Different requirements for Mixology and Chef aspirations - intentional?

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@EA_Francois wrote:
I haven't pursued this specific career, but don't you branch out in Mixology earlier in the progression?

As far as I know you cannot come back to another specialty once you've set a specialty.

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Yes, in Culinary you branch at 6 unlike other careers. Therefore Master Chef requires you to get to the point just before the split, whereas Master Mix. forces you to choose.

You can't restart a career and choose a different branch because you start at the same level you left. Also, there's the bug where you restart the career at the same level as you left but the game calls it level 1 (it's been reported, sorry I can't find the link at the moment).

I'll tag @crinrict in here in case she's seen it somewhere, I don't see it in the bug list thread:

http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-4-Bug-Reports/READ-FIRST-Compiled-list-of-Bugs/m-p/3445209#U3445209

Crin is this something you've seen before? 🙂

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@EA_Francois wrote:

I'll tag @crinrict in here in case she's seen it somewhere, I don't see it in the bug list thread:

http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-4-Bug-Reports/READ-FIRST-Compiled-list-of-Bugs/m-p/3445209#U3445209

Crin is this something you've seen before? 🙂

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The bug I referred to is here: http://answers.ea.com/t5/The-Sims-4-Bug-Reports/Rejoining-a-Branched-Career/m-p/3458877#U3458877

This issue with the two asipirations having different requirements isn't necessarily a bug, maybe an oversight, and possibly even a design decision. I'd just like to know which 😉

I've asked the devs on twitter about this: https://twitter.com/crinrict/status/514895175080873984

I asked Grant this question in the Guru chat thread and he responded, here.

(Hope that goes right to his comment.)

That's a shame. It punishes those completionists amongst us who ddin't notice the discrepancy and have chosen the wrong path ☹️ Why would one aspiration be given a stricter requirement than the other? I'm guessing it's to encourage people down the less useful branch of the career/skill tree.

I agree. This is ridiculous. Now I cannot complete the Mixology goal because I am stuck on being a chef. This should be changed in the future because it just doesn't make sense.