[FIXED] [SD] Unable to complete Regular Customer goal for Self Care aspiration

NPC Sim with max friendship level, I've provided him with at least 12 services, and I don't have credit yet (I wasn't counting at first but I have been tonight). So something's either broken or really not clear.

There's two possibilities that immediately come to mind:

1. Some services count and other's don't; the description implies they should all work but only specifically lists 2 of them.
2. The NPC has to initiate the transaction; invites from your played Sim don't count.

My bet is on #2 since the Sim in question has requested maybe half of the services rendered, and for the rest he was invited by my played Sim. But I have no way to know that for sure.

Update: After some more testing tonight, I've ruled out #2, at least as the only factor. I did 10 more transactions with the same Sim, and he initiated all of them:

Hand Massage: 4

Foot Massage: 1

Manicure: 3

Pedicure: 2

Two other factors I can think to mention are that I had an existing relationship with this Sim prior to the SD update, and the Sim in question is one of the Spellcaster Sages. It's possible either of those is preventing this from working somehow.

For anyone interested in my testing methodology:

I guess I'm going to table this Aspiration for now until either someone figures out the secret sauce or whatever bug is happening gets fixed.

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@kusurusu wrote:

@simvasionexactly, that's why I'm looking for any hidden obstacles explaining why it didn't work

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I think I've identified the problem. In the loot action for giving the repeat customer relbit and relationship track (loot_aspiration_wellness_repeatcustomer), the test criteria is for the sim running the loot action to have the Self Care Specialist aspiration, but really this should be targeting the sim tending the table, not the customer.

That means, in the cases where people have seen this working, it's probably because the sim they are using as a customer also has the Self Care Specialist aspiration active, and they get to max 100 friendship with them.

Adding the "who" line to the test will get it working correctly for services from the massage chair, yoga and mediation classes like this:

  <L n="tests">
    <L>
      <V t="selected_aspiration_test">
        <U n="selected_aspiration_test">
          <T n="aspiration">270857<!--wellness_SelfCareSpecialist--></T>
          <E n="who">TargetSim</E>
        </U>
      </V>
    </L>
  </L>

The massage tables will need to run an alternative version where the "who" is the savedactor instead like this:

  <L n="tests">
    <L>
      <V t="selected_aspiration_test">
        <U n="selected_aspiration_test">
          <T n="aspiration">270857<!--wellness_SelfCareSpecialist--></T>
          <E n="who">SavedActor1</E>
        </U>
      </V>
    </L>
  </L>

As well as having every reference in the rest of the tuning file where it says "TargetSim" switched over to "SavedActor1".

If anyone playing on PC/Mac and is ok with using mods, I have made a mod for this issue that works by adding in the missing target references so that the loot action runs correctly and gives both your Self Care Specialist and the customer the correct repeat customer relationship gains. You can find a link to my mod site in the Common Game Fixing Mods post. It's called "Wellness Aspiration Fixes".