Can you play without cheats?
Jaded:
To a certain point, I can. It's all about time management and becoming a little obsessive-compulsive in the order that you make your Sims do things.
That and SMALL families. (I restarted one of my neighborhoods after a few families had 10 kids.. I couldn't take it, so I started over. Much better now. Dustin Broke and Lilith Pleasant actually grew up quite well this time around. hehe)
xoJessi:
I can but I won't. ;)
ditzie1:
I have debug mode always on through Simpe, but just for the sliding motives. I still have my sims do all their stuff, but I like to tweak their motives just a bit sometimes. I don't like maxmotives except first thing in the morning. I also use money cheats sparingly and pay it back like a loan. I love insim. I mostly use it to speed up pregnancy, age babies, and to get kids through college faster. When their meter is full, I move up the final exam. It makes uni take much less time. I have other hacks and cheats as well, mostly to preserve my sanity and remove the elements of the game that I don't enjoy as much.
rexetimperator:
I played The Sims 2 without cheats for some months and really enjoyed it at first but it got to be too much hard work. It seemed I was spending most of my time going to the bathroom and cooking and cleaning and replacing the flowers that kept dying even though I watered them constantly, and little messages kept coming up saying so-and-so was no longer a family friend but I still had time to ring them up and save the relationship. It was just like real life I suppose and the drudgery was winning over escapism.
Now I like to play with every cheat imaginable and create bizare situations. I had Mortimer Goth abducted by aliens and returned as a female baby who grew up to be stunningly beautiful with a romance aspiration. Interestingly, she continued to receive a retirement pension right through school and college. And although I never changed her personality, everyone loves her and thinks she's hot, while as an old man he was rather crabby.
I give extreme makeovers to unsuspecting sims and I even have a special lot which is like a resort with lots of medical facilities and strange contraptions where sims can go (or be taken by other sims!) and get completely changed, including a personality transplant. For me the game is a fantasy playground.
Dread:
I'll answer, but I won't vote.
Yes, I can, but I never do. Why? Because I usually start my families off with a couple, one, two kids, and having no money can't afford that, so all my Sims are millionares. I wish there was something I could use to get rid of money. I'm building my medieval story, now, and 20,000 won't cut it for the royal family. Or the bad guy, either. As you can tell, I only ever use the motherlode, but I use moveobjects once in a while, too. I use boolProp, but only when I want to give my Sims some "NPC" clothes.
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