Driven to Cheating (Anecdotes)

I thought about the necroposting rules before adding this comment.

Are there exceptions to the necroposting rule?
Absolutely! Some discussions don't really 'expire' because they are open-ended or even timeless. If you follow the tips in this thread, you'll be able to decide when it's okay to post in an older discussion and when it's not.

This is a thread for humorous anecdotes about cheating. That is what I am posting. I see it hasn't been used in a while, but the alternative is to create a new thread for the exact same thing with only the one comment in it, which would be redundant and moot. The new thread would also be lacking the relevant funny comments from previous posters. So do I start a new, boring near empty thread, or revive this one? I'm reviving.

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For those who haven't seen this thread for a while (or ever), this thread is for humorous anecdotes related to cheating. It's not about the ethics of cheating, pro and cons of cheating, whether you cheat or not, it's for the funny things that happened in your game that have driven you to cheat, generally when you normally wouldn't. Now on to my funny story. Please post yours as well. I'm dying to read them.
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My Sims are on their first trip to Egypt. One of them is working the "Three Relics" Adventure Chain. She's up to "Into The Fire" to harvest 5 Flame Fruit. I think there is enough time to finish. I may have to 'Teleport' (aka cheat) to get her to the delivery location before the vacation runs out (but that's not a humorous anecdote). She just arrived in the garden spot with all the Flame Fruit. She picked two at the bottom of the stairs from one plant ready to harvest. There was only one plant to harvest in the main group. She has four(4) Flame Fruit, but she needs five(5). She can sleep there (she is getting tired) and harvest more when she gets up. Oh wait. She goes home at midnight. I resorted to NRass / Debug Enabler / Options: Ground Vines / DEBUG: Next Growth State for one of the plants. Now she has enough to harvest and deliver before the vacation runs out.

Yesterday I was SO tempted, but I resisted. I spent literal hours in the Wasteland trying to catch an Uber nanite. It was such a relief when I finally did it!

I know it's been a while, but it's more appropriate to post in this thread than to create a new one.

My Sims are trying to collect Perfect Koi in China to stock in a garden pond back home. The gardening Sim has recently obtained perfect Plums (as well as Pomolos) for bait and brought all but a couple with him. Unfortunately, he doesn't have enough (too many non-perfect specimens of Tancho Koi) The others types will be okay. Using the ones purchased from the store will only catch lower quality fish. Not good enough for me. I went to the garden with the pond. Oh, no Plums. I edited the Garden to add a few Plum trees. Then:
click tree / NRass / Debug Enabler / Option: Big Ol' Tree / Set Quality / Perfect
then
click tree / NRass / Debug Enabler / Option: Big Ol' Tree / DEBUG: Next Growth State
I can now harvest Perfect Plums from the trees. One harvest from three trees should be sufficient.

I was playing a female sim with commitment issues, and she had several romantic interests. I play with several mods and long story short, after some risky autonomous woohoos, she got pregnant and had twins! I didn't want her to get married, but taking care of two babies is pretty hard with just one adult so I used cheats to teleport the babies to the park with her so she could get out of the house while the babies played! Babysitters are ok but they usually only focus on one toddler? And the money adds up after a little while, especially when mama's too busy changing diapers to work on her freelance alchemy career!

~smirk~ Need I say more?
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Always “get a dog” if you have the Pets EP. even better, get two. ?

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I'm not sure if this counts as cheating. Three sims in China, the afore mentioned pair and the sim working toward 'Perfect Private Aquarium' in the world I'm building (fairly early test version - only one fishing location so far so she is fishing in all the foreign lands). They were all hungry so one who was handy was sent to buy meals. Just as he bought three plates of Dim Sum ($180) the other two chowed down of dried food. With 'testingCheatsEnabled true' I moved their now full hunger bars down to yellow and gave them each a plate of Dim Sum to eat so it wouldn't go to waste.

p.s. interesting note. After travelling sims have eaten their meal where they don't have a place to clean up, they put the plate down. I can then drag the plate into their inventory and sell it, getting much of the cost of the meal returned. That feels like cheating, but I do it so they don't end up leaving dirty plates lying all over the place. It doesn't seem to work in tombs though.

Occasionally, when trying to build a specific kind of relationship for a particular storyline I'm working on, I encounter a sim who just won't show up at my main family's house, or won't stay long enough for me to accomplish anything. (For example, a long time ago, the game made Laurel Grisby of Riverview into a firefighter, which meant her work hours were almost the whole day; she practically lived at the station and was never free to hang out. Never mind that she was dating one of the kids of my initial couple. Needless to say, this relationship was over quickly). My first approach is to use MC>focus to stalk follow the problem sim around town, but if that doesn't help, I'll MC>Basic(?)>Invite Over. And if that sim tries to leave, well, suddenly all of the doors are mysteriously locked, and there's no way for them to leave. Although I would love to see a daredevil sim (or an insane one) get a running start and launch headfirst through a plate-glass window.

Also, my finger never gets so itchy as when I have a gardener who's waiting for the "Uncommonly Good" or "Outstandingly Rare" opportunity to trigger. The worst is when he or she keeps rolling the option to resupply the restaurant which is right across the street from the grocery store. Yes, I have lots of garlic, you can have some, now STOP CALLING ME and tying up the phone line so I can get a REAL opportunity instead of this mindless drivel! Every time the phone rings, I hold my breath a little. At which point I realize I'm getting really frustrated and wonder if it would be healthier for me to just MC the opportunity into existence.

As far as justifying it, I figure if the game is going to be this annoying I have every right to *correct* it. Also, the point is to enjoy playing, not to *win*, and if I were competing with anyone else we'd have negotiated the rules beforehand.

I used to get them cheating on partners along with other issues before NRaas took over story progression and they also often used to get matched with the wrong partners by the EA bugfest too fast for my singles to find anybody.

I've got 3 Sims on vacation in Egypt, the pair that normally go and an extra with a home opportunity for travel tagging along. The two males are in dire need of the toilet at the basecamp. Too bad. An explorer is standing in front of it. For some reason, he won't leave and nobody can use it while he is there. It may be because too many people are crowding into the men's room for him to have room to leave, including my 2 who are autonomously trying to use the toilet. I finally resorted to "reset sim" to get 3 people out of the way so mine could use the toilet. I didn't make it in time for one of them. He wet himself. Oh well, he needed a shower anyway.

I finally got them through the bathroom. The tag-along Sim has the Lifetime Wish to be a Chess Legend. I usually use tag-alongs to gather rocks and excavate dig sites. This one is in the music career and most of his opponents are working before he goes to work and he is working when they are available. While in Egypt, I wanted him to progress in his Chess wish. The first opponent was tough and had to be challenged 4 times before he got a win. The next opponent was travelling with him. It couldn't be the one doing the Tomb Brochure photos to get his visa points up quickly because he was handy and available. It had to be the one deep in the tomb. I ended up teleporting her back to the market for a game, then teleporting her back to the tomb entrance, then teleporting her back to where she was. I also could have cheated with NRass/MC/...new opponents, but I figured she would be an easy win since she hasn't played that much chess. (edit: Nope, she beat him) (second edit: Twice)