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MadiiLuvhsYuh
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6 years ago
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Sims 3 Achievements not Unlocking PC

Hey so I recently started playing the sims 3 again cause of Quarantine and I'm playing Island Paradise in the town Isla Paradiso. (The town is sooooo buggy!!) But anyways I Wanted to Unlock the Achievement "Have a Mermaid Baby",  I got my female sim to become a mermaid and made her try for a baby with her human sim and they had twins. None of the twins were mermaids I checked with NRAAS. So I turned the Male sim into a mermaid and tried again. The baby was a girl and I checked with NRAAS and it said she was a mermaid. When she was born it was in the house and not in the hospital. I expected to receive the Achievement like right as soon as the baby was born and Nothing. So I thought maybe when she turned into a Toddler it would show up. So i didn't age her up automatically I waited the 3 sim days for her to age up and threw her a birthday party. She aged up and NOTHING!!  I'm so confused Why isn't the Achievement Unlocked?? She has the Scales and everything. Is it maybe because I have Overwatch and NRAAS installed?? Can someone please help me!?! 

(Oh by the way I also Received another achievement called "Here's the Dish" But it's like glitched or something I cannot find it anywhere! It shows up on my page but I can't find it in my Badges)

Edit: I have found the "Here's the Dish" Badge but My account is still registering that I didn't have the mermaid baby ☹️

  • @MadiiLuvhsYuh  Your mods wouldn't have any influence on your ability to earn badges.  What's more likely is that the file that keeps track of badges is corrupt and not recording your achievements properly.  You can delete the file to regenerate a new one, although any progress towards other badges will also disappear.  So if you have others you're trying to complete that take more work, like write a certain number of books, you might want to hold off until you either finish those or confirm that they're not going to work either.

    Go into Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Downloads, and you'll see two folders labeled with long strings of numbers.  Each one may have a ChallengeData.package inside.  Delete them both.  The game will create new ones the next time you launch it.

    By the way, since you're badge hunting, keep in mind that the "Who keeps sending these?" badge (find 10 messages in a bottle) is broken.  It can't be completed except on disc installs that are only patched to 1.55, the patch level that was current when Island Paradise was released.  Otherwise, there's no way to make it work.

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  • @MadiiLuvhsYuh  Your mods wouldn't have any influence on your ability to earn badges.  What's more likely is that the file that keeps track of badges is corrupt and not recording your achievements properly.  You can delete the file to regenerate a new one, although any progress towards other badges will also disappear.  So if you have others you're trying to complete that take more work, like write a certain number of books, you might want to hold off until you either finish those or confirm that they're not going to work either.

    Go into Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3\Downloads, and you'll see two folders labeled with long strings of numbers.  Each one may have a ChallengeData.package inside.  Delete them both.  The game will create new ones the next time you launch it.

    By the way, since you're badge hunting, keep in mind that the "Who keeps sending these?" badge (find 10 messages in a bottle) is broken.  It can't be completed except on disc installs that are only patched to 1.55, the patch level that was current when Island Paradise was released.  Otherwise, there's no way to make it work.

  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
    Hero+
    6 years ago

    @MadiiLuvhsYuh  Yes, please do, if you haven't already.  The new ChallengeData wouldn't have a record of the first birth, so you'd need to earn the badge all over again for it to register.

  • MadiiLuvhsYuh's avatar
    MadiiLuvhsYuh
    New Traveler
    6 years ago
    @puzzlezaddict Ah okay thank you and omg My game kept freezing and somehow deleting those two files mad it stop! THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH!!!!
  • MadiiLuvhsYuh's avatar
    MadiiLuvhsYuh
    New Traveler
    6 years ago
    @puzzlezaddict Hey I'm sorry to bug you but I redid it over again and my sims gave birth to another baby and I Checked with NRAAS and it says she's a mermaid (she had another girl by the way) But I didn't receive the Achievement
  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
    Hero+
    6 years ago

    @MadiiLuvhsYuh  That's kind of strange; I take it you definitely haven't already earned this badge?  From the notes I read on this achievement, there aren't any complicating factors, as there are with certain other badges that should be straightforward.  It's enough to have a mermaid baby born into your active household, and the badge does trigger when the baby is born, not at some later stage.

    I take it you're playing while signed in at the Main Menu too, and the connection is active when the baby is born?  It can drop sometimes, but if you can load the badge page from within the game, that's not the issue.

    If you have a save from right before this baby was born, I'd test in a clean user data folder.  Move the entire Sims 3 folder out of Documents\Electronic Arts and onto your desktop, then launch the game to the Main Menu to create a new folder.  You can copy your current save from Saves inside the old folder to Saves inside the new one, and play forward until the birth.

    I can test too, if you want—I never earned that achievement, and I can see whether it triggers for me.  It might take a little while for me to find the time to play though.

  • MadiiLuvhsYuh's avatar
    MadiiLuvhsYuh
    New Traveler
    6 years ago

    @puzzlezaddictyeah i'm gonna take out the folder now and see what happens

    Edit: Okay so i must have saved after the birth aw man! Should I just try again lol T_T

  • MadiiLuvhsYuh's avatar
    MadiiLuvhsYuh
    New Traveler
    6 years ago

    OMG! I got the Achievement!! I think that save was glitched or something! I created a new family and a new save and redid everything over again and BOOM! I got the Achievement!! I want to thank you though for helping me!! I am so Grateful!! <3 <3 <3

     

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