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*Updated*Aspirations: love them or hate them?
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It doesn't effect your sim negatively if you switch to another one. You keep the reward. You can actually work on more than one aspiration at a time and switch back and forth between aspirations without losing progress on others. For me it usually makes sense to stick with one's that fit my sim's personality or situation. Ex: creative sims I'll have do the creative ones. If a sim is going to have kids, work on the family ones.
- Basic ones, like the Lifetime Wish i mentioned to collect a bunch of fishes in bowls.
- Regular ones, that work like the ones we already have in the game.
- Hard ones that need focus and effort to finish.
I wish we had more, I have downloaded one modded aspiration that is whim focused and just requires you to complete a number of sims whims- I tend to use this when none of the others fit a sim.
Ultimately, I like them a lot, enjoy them, but wish we had more.
Also, i'm not actually sure if this is true or not, but I've been under the belief that sims live longer as elders if they've completed an aspiration during their lifetime. If this is true, then it's a huge boost to me liking them.
The athletic aspiration reward is a longer life. Since the elder age is open ended it makes sense that the days get tacked on there. I haven't paid attention to see if days are added to other stages. I've usually achieved this as young adults, but then I'm just like "oh, cool... they'll live longer. Then I don't think about it much".
I could see how it could throw things off in a family if other stages were affected; especially teen. I wouldn't mind the adult stage being prolonged though.
The Sims 4 hasn't introduced a new musical instrument since 2017
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Thanks for the info
Sometimes I just get drawn into trying to complete them and end up speeding through/ignoring other events that I would have enjoyed if I'd just played without paying attention to aspirations.
I love them the most when they're a part of my character's story. Also, I have a rule that if completing an aspiration is part of my plot, I'm allowed to cheat the final tier if I want to. (Serial romantic and Big happy family have probably prompted this rule the most.)
Yeah, I wanted to include a generic "other" option but I already had 10 choices.
I do like playing the aspirations for the goals themselves, though - it gives some structure to my Sims' days, something for them to do besides eat, sleep and work. I love being able to switch aspirations - I had so many miserable Sims in S3 because their aspirations weren't working out. And I don't feel like it affects my sandbox play at all - since I can switch when it seems logical, it's much less limiting than the lifetime aspirations were. (Also, if I really don't like part of an aspiration, like eating beetles, I'll cheat past it. I don't do that often, but I'm glad the cheat exists.)