The Sims 3: Fire (Part Two)

It's a shame you can't choose a career outfit right off with CaS upon first creating your Sim in cases like this. I messed around with creating her acrobat outfit in the athletic section with the clothing filters disabled so that I could choose anything to work with.

I tend to do a lot of really intensive tweaking with every aspect of creating a Sim, possibly to a fault. I actually have a habit of only making Sims one after another and never actually playing the game at all. Sometimes I work on houses, but I rarely ever play them.

For that matter, I should also say that I have no problem with using cheats in a game like The Sims. Everyone's reasons for playing it are different, so sometimes it just facilitates what you want from the game. I like customization and making my world the way it would be if I could control real life that way. I don't see any reason for anyone else to care whether I use cheats to achieve that, especially when things like money cheats are part of The Sims, to begin with.

Also, if I want to create a character from a television show, I find it stupid to have to have her work to earn a few hundred simoleons a day to save up enough to buy the house she already lives in on the show, build up the relationships she already has and possibly have a lifetime history along the way that has nothing to do with where we find her when we meet her on said show.

There are several more reasons why people shouldn't be uptight about other people's use of cheats in games like The Sims. What if I know a family I want to create in the game, their house is a certain size, has certain furniture and the family has a certain amount of money? Then I would possibly have to use building cheats, as well as money cheats and other things, such as those for placing objects where they normally won't go--again, all of which are coded into game, itself. Oh, and say you want to make a family of children or a family of ten? Cheats. What if it's just not accurate otherwise?

Don't dis my need to use cheats!

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