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TheReindeer27
Seasoned Newcomer
2 months ago

Aspirations not updating

I've recently had a problem where activities are not recognized toward completing my aspirations. If it's an aspiration task like "Reach Level 6 in Skill", it may show up at zero and then periodically update to recognize the correct skill level. If it's an aspiration task like "Do X behavior 10 times", it is rarely recognizing the completion of the behavior.

Examples:
SORCERY & SPELLCASTING:
Reach Rank 3 / Adept -- will fluctuate between 0 and completed
Win 3 Duels -- Some duel wins are recognized and others are not, and it keeps resetting to zero. 
Learn 5 Spells -- will fluctuate between 0 and completed

FREELANCE BOTANIST
Achieve Level 10 -- has remained completed
Grow a Cowplant -- has remained completed
Evolve 3 Excellent Plants -- Stuck at 3/10 despite evolving many, many plants

SWITCHING TO NEW ASPIRATION
May or may not recognize the levels I already have. As I've continued, it's recognizing them less and less often, like maybe a 10% chance it will recognize what levels I already have toward, say, Championship Rider or how much money I have toward Fabulously Wealthy.

Things I've Tried:
Sending Sims to different locations
Switching between Aspirations
Disabling all mods
Resaving the game via Save As
Repairing the game
Deleting the "Sims 4" game folder and regenerating it, then copying Save file back in

I have: For Rent, Horse Ranch, Cottage Living, Growing Together, Seasons, Cats & Dogs, City Living, Eco Lifestyle, Island Living, Get Together, Realm of Magic, Dream Home Decorator, Greenhouse Haven, Laundry Day, Tiny Living, My First Pet, Nifty Knitting and Blooming Rooms

6 Replies

  • Is this happening with all the sims in the one household? Also does the same issue occur with a different household in your game? 
    Also try moving the whole mods folder to another place, delete the localthumbcache.package and then test in a new save game, without mods/cc, to see if the issue remains in the new save game.

  • Hi TheReindeer27​ 

    there's a few bug reports for general aspiration issues.

    There's also specific ones not working

  • TheReindeer27's avatar
    TheReindeer27
    Seasoned Newcomer
    2 months ago

    This is happening with 3 out of 4 sims in the household (one with the gardening problem and two with the spellcasting /duels)

    This problem does not seem to be happening to sims on my other main save file.

    This problem does not seem to be happening with other households in the same save file, although I haven't tested all of the same aspirations.

    I just cheated the gardening milestone because I'm out of patience for it, but I will spend a little more time testing the spellcasting one. 

    Replying to crinrict: I'm not clear on the best procedure for reporting these things. f I'm to make a new bug report, does that mean to just basically recreate this thread for only the spellcasting problem? Should I be reporting these details into one of those other threads?

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    2 months ago

    If you feel, the first two could be your issue, either just click on upvote on these posts or add some info to either of the threads, depending on what fits better.

    From what you are describing, I'd say these could be the visual issue since you say they are fluctuating.

    • Reach Rank 3 / Adept -- will fluctuate between 0 and completed
    • Learn 5 Spells -- will fluctuate between 0 and completed

     

    For the duel, create a new thread here: The Sims 4 Bug Reports | EA Forums and just describe what happens for that particular one. Make sure to include thread tags for your platform and mod usage.

    For the evolve one: Did you evolve excellent plants or normal ones ? Could be any number of things with that. 

    Do you have any others ? Usually it's best to create one thread per aspiration but if it's fluctuating it's probably more of the visual thing happening.

  • Louisa0926's avatar
    Louisa0926
    Seasoned Newcomer
    2 months ago

    This issue also started happening right after the latest update! Probably something the EA team should look into?

    I’m experiencing it across multiple Sims from different households with different aspirations. The goals seem to glitch. Even when my Sim performs the required action, the progress doesn’t count.

    It seems random, occasionally one goal gets completed, but most of them (especially those involving counting things like books read, dates for Love aspirations, or events hosted) just don’t register at all.

    Please escalate this to the team, it’s quite frustrating and makes the aspirations unplayable. Thanks!