No Aspiration Benefits in Uni?

[simplode]

I'm playing a sim through college, and since she's a romance sim all her wants are social -- asking someone out on a date, woo hoo, BFF with X, etc. She's had a lot of Dream Dates and fulfilled a BOATLOAD of wants but gained no Aspiration Benefit points. Through Google I find a MATY thread that suggests that's because she's in Uni and when she

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[ndainye]

How many aspiration points does she currently have? There is a cap on aspiration (370,000ish it's an odd number). I've never noticed aspiration points freezing while a sims in UNI but it's not something I necessarily would pay attention to.

[simplode]

Sorry, I wasn't clear. It's not the Aspiration POINTS that's the problem -- those accumulate. It's the Aspiration BENEFITS that came with FT that seem to be stuck. Normally as wants are fulfilled and more aspiration points are accumulated then aspiration benefits are available. Except, apparently, in Uni.

[pne]

There is a cap on aspiration (370,000ish it's an odd number).

327,670, IIRC. Easy enough for computer geeks to remember since it's (215-1)×10 (with 215-1 = 32767 being the largest positive number you can fit in a 2-byte short integer).

[1999]

You just broke my head with your math.

[ndainye]

Aspiration benefits aren't based on full filling wants. They are gained from achieving life milestones.

A born in game sim should get the benefits from being taught each of the three toddler skills, learning a nursery rhyme, making their first Best Friend, getting their first kiss, first woohoo, graduating university, getting engaged, married, having a child, topping a career, completing a lifetime want, maxing hobby enthusiasm, having a level 10 business. There may be others as well. They also get them slowly based on having platinum aspiration at the time of their weekly checkpoint.

Since time works differently on campus so they may not get benefits from the weekly accoutrement but they should still be getting them based on milestones achieved. The only time they might get them from fulfilling wants is if those wants also signify a milestone.

[itlandm]

The only I can think to add is that the lifetime aspiration bar moves at different speed in different life phases. If your aspiration level is high when you are a toddler, the bar moves very rapidly, then slower when you are a child, even slower when you are a teen, and slowest when you are in college.

It is generally not worth the trouble to keep students in platinum. Instead, prepare them for their lifetime want, whatever it is. A permaplat adult will eventually get all aspiration benefits after some years. It is slower than in childhood, but not as bad as college. (I am not sure I have ever used all the aspiration benefits though - some of them are pretty pointless.)

[miss_padfoot]

What itlandm said. Aspiration benefits accrue very slowly during college - I think I read that it was only 4 points per hour if you're in platinum. Most milestones get you between 500 and 1500. Getting 4 per hour is really a crawl, and I think EAxis did it so that college-grad Sims wouldn't have much of an advantage (as far as lifetime aspiration bar goes - they have many other advantages) over non-college-grad Sims.

[simplode]

I've been concentrating on gaining her friends, since that's the part I usually have trouble with. She's got 18 or so so far, so there shouldn't be a problem getting her LTW career once she finally graduates. Thanks for the advice.

[thereallola]

Points build up when LTWs are fulfilled, along with other major milestones, like getting married or having kids. Since she's still in Uni, I wouldn't worry about it yet. Once they're adults, they'll build much faster as you can accomplish more in that lifestage.

[pnkpnthr334]

I actually think fulfilling many of their daily wants contributes too, since I've had 2 children and a few teens max out their benefits.