I've become a 'wanton woman'. I use cheats a lot. I play larger households and use full autonomy, which helps. But, I'm finding that the child on up Sims are almost always run down. I have the MCCC mod, so I can readily click on Make Happy to fill all needs when necessary. I rarely ever use such a cheat on my toddlers, however. They have to be in really bad shape before I'll fix their situation. That is only occasionally, happily.
I also use testhingcheats true/ freerealestate on when I move my Sims to a new location. I find I have little to no aversion to using said mod to skill my Sims up, since I have a tendency to start an entire family in CAS. Makes no sense that parents of teens, and/or child Sims would have no skills whatsoever. Would that EA would make this an option in CAS. That way people could choose to have unskilled adults in their game, if desired, or to give said adult Sims a nice leg-up. I also confess, I use money cheats when the need arises.
I use some cheats occasionally to often in my gaming style
I use Motherlode a lot because I get most of my apartments/houses from the gallery and I need my families to actually be able to move into them immediately. I give them their money boost so they can afford the house I want for them.
Since I play with large families a lot, in order to be able to do special events without having to worry about them, I'll disable their needs so I can get through the event and do everything I want to do and not have to keep track of everyone's needs and worry about someone starving or whatnot.
Similarly, I often spam toddlers through the ball pit to get their movement to level 4 in one sim day. As such, I use Make Happy to constantly fill their needs over and over so they don't get exhausted or hungry and need to stop.
I use some cheats occasionally to often in my gaming style
The main cheat I use is freerealestate to move in Sims who I'm not going to actively play but to give my Sims neighbors to visit, especially if I find a good family on the Gallery or a particular game-generated Sim catches my attention after a makeover. I also use mods that might be considered a bit "cheaty" like UI Cheats Extension to help create my own townies -- I'll create them in CAS, place them in the game then give them a few skill points and some of the reward traits and the Character Traits from Parenthood to givn e them a bit more flavor, like an Argumentative Sim with Uncontrolled Emotions, or an Irresponsible Sim with Good Manners. Then I set them loose in the world for my Sims to encounter.
For my own Sims, I mostly just use the Make All Happy cheat on the mailbox (testingcheats true) when I first return to a household after rotating away to take care of all the bad moodlets that seem to occur while I'm busy with another family in my rotation, especially if it's a work/school day and everyone is hungry and needs to pee but only have an hour before leaving for their daily tasks.
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Cheats arenโt a necessity for the way I play but I do use specific ones quite often. They would be the move objects cheat, testing cheats, free real estate, and the full edit mode for CAS. I have a mod that permanently unlocks all reward items in buy mode so that would be considered cheating too I guess.
I use that too but mainly just for building, especially for venues like museums and art centers to add the highest quality easels, or if I want some extra decor pieces for a venue, or if I'm remodeling a restaurant and want to use the counters from the Culinary career because they go the best with the chef's station. Very rarely if the Sims have the money I'll buy one of the career-specific computers or desks for the Sims' home office because it looks cool, or the career related items like the Seat of Health from the Doctor career work better in my decor scheme.
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I was wondering: In your general gaming style, not counting challenges and so on, which cheats do you find essential to you for playing, and why?
(And on a side note, can someone PLEASE tell me how to use the testingcheatsenabled and freerealestate cheats now??? I'm not sure if I'm remembering how to utilize them wrong now (for some obscure reason)...Or if one of the recent patches has somehow messed such up in my game? Help!
These are good for when creating your own townies, especially vampire for background purposes; been looking for good vampire houses for the two unoccupied lots in Forgotten Hollow, though if I give my created vamps the Sun Resistance power I could move them into other worlds.
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I cheat up skills all the time so my sims don't have to waste time waiting for a promotion. Like in the chef career, I always cheat up the mixology skill before the career branches because I don't want to buy a bar (and often don't have anywhere to put one). For example.
I have no patience for vampires but like to use all build items so I run TwistedMexi vampire toggle at all times. If am building or making SIMs for a purpose I use as many cheats as I need to tell the story.
If I am actually playing then I will follow challenge rules and for the most part not use cheats in my current household.
I only very rarely use cheats. And then only for something one-time specific.
I mostly use cheats to set up my game before the actual gameplay starts, e.g. taking away money from a homeless sim, moving a sim into a home that's not a starter house because my story is going to be about something else than gaining money, setting up skills because it's unrealistic that the adults of my families would have acquired no skills whatsoever in their lives, setting up parenthood character values for a teen that's supposed to a troubled teenager instead of all created children/teens having neutral character values to begin with. Using cheats in those kinds of ways actually feels less cheaty to me than using earned aspiration rewards during gameplay. Other than that I use BB cheats, and reset.sim of course. But it can all depend on what kind of story/challenge I'm playing.
My best friend can type motherload in her sleep, because of the times I put her to work spamming it into my cheat box when I'm too lazy.
I concentrate more on sims relationships, interactions and story-line. Not so much the nitty-gritty of getting money, earning promotions, and becoming a stable human being.
Sometimes my computer glitches and the sims can't do anything even with the reset sims cheat, so I fill their needs so they don't die. After for a while the game fixes itself. I use pretty much all of the cheats in different challenges, legacies, and stories.
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I use some cheats occasionally to often in my gaming style
Somewhere between 3 & 4. I use the free real estate cheat (It's freerealestate on btw in case someone hasn't told you yet), when placing legacy founding households into the game, mainly because I use old households I'd saved to library which always resets their funds, but also to get them into a variety of neighborhoods & lots appropriate to family size, instead of crowding them all into starter neighborhoods. Subsequent generations, however, must buy what they can afford.
I use the needs cheat quite a bit-early in the morning, so they're not all fighting over the bathroom(s) and scrambling to get breakfast before work & school. I also cheat up the needs on stray & non-active pets that are looking pretty haggard out there, and toddlers if I'm sending other household members out on the town, or when they're exploring the jungle.
I use the aspirations cheat once they've met the necessary skill level, because I've already met most of those challenges several times over. I use the show hidden objects cheat to give them all the magic beans when they first move in because that adds 5000 simoleons to their household, but for some reason I refuse to ever use the other money cheats. I use other cheats, like reset sim, when absolutely necessary, but those are the main ones I use regularly.
I only very rarely use cheats. And then only for something one-time specific.
I do use the moveobjects cheat and resetsim cheat if something goes wrong. I very rarely use cheats with the command center mod to change relationships.
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I can't play without MC Commander. It doesn't make sense to me, if you make an adult sim, that they don't know how to cook or do things that any adult would know.
I only very rarely use cheats. And then only for something one-time specific.
I would love to vote for "I don't play with cheats at all" but that's not true.
But the only cheats I ever use are:
cas.fulleditmode & bb.moveobjects
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I use some cheats occasionally to often in my gaming style
I don't see a lot of the cheats in this game as cheats. For example, I always use move objects when building. I use testingscheats to go into CAS faster, and add freckles etc on children since they don't appear naturally. But changing appearance further doesn't count as cheating to me either, since it doesn't affect gameplay.
Now, cheating for real would be giving your family more money, raise their skills or career, or raise relationships immediately. That makes gameplay easier since they get the thing you're "supposed" to work for in game.
So even if I open up the cheat menu every time I play, I don't think of most of the cheats I use as cheating. But it's not that deep, either lol. Cheating gets a bad rep in other games, obviously, but I don't think it deserves that in The Sims.
I use some cheats occasionally to often in my gaming style
I use build cheats a lot (so bb.ignoregameplayunlocksentitlement, bb.showhiddenobjects, bb.enablefreebuild and of course bb.moveobjects)
I'm not a consistent builder, but I have a lot more fun making houses when I'm not limited to the grid.
I use cas.fulleditmode for my freshly spawned townies so I could have sims that don't look so similar to one another with the generic "townie" face templates and all that. I've been playing the same save since launch, so I know all my townies by name and by their face, and I wanna keep it that way.
When I play, I use sims.fill_all_commodities on my packed households sometimes, because whenever I enter a household everyone wants to pee or something. I use money cheats to take away money since I always end up making too much too.
For screenshots I use headlineeffects off to rid the plumbob off my sims.
I think those are just the ones I use. That aside I play ts4 like normal I guess.
My mods have their own use as well, but they're mostly to fix things like the overpowering "happy" buff or weird vampire wannabe/weird rain attire walkbys.
I very rarely use money cheats (only when I'm building houses for NPC's in live mode)
I have testingcheats and cas.fulleditmode always on just in case.
I use cheats to reset sims and buy people that I don't play but care about decent sized houses.
I also use money cheats but to reduce money as I have a lot of stipulations but for added realism like taxes week or bi-weekly or scouts fees and funds.
I use "cheats" regularly as part of setting up new households. It's important to my gameplay that new Sims seem like they've actually become who they are now, not just popped into the world. I want them to have some skills, some people they know (I use clubs for this, then cheat relationship levels), be farther up a career if they're older, have an amount of money that I feel like makes sense to them, have relationships that are weaker or stronger than 50% with family members, etc.
I think of "cheats" and mods that increase the availability of "cheats" as just alternative ways of accessing game tools, which is why I put the word in quote marks. I don't think it's an appropriate word for what these are in the context of Sims. There's nothing to cheat -- there are no rules, and there's no winning.
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I use money cheats like Freerealestate on, motherlode and money to remove money as a significant factor and reducing the number of vacant houses.
Even when the game moves sims into vacant houses or apartments, I use motherlode and money to turn the house into a decent or great home for the sims moved into the house. I consider it public grants or subsidies. Other cheats are only used when my mistakes makes the sims into troubles.
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I also use testhingcheats true/ freerealestate on when I move my Sims to a new location. I find I have little to no aversion to using said mod to skill my Sims up, since I have a tendency to start an entire family in CAS. Makes no sense that parents of teens, and/or child Sims would have no skills whatsoever. Would that EA would make this an option in CAS. That way people could choose to have unskilled adults in their game, if desired, or to give said adult Sims a nice leg-up. I also confess, I use money cheats when the need arises.
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Since I play with large families a lot, in order to be able to do special events without having to worry about them, I'll disable their needs so I can get through the event and do everything I want to do and not have to keep track of everyone's needs and worry about someone starving or whatnot.
Similarly, I often spam toddlers through the ball pit to get their movement to level 4 in one sim day. As such, I use Make Happy to constantly fill their needs over and over so they don't get exhausted or hungry and need to stop.
For my own Sims, I mostly just use the Make All Happy cheat on the mailbox (testingcheats true) when I first return to a household after rotating away to take care of all the bad moodlets that seem to occur while I'm busy with another family in my rotation, especially if it's a work/school day and everyone is hungry and needs to pee but only have an hour before leaving for their daily tasks.
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I use that too but mainly just for building, especially for venues like museums and art centers to add the highest quality easels, or if I want some extra decor pieces for a venue, or if I'm remodeling a restaurant and want to use the counters from the Culinary career because they go the best with the chef's station. Very rarely if the Sims have the money I'll buy one of the career-specific computers or desks for the Sims' home office because it looks cool, or the career related items like the Seat of Health from the Doctor career work better in my decor scheme.
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Some good resources for game cheats:
General (base game) cheats
Vampire cheats
Parenthood cheats
These are good for when creating your own townies, especially vampire for background purposes; been looking for good vampire houses for the two unoccupied lots in Forgotten Hollow, though if I give my created vamps the Sun Resistance power I could move them into other worlds.
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If I am actually playing then I will follow challenge rules and for the most part not use cheats in my current household.
I concentrate more on sims relationships, interactions and story-line. Not so much the nitty-gritty of getting money, earning promotions, and becoming a stable human being.
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I use the aspirations cheat once they've met the necessary skill level, because I've already met most of those challenges several times over. I use the show hidden objects cheat to give them all the magic beans when they first move in because that adds 5000 simoleons to their household, but for some reason I refuse to ever use the other money cheats. I use other cheats, like reset sim, when absolutely necessary, but those are the main ones I use regularly.
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But the only cheats I ever use are:
cas.fulleditmode & bb.moveobjects
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Now, cheating for real would be giving your family more money, raise their skills or career, or raise relationships immediately. That makes gameplay easier since they get the thing you're "supposed" to work for in game.
So even if I open up the cheat menu every time I play, I don't think of most of the cheats I use as cheating. But it's not that deep, either lol. Cheating gets a bad rep in other games, obviously, but I don't think it deserves that in The Sims.
I'm not a consistent builder, but I have a lot more fun making houses when I'm not limited to the grid.
I use cas.fulleditmode for my freshly spawned townies so I could have sims that don't look so similar to one another with the generic "townie" face templates and all that. I've been playing the same save since launch, so I know all my townies by name and by their face, and I wanna keep it that way.
When I play, I use sims.fill_all_commodities on my packed households sometimes, because whenever I enter a household everyone wants to pee or something. I use money cheats to take away money since I always end up making too much too.
For screenshots I use headlineeffects off to rid the plumbob off my sims.
I think those are just the ones I use. That aside I play ts4 like normal I guess.
My mods have their own use as well, but they're mostly to fix things like the overpowering "happy" buff or weird vampire wannabe/weird rain attire walkbys.
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I have testingcheats and cas.fulleditmode always on just in case.
I also use money cheats but to reduce money as I have a lot of stipulations but for added realism like taxes week or bi-weekly or scouts fees and funds.
I think of "cheats" and mods that increase the availability of "cheats" as just alternative ways of accessing game tools, which is why I put the word in quote marks. I don't think it's an appropriate word for what these are in the context of Sims. There's nothing to cheat -- there are no rules, and there's no winning.
Even when the game moves sims into vacant houses or apartments, I use motherlode and money to turn the house into a decent or great home for the sims moved into the house. I consider it public grants or subsidies. Other cheats are only used when my mistakes makes the sims into troubles.