Game Assigns Aspiration
KellyQ:
I do the same thing, speedracer. I pay attention to what sort of wants a child rolls up and pick their aspiration based on that trend. Of course, that tends to leave romance aspirations out, as a child will never roll kiss/woohoo wants (thank goodness) but since I don't particularly like romance sims, that's fine with me. Then there are the children that have ADD (have best friend, buy a shrub, gain a skill point, play with family member)type of wants and those are harder to pick aspirations for, so I just make their aspiration based on their personality points.
J. M. Pescado:
I don't think that hard about aspiration: I just go and pick "Knowledge" pretty much every time. Maybe Popularity.
I mean, think about it:
You have 5 possible choices: Knowledge, Popularity, Fortune, Romance, and Family.
Now we can start eliminating them, based on the fact that this is not our final answer, and we're going to get to change it at Uni.
Fortune: Let's see. You're an unemployed kid with no real earning potential. You're not going to *HAVE* any real earning potential until you graduate. Scratch that.
Romance: Teens don't get any. Sorry.
Family: Ain't gonna happen until post-graduation. No biscuit.
So what does that leave you? Knowledge, if you want to try to get the early platinum from Maximize All Skills, and Popularity, because that's the only aspiration that actually functions in Uni. Not a lot of choices here.
KellyQ:
Dare I admit I don't send most of my teens to Uni because I find it unbearably tedious? (even with hacks to speed the process up) ::)
J. M. Pescado:
Yes, but then you limp along with only 4 want slots and 1 lock, which simply isn't adequate with the amount of spam Maxis tends to stuff down your throat. And this will only get worse with each expansion pack as they give you an ever more annoying series of stupid stuff to want.
dizzy:
We need a hack that randomly assigns your sim an aspiration. None of this letting you choose an aspiration for them. That would make childhood a challenge (for those who aren't Knowledge or Popularity sims, that is).
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