Same, I use that like crazy. It's bad D:

I can't cheat; My sisters and I have made a strict rule that we needed to play sims as it is.

I use maxmotive when needed; other than that Insim for any problems reallyy; but yeah nothing else c:

Valerie

I find that if I cheat, it takes all of the fun out of the game. I use building cheats, its just the money and motive cheats that ruin it for me. The funnest part for me is the process of making my Sims Wealthy, and managing their needs.

Yes, I cheat, but that depends on the Sim(s) I am playing and what background (in my mind) I want to give them. One Sim might be good at dancing --no need to become neighbourhood's ridicule till he/she becomes an excellent dancer. Another one might be a shy, introvert and sort of philosophical kind, which means he/she should have some meditation or logic skills; or he/she might be a poor artist with great talent in writing or painting. Or, he/she might be a wealthy silly Sim who has to learn everything from scratch.

Sims I like and matter to me have their aging off for some time. Not because they are immortals, but because I feel the in-game time passes too fast.

That's all.

I agree with this, too. I like that it's like real life, the aging process, but it's too short.

I always cheat but occasionally challenge myself without using any, my legacys are the only time i ever keep to no cheats...its too hard my sims die!

I use the occasion kashing, building cheats, and if I get really desperate I use maxmovtives, but only then. Other than that I have hacks for the rest of my needs for the game.

Sometimes when im trying to get two sims together and it taked to long I use a cheat for that.
and when a sims motives are all very low I use maxmotives.

I don't like how everyone gets 20,000 to buy a house even if they have just moved out of a house with A lot mor emoney
I've used money cheats just because I ran out of cheap houses,

Since the game itself does not provide some banking system, I should say I use this kind of cheat myself, but only when it comes to parents/kids relation: I "withdraw" money from the parents and pass it over to the kids to start their new life in another house.

Once in a while I will "withdraw" some Simoleons from a parent to give it over to his student kid, too. [Hey! It was a hard semester, the kid needs vacations! Don't be such a Scrooge. :D]

I BARELY use maxMotives since I think it defeats the purpose of sims. I do use it when modelling and things.

I always use familyfunds and moveobjects as well as motherlode. I use boolprop when something foes wrong or if I am bored. :D

yes i cheat i do it all the time i use the motherlode cheat more times then i care to remember muahahaha.:nana: :laugh:

I mostly just use the motherlode cheat and the Insimenator. :D

I used to cheat a lot by using Motherlode and Tombstone of L and D. Now I do my best and use the Tombstone only when it's really necessary for the planned game to age up certain Sims in the family and then kill them off. I did that with the Ottomas family in my reset neighbourhood and kept only the girl alive, she's the only one that turned out decently looking, aged her up to her teens. And the same with the Travellers, aged up their daughter and left her alone as a teen in Family Bin.
I noticed that playing without cheating is more fun and makes your Sims to work harder to achieve their little goals; more realistic too.

But I've been into decorating lately and use moveobjects and allow45degreenagleofrotation if I want the rooms to have a look I wish them to. Can it be considering as cheating? ;/

I use InSim mostly to make friends quickly or to maximize motives (but I usually only do that on community lots or in the morning to give my sims a boost before work). Otherwise, I try my best not to cheat. I usually fail, but at least I'm trying!

i can't remember the last time i didn't use cheats throughout nearly the entire game. when i go to a friend's house and they don't use cheats - or at least, not as many as i do - i just can't understand how they aren't about to rip the computer off the desk and throw it out the window.

i don't think cheating is really cheating in a bad sense of the word, because you can't win or lose at sims. it's just playing how you want. i like that sims 2 is so alterable, so you can play it basically any way that you want to.

usually i do cheat, not tons tons tons but a good amount. once i set the family $$$ at the amount i want though, they usually have to live with that. for my legacy family, the only cheats i use besides building cheats are "move_objects on" <--- can't live without! and "boolprop testingcheatsenabled true" but JUST for moods. They gain their own aspirations, skills, relationships, etc.

Plus I have my own rules for moods cheats in my legacy family. You can't use any mood cheats on pregnant people or elders. You can only raise moods three times a day plus while they are at work, but you can lower moods as often as needed.

So I do put restrictions on my cheating, although some may say that defeats the purpose...

When I first discovered cheats in TS1, I was such a Cheatzilla! However, it really sucked the fun out of the game for me, so I don't use cheats anymore with families that I develop and play. I do use Insimenator and the money cheats when I'm making up a family that's just going to be part of my neighborhood and not a family I play regularly.

I do alot. I use maxmotives and motherlode alot. I try not to use maxmotives that much, but i fail horribly at it.

I cannot imagine how to play a business lot and not to use maxmotives, I'd have to send my employees home after 6-7 hours and that's too little to be able to gain a decent profit for the day, and that's why my Sim and his/her employees spend at least 24 hours working before I send them all home.

At first when I got the game I used the motherlode cheat a LOT. But now I only use cheats when I'm building houses. Sometimes when I've just start a new family & I don't have a lot of money to pay their bills & buy furniture, I'll buy the dream catcher and sell it the next day (it goes up in appreciation by 1000 in just 1 day). I only do this when I'm really really stuck btw.

I never cheat.

I would probably only cheat if I needed to make an extra-special house or something.

I never cheat: it's bad and ruins the game for me. Cheaters never win at sims or beat Kuro Wallbanker in the end of the story arc.