About Cheating

I'm all over the place personally about using cheats. It might be because of the word cheat even. I'll motherlode to death if I want to start a story about a rich sim with no qualms. When it comes to getting sims traits that they didn't earn I seem to balk at that though. Thing is I'll have a story in my head about someone already accomplished at something but I take that path anyway about them learning or earning it which can be tedious if I've done it over and over. Not sure why it's so hard for me to just cheat it in then move on.
I do hate to look the cheats up too.. I like it when they build it into the game like they did for fame.

Cheating is really only bad in a multiplayer game, if its just a single player game it just adds to the fun

Besides stuff like moveobjects really isn't cheating. Cheating gives an advantage and when is bugginess considered one?

There really isn't any such thing as "cheating" in this game because there is no finish line. Its a simulator, there is no end to cheat to. You don't even need to cheat, really. Its just if you want to skip past content you find boring. Thats how I use them anyway.

I use MC Commander so I don't have to do all that typing. Cheating on the cheats, it doesn't make sense that you create a family and the mother and father can't cook and do other things and are beginners at everything.

I really only consider it cheating when you are doing challenges. If a challenge says, "no cheats" in the rules... then no cheats. If you are free playing, no challenge, just you and your game, it's not really cheats to me. Do whatever you need to do to have fun.

I rarely use cheats, even in my non-challenge games. But that's just because I enjoy the "life" part of life simulator. I enjoy making my sims cook and eat. Or go potty or shower. I enjoy making them manage work (in whatever form I have them earn money) and social or love life. I enjoy them struggling to have a family.

I'll use cheats to make the game more challenging. As another player said, I'll use money cheats to take away their money for everything from taxes, to gambling addictions, to a tornado wiped out their houses (bulldoze lot, take away the cash) and they have to start over and anything in between.

You can't 'win' against another competitor in this game, so I prefer to think about 'cheats' as shortcuts like someone above has said. I play a lot of challenges though and don't use 'cheats' if they're not allowed. With one exception. I love starting out the majority of my gameplay R2R style, so I will 'cheat' to take away all their funds after moving a Sim to a lot.

During gameplay the only 'cheat' I'll use is to drag dishes to the trash/sink/dishwasher for Sims, but only in an attempt to save time if they're late for work or tired. Sometimes I'll abuse the system when they're just starting out to get more simoleons for my Sims such as; planting a cowberry, then immediately selling it in buy mode for a bigger profit, leveling up a Sim's vampire skill so they can turn low value fish/frogs into plasma packs, making my Sims drop trash when taking it to the bin so they can scavenge over and over for upgrade parts or set down just a roof piece for shelter from the weather.

I've stopped doing that stuff though for the most part because it just makes it too easy for R2R Sims to advance too quickly.

In build mode I use 'cheats' all the time such as; MOO, Debug and the loooong cheat code to turn off entitlements for career reward objects. When building for a contest/challenge I always have to 'cheat' simoleons for a Sim so they can playtest the lot for me and set the lighting. I wish we could set lighting and intensity in build mode, but it's not available for some reason.

I also use the CAS full edit mode 'cheat' to modify townies, premades and sometimes when Sims age-up if they look hideous and need some tweaking. Unfortunately, that happens a lot. o.O lol The only time I've ever used a 'cheat' for skills was to level up a Sim's cooking skill so I could send them to a lot I was building and make baked goods on a cupcake machine I'd temporarily set down. I needed them for an outdoor wedding reception lot. Afterwards, I 'cheated' to reduce that Sim's skill level to where it was beforehand.

I've only used the relationship 'cheat' once as well. I needed my modeling Sim to be in love with someone and vice versa to set up a love scene for a particular round in a contest. I also had to 'cheat' to give her love interest a death buff so it would look like she killed him afterward.

So, yep, long story short, although I don't use mods (yet), I use 'cheats' to enhance my gameplay. 'Cheats' just makes the game even more enjoyable and fun to play than it already is for me! <3

Like many of you, I don't think it's possible to cheat in a game where you can't win or loose.

I like to use the cheats sometimes. I use them to set up unplayed households, neighbours and future partners for my sims.

But the cheats I use in my played households should not be called cheats because you don't advance your sims by subtracting money with the money cheat, or by placing more objects with moveobjects if your sims still have to pay for them.

The only real cheat I use systematically is the one to ignore locked objects. I think all objects in the catalogue should be freely available. If my sims can afford them through honestly earned money, that is.

The primary reason I use cheats is to build up a neighborhood for my main sims to live in. So I'll make neighbors and cheat their job status, relationships, and use money cheats for their homes--and then just let them be and go back to my main sims who I usually don't use any cheats with. I play sims in a pretty goal oriented way so using job/skill/etc. cheats on my main sims takes away my reasons for playing

I was never one to cheat up the needs of my Sims, but quite frankly, I find the needs of my Sims drain so quickly in this iteration. Now, I do my very best to not 'help' out my toddlers, unless it's a dire situation, which normally it's not. So, I do leave myself a good challenge, as it were. But, with one Sim being a Global Superstar, for which I love to follow to work, oftentimes the wee ones get neglected, even when a parent is left with them. Go figure, eh? Daycare doesn't really help much, either. I use the MCCC mod, which makes it very easy to quickly fix a Sims' needs. Yesterday in my game playing session, my singer Sim was on stage in the middle of a set. Suddenly, he has a bad need to pee! :open_mouth: I thought it too odd for him to leave the stage and go relieve himself in the nearby bathroom, so I cheated his needs back up. Normally speaking I cheat them up before a concert, and I do know I checked his status prior, so why he suddenly had this pressing need is beyond me.

I used to be one of those snooty players who thought that cheating needs was beneath me, and that is truly was 'cheating'. I had the singular notion that if a player couldn't properly tend their Sim, it was all on the player. I have reformed.

My name is GalacticGal, and I am a Cheater …

One thing I absolutely will not cheat is their skill level. Or their needs. That would take any any sense of accomplishment from my sims lives . But I will cheat their money.