Cheat!

As every good lot builder knows, the easiest way to achieve something is to cheat. And there we all are. Cheat to your heart's content. Bend and warp tiles into places they're not meant to go with 'boolprop constrainFloorElevation false' and 'locktiles', slap trees in the middle of your living room with 'moveobjects on' (that's your Sims' living room - NOT yours!), and centre the uncenterable with 'boolprop snapObjectsToGrid false'. Yep, in the lot-building world, cheating IS everything. For the life of me, I cannot think of a single lot where I haven't cheated in some way to achieve an effect.

With that in mind, I'd therefore just like to point out that the elevator in my last blog is also a cheat. Sure, my Sims are using it, but it doesn't travel up and down (now THAT would be some cheat!). Instead, it uses another of my useless creations: invisible modular stairs (I'm releasing those in my up-and-coming "Urban Renewal Elevator Construction Kit set). These invisible stairs are being used as 'elevator stairs' (Judyhugsnoopy has written a blindingly good tutorial on this in TSR's own Build-A-Lot forums - and it is SIMPLE). This cheat allows you to place a small portion of steps into a tiny space. Yes, this lift might only be 3 x 2 squares in size, but in it is a stairway to the next level.

Or you could simply save yourself the grief and go to one of those 'other' sites we all know about where people have already made working 'stair teleporters'... I suppose, if pressed, I would have to admit (through gritted zipped teeth) that I'm not good enough to make something like that, so therefore MY option is, simply, to cheat!

All arguments on a postcard to the usual address, please.