Stop Making Cas Unlocks!

@QueenMercy wrote:
"I'm pretty sure they unlock by household. "

@GrumpyGlowfish wrote:
"Do you all know that once you unlock an outfit with any sim, it becomes permanently available to every sim in that same save? "

It's neither save nor household, it is saved with a single sim. And it is "viral". If you add a sim that is, say, an athlete lvl 10 to any household, any member of that household is now "infected" with the cheerleader uniform. If you remove the original athlete from that household, the members still will have the ability to dress as cheerleaders.

They all now have the "cheerleader virus" and will give it to other households, no matter in what save you are using them.

P.S.: CAS items unlocked with Fogity's mod are NOT "viral" and can only used by that single sim in that specific slot once the mod is removed.

"GrumpyGlowfish;c-16832495" wrote:

"TopNotchToddler;c-16832411" wrote:
@QueenMercy wrote:
"I'm pretty sure they unlock by household. "

@GrumpyGlowfish wrote:
"Do you all know that once you unlock an outfit with any sim, it becomes permanently available to every sim in that same save? "

It's neither save nor household, it is saved with a single sim. And it is "viral". If you add a sim that is, say, an athlete lvl 10 to any household, any member of that household is now "infected" with the cheerleader uniform. If you remove the original athlete from that household, the members still will have the ability to dress as cheerleaders.

They all now have the "cheerleader virus" and will give it to other households, no matter in what save you are using them.

Sorry, but that's just not true. Maybe career outfits used to be bound to a single sim in the early days, I wouldn't know, but now, unlocking one with any sim is enough to unlock it for everyone in the entire save, even without moving that sim through various households.

Unless my mods are interfering, no, it doesn’t work like that. I just checked and I couldn’t use the stylist unlocks for any other household.

@GrumpyGlowfish wrote:
" it seems like we both got it wrong. "

Sorry to be that picky, but all I said was

1) Unlock info is saved with a sim (= single person household)
2) ... can be transfered to other sims (households) if not equipped with Fogity's mod but earned/cheated
3) ... is not limited to a game save or household.

@GrumpyGlowfish wrote:
" I am now convinced that a mod or cheat to unlock all outfits is needed."

A cheat would be nice, then we don't have to rely on the mod already available.

@stilljustme2 wrote:
"Maybe it;s more accurate to say that unlocks are tied to a single household rather than a single Sim; one of my Sims made it to the top of the athletic career and now his son can wear one of the sports uniforms for a workout outfit, but none of the other households in that rotation can access the unlocked outfits. If my teen Sim grows up and gets married, his spouse and eventual children may be able to access the unlocked athletic outfits as well so maybe that's how the "infection" spreads."

It's true, that's how it spreads within a family/household over generations. But that's not what I mean with "viral". And unlocks are not "tied to a single household".

@TopNotchToddler wrote:
"One thing I forgot to mention though is that you have to add the sim with unlocked costumes in CAS, it is not sufficient to add him/her using Manage Worlds."

...meaning you could at any point of your game
1) Create a copy of your athlete's household (HH1a) and save it to the Gallery (-> HH1b)
2) Open any other household (HH2) in CAS
3) Merge any single sim from HH1b ("dummy sim") into HH2 (still in CAS, not by using the transfer function of Manage Worlds)
4) Now any sim in HH2 has access to the cheerleader uniform.
5) You can delete the dummy sim afterwards. Members of HH2 are still able to dress as cheerleaders, will be so in the future and can infect other households by repeating steps 1-5.

Outfit infection does not happen automatically within a rotation/game save. It can be spread to other households or other game saves via the Gallery.

P.S.: I found a fitting example in the Gallery. If you download the Maxis faved "Shaman" by user "lisabee2" into any of your households the members of said HH will now be able to wear those clogs:

https://imgur.com/WO128U7.png

EDIT: Image from Foggy Frontier.

Yes, I am not a fan either of the locked items. But since they are a thing and that won't change now, I would really appreciate a cheat to unlock them, I am sure there are items in the game that I have not even seen before (I don't think I have reached the top of every career).

I very seldom use the clothes that are locked away. My sims are mostly supporting themselves by selling handmade stuff and having a decent garden. Also I don’t want my sims to become rich so I have only reached lvl 10 once on a career since I needed it for an aspiration. I actively demote my sims to keep them at a lvl I like. There are probably so many cool clothes that I have haven’t used simply because it doesn’t suit my playstyle to unlock them.

I do like a sense of progression in unlocking things in the game when advancing in a career and all, but I definitely would like a Cheat at least to unlock all the CAS items.

Wanted to have waiters dressed in that full body fish suit in my sci-fi resturaunt, but wasn't unlocked.

The easiest way to get all outfits is "testingcheats true" then "cas.fulleditmode" Then shift click on your sim and modify in CAS.. Go to the gallery and merge one sim that as all outfits ulocked .. Search with the hastag unlocks.. delete that sim and there you go :)

I specially hate how locked objects work in The Sims 4. I remember The Sims 2 and The Sims 3 having special objects to unlock that existed with a purpose. Not a simple painted toilet or a different piece o clothing just because of a career. They used to be game changing. For example the weather machine in the previous games was an a reward object wich makes sence since its a machine that can change the gameplay in a way that only certain sims with some abilities could use. In The Sims 4 the machine is in the catalogue and all the sims can use it. Instead of a new t-shirt or a new chair, this locked objects should be something meaningful.