Money cheat. Yay or Nay?

Starting as let's say, "The Goths" or "The Laandgrabs" or any premades is cheating then since they don't start with a §20 000 or less home with the cost of the home taken off what they have left to start with. :|

Or if you start with a household of 8 people then you still only get §20 000 to start with. You could start them all as different households then combine them for §160 000. But that would be "cheating" right? :p

i just like to cheat

Nope. I simply don't find it necessary. Game's already too easy, I use cheats only for:

a) mitigating bugs, and
b) when the game decides to do something that I have to overrule (alien abductions, sims doing something suicidally stupid that can only be stopped with resetsim, that sort of thing.)

It depends on the households I played.

I tend to cheat money for celebrities households for better house but play without cheat with premades and the others.

Actually neither answer really appIies to me, but since 'motherlode' was specifically referenced, I chose no. I don't use cheats to increase my Sims' funds, only to set them to zero. It's not that I have an issue with it or anything, I just really enjoy starting a Sim out on an empty lot with no funds (usually in Oasis Springs) and then do whatever it takes to finally afford 4 walls. And if I want to make money quickly, I use the first couple of thousand Simoleons to take them to Selvadorada. Or I fish for some dragon fruit in Magnolia Promenade and start planting.
I do enjoy reading about how differently people play the game and it is good the cheats are available to give us the choice.

"crocobaura;c-17793265" wrote:

"Calico45;c-17793247" wrote:
However, 4 could use a lot more long term goals besides financial well being.

It's only a goal in the fortune aspiration. It's players who drive the sims to succeed and amass a lot of money.

Really, though? In plain terms, I'll give you, but sims has always been rooted in basic consumerism. They want pools, new furniture, well decorated houses. You can do whatever, but sims want to live well.

No then it's too easy

I only use money cheats when starting a new save. I hate starting from scratch (I've done it too many times), so I usually create some kind of family tree for the sim I want to play with and pretend the parents have an already established life with a house, careers, etc. depending on the scenario I plan to pursue they range between lower and higher class households.

I use to say yay, but I got to a point where my family literally became millionaires and it got boring. The challenge is fun.

I'll add that I also tend to download elaborate houses from the Gallery to fill my worlds with, so even the smaller homes end up having really high bills and I need to cheat money or they'll never get paid. I also don't make all of my Sims work. Some have jobs and sustain a living but others have "inheritances" or are Occults or other beings and they're above the mundane human lifestyles, lol.