The Sims 4

The Sims 4 has started offering a “Motherlode Shortcut” to Players

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The Sims 4 is somewhat known for its helpful ways of recommending cheats to the player. Whether it’s a Tip on The Sims 4’s Home Page or in the game’s loading screen, the game often finds a way to remind the player that there are cheats in the game.

However, we really haven’t seen The Sims 4 offering help or shortcuts while actually playing the game – up until now.

@CarlsSimGuides reports that their friend has just recently gotten the following message while playing the game:

The Sims 4 has started offering a “Motherlode Shortcut” to Players

As you can see in the prompt screen above the game notifies the player that they are running low on funds and that they have a one time Simoleons offer, with some tips on how you can earn Simoleons in the game. If the offer is accepted you’ll be given 50,000 Simoleons – which is the same amount of Simoleons you get after typing in the motherlode cheat. Of course this shortcut is only optional and you can choose to cancel the offer.

He explained that the message popped out once his friend started running low on funds in the game. To make things a bit more weird the sum that his friend had was 2,280 Simoleons – which to be frank isn’t a drastically low amount for a message like this to be popping out.

Right now we don’t know when exactly did The Sims Team implement this chance feature in the game nor how rare it is, but we can confirm that it is featured in The Sims 4 after confirming this prompt screen is included now in the game files.

Do you like this idea of “one time gifts” in The Sims 4 or do you prefer for features like this to be exclusive for the cheat console? Let us know in the comments!

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Soily26
Soily26
3 years ago

Surely you can just hit the cancel button if you don’t want it? Not really an intrusion on gameplay

Amania
Amania
3 years ago

I saw this before recent update also, i don’t like it tbh

Bad Dad
Bad Dad
3 years ago

Did someone whine that its too hard to make money in the game???

Laura Price
Laura Price
3 years ago
Reply to  Bad Dad

Right?! I can’t get rid of money in this game. Supposed to be a life simulation…. not my life

Graeme Spence
Graeme Spence
3 years ago
Reply to  Laura Price

To be fair if you write books in sims 3 or 4 money becomes a non issue

Alexandria Web
Alexandria Web
3 years ago

Not sure exactly how long it’s been there, but someone posted about this on The Sims subreddit about a month or so ago, I’m guessing it’s pretty rare though because I’ve run a couple of rags to riches challenges since I saw the post and neither of them got the pop up despite being utterly flat broke for a while.

teaworshipper
teaworshipper
3 years ago

Personally, I’d prefer it to be a bit more specific towards what’s actually going to happen. As well as the choices to be more specific to what’ll happen from which option. As they are, they are kind of vague.
As for play wise, I’d actually prefer a lottery type of thing or some kind of fortunate encounter or something like that. XD

Leyaa
Leyaa
3 years ago

While I think its not bad, I would have liked it more if its tied to gameplay or story telling in some way.

On the other hand, it can be quite tough to play entirely without cheats and gameplay becomes a little repetitive. So small push in income might help for those who want to play without cheats.

Anna
Anna
3 years ago

I like it that they are implementing more ‘once in a lifetime’ chance to get rich, just like the ‘get married within a week to get a lot of money’ thing. But like others also mentioned, it would be nice if this were to be tied to gameplay somehow. Maybe a great uncle is feeling generous? Or maybe this could be a loan from some rich dude that you will have to payback etc.

EmoScotchTape
EmoScotchTape
3 years ago

I was half zoned out when I got the pop up and I’m doing a legacy challenge with the save so I really don’t know how to feel about it. It’s not super useful, and I could’ve managed but I guess I can spend money on ridiculous things now?

Sam
Sam
3 years ago

I agree with most saying that if you can cancel it, then I don’t see the problem. Personally, as a player who doesn’t want to use cheat (mainly as I am a ps4 player and want to collect the trophies – alllowing cheats removes the right to earn them), having this pop-up here and there would be great!

Emma Harris
Emma Harris
3 years ago

I think this would be great, but in a format of a loan with interest rates that could potentially make you worse off to lose everything!

gamelia
gamelia
3 years ago
Reply to  Emma Harris

That was my first thought as well. In real life, I get 2 or 3 promotional rate offers in the mail every day, not to mention through email. I would love it in the game more than irl. ha

gamelia
gamelia
3 years ago

It would fantastic if this notice was pushing a bank loan instead of a gift. A loan with a promotional 21 day 0% interest rate, which then goes to a 26.99% interest rate thereafter.

Hannah Hayes
Hannah Hayes
3 years ago

There’s no harm in this. Sure some people will complain, but they can just click cancel. Not everyone plays the same way – some people will love this. Especially for those people who don’t know about the cheats. And I’m sure there’s plenty of people like that – not everyone scours the internet for guides on how to play.
I like Carl’s guides, but I don’t follow his videos or reviews or anything like that because he is way way too negative and listening to him would spoil my love of the game.

awesome_mia
awesome_mia
3 years ago

Leave it in the cheat console! I agree with the others – if they insist on making it part of the game, make it a loan or something.