Game Help:Sims 3 Reset Tombs

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Issue

Since World Adventures arrived and Users started exploring the various aspects of the 3 vacation worlds, one question keeps coming up, "How can I reset the tombs?"

You send your Sim(s) on a Vacation and decide to explore one or more of the Tombs on your own or by an Opportunity/Quest.  Once the Sim(s) have completed the tomb all the doors will be left open, traps will be disarmed, etc.  If you attempt to use another Sim from the same Active Household, the tomb state remains open as left by the first Sim. Alternatively, if you switch to another household and use one of those Sim(s) to travel and explore tombs, you will find the lights have been reset, but the doors and traps will be unchanged.  In either case, treasure spawn points will continue to spawn treasure as other spawn points continue to spawn seeds, gems, metals, etc.

Cause

Apparently this issue is by EA design and not a bug/glitch.  When you consider the opportunities associated with tomb exploration are limited to a One Time Only scenario.  With this in mind, it seems that tombs are to remain in their unopened state until a Sim explores them, and then they will remain in an opened state for any other Sims which you choose to explore the tombs.

Solutions

There is no known solution for this issue, as mentioned above, it appears to be by EA design.  So it amounts to one Sim per game, if you want another Sim to explore an unopened tomb, you must start a new game.

Potential WorkArounds

You may be able to replace the lot with the tomb by saving the unopened tomb lot to the library and then replacing the lot once your Sim has explored it.

There are Tuning Mods available for download, which remove the Once Only restriction on Tomb Opportunities.

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