I'm kinda glad I started from scratch - much more entertaining!
cabelle:
You can move daughter Miranda out by sending her to college, one less family member to worry about. Just a warning though, she's pretty as a teen but as a Young Adult she has a bit of her mom's mouth. :-X I decided to reinstall a couple weeks back, once I get back to Veronaville (too busy with Pleasantview) Miranda's having a meeting with the plastic surgeon as soon as she moves into Academie LeTour! I'm also considering sending Tybalt, Juliette & Hermia to college too and have Gonereil and her family move in with dad Consort.
Another thought is with that new "familyfunds" cheat, you can give that Capp family a smaller amount than motherlode or any amount you'd like even to help them out and consider it an inheritance from Consort's deceased wife (blanking on her name at the moment) or Gonereil's "trust fund" finally being available.
I was initially bummed out at reinstalling and starting everything over but it's becoming quite fun after all. Happily ever after and mass chaos and drama all rolled up in one big fun mess. ;D
Regina:
Quote from: Trepie on 2005 October 14, 17:51:49
I want to play around with Veronaville some, but there's that Capp family that has six members and only $20k. Not sure how I'm gonna handle that without resorting to throwing five beds and a crib out on lawn. I guess I'll see if JM's Moneyorder still works and get Consort to help them out, as that seems less like cheating than Motherload does.
I was also going to suggest the family funds cheat. It's never seemed right to me that a family of 8 starts out with the same funds as a family of four so I've never been against using money cheats in situations like that. You could put them on a smallish lot and just add enough money to their account to get them started with the necessities. I wouldn't feel like that was cheating at all. :)
ZephyrZodiac:
Quote from: Trepie on 2005 October 14, 17:51:49
I had never noticed Dustin bringing Angela home everyday. I guess because I had made a new house and moved the Brokes in immediatly after starting the neighborhood anew. That house they live in at the begining is barely suitable for one sim, let alone four...
I want to play around with Veronaville some, but there's that Capp family that has six members and only $20k. Not sure how I'm gonna handle that without resorting to throwing five beds and a crib out on lawn. I guess I'll see if JM's Moneyorder still works and get Consort to help them out, as that seems less like cheating than Motherload does.
Download 4ESF's Bedroom 6, and every morning just sell the bed! Or put loads of beds on the lawn, and sell them all in the morning!
AllenABQ:
Quote from: Misty on 2005 October 14, 18:54:29
Quote from: Trepie on 2005 October 14, 17:51:49
I want to play around with Veronaville some, but there's that Capp family that has six members and only $20k. Not sure how I'm gonna handle that without resorting to throwing five beds and a crib out on lawn. I guess I'll see if JM's Moneyorder still works and get Consort to help them out, as that seems less like cheating than Motherload does.
I was also going to suggest the family funds cheat. It's never seemed right to me that a family of 8 starts out with the same funds as a family of four so I've never been against using money cheats in situations like that. You could put them on a smallish lot and just add enough money to their account to get them started with the necessities. I wouldn't feel like that was cheating at all. :)
I just find it unreasonable that every single family would move to a neighborhood with the same amount of money. If I create a CAS family where the parents already have children who are child and teen stages, then I could just as easily assume that this family has already done quite well for itself in the past and moving to the neighborhood is just another life event, not a "just starting out" venture with only $20,000 in funds. So I've never had a problem using the various money cheats to boost my sims' abilities to move into their first houses depending on the back story I've created for them. Heck, I'll even use hacked objects to tailor some family's skills, jobs, etc., to be such that it looks like they've already been played for a bit of time and I'm really just picking up at a certain point. After all, isn't that what the pre-made families really are?
My rule is: "as long as the family is interesting to play".
It has no bearing on whether they are financially challenged or not. I enjoy playing my scraping by sims as much as my middle-class and rich sims. Cheating is hardly what I would call it.
ZephyrZodiac:
And since they never get those useful phonecalls to say "Hi you've won such and such a prize" like they had in sim 1, all you're really doing is making up for that lack!
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