Do you cheat skills?

I do sometimes I have a story in mind other times it's just you know not everyone starts out on their own with absolutely nothing I tend to just limit to a couple skills unless something was overlooked. That's probably why building skills doesn't bug me cause I pick and choose when I need to.

sometimes but then i immediately hate myself for it cause i love playing with skills tbh and it feels off to cheat them

but i do feel if i cheated just one skill it be photography cause learning it via camera spams screenshot folder way too much

I do it often for Sims I create but don't plan to actively play -- like when I'm creating Sims to be neighbors or fellow club members for my own played Sims. For example, when Nifty Knitting comes out I'll have a few Sims that I give some Knitting skill too, along with a yarn basket so I can have a knitting club. B)

I used to only do this for townies, but when CAS stories was introduced and legalized starting with some skills the floodgate was opened. Newly created sims may start with up to 12 twelve skill points, with no skill higher than 4. Those skills reflect the sim's backstory and sometimes turned out useless in actual gameplay - like the ex-secretary with Writing, Charisma and Research who started the game working at my junkyard. Her best skills now are Fabrication, Gardening, Logic and still Writing, because she kept this as a hobby.

Never. It doesn't go with the way I like to play.

I don't cheat skills or careers. When I see a Game Changer cheat skills, careers, or relationships I stop watching because they're not really playing the game. Why bother pretending that there's a story when you can just cheat everything to be the way you want it to be? I can do that myself without watching someone else do it.

I recently downloaded a save file and was disappointed to find that the skills, careers, relationships, and household funds of almost every household in the save file had been cheated, many of them to max level. I only kept one vampire and two builds out of the whole thing. I did get to see the amount of work it takes to set up a save file though.

I don't like it when the game cheats skill levels up either. I see this happen at the Romance Festival when Candy Behr or Cassandra Goth show up with level 10 painting. I also see this at Geek-Con when Gavin Richards, Hugo Villareal, or Wolfgang Munch show up with level 8 to 10 Programming to compete in the Hackathon. Ditto for karaoke contests - Nancy and Geoffrey Landgraab frequently saunter in with level 10 Singing. I've had Mila Munch and Joaquin Le Chen appear with level 10 Fitness when the game decides to use one or both of them as a gym trainer or lifeguard. I've also had the game use Mila as a yoga instructor. If I ever decide to play any of these characters then I'm going to have to fix them because the game meddled.

Cheating stuff like skills seems to be the way to go for players telling a story because it saves time. Even the game does it.

I never do it for the Sims I actually play.

I've done it when I created parents and older siblings for my Sim. I didn't play them, I just moved them in the neighborhood. I gave them skills that they needed for their characters. I also gave them careers and cheated them on higher levels.
I don't usually do this either anymore, because I'm too lazy.

I constantly do it. I always give my main guy the level 10 Handiness skill, plus the Handy bonus skill ( I skip whatever aspiration that is) so they can instantly fix and upgrade objects. He needs to excel at DIY because I want him to do other stuff.
I do it with other skills too, depending on the Sim and the story.

Nope. I don't cheat anything in game play other than build cheats.

I never did it but i am considering now to cheat children skills.

One of the sims im playing is a child that wants to be a fisherman in the future.

He can fish but he has to develop the mental skill to level 10 to then start leveling fishing (or at least it's what i think... i hope when i get to level 10 or cheat it, that the kid can be able to learn the fishing skill...)