One thing I've heard over and over at the BBS is that it is VERY important to ALWAYS turn off boolprop testingcheats when you're done using it because it will cause serious problems if you leave it on!
Well, that's understandable for people who only know the basics, and where would those people go to for answers when something goes wrong which they don't know how to fix and the people who introduced the testingcheats were long gone, know what I mean? People who are new to the debug mode (probably the same people responsible for melodramatic posts like
'Boolprop ruined my life!', and who also seems to be allergic to using the 'Search' function on the BBS) may be warned in an exaggerated manner , but at least they were warned not to leave it on if they don't know what they are doing. I myself am too much of a chicken to leave testingcheats on now
. When I found out about this
'cheat
' last year, I used and experimented with it freely, exiting without saving when I screwed up, until people started disappearing from my sims' phone books. I had no idea how to get those people back at the time, there also didn't seem to be any 'boolprop tutorials' back then 'cos my searches turned up empty. I was also scratching my head over the immense slowing down of the lot - turned out those vanished people from the phone book were stuck on lot, invisible. It wasn't until I came across Merola's Mind Control Mirror shortly after that I knew what to do. As much as it was funny seeing those people standing on the sidewalk or pacing the lawn with a phone to their ears still chatting long after my sims hung up, that incident ended my debug-mode-on days
.