userStartup.cheat

[CTNutmegger]

 The line you have as "bugjardecay" has to written like this -  bugJarTimeDecay off or all commands following it seem to be voided.  Written with the off, the bugs don't die.

 

[Gwill]

Marhis, you do know that the < and > keys are needed to get the 45 degree rotation?

If you don't have a English keyboard (where the > and < function are on the same key), the game uses , and . in stead.

[sara_dippity]

I moved the bugjar cheat to the bottom, and all cheats worked fine. The bugjar cheat did not work as startup (even bugJarTimeDecay off, which is the way I wrote it the first time, as shown in the attatched file, silly CTNutmegger!) However, I put it in as an alias and it worked even after loading the game a second time. So the cheat is saved somehow when you save the game. Well, at least it was for the jar on the lot.... I had one firefly jar, entered the cheat, saved, exited, reloaded the game, reloaded the lot, did not reenter the cheat, waited two sim days and the bugs were still going. Then my sim caught some butterflies and they died. So either it needs to be reentered each time you get a jar or it doesn't work for butterflies.
Come to think of it, isn't the anti aging cheat saved with the lot? It's been a looooong time since I entered that one (like, the first week I got the game) and I think I only entered it once and never again, had to turn it off when I decided to see aging.

[Marhis]

Yes, thanks, I use those keys; the strange fact is that it worked only if I enter it when in a lot, and not if it's in the userstartup file. But I remember this by the first times I've tried, and didn't bother too much to investigate.
If it happended only to me, then very probabily I've mistyped it, or that was an Aspyr bug. For sure now I'm curious and will try again.

[witch]

I found the same problem with having the command in the userstartup.cheat. I haven't tried from the command prompt in game.

I didn't get the bit about keyboards - do English keyboards have < and > on the same key? I have a US keyboard - at least that's what it says every time I install Windoze.

[jsalemi]

I didn't get the bit about keyboards - do English keyboards have < and > on the same key? I have a US keyboard - at least that's what it says every time I install Windoze.

I think Gwill was saying that the < and > are on the same keys as ',' and '.'  on English keyboards. On some foreign keyboards (or if you remap your keyboard to a foreign language), that's no longer true.

[witch]

Oh, well mine is the same as Gwill's then.

[madamejeanie]

In my experiments, the 45 degrees cheat and the moveobjects cheat didn't work in userstartup - as a "global" cheat, but only in each lot. Maybe that would explain something.

I have the 45 degree cheat in my startup as a global and it works fine.  I got tired of typing in the alias because I use that one a lot.