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Re: Bug when changing aspiration from the collectors botanist trait

What you're describing isn't a bug.


Quote from Carl's Sims 4 Guide:

Your first Aspiration choice matters in that your first Bonus Trait will not change after switching to a new Aspiration.


The bonus trait for choosing Freelance Botanist (and any other Nature aspiration) is Collector. This will stay on your sim forever, even if you switch aspirations. The reward trait for completing Freelance Botanist is Naturalist which makes you fearless of fire.

Your photo pictures the Role Model trait, but that is the reward for finishing Super Parent. It won't give it to you until you finish Super Parent. Switching to a family type aspiration won't give you a new bonus trait (Domestic for family type aspirations) and it won't replace Collector. 


@Sorceress2696 wrote:

Usually when I change it the new trait shows up from the aspiration on top of the previous trait (I have evidence of this on another sim that I brought in to use with a lets play.


That should only happen if you change the aspiration while in CAS full edit mode instead of using the Aspiration panel in Live mode. CAS changing aspiration is like picking their apiration again for the first time. It isn't meant to work that way in Live mode when switching apirations on the fly using the aspiration panel. You're meant to only ever keep your starter bonus trait in normal gameplay.

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  • okay I have never changed the aspiration in CAS Full edit mode but interesting info on why those things are happening. Guess I was just confused. Only time that may have happened is if I started a new game with those characters and legit changed them. I never change the aspiration in CAS as I only use that to change features or clothes.

    Thanks though

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    7 years ago
    There's two different traits: A bonus trait which you get with the aspiration like the collector bonus trait and then there's the rewards one you get for completing the aspiration.

    There can only be one Bonus trait as simvasion says but you'll get the rewards traits for completing

    Moving this to game info as it's not a bug.

    @Sorceress2696