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anniekate76
Seasoned Novice
3 months ago
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Under Investigation

[DU] Figure drawing masterpiece did not count toward Painter Aspiration

The last level of the Painter Extraordinaire aspiration requires the sim to paint 5 masterpieces. However, paintings that are in the Figure Painting genre that have the Masterpiece quality do not count towards the aspiration. 

Here is the sim working on a Figure Painting that turns out to be of Masterpiece quality. You can see that the Masterpiece count in the aspiration is currently 3/5.

And here he is with his completed Masterpiece. Still 3/5!

This was reported a few years ago and confirmed many times in the previous bug forum, the last report being about two years ago, so I thought I would bump it with screenshots and a save file. I will note that some folks on that old thread theorized that the problem was the Sim starting it themselves, but that's not the case, I told this sim to start this painting. The issue is the genre being Figure Painting.

Here is the old forum post:

[OPEN] Figure drawing masterpiece did not count toward Painter Aspiration | EA Forums - 11421111

Here is a zip file with these screenshots and the save file right after he completed the masterpiece.

Google Drive - Masterpiece_Issue

You can reproduce by having Taku (He's living his best post-uni life in a tiny house on the very small lot at the bottom of Copperdale) paint more masterpiece figure paintings. He's level 10 at painting so it would not take too long for him to reproduce the issue.

I am on a Mac, and I have no mods or custom CC and I never have. 

Edit By Crinrict: Adjusted Title fit migrated bug report.

Archived thread had around 71 me toos

7 Comments

  • Oh also - Taku just painted a Surrealism painting on his own that turned out to be a masterpiece, and that did count towards the aspiration - so another strike against the theory that it has something to do with the sim's starting the painting autonomously!

  • anniekate76's avatar
    anniekate76
    Seasoned Novice
    3 months ago

    I saw you added DU to the title, but I think this Painter Extraordinaire aspiration came with the base game, not Discover University.

  • I also have that happen a lot on both masterpiece paintings and excellent ones as well, I play on a gaming laptop with no mods or cc.

  • gertie47's avatar
    gertie47
    Seasoned Veteran
    2 months ago

    I have just noticed this happening. My sim painted a figure painting that was excellent, and it did not count towards the "complete 10 excellent paintings" part of the aspiration goal.