[Open] Quest menu is asking me to place items I don't have

Same issue here. 

Player ID 1003804838419

I have not started a limited time quest for neither the "Save the last dance" quest nor the "Set your sights on space" quest. 

For me, these quests popped up after going to a party. My assumption is that the game registered the host's items as my own and now assumes I have them.

This has been replicated twice. After the first party, all the quests popped up. After the second, I was congratulated on completing an item collection that I'm nowhere close to completing. 

I have the same issue since today/yesterday with the space, photographer and dance career.

I only started the photographer quest but didn't finish it in time a couple of weeks ago.

PlayerID: 1005142584367

Hi... no.. there was no time limited quest. It’s just pop there in the quest menu.  I have another issue though my player id is 1003412665718 , the sims who stays in the buildings  in my downtown area never been updated( they are elderly) would you please help me with this?... 

@SimGuruMaaike okay so i think i have proof of the bug being caused by heirlooms on display at other sim’s parties! another quest popped up after i joined a party and so i started doing some snooping.....especially because it fell in line with what everyone else in this thread has been saying. this is a bit of a long-winded post, but i cover a lot about the root cause i promise!

pic one: the new quest popped up!

after the quest popped up, i started doing a hunt for if there were any rewards from the space career at the party.

pic two: the party right after i closed the quests menu. this pic is mainly here to show the time between this & the next one to help back up my claim that i searched thoroughly

i scoured the party and couldnt find a single reward from the career and almost gave up when i  saw this player had endless heirlooms on display and realised i hadnt looked to see if the heirloom was there!

pic three: it was there 🤔

now, to confirm what the heirloom looked like, i had gone through the "all heirlooms" collection to find it and make sure it was definitely the heirloom for the career.  this is where it starts to get a bit interesting....

there were a few heirlooms that the app said i had multiples of and so i was selling them all for the tickets thinking that i had obviously just missed doing so when i first got them, but then i started to realise that there were too many for that to be the case.  the final blow  came as i sold a duplicate for the photography career. i knew i would have remembered having gotten a duplicate and it was all adding up to be a bit suspicious... anyway i stopped selling them and kept scrolling only to see dozens of so-called "duplicates".

pics four through six: examples of just how many duplicates there were. this was after i had sold a bunch of them and still doesnt show all of them!

at this point, i started to wonder what exactly had happened  with all the "duplicates" i sold so i opened up my storage only to discover that all the heirlooms i had sold duplicates for were missing. i don't have photos of this because its a lot harder to provide proof of something not existing.

being a curious person though, i saw a problem and went "i wonder what happens if i poke it with a stick?". there were heirlooms where there were more than two listed, so if they were being sold from my collection, what would happen if i tried to sell two of the same heirloom?

pics six and seven: what happened when i tried to sell multiple duplicates of the same heirloom. it's a bit hard to see because of the lack of contrast, but in the second image you can see that when i clicked the greyed out option to sell the "second" old rivals heirloom, the message that came up said that the heirloom was not in storage. this is cause it was removed when i sold the "third" old rivals heirloom.

so, as you can see, the problem is that the game is interpreting other players' heirlooms as those of our own. the party i attended tonight also had a play it again sim heirloom on display, but no quest came up from that. i also have noticed that this hasnt happened with any relationship heirlooms and no one in the thread has reported it for relationship or hobby quests. the heirlooms also seem to exist in a semi-ghost state– they're real enough for the quest menu to go into action or display as a duplicate, but they don't exist as a physical item, nor do they unlock in the heirloom collection page if they're an heirloom you don't own. in picture five, you can see that my rocket science heirloom is still greyed out despite the quest having been triggered.

oh and all the heirlooms i sold didn't get rid of the stories! i had one of my sims check out the photog career & it still gave him the offer to transfer to it  even though the heirloom had been removed from my storage. i didn't check any others though because i was satisfied with the outcome of that example.

i  think that covers all the relevant info i would be able to give! i hope it helps with finding the bug.

p.s– i think this bug is kinda fun and funky but if possible can you try and work a fix where all the heirlooms i sold aren't lost to me forever? player id is 1003750689018

My Player ID  # is 1002956805886 I had both of those  careers a long time 

before, but unfortunately  lost all my progress & had to start over. I am back at level 50. So need to know will we have a chance to get these careers again somehow? 

Hi Maiike,

I have the same issue with both dance instructor and secret agent quests. I don’t have the heirlooms but they have popped up for me. I did attempt to complete both the limited time quests though. My player ID is 

1003659030627. Please help!