Least Used Aspirations

Mariefoxprice83

Does anyone have aspirations they rarely or never use? My least used are Friend of the Animals and The Curator. I also rarely use Serial Romantic and the wellness aspirations, such as Zen Guru.

EnkiSchmidt

The family ones, that require having and marrying off children, because I don't play generational. Just now I took my family to a trip to San Myshuno. They do have a fulfilled family life, they just don't get to do the family aspirations.

I also never finished the Batuu aspirations, despite playing at Batuu quite often. I always get side tracked adding another sim and end up doing the lower tiers over and over.

luciusstorm

I don't use Friend of the Animals, though I would like to (I just don't like its requirements). I don't use most of the location specific ones, because I don't really use those locations. I've never tried Curator because collecting things doesn't really appeal. I don't use Joke Star because I don't usually make joke-y sims. Finally, while I use them, I really, really don't like any of the Werewolf aspirations (worst things about that game pack, IMO). I've experimented with most of the others for the packs I have, but mostly I use the Creativity and Love sets.

Eleri

I sometimes play challenges that require doing certain aspirations. I also have some characters complete partial aspirations just to get aspiration points, which might be any aspiration, depending on what's convenient for their lifestyle. I do have some least favorites that I would never play all the way through outside of a challenge.
The worst is Successful Lineage. It takes forever. Since I almost always play on normal lifespan, by the time it's complete, the sim's almost elderly. The reward? You learn things faster . . . as an elder. My elders are past that rush-to-the-top nonsense. If they're learning a new skill, it's as a hobby, not because they want to be the expert yesterday.
I also don't like the Vampire aspirations. I don't like turning lots of my sims into vampires. If I don't want a vampire to suck blood, I give them a supply of plasma packs, that simple. Doesn't need to be a trait.

mightysprite

I roll randomly for the aspiration when a child sim first becomes a teen, and I try to play whatever aspirations sims come with when they join my household. It's one of the things that helps make my sims feel different from one another. So I've played with most of them at this point except for the Vampire and Home Chef Hustle ones (just recently got those packs). Haven't done Villainous Valentine but it would be fun with the right character.

I dislike Eco Innovator because it's annoying dealing with the voting board tasks when you don't live in a neighborhood with a voting board (not impossible since you can put a board on your home lot using the debug menu, but annoying), plus the milestone with selling power or water is first and can take a long time and then after that you get the milestone about voting on NAPs, but by then all four NAPs are usually in place, so then you have to repeal one...

I get bored with the aspirations that are just about grinding a skill and producing the same kind of item over and over, like the writing and painting ones, but if I have them active for long enough on a sim who is a writer or painter, they get fulfilled eventually on their own without my having to bother much about them.

lisamwitt

Friend of animals is on the bottom for me (of the ones I've done). I started it, but never finished. There are lot that I've only done once- Curator, Lady/Lord of the knits, Master Maker. I got bored or irritated with them by the time I finished.

I've never done any of the deviance ones. I do think they could be fun. For some reason I just don't have the heart to make my Sims be mean to each other on purpose.

lanlyn

Three aspirations I probably will never play:

• Public Enemy
• Villainous Valentine
• Fabulously Filthy

I tried playing a criminal and a cheat in Sims 3 and ended up reforming them! I don't enjoy cruel sims. I never liked the slob trait either. I don't want my sims living in a grungy house. Only the best for my little peeps. 😄

GrumpyGlowfish

- The already mentioned Friend of the Animals aspiration. The amount of stranger cats and dogs you have to befriend is just ridiculous. I would have preferred a veterinarian aspiration to come with this pack.

- Outdoor Enthusiast. I keep forgetting it even exists, just like everything else from Outdoor Retreat, but it's probably the necessity of learning the useless herbalism skill that puts me off.

- Vampire Family. I've completed it once, but never again because it requires too many sims to be transformed into vampires.

- The Romance aspirations, including Villainous Valentine, simply because I don't play romantically. When I do have a couple, I may give them the Soulmates aspiration as something to work on on the side, but I find it to be a very uncreative and tedious affair. The tasks consist of nothing but going on dates and exchanging affections over and over again, and the reward (a bonus trait that makes it easier to solve marital conflicts, in a game that has no conflict unless you force it) is totally not worth it. The worst aspiration in the entire game in my opinion.

- The Journey to Batuu, Bust the Dust, Home Chef Hustle and For Rent aspirations, because I don't own those packs. I will get the latter two eventually, though.

Mariefoxprice83

I decided to play out some of my least-used aspirations. So here is the Peacock family. I'll be playing them in my playing around save on Long lifespan, which is something I rarely do. Originally I was going to give the parents the family aspirations and focus on the kids but I play the family aspirations so often I wanted to give them something more to do.

Suzanna has the aspiration Friend of the Animals and dreams of being a vet. Logan has the Curator aspiration, but I don't know what job he wants yet.



Jermaine's aspiration is Inner Peace, and Raquel is a Serial Romantic. Both are in the lowest level of the Chef career. Story mode put them in the Medical career but they are Foodies so I switched them.

EnkiSchmidt

For everyone who dislikes Curator, here's a maybe helpful tip:

Only one sim in the household needs to do most of the steps, then that sim can hand over their findings to the other family members and it will count for them, too. The only steps a sim needs to do by themselves is "send 3 (or was that 5)? objects to geo council" and "breed frogs 5 times".

For finishing a collection I find the pen pals/postcards one convenient, because the sim doing it doesn't even need to leave the house. With a toddler and a patch of sand in the backyard the seashells collection is finished quickly. Or any of the fossil/metal/crystal/my sims ones with a Scientist sim at their workplace.

musteni

Some aspirations I have yet to play...
Extreme Sports Enthusiast
Master Maker
Vampire Family
Master Vampire
Academic
Mt. Komorebi Sightseer
Purveyor of Potions
Eco Innovator
Self-Care Specialist
Lone Wolf
Emissary of the Collective
Wildfang Renegade
Cure Seeker

Wow that's a lot more than I thought. There's even more that I haven't completed. I like playing by aspirations, but I tend to choose the basegame ones because they feel more versatile and not tied to a specific content. Also I don't switch sim aspirations lightly, so I won't be toggling inbetween them.

DaniRose2143

Family gameplay isn't a big part of my play style so I've never tried any of those aspirations. The same sort of thing goes for the deviance aspirations. I'm not big into evil or mean sims. My sims are almost entirely female so I've only done the bodybuilder aspiration twice, once with a female werewolf and once with one of the very rare male sims. There's really only a handful of aspirations that I play because my play style isn't aspiration driven and most of sims are creative types so I use those the most when I'm in the mood to do an aspiration.

Atreya33

My least used are the deviant aspirations. I don't like mean or evil people.

I am doing all of them with my supersim. I am currently on a break but have already done over 50 different ones and plan to do the rest as well next year. I probably will never repeat the deviant ones, the animal lover (annoying tasks) , vampire aspirations (not interested in vampires), the wellness ones (bugged) and bust the dust (bugged as well)

DoloresGrey

My most favorite but also least used is the Curator. IMHO it's undoable because colletibles such as crystals etc spawn really rarely for me.

GrumpyGlowfish

EnkiSchmidt wrote: »

For everyone who dislikes Curator, here's a maybe helpful tip:

Only one sim in the household needs to do most of the steps, then that sim can hand over their findings to the other family members and it will count for them, too.

That one sim in question can even help themself in that way. If you need to find five crystals, for example, you only really need one, then place it outside the sim's inventory, drag it back inside, and the game will stupidly count it as a newly discovered crystal. The same crystal won't contribute more than once to your collection, of course, but to the aspiration milestone. @DoloresGrey might find this helpful, too. Just don't tell the developers about this or else they might prioritise fixing this harmless minor bug over the game-breaking ones.

permanentrose

To be honest, unless I'm playing a challenge that requires aspiration completion, I typically don't actually bother completing aspirations unless I need the points (and usually then I just aspiration hop to build up points as fast as I can haha). I typically just choose an aspiration that suits my sims personality and kind of just leave it there. For me, playing through aspiration milestones are often way too tedious and repetitive to actually be fun, but I will say that when completing challenges that have aspiration requirements, I do enjoy trying them all out and trying to do as many as I can.

As far as just picking the aspirations that my sims will just casually hold on to while I play, I feel like I tend not to ever pick the mean or evil ones, just since it's rare for me to really play an evil sim. It's something I feel like I should try out at some point though, would probably be fun haha

lanlyn

I used to spend more time working on Aspirations, but I had Wants & Fears turned off back then. At least I tried to turn them off. They were bugged, if I remember, and would pop back on. Thinking about this now, I'm going to turn W&F back off. I just realized I'm sacrificing time I could use working on Aspirations for granting immediate Wants instead. Now there's a life lesson for you! 😉

There are so many things to do in the Sims, I find it difficult sometimes to do it all. 🤪