The money cheat is actually in the manual(well in mine that is, in Danish). All you have to do, is press and hold CTRL+SHIFT then press C. I bar will appear in the top of the screen. Enter Motherlode, then press enter. Voila! 50 big ones! Have fun! P.S. Its much more fun to play without cheats.
I agree in a premade neighborhood, this is true. However, the money cheat (and SimPE) come in very handy when making a new neighborhood from scratch. Without these cheats your neighborhood is little more than a pretty slum. With the cheats you can establish the rich, middle-class, and poor in a few simple steps.
er .. search engines, Flameangel, darling. SimPE is software released as 'alpha' ... this means that is has no support, loads of potential unsolved bugs, zillions of unforeseen problems ... in short it is not a tool for amateurs. I apologise sincerely for the fact that this sounds like I am being truly snotty. I am not. I am trying to save you a load of grief.
Money cheats and SimPE are indeed useful if you want to make your own premade neighbourhood. However, if you play a neighbourhood from scratch you can easily get it up to rich standard quickly without using any cheats. But is it more fun to play without cheats then with them? Well, that depends. Personally I don't like having unlimited cash in play mode. However, I DO like to have unlimited cash in design mode. Create great houses and then let the sim struggle to pay the rent. Of course, starting at rock bottom can be fun too. But it gets old very quickly, it's not something I like to do with every family I play. My most extreme family so far in this regard is the Fortress family. One adult and her elderly parents, starting on a five by five yard that costed them ocer 15k of their 20k budget. Then I built a small house with expensive furniture, locked the parents in and burned them to death. Well, one of them survived, so I made her a pool to suicide in over her husbands tragic death. Poor Jane was left with a negatively maxed out aspiration meter, no money and no furniture and no job. Only some scrap metal to sell off for a few bucks. She quickly got herself a job in the military, and her first pay afforded her to buy a bed. Food was still out of the question, but luckily she got fed on work and earned enough fo buy a fridge before her fist holiday. After a few days of hard work in the military and selling off all scraps, she had a 4x2 house with a bed and a chair in it. Bookshelf and fridge and toilet as such was lined up against the outer wall, and weed was growing everywhere. One week after that, she got her sixth promotion, the one with the aspiration award. I now had enough money to make her a neat little house with all the necesseties of life indoors. Even some luxuries. But why bother? Instead, I dumped a few motherlode on her and built a huge military bunker and had her superior officer move in with her. The superior officer, Artemis previously lived with her mother Diane, Diane's wife Sheena, and Sheena's daughter Miranda. All three are maxed out in their career paths - Sheena and Diane are mad scientists, and Miranda is the Mayor. With such a background, it's not hard to see a ingame raitionale for the motherlode money. The govenrnment bought the lot and built it's bunker there, giving Jane and Artemis the duty of looking after it. That they got themselves a great home in the process wasn't just a side effect... it was pure oldfashioned nepotism. (By the way. Diane and Sheena worked their way from the bottom to the top as first generation sims without any cheats or benefits of any kind. And Miranda had no cheats and no benefits beyond the ones that comes with being a second generation sim.)
I happen to like the feeling of knowing that I raised my neighborhood from slum and trailer park to a fairly nice place all through hard work. And 50K chance cards. The nice thing about playing for your money, rather than using cheats for it, is that you never know who might end up rich, as being rich often strikes suddenly, as you hit 2 50K chance cards in a row, and suddenly you have a 100K bank account and the next day, before you can move out, the husband takes in anothe 50K card, and now the family is suddenly filthy stinking rich. Heh, that's rarely much of a struggle, as even on my most hideous large 5x5s, the bills are a mere $400 or so, which can be covered even on the entry-level salary of many jobs. You have a point here: I *AM* getting pretty tired of seeing the same bungalow-shack and trailer being passed from sim to sim. The way I get around this, of course, is arranged marriages: By marrying two single starting sims together, I get a more healthy starting budget of around $40K, which is more able to build a family home that actually looks kinda like a house, as opposed to a hut or trailer. Weeds everywhere? Weeds don't grow unless the ground is watered, or you have existing plants. I take it you must have spent the first few days peeing yourself on the floor instead? Yeah, it's like in real life: Eventually, you just get used to living in spartan efficiency, and even start to prefer it. I mean, look at me: I have lots of money, and not a thing which qualifies as luxurious. If I paid a lot of money for something, I did it to make it indestructible, not luxurious. Being a gen-1 Sim is indeed a very hefty advantage, as you get to start with actual survival skills. By gen-2, it'll be rare indeed for a sim to leave home without at least one maxed skill. The older a Sim is created at gen-0, the more disadvantaged he is: An adult sim begins with absolutely no skills, an elder sim not only has no skills, but also no job...and he can't really get one. Gen-0 children are slightly better off, if you started them as toddlers, but even then, unless you cheated, you probably don't have the resources to raise children that well, unless you're really good at this.
Just cause i dont know some abbreveations does not mean im a amatuer! I hate it when ppl do that they thing just cause they know some special abbreveations and words they think anyone who doesnt know them is and amatuer Is their a problem with asking questions so i can learn new things?:disappointed: that really putsppl down u know
All you have to do if your starting off generation-0 make the dad a Knowledge sim and the mom a family sim which would let the dad advance in his career quickley without disturbence, and the mom help with homwork etc. once the kids/toddlers a teen the mom will have gained a lot of cooking/cleaning points so give her a job in culinary. This is if u make the mom do the house work and while the family is at school/work make her watch "the yummy channel" because family sims prefer fun to reading all day.
Actually, yeah, there is: Some people tend to get irritated when people post questions where the answers are already widely known and could have been found if the poster just used the various search functions available to him. If people used these functions, forums wouldn't end up being clogged with 30 copies of the same question. Running at least a cursory proofreading of your postings and using proper punctuation also helps to make you look more intelligent when asking such questions as well. It never looks good when you write a mangled post with minimalistic punctuation and atrocious spelling, merely to ask a question that has been answered a million times. Regardless of if there's any TRUTH to it, people are not going to think highly of you for it.
Thanks for telling me, i didn't know ppl were so judjly here. I WILL pay better attention to my spelling now, i'm usually in a rush so it's annoying somtimes....
