

- I've tried engaging friends with the game sending them bottles to see if they can send them back. When I see them open the gift I do NOT see them open bottles, which is really weird. So that's putting a hold on the 'send them via gift' method. Plus no one is sending them back.

- I've tried to play without cheats of any kinds.

- Without mods, IP chokes up and dies, the neighborhood itself just clogs to death on unroutable sims.

I had all my store content installed successfully (for once!!) and I removed it in a fresh 'install' folder. The game itself is running fine, since I started playing again mid December I earned over 40 badges. This is the last one now from in game, and it just won't trigger.

Last attempt I cleared ALL the dynamic challenge packages (not the first time I've tried this, not sure what that would do or affect) and started a new game where all I did was scuba dive and look for bottles. And this is the first time now it's saying 265/265 badges. Not 265/266 -- but it's still saying 11/12 on IP.

So I'm sort of at a loss.

Like I said I posted on Russkii's thread. They all seem sims4-awol. Any suggestions? IP is sort of laggy unplayable, it locks up every few in-game minutes (hour/half hour), and I don't want to rebuild all the houses like one player suggested. I suppose I could bulldoze the entire town of houses and try again.

Thanks so much for still answering things in here, btw.

If I can't resolve this between here and the forums is there any way to escalate this to EA?

are you having the one sim collect the bottles or different sims collecting bottles ? i got this badge by having the one sim collect the bottles BUT i did cheat due to the way IP plays i started a game in sunset valley and used the buydebug on  and placed the bottle spawner on my lot  turned the cheat off and just had the sim pick up the bottles when they spawned then deleted the spawner when i got the badge that was in july though so i have no idea if that acheviement is broke or if it was removed as they did remove some of the supernatural ones which never seemed to unlock for  a lot of people (even though some did unlock it one of those i recall was to go to a lot as a witch with a ghost,werewolf,fairy and two others supers i forget which ones )

Thank you SO much for the reply.

Three questions, Rumbutter --

which bottle spawner did you use?

how many bottles had you picked up when you got credit?

did you learn scuba on the character who got the badge?

I'm game to try anything at this point.

For example, on the uncharted islands badge, I completed it the "long way" twice -- and playing in IP is dodgy enough with how laggy it is, only to have it fail both times. The first time I had a 3 sim household I was working on a lot of badges simultaneously (the aforementioned 40+ remaining) -- and I realized oops I bet it won't work. The next time I went with a solitary sim, and it just didn't give me the badge even though I played through opening all of them. I figured some weirdness might be going on because of all of the other mechanics that happen at the same time an island is "unlocked." And I even tried the "perfect student" trick (going with the lifetime wish) in case it was a hidden requirement. No luck.

So I had stumbled on the cheat code in my research about that badge, and I did a third game, started it, just entered the cheat code, Voila. Finished the badge. I didn't feel badly cheating since I'd earned it two times over and just wanted credit.

I had a similar issue with the 6 diplomas one, I earned them all the hard way (going to uni) on one sim, no badge. So I started up a game, gave myself some LTH, and then bought the diplomas. I'm well aware of how finicky things can be. I don't mind that I had to write 200+ books for the author one, and I even managed to *finally* get gratified gifter.

Just never had to make *so many* attempts on a badge before. (Over 10 now, and still at it. I just don't want to be trying to do something if it's literally broken.)

On this one, the messages in bottles, I have some hundreds of bottles across so many games. I did in fact try placing bottles in lots in other games. I had read that they *had* to be in the water. I had previously collected more than ten from a land-placed spawner but again that variation had more than one sim in the game.

I will give your way a try. I spent all day so far trying to get installed someone else's rebuilt IP. Fingers crossed, first time it crashed. This time it seems stable, maybe I missed a hidden cache file. Going from a 'fresh' game folder this time. (At least with Origin it's so super fast to reinstall if I have to.)

It's not a platinum badge so it can't be something arcane like 10 of the rare map/island unlocking ones, or map pieces etc. I suspect it's just plain old bottles and I'm just having some weird problem.

And last night when I was showing 265/265 badges but 11/12 IP badges? Now it's weirder. After letting all my data rebuild, it's saying: 

266/266 badges (heh)
45/71 The Sims 3 (but all are shown as acquired)

75/72 Career

18/12 Island Paradise (but the bottle one is still shown as not acquired)

42/47 Showtime

4/2 Family

24/20 Platinum

94/91 Silver

10/7 Social

39/37 Daily Life

Now I KNOW I had all of the badges up to the time University was released, and I know they had removed some, I just don't know what (like that strange crowd going to a park on brooms one perhaps, not sure, but I've picked up bits in trying to find clues on how to finish this one that some have been removed).

I just find this really peculiar.

Anyways, thanks so much both of you for the responses here. I guess most people who care about it already finished with this stuff long ago on the officials.

i'll get back to in about 20 mins or so i've just updated some programes and need to reboot once i do that i'll launch the game use buydebug and screenshoot an image of the spawner for you

Thanks a ton for the info.

I'm going to go about my business (imagine Alec Guiness' Obi Wan voice), and play and have fun, and drop a bottle spawner on my home lot then.

If I get the badge, I do. If not, I'll ... be annoyed but I'll know I did everything I could and it's just the code being buggy.

I really really appreciate just getting some form of concrete response given how many hours I have perhaps foolishly sunk into this. 🙂

thank you very much 🙂  now if only sims had light sabers *ponders the fun * :D 

"Who Keeps Sending These?" badge achievement not working why

@seaborneteam  This achievement has been borked for years; the only people who've managed to trigger the badge have done so by installing through disc and patching manually to (I think) 1.50, and no further.  You can check out this thread for more details, as well as a list of other problematic or discontinued badges:

https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/889717/achievement-thread-guide-on-how-to-achieve-them