While the daily-grind, hard work and associated rewards are noble ways to go about building your Sims a happy and fruitful lifestyle, there is no Sanbox mode in The Sims 3 which allows you to simply build a dream house and live a life of leisure and luxury with no constraints. Some of the building tools are also restricting, confined to a grid and not allowing complete control over object placement. EA have generously provided a heap of cheats, some very useful and some merely humorous to ease these potential limitations.
All traditional cheats in the game must be entered via the game’s ‘console’ or command line. To activate it, press CTRL+SHIFT+C together (Vista users may need to do CTRL+SHIFT+WINDOWS+C). You will then see the screen darken and a blue bar appear at the top which you can then type into. Cheats are shown in bold type (You don’t need to enter the parenthesis (these things: ‘ ‘ ). Where a series of values is given, such as 0-5, only one number between the values should be entered. Cheats are not case-sensitive. Capitals are used for cheats in this guide only to help distinguish between words and make their entry easier.
Note: Some ‘cheats’ require activation of the game’s debug mode, which allows more elaborate and ‘game-breaking’ cheats. To do this, after triggering the command line, enter ‘testingCheatsEnabled true’. To deactivate, use ‘testingCheatsEnabled false’. More information on this is given for the cheats that require this command.
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