Sims wont practice Martial Arts

[Aquarius]

Every time I one of my sims to practice, they'll walk up to the object and then they'll just stop. Like I never told them. I don't have any custom content installed.

[Chaavik]

Try moving the object away from something that might be blocking your Sim's path to it. See if that will work.

[Aquarius]

Well it's at the Phoenix Martial Arts academy. None of the martial arts equipment is working, regardless of what items are near it

[Chaavik]

Well you didn't say if it was on the home lot or vacation lot. 

There is another academy (closer to town) that I used without a problem.

[Aquarius]

No, every single martial arts object refuses to work. Regardless of what lot I'm on.

[caffeinated.joy]

Do you have any mods? If so, it's possible one is causing a conflict.
 

[Aquarius]

Nope, I took out all my mods

[Chaavik]

Did you update to at least 2.4.x if you don't have HEL? HEL's version is 3.3.x.

I never had problems using any of the martial arts objects in the Far East vacation town. I'm at a loss to figure out what is causing your problem since you say you removed your mods from the game to figure it out.

[Aquarius]

I'm installing the latest update now, hopefully that'll fix things

[Chaavik]

Let us know how that goes! Hope that will fix a few things for you.

[Aquarius]

ok, i've installed the patch and have now run into a new problem. Whenever I go to the launcher and push "play sims 3" it says I don't have the disc. The first thing I think to myself is "oh, the disk my be broken or something. So I used the EA download manager to make another copy of the game so i wouldn't need the disk, like I did with "The Sims 2 Apartment Life" when I left the disk in a hotel room. I tried opening the launcher again and it's still saying I don't have a disk. So I can't even see if the problem is solved because a new problem has come up. *sigh* something tells me this isn't even worth the effort that I'm putting into it.

[Chaavik]

To clarify this:

Do you have the actual disc on hand to toss it in and start up the game?

[Aquarius]

Yes, I have the actual disk in my computer right now

[Chaavik]

That is very odd. There is one or two mods that allow you to bypass the requirement of using a CD/DVD to start up the game, but I can't say anything more about them. But you can check Pescado's section at MATY or Twallan's section at the orange Sims site to see about them. A hint that I could point you into the right direction unless you already used one of them and it no longer worked for you.

[Aquarius]

and uh...which one is his section?