Aspirations

I actually never complete my sim's aspirations. I'm more focused on building friendships and having a family. But sometimes I try to complete one like the painting aspiration, because you just need to make paintings and stuff. I think when your sim has a creative hobby, it's more easy to complete that aspiration. And if I take a look at the Successful Lineage aspiration, isn't that impossible to complete? Your (grand)child needs to reach the top of a career. But I think your sim will have died of old age by then.

"Evalyn326;c-16878201" wrote:
And if I take a look at the Successful Lineage aspiration, isn't that impossible to complete? Your (grand)child needs to reach the top of a career. But I think your sim will have died of old age by then.

Really? :o This is another aspiration I've never completed, so I didn't even know about that. Does the game specify that it has to be an adult job, though? Because teenagers can work part-time, and their careers only have three levels. If that doesn't count, make sure your teens do well at school, because if they're A+ students at the time they become adults, they will jumpstart careers at level 3. But yeah, I imagine this goal can be quite hard to reach with aging on, and all for a reward trait that isn't even worth it:

"Vicarious
By being Vicarious, your Children's skill gains can contribute to your own!"

I mean... If a sim has lived long enough to have a child reach the top of a career, they'll probably have built all the relevant skills themselves by then, and even if not, some more skill points won't protect them from their inevitable death of old age shortly thereafter. :D Unless you have nothing against youth potion, that is.

For normal gameplay (for me) where I follow a family through generations, I always go after the Soulmate and various Family aspirations except for when I want a generation where things are more dysfunctional. So I'd have to say those are my favorites, as I do them on almost every sim.

I generally start a sim (as a teen) with a different, more skill/career oriented aspiration and try to finish that in their lifetime as well. My first generation in my current game, for example, the father completed the cooking one and the mother completed one of the creative ones (forgot which...it was 3 generations ago).

I switch aspirations pretty regularly rather than completing one before doing the next, though. For example, with soulmate you need to go on dates and do romantic aspirations, so when I have a sim working on that one I switch to it when they are with their SO and going on dates...but I switch it back to a different one when they are skilling/working/etc. Generally, manage to complete 3 or 4 aspirations total before a sim passes from old age doing it this way.

Other aspirations I do alot, once a sim household is established, are the two fortune ones. Those both are practically instant-completes with a household that has been around for a long time.

In my current game, the heir just aged up from teen and has already completed both fortune aspirations and the Fitness aspiration all while still a teen. She's working on the Location one now as a new YA, while ducking in and out of the romantic ones while doing romantic things. Her parents are adults, not elders yet, and have completed the same 3 aspirations as her, as well as Soulmates, one of the Family ones (and are near completion of the other 2 Family ones), and 1 or 2 other skill-oriented ones each.

You aren't wrong about the Successful Lineage though...it is the last of the Family one that I manage to complete, and most generations the grandparent sim dies before it is achieved. Even when they haven't died...the reward trait is basically useless. I can see it being more practical for someone who plays with long lifespan or aging off though, or if you turn that sim into a vampire (or ghost) and keep them around a lot longer.

I love working on aspirations and have one sim who'll complete them all. Currently she's in the scientist career with an aspiration of Nerd Brain.

Here's a list to refer to.

Angling Ace | Bestselling Author | Big Happy Family | Bodybuilder | Chief of Mischief | City Native | Computer Whiz | Fabulously Wealthy | Freelance Botanist | Friend of the World | Good Vampire | Grilled Cheese (Hidden) | Joke Star | Leader of the Pack | Mansion Baron | Master Actor/Actress | Master Chef | Master Mixologist | Master Vampire | Musical Genius | Nerd Brain | Outdoor Enthusiast | Painter Extraordinaire | Party Animal | Public Enemy | Renaissance Sim | Serial Romantic | Soulmate | Super Parent | Successful Lineage | The Curator | Vampire Family | World Famous Celebrity

Children's: Artistic Prodigy | Rambunctious Scamp | Social Butterfly | Whiz Kid
Courtesy of Carl's Guide