Thank you Puzzlezaddict for your response.
Upon my return to China the I received a fanfare, and the quest was taken from my in-tray. I thought that it had worked after all, however, when I answered my phone, it was for the very same request. Would you please explain more how I can use Nrass DebugEnabler.
Yours BillFlowerpot
P.S. I have all tomb sigils for China along with all vases, however, I only have one of the drop stones
@BillFlowerpot To force-assign the next step of a quest (or any opportunity), click on the sim and select NRaas > DebugEnabler > Opportunities, then choose the next opportunity in the chain. Sometimes it's not clear from the names which one you want to choose, so save before doing this and quit if you pick the wrong one, or just cancel that quest and try again.
Thank you for taking the time to respond to my post. I tried using NRaas > DebugEnabler > Cellphone Opportunities > Opportunities > etc., but without knowing what I was looking for, I found the lists daunting. During game play it seemed to resolve itself, for a while. However, I was still getting quest requests for ones I had already done. Some of which were not resolvable because I had already found the item required and bulldozing and replacing the tomb did not always work. It became a problem when these were the only quests I was offered. Somewhere, somehow the adventure data got corrupted. I have since saved my Sim to the library and started a new game without 'World Adventures' in my current lineup. In order to save hard drive space I have deleted all saves therefore there's no going back.
@BillFlowerpot For future reference, if you just want your sim to have different adventures, you can use MasterController (NRaas > MC > Basic > Opportunity) to assign one. The problem with this approach is it only shows the available opportunities, not ones that are blocked because your sim hasn't met the requirements. So it wouldn't help in giving your sim the next step in a chain when the previous one won't complete, but it would give you a larger selection if the adventure board was only showing opportunities your sim had already done.
After saving my sim to the bin and starting a new game I tried again with the same sim, however, when I went on my first quest 'Tomb Of The Lost Army' (Within the walls of the forbidden city), I found the tomb already open. Furthermore, the artifact I was looking for was not in any of the treasure chests. I went to the dragon's cave and the hidden door was also open. I therefore am of the opinion that the sim had become corrupt.
@BillFlowerpot That's possible, and unfortunate. But in general, it's possible to reset tombs and play through them again even within the same save, so tombs in a different save should be unaffected.
