The aspiration Successful Lineage goal "have a child complete an aspiration" won't check off. I thought it was because I finished one of the newer ones "Playtime Captain" so I also made sure to complete the old one "Rambunctious Scamp" but still it won't check off on his father's aspiration. I own all the packs released so far and I got no mod or cc.
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LadyAriancia here are steps to test to avoid "your overly complicated savefile":
When you are in the empty lot, your main house is not loaded, so you can avoid all the complicated issues related to aging.
It's nice of you trying to help but as you don't know all the rules and systems I follow for my "overly complicated savefile" it's a bit bulldozy trying to work around them and expect me to put in all that extra time for a household I moved past 2 months ago. Making a tiny check for a few sims days didn't mess anything up, even if that forced me to abandon and steal days from the current household I was playing to do that check... I don't want to steal any more time from my current household.
You free to test the issue in your own game, if you got the time and desire to do so. I did my duty by reporting it, now it's up to the sims team to fix it, when they find the time and not creating more bugs that causes even major issues than this tiny one.
LadyAriancia here is another good tip: you can have playable sims aging turned on while non-playable sims aging turned off, so that your complicated world outside the lot is not affected by aging. As I said in the previous comment, once you moved into a lot where there is no other sim (you might want some starting furniture to complete a child aspiration, like the painting one is doable without going outside), the outside world and your main lot are not affected, because they are not loaded and all non-playable sims aging turned off. You can test that to see if "have a child complete aspiration" checks with the steps above in previous comment.
I have aging on. I typically do age up with a birthday cake so that the sims do not get sad moodlets, so all of my current children sims were aged up with a birthday cake as well even though aging is on. The adult sim who has this aspiration auto-aged from young adult to adult.
so this is a bug for aging on as well.
LadyAriancia offonaLARK itsmelonkat do you know anybody who is able to successfully complete the "have a child complete an aspiration" since after the date of this OG post, since after 2nd June 2025 (this bug is not fixed since 2nd June 2025)?
LadyAriancia you can create a backup of your world: https://sims4.crinrict.com/eng/2014/09/backups/
and restore them after using the steps I said above.
Furthermore, the 2nd way, you can play the steps I said above, and don't save. You can "exit your world" without clicking the save option if the aspiration doesn't check. If the aspiration checks, you can select "save and exit world"
What part of, I did my duty and if you want any further tests done you have to do them yourself, in your own game, didn't you understand?
Stop telling me what to do with my savefile, and stop assuming you know what will and will not affect my rules and the way I play. Stop trying to come up with ways to "protect" my savefile while doing tests I in no way said I wanted to do.
No, I don't know anyone who plays the game but me. This is the first time I've tried all of the "family" achievements despite playing the game for several years, so I do not know when the last time they were working would have been.
I am having a similar issue. Someone else had made a post about the same thing I'm experiencing and was directed to this thread for follow up.
My sim is on the last stage of the successful lineage aspiration. She's had multiple children (child age) complete their aspirations without checking that option off. She currently has an adult child who has reached the top title of his career, but that task is also still not counted.
I also found that child sims' confidence doesn't show on their Simology, so I end up saving before they age up just in case they don't get the high self-esteem trait and I need to reload. It's the only way for me to know if their confidence is high.
PC
No current mods, but have modded in the past
While progressing through the Successful Lineage aspiration, all goals work correctly until Level 4. The objective “Have a child complete any Aspiration” does not register as complete, even when a child or teen successfully finishes their own aspiration. This includes aspirations such as Artistic Prodigy, Rambunctious Scamp, etc. The other two goals on Level 4 (“Execute 3 Mentor interactions on your child” and “Have a child or grandchild reach Level 10 of any Career”) complete normally.
This issue occurs regardless of whether the child is adopted or biological, or whether they live in the active household. I’ve tested it with multiple families and save files, and the result is always the same — the aspiration won’t progress due to this specific objective not ticking off.
