When the Sim answers the phone, the game checks the requirements of the opportunity again, but this time, it checks the tag. However, the game bypasses the aforementioned tag during this check, so the game may pick one of the Advanced Technology skill opportunities. Because ITF opportunity weighted chances are absurdly high, they're almost always picked. Then, the game will pick an opportunity based on the weighted chance. When the phone rings, the game checks all skill opportunities that are eligible for the Sim, based on their skill levels, career levels, and other requirements. The way a phone call chooses its opportunity is like this: This tag was normally used in WA worlds, but it doesn't work the same way in ITF / Oasis Landing. Two Advanced Technology skill opportunities have a FutureWorld tag each. This caused the ITF skill opportunities to be the most dominant opportunities that may appear on the phone.īut the problem isn't only this.
500, while other skill opportunities generally only have weighted chance of 5 or 10. In Opportunities_EP11.XML, ALL skill opportunities from ITF have absurdly high weighted chance to be received on phone, i.e. Being prevented from experiencing these opportunities seems infuriating, at least for me. Besides, many opportunities actually provide cool benefits that are part of the game as well, like Omni Plants, resurrecting a ghost, and new writing genres. Yes, some opportunities may repeat, but I can complete and cancel them anytime I want. But to me, the regular Sim's lives themselves are repetitive, and opportunities are a nice addition for a side quest for Sims to complete when I'm bored. A lot of people I know don't really appreciate opportunities because it's deemed as "unfit" for a sandbox simulation game and repetitive. This bug is caused by having Into The Future itself, so if you don't have it, you don't need this fix. If you have Into The Future, you may have noticed that you rarely (or even almost never) receive any skill opportunity phone calls in your base world, apart from the celebrity opportunities (see ).