My biggest complaint about aspirations

"NorthDakotaGamer;c-16350733" wrote:
So you want the challenge taken out of the achievements? Basically that is what you just insinuated. Making sure the aspiration is active is the challenge to making sure you can complete it.

I can understand a lot of people feel that way. For the vampire ones though, the vampire lord aspiration requires you to survive around 20 or so days. The good vampire requires you to not bite from sims for 20 days. Those are two aspirations that are completely doable at once, but require 40 or so days to complete.

Sure 40 days is nothing to a vampire, but itd be easier without it.

I guess it depends. While there are definitely times where it becomes annoying, I can also imagine "accidentally" completing aspirations on a sim who I don't really want the aspiration for if it worked that way.

As for the vampire days, I'm pretty certain they all count up together. Unless that is something they changed recently, but I spent plenty of time maxing out vampires a while ago.

"CyrusTheLoser;c-16350766" wrote:
I guess it depends. While there are definitely times where it becomes annoying, I can also imagine "accidentally" completing aspirations on a sim who I don't really want the aspiration for if it worked that way.

As for the vampire days, I'm pretty certain they all count up together. Unless that is something they changed recently, but I spent plenty of time maxing out vampires a while ago.

Didnt work for me, maybe I did something wrong.

I thought about accidentally completing aspirations, but then I realized its not really possible. You might accidentally clear the first tier or so, but once the aspiration gets higher you need to do specific stuff to complete it.

If it worked like that I would want it to be the case that only once an aspiration had been selected for a sim would it complete anything for it. It is annoying needing to remember to keep flipping between a couple of aspirations when I'm working on multiple at once but it would also be annoying if I later came to an aspiration to realise half of it had been completed.

I agree but it would be annoying to unlock milestones you don't want to. I think aspirations need a re-work in general.

My biggest gripe about aspirations is the lackluster rewards. The Friend of the World aspiration's reward is a trait that disables relationship decay. That's cool and all, but I already have 20 friends, I can probably handle the decay. Plus what would I need it for?

A great alternative would be unlocking the 'Influence To:' menu, or receiving gifts from friends every now and then (à la celebrities in TS3).

Even tho I can see your point, I like the way they are implemented. Cuz maybe, not every player wants to let their sims complete their other aspirations 'in the background'. So it's nice to have that option where it's only active when selected.

I see the point too because there are things that irritate me when switching between aspirations .. especially that sleep 5 nights in the tent one. However yeah I don't really see any other option without making it too easy for those that want some difficulty in there game.. cause really it's not that difficult.
Maybe they could give us the option to run several aspirations together at the same time.. with the option not too?

Maybe as a compromise we could select two aspirations? The primary and secondary. Primary would be the one that gives us the trait and selected in cas, secondary would be completed in the background.

While I see what you mean and how it could be useful, it’s already pretty easy to switch aspirations as and when required.

Some of them kinda do as already stated. Like my sim who started with the Nerd brain aspiration switched to super parent and she already had some of the requests completed like “buy child equipment”(or however it’s phrased)

For a brief moment last night I wished this was possible. I sent my sim to Salvadorado and was there for two days before I realized I hadn't given her one of the two new aspirations. I selected Jungle Explorer and realized she'd already completed several of the first requirements. Not a problem though. She'll just do them again.