Ever wonder what building and playing cheats I like so much that I have them aliased in a userStartup.cheat file? Well, I was talking about that with someone else today, and decided to post mine. Here is what they are; to use them, put them in a text file named "userStartup.cheat" in your My Documents/EA Games/The Sims 2/Config directory:

intprop maxnumofvisitingsims 15

boolProp testingCheatsEnabled true
boolprop allow45DegreeAngleOfRotation true
boolprop ControlPets on
boolprop PetActionCancel true

sethighestallowedlevel 8

alias bob "plumbbobtoggle" "Toggle the plumbbob"
alias cfeon "boolprop constrainFloorElevation true" "Turn on floor constraints"
alias cfeoff "boolprop constrainFloorElevation false" "Turn on floor constraints"
alias epson "boolprop ShowCatalogEPFlags true" "Display what EP items came with"
alias epsoff "boolprop ShowCatalogEPFlags false" "Stop displaying what EP items came with"
alias loton "boolprop ShowLotPackageFilename true" "Turn on display of filenames for lots"
alias lotoff "boolprop ShowLotPackageFilename false" "Turn off display of filenames for lots"
alias moveon "moveobjects on" "Move all objects"
alias moveoff "moveobjects off" "Stop moving all objects"
alias petfree "boolprop PetsFreeWill true" "Turns on free will for pets"
alias petstay "boolprop PetsFreeWill false" "Turns off free will for pets"
alias showon "showheadlines on" "Turn on thought bubbles and pop-ups"
alias showoff "showheadlines off" "Turn off thought bubbles and pop-ups"
alias snapon "boolprop snapObjectsToGrid true" "Resume aligning objects to grid"
alias snapoff "boolprop snapObjectsToGrid false" "Stop aligning objects to grid"
alias teston "boolprop testingCheatsEnabled true" "Debug mode on"
alias testoff "boolprop testingCheatsEnabled false" "Debug mode off"
alias toolson "boolprop dormSpecificToolsDisabled false" "Enables Buy/Build tools at dorms and community lots"
alias toolsoff "boolprop dormSpecificToolsDisabled true" "Disables Buy/Build tools at dorms and community lots"
alias apttoolson "boolprop aptSubLotSpecificToolsDisabled false" "Enables Buy/Build tools at apartment lots"
alias apttoolsoff "boolprop aptSubLotSpecificToolsDisabled true" "Disables Buy/Build tools at apartment lots"