Rank the aspirations!
Hi all, Just for fun, rank your favorite to least favorite aspirations! Provide reasons if you feel compelled. My personal ranking: 1. Romance - I love playing as romance sims because it's so c...
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I actually play in a completely different way that doesn’t allow for ranking the aspirations. I figure that most people change their life goals and their priorities and views during their lifetime, and therefor so should the sims. So I use all the aspirations during my sims lifespan.
When they grow into teens I pick either popularity or romance based on their personalities. I figure the teenage years are usually that wonderful time when everything revolves around either being popular and accepted by your peers and/or being validated romantically and sexually. This is mostly what occupies most teens: friends and boy-/girlfriends.
At junior year in college the option to change aspiration is offered by the game and I always use it. Halfway through college I figure they’ve grown up some, and have gotten their validation during their teens and first two college years. I then switch to pleasure. I figure this is the time where they just want to have fun, enjoy life: date, party, travel, meet people.
After college my sims move downtown to apartments. They keep their pleasure aspirations during the first time while they enter entry level positions in their chosen career paths, they work, struggle financially and mostly go out with friends and enjoy the city! After a while as they advance in their careers they start to think of their futures (this is when I imagine they hit their 30’s and it’s time to start acting a little more serious). At this point I use the ReNuYuSenso to change their aspiration to either fortune or family, again depending on their personalities.
The next stage in life is still to meet someone for a serious relationship, save up money to buy a house and move to one of the subhoods or the main hood and start a family.
When they age into elders I once again use the ReNuYuSenso to change their aspiration to either family or knowledge, depending on their personality. At this stage spending time with their grandkids and other family members is so important, and also craving to learn new things and do a bunch of stuff they didn’t have time for before. Also just being old and wise from all the life experience.
So I don’t have favorites amongst aspirations because I use them all during the sims lifespans :-)
When they grow into teens I pick either popularity or romance based on their personalities. I figure the teenage years are usually that wonderful time when everything revolves around either being popular and accepted by your peers and/or being validated romantically and sexually. This is mostly what occupies most teens: friends and boy-/girlfriends.
At junior year in college the option to change aspiration is offered by the game and I always use it. Halfway through college I figure they’ve grown up some, and have gotten their validation during their teens and first two college years. I then switch to pleasure. I figure this is the time where they just want to have fun, enjoy life: date, party, travel, meet people.
After college my sims move downtown to apartments. They keep their pleasure aspirations during the first time while they enter entry level positions in their chosen career paths, they work, struggle financially and mostly go out with friends and enjoy the city! After a while as they advance in their careers they start to think of their futures (this is when I imagine they hit their 30’s and it’s time to start acting a little more serious). At this point I use the ReNuYuSenso to change their aspiration to either fortune or family, again depending on their personalities.
The next stage in life is still to meet someone for a serious relationship, save up money to buy a house and move to one of the subhoods or the main hood and start a family.
When they age into elders I once again use the ReNuYuSenso to change their aspiration to either family or knowledge, depending on their personality. At this stage spending time with their grandkids and other family members is so important, and also craving to learn new things and do a bunch of stuff they didn’t have time for before. Also just being old and wise from all the life experience.
So I don’t have favorites amongst aspirations because I use them all during the sims lifespans :-)
