Ain't nothing wrong with cheats! I always use them to start out in a nice house, and I don't doubt that I will use them again in 4 when I want to set up new sims and don't want to go through the entire skilling process the long way round again. All the animations and interactions are so *new* and so utterly delightful in 4, that I just haven't got there yet. :D My point was more that I have such little desire to actually spend any time with my sims in 3 that I cheat through the things that I usually like to not cheat through, if that makes any sense at all?
I tend to play a really domestic game so things like family meals and basic needs routines and having some kind of income (be it from jobs or at home freelance work or owning a business or whatever) feed into that, so once my sims have hit high skills/high end/upgraded items, fairly low maintenance on that front I turn the cheats off if I'm using them. But some days I also just wanna play out some ridiculous storyline, or party all night long or whatever and I have no shame about being 'who needs to pee today? NO ONE DOES. What do you mean we can't afford that fancy toy to play with? Pshaw, your long lost aunt Motherlode unexpectedly left you an inheritence, what.' :D
no subject
I tend to play a really domestic game so things like family meals and basic needs routines and having some kind of income (be it from jobs or at home freelance work or owning a business or whatever) feed into that, so once my sims have hit high skills/high end/upgraded items, fairly low maintenance on that front I turn the cheats off if I'm using them. But some days I also just wanna play out some ridiculous storyline, or party all night long or whatever and I have no shame about being 'who needs to pee today? NO ONE DOES. What do you mean we can't afford that fancy toy to play with? Pshaw, your long lost aunt Motherlode unexpectedly left you an inheritence, what.' :D