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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"ARRensch;c-16414005" wrote:
When my child sims meet kids at school, sometimes I'll just sort of cheat the relationships and turn them into friends. Because when I play families, I play shorter lifespans and it takes an eternity for them to actually become friends with the other students.
My justification is that it feels more real that way, since most kids don't spend the majority of their childhood without friends and just a bunch of aquaintances. I don't mess with good friend or best friend though; those two are something the sims will have to earn.
I usually play on normal lifespan, unadjusted except for a shortened toddler stage (4 days) and a slightly longer childhood (10), and I agree that there aren't enough school days for a kid to make more than a couple of friends in elementary school. Unless, of course, you have your child sims run around town meeting every classmate first, then they can make friends with all of them at once.
Or you could use the tag exploit and have a handful of best friends for your sim in under a day. I did this just now in my game—dad knows almost everyone and invited over five different kids in rapid succession starting around 6 pm. Son started a game of tag with each one, and I cancelled each action just as he started chasing the other kid. Son's lowest relationship started at nothing and hit best friend status around noon the next day.
