Obsessed with Sims' Needs

Yes, there is a cheat for that. Type testingcheats true in the cheatbox and do SHIFT+click on your sim. You should see an option to to stop the needs from decreasing.

I use this cheat which allows you to adjust individual motives.

http://modthesims.info/d/558548

Hoping it gets updated quickly after the Python update.

The testingcheats true will not stop the needs decreasing but will make everything full and will take a while before you need to "make happy" again.

In game options to help:

Build on the fly option (without cheats) is available on any community lot. I often reorganize basically any venue to give sims a bed or tent and often a kitchen or at least a fridge anywhere.

Generic lots can basically be used as home away from homes if you want your sim to have some privacy. You can invite other sims there. I often have my sims live there to get the feel of different areas, sometimes for aspirations you have to meet people in other areas, sometimes its good for gathering plants that you have to wait to bloom, also collecting works good with this. You can also set it up with skill items you don't have room for in your home. Your sim will go home to go to work/school though.

Buyable rewards... lots of those to help with needs of course you have to have the reward points.

Always Welcome trait is cheap and allows your sim to make use of anything in other sims homes.

In the first two sims games I had a crazy obsession with needs even now if they get yellow I start figuring out where to send them to fix it. The need problems are basically no issue for me now... I do understand the obsession with keeping sims green though.

I play with the UI cheats extension mod. It solves all issues I have with needs and incorrect moodlets (ex. sims being lovelorn/curious about clubs when they are not romantic/insiders).

Logic clearly dictates .... testingcheats on is the way to go, otherwise. (if you don't have/want to use mods)

All the cheats have been mentioned, but there are also reward traits that decrease or eliminate needs, and you can put food in their inventory (cooked food will go bad, but harvestables won't.) Depending on the packs you have, there are the portable beds too, the waterfall-in-a-bottle for hygiene, books and the tablet (and probably other things) for fun. Social usually isn't a problem. Can't think of portable toilets, but there are toilets at most destination places. And you can always edit the places that they go.

I think part of the problem is that the game flags needs as low too early. Still 1/3 full or more is not time to stop and tend to it. I've had times when the sleep alert hits around 7:30-8 PM. Not when she got up at 6:30AM she doesn't!

"Maggiedoll;c-16763832" wrote:
All the cheats have been mentioned, but there are also reward traits that decrease or eliminate needs, and you can put food in their inventory (cooked food will go bad, but harvestables won't.) Depending on the packs you have, there are the portable beds too, the waterfall-in-a-bottle for hygiene, books and the tablet (and probably other things) for fun. Social usually isn't a problem. Can't think of portable toilets, but there are toilets at most destination places. And you can always edit the places that they go.

Bushes from JA and GT are not portable but they are useful.

"Hesreal2me;c-16763179" wrote:
The testingcheats true will not stop the needs decreasing but will make everything full and will take a while before you need to "make happy" again.

Actually, you can stop needs from decreasing. After clicking on 'Make Happy', immediately shift click your Sim again and click on 'Disable Needs Decay'. Your Sims' needs won't go down at all until they travel or you click out of their lot to Manage Worlds, the Main Screen or exit the game. I used this method a lot when setting up shots for my models for contests in the past, or for a tester Sim when play-testing builds.

"SiliClone;c-16764848" wrote:

"Maggiedoll;c-16763832" wrote:
All the cheats have been mentioned, but there are also reward traits that decrease or eliminate needs, and you can put food in their inventory (cooked food will go bad, but harvestables won't.) Depending on the packs you have, there are the portable beds too, the waterfall-in-a-bottle for hygiene, books and the tablet (and probably other things) for fun. Social usually isn't a problem. Can't think of portable toilets, but there are toilets at most destination places. And you can always edit the places that they go.

Bushes from JA and GT are not portable but they are useful.

There is no toilet on Sixam or Sylvan Glade, and you can't edit those places to add one. So, if you're spending a bit of time in those places (to wait for plants to spawn, or fishing in Sylvan Glade, for example), you're either going to have to leave the lot or buy the 'steel bladder' (if you've got enough points). I did add a public toilet to the lot from which Sylvan Glade is accessed, so that my Sims could do their business and go right back, but it's a bit annoying to have to pack up camp all the time. The game really needs a portable toilet.

Other needs are fairly easy to handle - most venues have a place to get food, and you can always put a cooler or some fruit in your Sims' inventories. You can carry a tent, or just have a Sim nap on a park bench. The portable shower takes care of hygiene.

Personally, I don't like using cheats to alter needs - to me, that's sort of the 'game' part of the game. I wouldn't mind a cheat that would just solve the toilet need, since I see this as a problem with the game itself, but I'd rather have a porta-potty.