Thursday 19 December 2013

Aspirations

I'm almost finished playing the Walker's update and as i've been playing, i've been thinking that Tina doesn't strike me as a romance sim. She's always seemed a little too shy for that. I read a while ago about Sullivan Sims (yes yes, another thing i'm thinking about pinching!) criteria for certain aspirations, making it that the aspiration matches the sims personality. So despite the fact I should really be using this time to wrap the last few Christmas presents, i've taken a look at the personalities of all the sims in my game and matched them to the same criteria that Sullivan uses. This is what I came up with.

Jonny Mason: Would change from romance to fortune.
Daisy Byall: Would either change to knowledge or remain family.
Louisa Mason: Would change from popularity to fortune.
Elsa Saenz: Would change from pleasure to fortune or romance.
Georgina Saenz: Would change from romance to family.
Merida Saenz: Upon aging to teen would become either fortune or romance.
Marie Henshaw: Would change from popularity to knowledge or family.
Elise Lawson: Would change from popularity to fortune or romance.
Autumn Henshaw: Upon aging to teen would become either fortune or romance.
Dion Henshaw: Upon aging to teen would become either fortune or romance.
Josh Henshaw: Upon aging to teen would become either fortune or romance.
Xavier Henshaw: Upon aging to teen would become romance.
Lauren Henshaw: Didn't fit into any particular aspiration.
Donna Brockman: Didn't fit into any particular aspiration.
Sean Brockman: Would change from pleasure to either fortune, knowledge or family.
Max Walker: Would change from pleasure to either fortune or romance.
Tina Walker: Didn't fit into any particular aspiration.
Allie Mason: Didn't fit into any particular aspiration.
Ramona Brockman: Would change from knowledge to romance.
Gary Mason: Would change from romance to fortune.
Joanne Walker: Would change from fortune to pleasure.
Declan Saenz: Would remain knowledge or change to family.

I'm really not sure what to do about aspirations at the moment. Some of the new aspirations would really suit some sims (fortune for Max) but not others (romance for Ramona. Really?!). I'm tempted to change some but keep others as they are. We'll see!

2 comments:

  1. Aw man, I miss aspirations. I know the traits system is supposed to give more options, but I was IN LOVE with aspirations and when they added secondaries? Magnificent! Maybe only change the ones that suit and then use the criteria for newly born or sims who don't have aspirations yet? Might be less wonky with personalities that are already pretty defined.

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    1. I sort of tweaked some personality points and then matched up aspirations using Sullivan's criteria. A lot have changed aspirations but it shouldn't really change their personalities- I didn't tweak anything to the point of them becoming whole different sims! The new aspirations make a lot more sense to me so I think i'll stick to this system instead of rolling aspirations now.

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