Drinking water disables Need-Decay cheat
My sims constantly drink water despite the Disable-Need-Decay cheat running. Their needs don't decay until they start drinking water, then suddenly it disables the cheat. It only happens in my curr...
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@SheriGR that is the exact cheat I'm using (got tired of going through the entire household person by person and disabling their individual needs a long time ago... the moment I open a save game the first things I do is enter the set of cheats I use (testingcheats true, bb.moveobjects F5, bb.ignoregameplayunlocksentitlement and then disable the needs through the mailbox)
@107531kop Thank you for the additional details and for confirming. I just enabled that cheat via the mailbox and then had a sim drink water, kava, and coffee. In each case it did bring the need level down a bit, but then it did not continue to go down unless she drank something else, then it went down a bit more. All other and continuing needs decay blocks seemed in place. Is this what you also see?
I was just chatting with a hero that tested the cheat when done on the individual sim (rather than the mailbox/household) and she says that when done this way the entire cheat works properly. Another workaround is to just cheat the need back up.
If you're noticing a lot of water drinking you may want to 'me too' and add information to this bug report: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-Excessive-Water-Juice-Drinking-Patch-1-58-63-Edition/m-p/8452362
We hope this helps! 🙌
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- @SheriGR In my save game also when doing the need-cheat on the individual member it breaks the cheat so to say. And indeed it is only the bladder-need that decays and the rest stays up...
I too had trouble with my sims drinking a lot of water, but I simply removed the fridge and that slowed it down to perhaps 1 or 2x drinking water per sim-day for the entire 3-sim household I have in that save game. I have also commented to the other thread.@107531kop They don't need a fridge for water - just a sink. I did chat with someone who took out all the sinks to stop water drinking. In my test Kava and coffee also took it down with the cheat enabled. I assume bar-drinks would also, since I heard before that they bring the bladder bar down even with the 'bladder-of-steel' reward. So if the cheat is still getting disabled by drinking liquids for you even when applied to each sim individually, I guess you could expand your workaround to:
- Cheat the need full again
- Remove all sinks
- Remove all coffee/espresso machines/tea
- Remove all bars and globe bars
- Get the 'steel bladder' reward
- Check the content of your fridge to see if there are glasses of drinks there (though they should still be able to get milk or juice there - but in my experience they do far less of this autonomously than bar drinks, water & coffee)
Those things should discourage &/or reduce the frequency of drinking, since they only need food. If you remove the fridge, how are your sims eating?
- @SheriGR When I still had the fridge they constantly walked to the fridge for water and completely ignored the sinks, since I deleted the fridge they do go to the sink for water, but only every so often (once or twice per entire household per sim-day)… the Disable-Need-Decay cheat disables all needs: they never go to the toilet, need no food, go without sleep/fun/attention/shower... there aren't any bars, coffee/tea machines in the home... I've already played around with the steel bladder reward, but that doesn't work either... but since it is limited to only this particular save game I can live with it as long as I keep the fridge deleted (they never took anything but water from the damn thing, no matter which fridge)…
