I recently installed Dragon Valley and started a new game as a gardener. I have Ambitions and World Adventures installed too. My first gardening opportunity that was offered was "A Bag of Produce." I had the required amount of produce in my inventory but, as soon as I accepted the opportunity, it cleared itself and I got the error message "... can not complete the opportunity A Bag of Produce because one of the targets is no longer available."So far, I've tried the following steps to figure out what's wrong:Deleted all cache files.Disabled all CC (except for Master Controller.)Used Master Controller to reset everything.Moved the rabbit holes to the backs of their lots.Replaced the Restaurant rabbit hole with something else, saved, then changed it back.Bulldozed the combined diner/grocery store and replaced with 2 separate rabbit holes at different locations.Backed up my saved game, deleted the sims3 folder in my docs, restarted and put my saves back.Going back to an earlier saved game.Tried doing a little dance and having a cup of tea.Tested by copying my family to the bin and opening it in Riverview, the opportunity works fine there so it's clearly an issue with Dragon Valley.Started a new game in Dragon Valley, copied my family over and it didn't work.Any help would be appreciated! I know I don't need to do these opportunities but it's a shame that I can't. I've spent a couple of days researching online to try to find out the issue and I've seen that others have had it too.Thanks,Aelurosa

i know how you feel i've done the same thing kept at the usual tricks and when they didn't work with some of my saves and had to start over as much a si love the game there are those i could cry/frustrating ones too

usually that "... can not complete the opportunity A Bag of Produce because one of the targets is no longer available." means either the sim you were to deliver too either the game moved them out of town or killed them off or just as you got the call for the opportunity the "target" had aged up if they were an elder it might have been time for their demise so basically the sims that you had to do the opportunities with/for are no longer available in your game so what you can try is this save your game with the use as new name for your game so you will still have your original save then cancel the opportunity and wait for the game to reroll the opportunity or you could try the via edit town move out move back in to see if it will kick the opportunities back to working

Hi Rumbutter, thanks for the tips!I've tried using different saves to prompt it, and I started a new game just to test it out too. My husband is also having the same issue on his own pc and game where he can't complete gardening opportunities (he's can't complete the cheese one.) I'm hesitant to move out of DV and then back in after the issues that we had moving to DV from Riverview. The main reason I started a new game was due to my previous game breaking after the move. I'll try and see if I can pick up the opportunity in another world and move to DV to complete it. Maybe I can speed ahead in game time and get Master Controller to force it again...

MC should kick it in...hey are your mods (any and all you use ) up to date the same patch level as yours ?

Yep, they are. Double checked that this morning! No luck on getting that opportunity to stick..

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aelurosaXX

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12 years ago

Gardening Skill opportunity in Dragon Valley can't be completed.

I recently installed Dragon Valley and started a new game as a gardener. I have Ambitions and World Adventures installed too. My first gardening opportunity that was offered was "A Bag of Produce." I had the required amount of produce in my inventory but, as soon as I accepted the opportunity, it cleared itself and I got the error message "... can not complete the opportunity A Bag of Produce because one of the targets is no longer available."

So far, I've tried the following steps to figure out what's wrong:

Deleted all cache files.
Disabled all CC (except for Master Controller.)
Used Master Controller to reset everything.
Moved the rabbit holes to the backs of their lots.
Replaced the Restaurant rabbit hole with something else, saved, then changed it back.
Bulldozed the combined diner/grocery store and replaced with 2 separate rabbit holes at different locations.
Backed up my saved game, deleted the sims3 folder in my docs, restarted and put my saves back.
Going back to an earlier saved game.
Tried doing a little dance and having a cup of tea.
Tested by copying my family to the bin and opening it in Riverview, the opportunity works fine there so it's clearly an issue with Dragon Valley.
Started a new game in Dragon Valley, copied my family over and it didn't work.

Any help would be appreciated! I know I don't need to do these opportunities but it's a shame that I can't. I've spent a couple of days researching online to try to find out the issue and I've seen that others have had it too.

Thanks,
Aelurosa

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aelurosaXX
Not applicable
12 years ago
I mentioned the work thing as I thought it would be relevant to the diner/restaurant rabbit holes freaking out on me. I've used Dashboard before, but without any mods or CC I don't think it's going to do much for me!

edit: Dashboard is showing clean, both with and without mods
rumbutter
Hero (Retired)
12 years ago
i'm all out of ideas sorry ☹️ , i'll post this in the helpers corner and see what help others may have better ideas and or solutions
aelurosaXX
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12 years ago
Thanks, Rum. I appreciate your help with this. I'm about ready to just give up, it's not a major issue but trying to fix this sort of thing sucks the fun out of the game for me!
I tried on last thing, copying the restaurant from sunset Valley over, but that didn't work out either.
rumbutter
Hero (Retired)
12 years ago
i know how you feel i've done the same thing kept at the usual tricks and when they didn't work with some of my saves and had to start over as much a si love the game there are those i could cry/frustrating ones too
aelurosaXX
Not applicable
12 years ago
I ended up moving from Dragon Valley to Sunset Valley to do the gardening opportunities, and then moved back when they were done. I'm now waiting on more wierdness from moving town. My husband suggested a better solution of copying the family from DV to the bin, and then pasting them to SV to avoid the moving town oddities. We shall see how it goes! It's not a fix, but I guess as a work around it will have to do.
I appreciate your help with this, Rum, it's greatly appreciated!