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xochiquetzl_xkvn
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago

Re: do cheat codes break the game?

I have hybrids, because they kept getting born naturally and I got tired of cheating one occult type off of them. (I have a spellcaster who's married to a family-oriented  mermaid and they love children, okay?)

In my "just a player, don't work for EA, hybrids are unsupported" opinion, hybrids don't break your save file.  The most common issue is that mermaid hybrids start walking around on their tails and swimming through the floor. If you have Iced Cream's Hybrid Stabilizer (available on modthesims, as mentioned below), this doesn't happen. Other potential issues include that the spellcaster charge UI isn't visible with vampire/spellcaster hybrids without the mod and therefore they're more likely to die of spellcaster overload because you can't see that they're getting overcharged until they start sparking. Again, not supported, don't work for EA, play hybrids at your own risk.

(The trait thing is 100% true; I replaced the Kleptomaniac trait on a Sim and she was perpetually tense from not stealing anyway.)

Sadly, in my experience, I would suspect your restaurant and home. I recently ran a bunch of career rewards/personal inventory stuff through the recycler and my laggy, awful frame rate save improved a lot.

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  • varunk314's avatar
    varunk314
    4 years ago
    @xochiquetzl_xkvn Thanks for your reply. For the home, I use a prebuilt one, the big penthouse in san moshino. As for the restaurant, I loaded the one from local library (given default by the game), I don't remember it's name though.

    As for the hybrids, the reason I used them is to stop my spell caster couple from ageing. Is there another way to stop only one couple from my active household from ageing while the rest of the sims in the game ages normally?
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    xochiquetzl_xkvn
    Seasoned Ace
    4 years ago

    @varunk314 

    There's a mod that was originally by Scarlet and is maintained by LittleMsSam that makes Potion of Immortality actually work stop aging. That's what I use. Before I started using that, I would use MC Command Center to add the No Age and  Immortal flags to any Sims I wanted to keep around.  (I still do that for pets.)  It's under MC Command Center -> Sim Flags -> MC Command Center. You can set them to never age (so they can still die from accidents) or as Immortal (or both).

    (Tragically, Potion of Immortality is bugged.  Your Sim continues to age but it cancels "elder demise" unless you're not actively playing the household,and then they die. So, in a vanilla game, guzzle Potion of Rejuvenation and/or never play rotationally?)

    I know both those lots well.  Hmm.  They should be fine...

  • varunk314's avatar
    varunk314
    4 years ago

    Hey, thanks for informing me about the update. I have been playing for about 25 days and still have no idea how to keep track of them, nor do I know how to update the game, but I do appreciate the heads up. Thanks a lot.

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    xochiquetzl_xkvn
    Seasoned Ace
    4 years ago

    Oh, the game downloads free patches about once a month and today is patch day.  You might have gotten the patch for Neighborhood Stories today, and it also contains bugfixes.(Your Sims will continue to age with the Potion of Immortality but won't die, so if that's not what you want you'll need MC Command Center if that's how you intended to handle things.)

    If you've only been playing for less than a month, just know that when you launch your game your mods will be disabled and you'll need to see if they're working with the new patch and re-enable them.  (MCCC was cleared by Deaderpool already.)

  • varunk314's avatar
    varunk314
    4 years ago

    Ageing without dying might be useful for some of my sims, but my main couple needs to stay at same age, so I guess I'll continue to use MCCC.

    Thanks for sharing the information regarding MCCC update, it's all so new to me, but I'm sure I'll get used to it soon.

    I'm honestly surprised that the game sends out monthly patches, that's the fastest frequency of patches that I've ever heard of, and it makes me happy that we could get bug fixes and some content along with it every month.

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