Sims 3 Riding Skill Not Improving (Mac)
I recently just started a Pets game in Appaloosa Plains. My sim is an equestrian but she can't learn the riding skill. I had her read the level one riding skill book and that gave her one skill level...
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@puzzlezaddictThank you so much!! I'm very familiar with mods and with NRaas in particular! I'm so glad they made something that could help!
I'm not sure whether I'm using Overwatch correctly, though. From what I understand it runs a lot of cleanup and repair commands automatically. I had my Sims take a class to learn the first Riding Skill point, exited and reloaded the game, and using Overwatch did a reset check, cleaned up skill modifiers on my Sims, and ran auto and alarm commands. I evicted them and moved them to a new lot. Still no skill bars when they go for a ride.
@443243b2f972d3ae Okay, after a consult from someone who's a lot better with mods than I am (and who may yet show up; we can always hope), I should clarify that there's no reason to manually run any Overwatch commands, as they would have automatically run on startup. However, sometimes this kind of thing (sims not gaining skills) needs a few days to sort itself out. I know it's annoying to wait, but apparently that's often all it takes, I mean, besides Overwatch.
- Any NRAAS mods are your friends. I run Master Controller, Overwatch, and Error Trap personally.
Thank you so much for your quick and informative replies, and for trying so hard to help 🙂 I downloaded ErrorTrap and tried the Overwatch commands but they don't seem to work. I'm going to wait for a few days and see if anything changes. 🙂
- You need to download Master Controller as that is the basic program that allows all the others to run. Depending on which OS you run on (Mac or Windows), you should download the 1.69 version. It runs just fine on Macs.
I'm very sorry @Tremayne4260, but that is not correct. MasterController is a great mod to have, no argument there, and it's worth having for its ability to reset sims properly alone where the testingcheats kind of reset really doesn't do much except get sims out of impossible situations. But it is not required for any of the other NRaas mods to work. MC doesn't actually do anything at all after the game loads up except present its menus of commands for the player to select from or ignore, as needed, unless you count the optional CAS version replacement.
This is why we support the mods at NRaas. I would suggest the player bring their issue to us over there if Overwatch does not fix the skilling issue on its own after a few sim days of running.Cool, thanks for correcting me. I thought it was needed, but not going to get rid of it. 🙂
Thanks for the advice! I'm already running MasterController and I love it 🙂 I've tried to use it to fix this issue but still haven't found a solution yet.
@443243b2f972d3ae MasterController won't fix this issue. If Overwatch doesn't resolve the problem within a few sim-days, then igazor is right—you should ask for more help over at NRaas. The people there are still providing help for their mods and can give you a better idea of how to proceed.
Thank you all for your help 🙂 It's been a few Sim-days and my Sims are still not learning riding skill when riding their horses, however the horses will learn racing/jumping while being ridden. I did make a wikispaces account to try and post in the discussion forum for Nraas Overwatch, but I'm not able to create a new discussion for this topic. :/ @igazor would you be willing to help me here, or help me bring this issue to the proper people at Nraas?
Thank you so much!!!
@443243b2f972d3ae You'll have to ask to join NRaas as well. The admins there are pretty good about approving new members, although given how late it is, you might have to wait until tomorrow morning. But yes, this issue is probably better addressed at NRaas, where there is much more mod-specific advice available.
@443243b2f972d3ae wrote:I did make a wikispaces account to try and post in the discussion forum for Nraas Overwatch, but I'm not able to create a new discussion for this topic. :/ @igazor would you be willing to help me here, or help me bring this issue to the proper people at Nraas?
I found your new Wikispaces account, but you have not yet requested to join NRaas or at least we have no such requests pending. Once you do so and are approved, the right to post becomes unlocked.
http://nraas.wikispaces.com/space/join
I would suggest using the Chatterbox message board, it gets more visibility than the mod specific ones and our developer will see your posts either way.
Thank you so much @igazor!!!
