Earning aspiration reward traits

I would just complete all the tasks that you can at the current aspiration level and then use the cheat to complete the aspiration level for the job that you don't want to take up.

The cheat:

I would usually just leave the aspiration unfinished, but it sounds like you want to find a substitute task that's in character. What if your sim tends bar on the side somewhere until he's had people order, I don't know, some number of high level drinks? or done it for some number of nights? I can't remember if the bar in the Magic Realm HQ will have sims order from you if you tend bar, or if it has to be a bar lot type. But if it works, that would be a perfect place to do it.

@Caerfinon Using the cheat will be inevitable. It just feels, well, cheaty, not really earned, to simply skip a time-consuming task like maxing out a career (If it was something like "play with 5 toys", I wouldn't bat an eyelid). That's why I need something else for my sim to do before I use the cheat.

@mightysprite The sims in question are the top dogs of the colonial government at Batuu, so a standard bar is out of question. But I like your idea! It would feel like playing Mixologist as a work from home career.
I could build a gentlemen's club (or rather the First Order version of one), that would feel more proper. The sim has to throw a celebrity party now and then anyway.

@EnkiSchmidt if you have Horse Ranch & haven't done much with nectar making then maybe set a goal of reaching a certain level in that. I've heard it can take a long time to gain a level.

I had a situation where my legacy sim had the Villainous Valentine aspiration and I had no couples in my game (aging on, gen three, neighbourhood stories on). I could have created couples for him just to break up, but that didn't inspire me. Instead I set up an alternative universe with a copy of my sim and completed the aspiration there (new save with premade couples). Then I went back and cheated the trait to him like it was a nightmare that leaked into reality.

@Starfree Yes, I do have Horse Ranch! I didn't look into the nectar making aspiration before, only now that you mentioned the pack. Noticed it sais to make 100,000 simoleons with nectar, I think I can use that for the mixology drinks. So combining that with @mightysprite's suggestion, my sim will have to sell juice and mixologist drinks in the gentlemen's club until he earned 100,000 simoleons. Looks like he's set :)

@musteni Intriguing! I could that for the other sim, who needs to complete Public Enemy but cannot join the criminal career. Maybe the other save would represent a vision my sim had in a dark side cave or something.

Thank you everyone who commented so far, I now have good idea for these particular sims. But please keep suggestions coming for when different sims find themselves in the same situation!

Will do! I don't enjoy building much, so I'll grab a lot from the gallery and edit it to my liking. Pretty much same as it happened in-universe: The First Order confiscated a local building and changed it to suit their needs.

The household in question will get its turn on wednesday.


Edit:

This is the Governor's hobby shack for starters:

https://64.media.tumblr.com/c9e4091cef7c0491a4ed299d97a5ae74/75ec03caea6839ea-24/s2048x3072/7f43b9e4e5b9650d5cc4d0fbf6f7379152c6037a.pnj

Being a veteran general, he figured he couldn't go wrong with wearing protective clothing.

https://64.media.tumblr.com/aa746ca08bf6df245f982e90079060a3/75ec03caea6839ea-14/s2048x3072/162346063c92149c1c58a94b46cbcc5842138bf6.pnj

And he was right.

> @EnkiSchmidt said:

> In cases like these, what would you consider a fair replacement task for "reach top level of career"?

Usually go for forcing my sim to have the required skills (+ eventual other stuff) needed to be able to get to that career level. Since getting the skills + time is all the sim need to get promoted.

@EnkiSchmidt Time to get promoted is quite a pain to judge because a lot of stuff can influence (Relevant degree if you got DU, traits like well-connected and entrepreneurial) as well as how many (few) days the sim work in the higher levels of the career. I usually go for the skill and ignore time but if you want an estimate I'd take a sim year (28 days) if you don't have anything to justify a faster path to the top.

To finish level three of the Master Mixologist aspiration, you only need to get to level six of the mixologist career. If you earn enough aspiration points to get the Connections trait before you start, you would start out on level four of the career if you actually went into it. Then, it would plausibly take four days on the "Work Hard" setting to advance to level six of the career. This could be four days of selling drinks at the officer's club. Assuming you've completed the other objectives for that level, you'll then be on level four of the aspiration, which has no career requirements, so you can drop your mixology "career" like a hot potato.
If you want to match the official career more exactly, you could work Friday and Saturday from 6PM-2AM to represent level 4 of the career, then you can work Sunday and Monday from 2PM-10PM to represent level 5 of the career.
Now, how to get around undesirables crashing your officers club? I suggest redesigning it so that there are only two entrances. One will be an exclusive club door for your own club. The other will be an exclusive club door for a new club made up of the former residents.