Author Topic: Question about cockroaches and cheats in City Living?  (Read 14946 times)

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Re: Question about cockroaches and cheats in City Living?
« Reply #15 on: November 17, 2016, 01:32:47 AM »
We now know that the spawners can be removed and a modder has done that. The actual trait does nothing lol but I guess the devs needed a way to identify the lots that had the spawners.  :)

I was saying that it's the "Needs TLC" trait that can't be removed. The spawners themselves can be deleted with a mod and a cheatcode (although with the roaches, you have to wait until they spawn to be able to click on the spawner to delete it). Either way, unlike real life, you can't transfer roaches from one apartment to another.  :)
@Caitie --- That's a good thing!  Also, you could spread roaches in Sims Tower from 1995 if you didn't get enough maids for your hotel rooms.

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Re: Question about cockroaches and cheats in City Living?
« Reply #16 on: November 17, 2016, 07:23:39 PM »
@Caitie --- That's a good thing!  Also, you could spread roaches in Sims Tower from 1995 if you didn't get enough maids for your hotel rooms.

That's actually really cool. Now, if only real life worked that way. I work in pest control, and I cannot tell you the number of times I've walked into an apartment and someone has roaches all over even though their kitchen is spotless, because they've come over from next door. (My company calls that apartment "ground zero", as in, the apartment the explosion of roaches originated from.) There was one apartment building one time, and it was actually funny (in a not-funny way) because you could track how close to ground zero each apartment was by how many roaches they were seeing. One apartment had none (and got a little freaked out when we asked), then the next one was seeing one or two, then the next one had a bunch, then it was the apartment where the problem originated. Fun fact: when the problem is bad enough, roaches will hang out on the ceiling sometimes. Another fun fact: their feet aren't always as good at gripping as they think they are.



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Re: Question about cockroaches and cheats in City Living?
« Reply #17 on: November 17, 2016, 08:21:56 PM »
Wow @Caitie.  That sounds like like a really stressful job.  I'll bet you do a good job for people, though :)!

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Re: Question about cockroaches and cheats in City Living?
« Reply #18 on: November 18, 2016, 03:15:53 AM »
We now know that the spawners can be removed and a modder has done that. The actual trait does nothing lol but I guess the devs needed a way to identify the lots that had the spawners.  :)

I was saying that it's the "Needs TLC" trait that can't be removed. The spawners themselves can be deleted with a mod and a cheatcode (although with the roaches, you have to wait until they spawn to be able to click on the spawner to delete it). Either way, unlike real life, you can't transfer roaches from one apartment to another.  :)

Sorry @Caitie  my reply was more of an update on my post, I just kinda skim read your post in my haste. rl's been a bit hectic lately.

The roaches and rats can now be placed on any lot with a mod (but obviously not in a vanilla game) and then deleted with advanced debug cheats with “destroy object”.

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