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MapleSimmer
Seasoned Ace
10 months ago
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Fixed

Aspirations Default to First One When Looking or Switching

Since the January 14 game update, when I pull up the aspiration menu, either to check what's on the next tier of the current aspiration or to swap aspirations, the aspiration panel defaults to the very first one (Animal if you have Cats and Dogs, otherwise the Athletic category. 

Note if I try in a save* that's never been played with base game (and the Jan 16 kits) it stays on the current aspiration.(*it was a base game only save I'd created before the update to test something previously but had never saved apart from the default save when it's set up). It also works fine if I enable all packs except Home Chef Hustle (I disabled packs using James Turner's site).

However, when I disabled all packs (except the kits released Jan 16), and try in a save I'd played in previously, when you pull up the aspiration menu it also defaults to the first aspiration (in this case the athletic one). 

I attach two screenshots. The first one is where the aspiration defaults to after the update. The second one is where it should default to (the same aspiration that the sim is on, in both examples, it is the cooking aspiration as I tested with the same sim both with and without packs disabled).

Note that I play on Windows, game version is PC: 1.112.481.1030 DX 11 & in English, my mods folder is out, cache has been deleted and I repaired my game after the update (and after installing the new kits).  I do have all the packs, but as indicated, tested both with all the packs, with all (but the latest kits) disabled, and gradually adding packs back in. 

Best regards,
Jennifer

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  • shiney987's avatar
    shiney987
    Seasoned Rookie
    5 months ago

    I'm trying to complete all the aspirations in my current save and I'm finding this bug quite annoying. Unfortunate that this has been an issue for so long, hopefully it gets fixed soon.🤞

  • fanseelamb's avatar
    fanseelamb
    Seasoned Newcomer
    3 months ago

    It used to be that when I open the aspiration selection screen, it opened directly to my sim's current aspiration. For example if they had a Knowledge aspiration it would open to the Knowledge panel where I could easily pick a new Knowledge aspiration or see the next steps in their current one.

    That's broken now. Now when I open the aspiration screen it goes back to the very first aspiration (Animal) and I have to scroll around to find my sim's current aspiration. 

    This happens about 90% of the time. It actually opens to the correct spot sometimes, I think when the current aspiration is the first one in the category (eg. Master Vampire in the knowledge panel, Appliance Wiz in the food panel, etc.) 

    This started several updates ago. I don't remember exactly when, but maybe around the Life & Death expansion. I hesitated so long to report it because it's a smallish thing but holy cowplant it's annoying. 

  • This is still an issue, and it's extremely annoying when trying to quickly switch aspirations. I also noticed that the completed milestones aren't checked off anymore when you're looking at them in the viewer, and sometimes there's a lot of lag when updating completed tasks especially after traveling.

  • YES I wish I could vote for this a MOTHERLODE number of times. So minutely annoying.

  • While I didn't notice this in the patch notes, this is possibly fixed after the Sept 18 game update. I'm not noticing aspirations defaulting to the first aspiration in my mod/cc free testing save (it's one I use to test after updates, so not a new save, but has never seen mods/cc).

    Best regards,
    Jennifer

  • squeek56's avatar
    squeek56
    Seasoned Observer
    2 months ago

    Same here. I was pleasantly surprised this is fixed now.

  • Thanks guys for the feedback on this thread.

    Marking it as fixed.