Nice catch, Jennifer!
It makes sense that whenever a skill level goes up the game does an all around dependencies check.
It wouldn't help my sim who has all skills maxed out, though. (Yes I know, I play in a very weird way)
So I tried this with another sim in that save, that has the same Extreme Sports problem but without all skills maxed.
First I let her level up the knitting skill when another aspiration is active. Only then I switched back to Extreme Sports aspiration - which remained unfinished. No real surprise there, but doesn't hurt to check.
Then I tried to up her comedy skill with Extreme Sports active.
It worked of-course! - aspiration complete.
Unfortunately, my supremely skilled sim will have to wait for the fix. (Unless I decide to get Paranormal stuff and use the medium skill to complete the aspiration)
But for now, this is probably a useful workaround for many other simmers.
Thanks, @MapleSimmer
@crinrict, I am guessing there's a good chance this workaround can be used for other aspirations with this bug?
I think I'll do an all around test - give a new sim all full skills with cheats and go through all (or at least some) aspirations.
It's possible this bug is all encompassing.
I'll report my findings.
Currently testing other aspirations that have skill levels as tasks. So far nothing. It's relatively quick for the first two levels of aspirations, but of-course will take much longer for levels 3 and 4.This could be crucial because as far as I remember, this bug didn't affect level 2 of Extreme Sports where level 3 of rock climbing was required. I might have to go back and check this.
Testing complete. The bug only exists on the final level of Extreme Sports aspiration. Added this to the bug report.
@MapleSimmer's workaround was marked as solution. I removed this, as the bug still exists and needs to be fixed.
@crinrict, is there a way to somehow mark the workaround for other simmers to find, but not have the bug overlooked?If not, I will edit my original bug report post to include the workaround.
I edited the original post to include the workaround instead.
As suspected, I just found a career level task that doesn't register.
I had my sim re-enter the criminal career to complete the Public Enemy Aspiration. She was already at level 9, when she advanced to the 3rd milestone.
"Reach Level 4 of Criminal Career" didn't check. I tried with a sim in my test game to confirm.
I think we should rename this bug report and have the thread inclusive of all Aspirations that fail to register existing skill and career levels.
I am going through the list of aspirations to see how many career level tasks exist.
If there aren't too many, I might comb through all of them to see if there are more that don't register.
@MetaSuperficial There's already a thread for the public enemy here: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/NEEDS-INPUT-Public-Enemy-Aspiration-no-registering-level-4-of/m-p/7634116
( I knew there were others and it's probably not the only one but it's a bit hard to search for if it's unclear what else is affected)
EA like to track separate issues separate. As they usually don't fix all in one go even if they're both in fact the same error just for different instances, it's better to keep a thread for each aspiration (in this case). So if you find more, just create a new thread for other aspirations.
Also for workarounds it's common to mark them as solution for visibility. Doesn't mean the bug is fixed. (Fixed tag means it's fixed). It also helps others find the workaround provided and give XP to the person that found it. It's great that you added it to the first post and gave credits but I still wanted to explain why it's handled that way. Solution is unfortunately the only option to high light a post at AHQ.
@crinrict, thanks for the info. 🙂 I appreciate it!
Since I'm new here, it's good to know how and why things are managed a certain way.
I'm still working on checking for other career level bugs, and will report separately if I find more.
Are there any lists somewhere for bugs of the same type?
If not... what if we make one? (not under "bug reports" of-course, to minimize mess and confusion)
And if we add a note to each original bug report with a link to the list, it's an easier way down the rabbit hole.
I mean, programmers can't apply "copy-paste" solutions, if they aren't aware there's more than one, right?
I'm sure they're doing their best to keep it organized, but it's easy to miss stuff when you have lots of data to ingest. (I know I certainly would)
