Question about cockroaches and cheats in City Living?

[coolsim9999999]

I know some apartments will have cockroaches. 

However...I would like a sometimes family to live in the city because, this pack looks cool and increased game play would be sweet.


questions:
1. Will Sims be able to bring back cockroaches to a midrange price, nice apartment or penthouses from going out and about in the city --- or from work or having fun or at festivals --- or even to Newcrest, etc.?

2a.  Can we still use the cheats rosebud, motherlode or money x to give a sim more money?
2b. What about career cheats?

3.  I have a cheap house in Willow Creek that I use in my game for new Sims because it's cheap.  Could I place new Sims there, give them money, and then, place them in a penthouse in the city?

4. Is the 120 Sim cap still in place with the City Living pack?  I have a handful of Sims whom I could delete to make room, if needed.

Thanks a lot,

Coolsim

[Playalot]

1. Don't know yet.
2. Yes and the cheats I know are careers.promote socialmedia
careers.promote politics
careers.promote critic
stats.set_skill_level adultmajor_singing
but I haven't tested them yet!
3. Moving sims will work as always so yes.
4. The cap has been lifted but I'm not sure exactly what it is I know last time it was lifted it was 220... so more than that anyway.  Remember you can have as many sims as you want in houses etc that will never be culled, it's just your out of household sims that would get culled when you go over the cap.

[coolsim9999999]

1. Don't know yet.
2. Yes and the cheats I know are careers.promote socialmedia
careers.promote politics
careers.promote critic
stats.set_skill_level adultmajor_singing
but I haven't tested them yet!
3. Moving sims will work as always so yes.
4. The cap has been lifted but I'm not sure exactly what it is I know last time it was lifted it was 220... so more than that anyway.  Remember you can have as many sims as you want in houses etc that will never be culled, it's just your out of household sims that would get culled when you go over the cap.

Thanks so much, Play!

1. I guess I could just start a new game, and see where the cockroaches are, so that my main family doesn't get them --- once we find out about their location, then, I could bring my main family safely (without bugs) to the city, as tourists.  That sounds like it would work. 

I am planning to have a "sometimes family" in the city.

2. I'm glad we can use cheats.  Thanks for the new ones, too.

3. Thanks

4. I think I'll put a few more Sims in houses, then.  I have exactly 120 Sims in houses (played and unplayed).  It would be nice to put them in houses --- or I could move them to the city and keep some original city Sims, but add in some of my own that I've created. 

It's good to know that the cap has been lifted.

[Playalot]

@coolsim9999999  for early level Politician I have careers.promote activist as a working cheat. More will be added as we get to them, betcha Carl beats me to it though as I keep getting distracted by all the things! lol

[coolsim9999999]

@coolsim9999999  for early level Politician I have careers.promote activist as a working cheat. More will be added as we get to them, betcha Carl beats me to it though as I keep getting distracted by all the things! lol

Thanks for the additional career cheat, @Playalot.  Hmmm....I guess it depends on if you "ignore the object" like in OR to get to the Deep Woods or not .  @Carl will beat you for sure, if you "take the object"...

[Carl]

I just got the career/skill cheats for this EP into the guide. I'd already known activist was the correct way to level politician, and socialmedia was really obvious. The way to level up the Critic career is to use careers.promote adult_critic

I haven't had a cockroach in my games yet, I have only focused on analyzing gameplay stuff thus far, mainly to see how well they executed the new careers/skill to see if there was any depth to it.

[coolsim9999999]

@Carl --- Thanks a lot for putting the career/skill cheats in your guide already.  I just looked at the page and links in the guide, as well as the updates to the main cheat page.  As always, it's very helpful.

I'm glad you haven't seen any cockroaches in this EP yet.  I'm going to start with a new game/family to move into the city.  They'll be my "sometimes family."  Then, I'll go into my main game and take my main family there to visit as tourists.

Coolsim

[zoozee]

I think the roaches and the rats only come if you use the specific trait for your lot.
And you can do that in any of your worlds (Willow Creek, Oasis Springs etc.)

I have had my sims live in San Myshuno in 2 different districts - and none of them
have seen any roaches or rats - because I picked the appartments that did not have
the traits for the creatures. I hate those things in RL and I sure would not like to see
my sims having them ..

[coolsim9999999]

Thanks, @zoozee!

[Playalot]

I'm thinking that roaches, rats etc are tied to the Needs TLC lot trait. Which is one of those traits that can not be removed and is not available in the lot trait list.
http://www.carls-sims-4-guide.com/lottraits/

[coolsim9999999]

@Playalot --- I think you're right about the Needs TLC and bugs and rats. 

[Caitie]

The cockroaches are as a result of an invisible spawner. Yes, they're only in apartments with the (unremovable) "Needs TLC" lot trait, as far as I know, but just like the mouse hole and the fuse box (for example) there's a specific object that the roaches are spawned from. The only difference is that the mouse hole and fuse box are visible, whereas the roach spawner isn't.

[Playalot]

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. 

[coolsim9999999]

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. 

Oh, wow!  Thanks, Play  !

[Caitie]

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.