Driven to Cheating (Anecdotes)

Hi :mrgreen:

It might sounds strange but, I never cheat. I set my rules and I get to do as I please. Especially since they have building codes under "cheats," so, I don't cheat. ;) :lol:

I just ran across country to pick up a Jade for the adventure "A demand for Jade" and a the other gems in the area. I get there, pick up two quartz and an emerald, but the Jade is unroutable. Back to map view, where I see a new jade has spawned. Back where I was before. It wasn't there when I left. I transported my sim back, rather than wait for him to run across country again.

I've mostly used MOO to place objects in build or buy modes and I do use TCE to reset needs if they glitched and don't match the time of day when switching families.

I have a bad habit of using the testingenable true cheat...every single time :/

My current sim is mastering all skills, including hidden skills, and doing all of the skill challenges. She also has a number of other goals I usually give to my sims with specific skills, and a couple others she's getting just because she is the one who is doing it all. One of the extra goals is to collect everything there is to collect. She reached the point where she had only a few items to collect - compendium (metal), rainbow snail (utopian future), and firefly roseus. This is also a basically no-cheat game, because there isn't much point in bothering with these goals if I'm going to take shortcuts.

However, when she wished to clone a sim, I decided to let her do that. But I wanted to get a few things out of the way, most specifically, collecting. I don't want to have to leave the baby/toddler with a sitter while Mom goes out in the middle of the night looking for fireflies. She has made many trips out in the night hunting for fireflies with the collection helper, but that roseus firefly was never around. So I finally resorted to using NRaas Master Controller to do an object info search for insects, two or three times each night, while she was asleep. Finally, after about a sim week of that, a roseus firefly finally showed up, on the opposite side of the map from her home. I woke her and sent her after it, then sent her back home to bed. On her next sim day, coming up when I open my game again, she's going to be creating her cloned daughter in the science research station.

That reminds me, there's a couple of other cheats involved in getting that clone. I decided to have my sim clone Sun Young Kim in China. But between cloning Sun Young in China and returning to her own world, the DNA sample simply does not make it home with my sim. So I used MC again, and Sun Young Kim is now a resident of Appaloosa Plains. I sent my sim to visit her at her new home, to get a new DNA sample, but by the time my sim got there, she was out on the town. So I reset Sun Young with MC to get her back home.

Sometimes you just have to do what you have to do.

Usually, I just cheat because like my game crashed or something and I don't want to work for everything again. I don't need to justify that though, that's pretty reasonable I think. I do use TCE a bit for things here and there for story purposes or something (most recently I've cheated a couple relationships back into their current story standing, so my sims actually interact as they would in that situation... not the opposite way). But generally, I'm pretty hard on myself and my sims with the cheats (I will cheat to take money away from sims before I will cheat to give them money, I'm horrible).

Every once in a while though I'll cave in and cheat the needs up or something so my sims can work on a skill that will help them get a promotion. Like when they're so close how can you resist? You have to be inhuman if you can resist at that point. Or just because my sims tend to have lots of children around and sometime you just gotta fill everybody's needs (and just keep them static for a bit) so the whole world doesn't explode from the chaos.

Or for "love". That one gets me to cave in a lot lol. If I want my sim to be with someone, I will cheat the relationship up lol. Especially if the other sim is already in a relationship and is stubborn and won't accept my sim's advances... looking at you Alice. I justify as not cheating because I story progression is a jerk and you can't stand in the way of "true" love (aka a relationship built on perfectly compatible physical characteristics because babies).

I thought this was going to be about a sim who cheated on his/her partner constantly.

I do cheat, but there's one cheat I don't like to use-I don't like to cheat teleport but was driven to it once and here's why:

My sim Marina was taking a stroll with her toddler, Olive, so that they could watch my singer, Ara, sing at Flyin' V's. I saved and had to come back later.

When I reloaded the game, my toddler was no longer in her stroller with her mama! She was home, all alone, sitting on the floor in the lobby of their apartment! Baby can't be alone for long enough to get Marina home to get her, so I teleported the toddler back to her mama.

I created this thread, not to talk about whether you cheat or how you cheat, but to post interesting, funny anecdotes about situations where you normally wouldn't cheat but did because you were driven to it. In other words, the thread is not about cheating, but about being so desperate that you had to cheat.

I normally avoid messing with my sims' motives, because in real life, you don't get to do that. If their sleep cycle is messed up, I just make them go to bed earlier or take a nap if they wake up too early, and get them back on schedule within a day or two. If I forgot to send them to the bathroom before bed, they have to get up in the night for it. If their food went bad while they were eating it and they didn't have time to get something else to eat before leaving for work or school, they just have to live with that.

But my married couple has been in University, and after the husband left for his activities class, I discovered that because I was busy with the wife in her lecture class, I had not noticed that he needed to use the bathroom before his class, and his bladder bar was in the yellow. Because I've had problems with the technology activities class in the past, I didn't want to interrupt him to send him to the restroom, so I did drag up his bladder bar a little, to get him through to the end of the class period. By then it was in the yellow again, so he used the restroom before going home.