Driven to Cheating (Anecdotes)
This is intended to be a humorous anecdotes thread, not a list of cheats etc. It's aimed at those who normally don't cheat, but at times are driven to it. What happened in your game and why did you ...
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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.
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.
