Is anyone else constantly cheating in this game?
I'm playing right now, cheating my sims relationship to create drama with his partner and started reflecting on the fact that I am always cheating to enhance my gameplay. I cheat on a case by case basis with my sims depending on what I want, but needs, skills, friends/relationships, money, emotions, traits, aspiration points really any and everything.
I get some people say it makes the game too easy but I've never played the sims to feel like a gamer. It's my sandbox to create my own little civilization so I cheat to have fun and make the experience completely mine. I give my sims what I expect they should or would have so I can spend less time grinding and more time roleplaying their lives. For example if I come back to a household to one of my kids grown up, maybe I'll cheat to simulate the first few years of their adulthood. Especially if I come up with a new gameplay idea, I'll take that kid and make them the center of my new idea if they fit. Maybe I want to play a new rockstar sim, i'll cheat some music skills, maybe they've been busking and have earned some extra money or would have been working a job, I cheat and add to the household funds. Maybe the sim is supposed to be a social butterfly but doesn't know anyone because I never played them until recently, cheat! Where are all my cheaters? Anybody else let loose and cheat willy nilly like me?