NPC aspirations
Does the game even recognize them? I'm currently trying to complete a tasks where one of its requirements is having an NPC with a specific aspiration.
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@kusurusu Hello! I believe all sims have an aspiration. They are assigned to game-generated NPCs. You can also create sims, give them an aspiration and then mark them as unplayed through Manage Worlds / Manage Households. However, unplayed sims will not usually autonomously attempt to complete the aspirations. Could you provide more detail about the task you mentioned and what it is you need to do exactly?
- @JonaO703 I have to interact with an NPC in order to fulfill an aspiration task, but the game is currently tuned in such a way that the NPC needs to have the same aspiration as my own Sim.
I'm not here to find out if NPCs receive aspirations in the first place or if they're able to complete them while inactive, I just want to know if game can tell what aspiration an NPC has while interacting with them (task is only solvable btw if it does). @kusurusu Okay. I don't know where the task came from or why the sims need to have the same aspiration but I do know that all sims, aged child or older have an aspiration. I only know of two ways to ascertain what a NPC's aspiration is; either play them or take them into CAS through manage worlds / manage households. Either way, you can use manage households to set them as unplayed again. If you really need an NPC's aspiration to match your own sim, you can check each NPC that your sim meets or you can use the cas.fulleditmode cheat, then take the sim to CAS and change their aspiration.
Edit: If you're okay with using cheats and have testingcheats on, you can shift+click a sim then choose Modify in CAS, without having to use Manage Households.
- @JonaO703 the target NPC needs to have the same aspiration because of a coding error. I have to get past an aspiration test (checking if sim has particular aspiration) but due to this bug it tests the other sim (whom I interacting with) instead of my own. And it doesn't seem to work even if they do have the same aspiration. I suspect it's because the game can't tell what aspiration a sim has while they're in a different household.
This doesn't make much sense. You say you run some kind of test to find out what your own sims aspiration is but somehow get the aspiration from an NPC sim. A couple questions. Why would you run such a test as you can directly see what your own sims current aspiration is and why is it even a requirement that you have the same aspiration and what does not work if they have the same aspiration?
It would probably help if you wrote what you are doing and what you expected the outcome would be.
- @jpkarlsen The game engine is trying to run a test and not me. My Sim has to interact with an NPC and one of the requirements for a positive outcome is the NPC having a specific aspiration. And if the game engine (which is not me) can't even tell what aspiration that one NPC has...
p.s. I'm talking about Self-Care Specialist/regular customer which is a mess as of now Ah, yes that aspiration is bugged but not in the way you think. You can find more info about it here. [OPEN] [SD] Massages not counted toward Self Care aspiration - Answer HQ
And you can find a Hero approved mod for the issues here Wellness Aspiration Fixes | SimvasionYou could have saved yourself some time if you from the start had mentioned what your problem was.
- @jpkarlsen Actually, I'm talking about the maintain regular customer task and my question here is: Can the game itself tell what aspiration a sim has (while they're not in the same household) or will the selected_aspiration_test result then always be false?
