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.
- @JonaO703 A mod where a Sim learns about someone else's aspiration (like they do with traits) - would this even be possible? Or is the game currently too limited to read out aspirations of Sims not in the same household?
@kusurusu I'm not a mod'er so a lot of this is over my head. Since there is no current mechanism for learning a NPC's aspiration along with traits, I think it might be difficult. However, if you could pinpoint where aspirations reside in the code for any sim, I think it should be possible to write code that will extrapolate that information. I know @simvasion spent a lot of time looking at the code and fine tuning mods for the spa day aspirations. Hopefully, they don't mind me tagging them because they're probably in the best position to respond to your questions.
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