Hi, I did use the neomall, but I’ve figured out a way of doing this at level 1 today. It’s using a trick that nofear posted earlier to give items when faking a residential building upgrade. Basically I can build/acquire whatever I want from level 1 and not spend a single simcash or key.
I can unlock a single building, or I can give myself 10000 of each building. The trick is knowing where in the ordered list of building your target building is. So for valentines I just started giving myself all the parks until I found the valentines ones then gave myself lots. In the valentine parks you also get love beach and bridge too, even though they are not parks. I.e. some things are not in the order you expect.
i can also do the war cards and mayors challenge, but like you I don’t actually use my “power” in that. Plus I don’t edit my main city...I lost A LOT of cities to the naughty side. Now I keep everything good side. I can also give myself simcash too if I want but that is the danger zone.
Actually I do have a video, @TechnoQueen already found me on YouTube.