Anyone Else Addicted to Cheating? I have been good. I had a few hacks/mods in my game but nothing too out of the ordinary. I had downloaded Sims PE but the only thing I had ever done with it was to look at a Sims stats and, Oh, find Bella Goth. LOL Besides, I had been playing with my Legacy Sims, so I couldn't even use the hacks with them I had downloaded. Then I had the incident over the weekend with my Sim dying and ruining my plans for her, and the baby off somewhere in the clutches of Social Services with no mother. Remember me telling y'all that I didn't sleep one night because Social Services had taken away a mother's children? Well, I was having those feelings again. Great sympathy for little Bella, orphaned and alone, when I knew very well that she had a Wealthy Father with plenty of room, sisters to love her, and a step-mother who would dote on her because that's just her way. So I booted up Sims PE and started playing around with it. I changed her relationship with her father to 100/100 and made them friends. I couldn't figure out for the life of me how to use Sims PE to actually move her into the home, though. I played around a little more, making relationships, changing some names, and even growing up some babies into Toddlers. (It didn't work, though. The babies acted like Toddlers but looked like babies.) So I thought about using the De-bugging cheat. I had never used it because I was afraid of it. The websites that explain the cheat also say that it could crash the game. I didn't want to take that chance before, but now I was tempted to try it. So, before using it for the purpose I intended, moving Bella in to her father's house, I tested it on a family I don't play very often. First off I used it to kill off the father, death by flies. Then I used it to make the mother an Elder. Then I went into Bella's father's house and moved Bella in. I kept playing around with the Debug Cheat and found even more ways to, well, cheat. In another house I fixed the mess I had made by trying to grow up twin babies with Sims PE. Then I went into another house and made a couple who's been trying to get pregnant forever pregnant. Okay, point of the post is that this morning I feel a little guilty for altering my sims so much. Almost like feeling "dirty" the morning after a wild party. But it was so much fun last night that I played for 5 hours straight and today my "mouse arm" is killing me, I'm afraid TS2 is giving me Carpal Tunnel!! Has anyone else used these cheats? Or am I the only "sinner" around here.
I don't cheat to the extent of using Sim PE (due to a lack of knowledge as to how to use it), but I have become seriously addicted to using Merola64's multipainting. My Sims no longer live out their full age cycles, they all have maxed skill and go to private school etc - all because I'm too lazy to do it myself. It does have a detrimental effect on the game play in my opinion, since I no longer have quite the same satisfaction in getting my Sims into a high paid job when it can just be done through the painting. I know I should delete the painting, but I just can't bring myself to. I must never be allowed to download Sims PE.
Youall should release your guilt. You're not playing this game in a competition. If the "cheats" let you have more fun and less unwanted angst, then go for it! The only time you should avoid cheats is if it decreases your fun or you are in a competition. Otherwise avoiding the cheats *decreases* your fun and therefore is harmful to you. (The game is there to be as much fun as possible, after all!)
That same thing happened to me, I thought I had done it wrong I love using the cheats on some houses. I even used the one to kill a father by flies too. I wanted to see it and couldn't seem to get it on my own Don't worry one bit, you are defenilty NOT alone. And it's not like some other games where cheats give you an unfair advantage over someone else. The only one you are playing against is yourself. Cheat On Sister!!!
I use the cheats as and when needed, and SimPE as well. I don't have Meroloa's multi painting though and tho' I have thought about I still try to get along without it. I have used SimPE mostly to change a sim's aspiration and to make "emergency" repairs to a sim's aspiration bar/relationships after a critical moment went wrong. For example I had a teen at his birthday party and I had been kinda nerdy with him getting him to over-achiever but he was still missing a first kiss (and I'd locked it in cos he needed the points to go platinum for his transition ...) I was sure he was "well in" with Bertha the Goth -- LMAO ... they looked a right funny couple mind, he speccy, preppy, spotty and ... well ... fat while she was skinny, pretty, pale and interestings and cooler than a polar bear's yoo-know-whats ... Anyway, he tried to kiss he and she slapped him. Yikes. Reload and tried different tack ... SLAP! Ooops. Quick SimPE surgical strike and made her love him. Restart and try again ... SLAP She hated him. It took me six goes before I got them together.
well, if i could download any cheats or hacks, i would use them all the time and abuse it. but my brother, who is the comp expert around here, forbid any of us besides him from downloading anything because we always end up getting some kind of bug or virus... but i do use cheats like motherlode, moveobjects on, a whole bunch of boolProps...you know.
Cheating... nah I call it "Neighborhood Engineering" I don't use Sims PE but I have it. I think of using it with a new neighborhood in order to engineer existing rivalries, love affairs, and relationships going in. Much in the same way I use cheats, I would use PE to set things up and get them rolling. After that I just polay the various families and have fun.
