Aspiration (The Sims 2)

$$ Aspiration is the personality attribute that determines a Sim's wants and fears.

The Sims 2
Sims will have one of eight aspirations at any given time. The base game does not allow a change of aspiration after a Sim was created or became a teen. The University expansion pack, allows Sims to change aspiration once after finishing their sophomore year. The Nightlife expansion pack come with the ReNuYuSenso Orb aspiration reward. This allows Sims to change aspiration whenever they want. In the FreeTime expansion pack, your Sims can have a secondary aspiration.


 * Babies have no aspiration.
 * Grow Up: All toddlers and children have this aspiration, and it cannot be changed. Growing up involves learning essential life skills and (in the case of children) making friends and success at school. As soon as children grow up to become teenagers, you can choose their aspiration.
 * Family: Family Sims will want to have children, and eventually grandchildren, and for those children to excel in their own lives.
 * Fortune: Fortune Sims want to earn money, gain promotions, marry a rich Sim, and put their income towards new household items.
 * Knowledge: Knowledge Sims want to gain skill points, and to eventually max out skills. They may even want to experience the abnormal, such as ghosts or alien abduction. They are also the only Sims that will gain good memories from changing life state.
 * Popularity (sometimes referred to as Reputation or Fame): Popularity Sims most of all want to accumulate friends and best friends. Parties are also craved by these Sims.
 * Romance: Romance Sims want to engage in casual romance, and particularly WooHoo. They are perhaps unique in that their fears are actually wants to most other Sims (marriage, babies etc.)

Nightlife

 * Pleasure: Pleasure Sims want to have fun and meet new Sims.
 * Grilled Cheese: (Only available via a malfunctioning ReNuYu-Senso-Orb reward object) Sims with the Grilled Cheese aspiration will only want to perform interactions involving Grilled Cheese.

FreeTime

 * Secondary aspiration:Sims are able to have more than one aspiration and receive wants and fears from both aspirations. The Grilled Cheese aspiration can be selected as a secondary aspiration.

Defunct
With the cheat, boolprop testingcheatsenabled true you can find another aspiration, Power. It was apparently an abandoned thought, because it has no icon and its wants and fears are similar to the Popularity and Fortune aspiration wants and fears. The "Power" aspiration usually involves making friends and gaining promotions. However, this aspiration is not possible to get in any other way, and as such, is defunct. (Furthermore, you cannot access the aspiration bar without a reset process). There was also going to be a Craft Aspiration, but it was removed early on and cannot be accessed. Now it is only referred to as unused in the game files, although Creativity is an aspiration in The Sims 2 Pets (console).

Game Boy Advance
There are three possible aspirations in The Sims 2 on Game Boy Advance. Five points are awarded for each (up to the 5th) conversation of the same type as your Sims aspiration in each episode.
 * Friendly:
 * Intimidating:
 * Romance:

Tips & Tricks

 * Most of the wants and fears mentioned apply to different aspirations as well, but less frequently. For example, Family Sims will often have a want to gain a skill point (usually Cooking, Cleaning or Mechanical), and Fortune Sims will often want to gain skill points needed for promotion. On the other hand, Knowledge Sims may occasionally want to have a baby (especially right after getting married), and often want to buy skillbuilding objects. Sims with a secondary aspiration can get wants related to that aspiration.