Bugged / unbalanced Ambition goals

Over in the Bug Reports section, I saw someone mention that they had an Ambition goal to donate money from an ATM, but this wasn’t an option in-game. I haven’t encountered this particular issue myself, but I have noticed that some of the Level 1/2 goals seem wildly unbalanced. Some are trivially easy to achieve, like ‘sing a song 3 times’, but then you have the Level 1 Competent Talent goal to shake hands with an acquaintance 10 times. The thing is that the ‘Shake Hands’ interaction doesn’t even appear until you reach (I believe) Peer level, so you actually need to develop quite a high Business relationship with 10 people in order to do this (or maybe just keep shaking hands with the same person, which seems silly).

Other goals are dependent on random in-game events, such as ‘Fix a broken object 3 times’ under Walking Encyclopedia - I don’t think it’s possible to deliberately break objects in order to fix them? Then you have things like ‘read health books 10 times’, which aren’t difficult in themselves, but take forever because the ‘read book’ action takes such a long time. None of this makes the game unplayable or anything, but someone really needs to go through and playtest the different ambition goals to make sure they’re all achievable, and at roughly the same difficulty level for each Ambition.

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