The Master Mixologist aspiration requires you to join the Mixology branch of the Culinary career, but the Master Chef aspiration only requires you to reach level 5 in Culinary. As I did Master Chef first and joined the Chef branch I can't now complete Master Mixologist.
Was this an intentional design by the developers or could this be changed in a patch?
@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.
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:
Crin is this something you've seen before? đ
@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:
Crin is this something you've seen before? đ
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 đ
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 âšī¸ 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.
