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@Psychotps I relate to that 100%!
I play with aging off, and have a main family that had offspring and most of my play is from that group and their sub-household. Several are highly developed and have many skills and sometimes multiple careers. Many of my favorites were 'born' not made, and I have been through a lot with them. They work hard, and we have 'history' going on. I can rely on them. They test my builds also mostly. I have no issue when using one of them (or their households) to start out in a new pack or world, to test a build or issue, and cheat them money generously if dropping them into a new home or world in a new save.
In my view, they had money from before and worked hard to earn it, so it feels like a waste (and a little mean) to make them go through the grueling start-up work. I'm not even aware of and haven't used any but a small handful of cheats and very selectively and intentionally. I must admit that once I used moo (and hidden objects) for building purposes I was hooked. It also made my building life much more complicated and challenging, as now my testing (placement and live) is much harder.
Those three building cheats and motherlode for the listed reasons are my 'pet' cheats. But how I use them doesn't feel like cheating to me.
I've just started a new sim for Fashion Photography. Found out a problem with it. It's not designed for new sims. Most, if not all, of the gigs require to be taken in a fashion studio, which new sims can't afford. My sim only has $1500 and can't afford things like a tripod, expensive camera, photo marks, backdrop, etc. I'm either going to have to change careers or put it on hold until my sim has a ton of money.
- SheriGR6 years agoHero
@Psychotps Hmmm... I did the fashion photographer freelance as part of a test (maybe it was your question? I don't remember). I used my main sim (the female of my original couple I mentioned). I play her the most - yes I am a weirdo who made a 'sim-self'. In real life I do website design and professional photography. In the game she does painting and photography. She has been at 10 for painting for many sim years, and at 10 for photography for less of them.
I have have made a 'make-shift' studio before in-game with white-walls (which you can switch the paint/wallpaper on for background purposes) and place the soft-box lights (one or two). You're right, though, I think to get the fashion photographer prompts you probably need the fancy camera and tripod. Not sure if you can get away with a make-shift background setting.
You could upload a few of your dragonfruit plants to a room then place them in her lot to help boost income. You could also have her paint from home and harvest dragonfruit until she has the money for the fancy equipment. Irl you would not even want to know what the fancy equipment costs. I'm sure it's more than in the game, if that's any consolation. Pro photography takes a lot of work and pain. Seriously.
Have fun! She'll get there! ☕
- Psychotps6 years agoSeasoned Ace
@SheriGRSince I'm starting this sim from the beginning, she has very few skills yet. Sure, I could spawn a dragon-fruit, money tree, motherlode, I'm just not going to. Trying to do this the normal way.
I'm pretty sure I only need a tripod, problem is the house is small and I don't have the room for a studio. A house expansion is necessary and I don't have the money yet.
I'll figure something out. See what I can get away with. If all else fails, I'll keep gardening and building money that way until I can expand the house and make a studio addition. - SheriGR6 years agoHero
@Psychotps Sounds like a great plan. And you will have the opportunity to develop many aspects of your new sim in the process. Have fun! 🙌
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