No Aspiration Token

[vilia]

I've started a new hood and a semi-legacy style family and encountered something odd.  My CAS sim founder & his progeny (now up to 4 generations) who were born in game do not have an aspiration token.  The descendents all successfully transitioned to teen where I picked their aspiration in game but when I go to simPE (v0.58) there is just the invisible sim initialised token and the usual memories & gossip.

Any ideas on why the aspiration token is missing?

[MsMaria]

That's a good question. Hope someone knows the answer.

I have two Cas sims without aspirations. I was able to use the "reroll LTW" to get one for them; but once they fulfilled the want, they went back to no LTW and they do not stay Platinum.

Edit: Because I type in the dark, lol.

[J. M. Pescado]

I don't think the aspiration token does anything.

[ZephyrZodiac]

I have some sims who have their aspiration token, and some who don't and it doesn't seem to affect their ability to retain platinum once it's achieved.  Something else is causing this, not the lack of an aspiration token.

 I would check what mods you have that could be causing this, especially if you have ever downloaded a house and not used Clean Installer to install it to your game as you could have inadvertently downloaded something with the house which you are unaware you have.  Checking all your downloads with Clean Installer will show you any hacks that you have in your game in red, and if you normally keep your hacks together, you should be able to find anything which is lurking in another folder somewhere.

[vilia]

I double checked with clean installer and the only hacks I have are those from Mr P, TJ & Crammyboy. I did have two invisible driveways but apart from that...

MsMaria - you mentioned one detail I forgot - once my sims reach their permanent platinum they seem to lose it when I move them to a new lot and then don't get allocated another LTW.

[ZephyrZodiac]

Have you ever changed their aspiration in SimPE?  This can result in no permaplat for your sim.

[vilia]

No. I haven't messed around with them in simPE at all other than to check to see if there was a memory of achieving their lifetime want or something.

It's more annoying than anything else with them losing their perma-plat and then not having any other way to reachieve it other than to cheat & use the FFS lot debugger. With there being no aspiration token as well, I was afraid that I might be getting a BFBVFS

[MsMaria]

I don't use SimPE and the Hack Tool shows no conflicts. It is just strange that it affects some and not others in game. I'll keep checking files though, just to be sure.

vilia: If you find a solution, please let us know.

[ZephyrZodiac]

Maybe you have a hack that  is incompatible with the version of the game you are running?

[vilia]

I just created a new hood and ran the game completely vanilla.  I created a family with 2 parents & 2 kids. I reduced the time left in the age for the kids to 1 in simPE and then re-entered the game.  I then had the two kids transition successfully, saved & exited the game. I have just checked the memories of the sims in simPE and they have a memory of growing up well but not an aspiration token.

As for the other issue with losing their perma-plat state, I'm not quite sure how to go about testing it. I guess I will have to try and fulfill the LTWs of the sims and then move them onto a new lot.

[ZephyrZodiac]

I think as long as the aspiration is there in game, it doesn't matter whether they have an aspiration token or not.  Likewise, although both Beau Broke and Alexander Goth have aspiration tokens as kids/toddlers,  which are presumably caused by dangling SWAFs caused by Maxis, you don't have to give them those aspirations if you don't want to!  Last time I played Beau I accidentally clicked Romance, and he's perfectly happy (although not terribly successful!).

[jrd]

I have not been able to see the Aspiration Token influence anything. Presumably it is a leftover from a beta version of TS2.

[vilia]

Ok, I have stopped stressing about the tokens   

Disclaimer: I still reserve the right to stress about other minor details though that I haven't yet thought off.

[ZephyrZodiac]

Good!  Now you can concentrate on stressing about the important things - like, would my family prefer a nice modern sofa from Holy Simoly or a Maxis recolour?

[vilia]

Holy Simoly is the holy grail of sim furniture.  I love all of the recolours and how OMG the wood & fabrics actually match!

[ZephyrZodiac]

Well, they don't release that much stuff, so they probably check it thoroughly in game first - so many people are in too much of a hurry! 

And, OK, it isn't free, (it's actually very expensive) but check out Heather's new touch of country set at SimFreaks2, the recolours are stunning.  Plus her Maxis Match Seatris Set!