Money cheat. Yay or Nay?

"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.

The question is not clear.

"Money cheat. Y/N"

In what context and for what purpose?

I use it often to get new Sims established in a § bizillion home as my custom "premades". After established, then no more money cheats. If they have to sell things off then so be it. :tongue:
Starting over all the time with §20 000 gets irritating. However, could combine a few random townie NPC's for their § then delete them. But I do consider that a cheat. ;)

So my vote is yes and no.

There was a time when I cheated to give my Sims more stuff when they were just starting out. But that just made Sims4 too easy, and I like the challenge of seeing home lots change as my Sims become more successful and can afford nicer things. These days, because so many of my played Sims are too wealthy, the bigger challenge is keeping them from becoming wealthier than what I think is realistic even for a Sims game. My Sims donate a lot of money to charities almost daily, as well as give hand outs to NPCs that seem a bit down on their luck. I buy expensive decor items and put those in my Sims' personal inventory to give to Uni students. I also play a Riches to Rags story where my Sim is addicted to playing cards, but isn't very lucky, and he ended up losing a fine home along his wife who happened to have the materialistic trait. She was not at all happy when their stuff was being sold off is all I can say about that. The final straw was having the repo man show up and take the hot tub along with an antique rug, and she nearly died of anger right on the spot. He was booted out and has been trying to win back all the Simoleans he lost but it isn't going very well for him at the moment. The money mods I use have added a lot of surprises and storytelling tools, and I can't play without them now.

For me it is an No as cheating to gain artificially makes for an boring game instead of working my Sims to get the same goal. :)

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.

I only use money cheats for my test save, or for new sims so they can get a nice house. I also cheat money when some numbnut calls my sim asking for a donation because my sims are such nice people, especially if my sim can't really afford it. Or when I'm missing just a bit to buy something they need. With UIcheats its just a click of the mouse.

I cheated more in the previous games, ever since I first learned to spell klapaucius.