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My game isn't allowing more than 8 total pets and sims
thetideschanging
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My current family has 5 sims and 3 pets and the game is telling me I have no more room in my household. I've heard that the limit was raised to 10. Does anyone know a way to fix this? I lost the opportunity to adopt a unicorn because of this....
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The limit is and always will be 8.
At max, you can have 6 Pets and 2 Sims. Or, if you can juggle them, 4 Pets and 4 Sims.
There's no way to get more than that without a core mod.
EA's press release was unclear with how many Sims and Pets you can have in one household, and a lot of players jumped to the conclusion that the cap was increased.
It was not.
But that also depends on your pc. Just like the game sets your game settings according to your pcs capabilities - it also will set a default for the number of sims and pets your game can control in one household. I am not sure if it goes by how great the specs are or how much ram - but I have great spec and 8 gigs of high speed gaming ram and I have families with 6 pets and as many as 7 sims in their house. I have not tried for an eigth sim yet. I am not alone as family members of mine that have a similar set up as I do, get the same.
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Zeek I can give you the family I downloaded, as it was not mine It is the Abernethy Family by Mrsbosselman112
http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=4828978
The mom has a set of twins a few days after they were in the game - the family comes with 5 sims, the pregnant mom, and 2 cats, and 2 dogs. In my game the teens befriended a foal and it's wild mom and they added those to the house with no problem.
I was looking for the other two families I have where they already have 7 and 8 sims plus 6 pets, but I can't find them. I downloaded them off the exchange as just families and their kids were small some time ago and they got the pets themselves in my town, I did not get the pets for them. I generally just put a few large families in my game that look fairly good, get each one jobs and set up to play, like I gave them barns and gardens, jobs, etc and then left them to their own accord. That way my own sims will have decent looking friends and possible spouses. On their own most of them have all kind of pets without me doing any thing.
The Abernathies I stayed with just for a sims week - usually i just stay a sims day to get them skills and jobs, but where I discovered the mom was expecting, I stayed to hopely give the baby a good set of traits and did help the Teens befriending the horses. When one was feeding the foal it just asked if I wanted to adopt them and I clicked yes.
ETA -Sorry I didn't answer right away as we were having Real life problem with the propane and the hubby was having a fit. No Offense but i just got to stomp my foot and Yell "MENNNNN!!!!!" Sometimes he is exasperating.
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I've got: i7 950, GTX580, 12GB of RAM, running off a SSD. Not sure which spec is lacking and needs to be improved
Shelled out nearly 3k on a gaming computer and a year later it "can't handle" max sim/pet households in Sims 3 lol.
Hmmm Perhaps it's a combination of things. I am playing one of Rflongs worlds that i am populating myself - so there is way less families in it right now than a standard world would have. I don't have or use third party content or mods with the exception of Overwatch and ErrorTrap.
So nothing to grate on my memory at all. I run an FPS limiter locked at 65 fps. My machine runs super cool with my cooling system and Arctic silver coolant - I run 140mm 750 V8 coppee fans in here - case and processor, the V Card runs the ASUS never needs cleaning fan system, and my ram all has those little dual fans on each of them with Arctic Silver - I don't know. Unless it is a population thing for the overall hood. Perhaps when I have more houses and households in here the max will drop.
Right now there is just 7 households but each one has at least 7 or 8 sims in them with 2-6 pets. In my own house hold I just have my sim. He had a hedgehog that he let go before his last Egypt trip to finish the last tomb.
No other sims can move in on their own because I removed all the houses and only build a new one for each family as I add it, so it takes a while. I am building them all farms or ranches.
So I'll see how it is when I get to the average hood - or more wildlife comes into town. So far I have only seen 1 raccoon, 1 deer, 6 horses. No cats, dogs, or Unicorns. The family above took two of the horses. If the number reduces when the town reaches a normal limit I will come back here and post. Maybe that has something to do with it.
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Those are some interesting points you've made. I do play with a lot of custom content and no mods except Overwatch. I'll try removing them and see if there's an improvement.
I don't have fancy cooling in my computer but there is enough airflow and it's staying quite cool since I found an fps limiter.
I've never tried self populating a neighbourhood before though. Is it as simple as downloading a user made world and creating families? Or is there something I need to change so it won't self populate?
Create A Pet
Create a Pet offers players the ability to create and customize any Cat, Dog or Horse Also, for the first time ever, you are able to play as the pet within a household. In order to add a Pet to a household, there must be at least one Sim in the family. You can create a new pet to add to a household with Sims, or use the Telephone to adopt a pet. Animal only households are not possible.
You can however create Pets in CAP without a Sim and they will automatically be saved into the neighborhood bin for you to add to any household at a later time. Upon exit from CAP, you can also choose the relationship between pets.
The Household limit has been upgraded to 10 members. You can have a maximum of 8 Sims and 6 pets per household. Combined, the members cannot exceed 10 per household, and also cannot exceed the max allowed per species. Collectible Pets (Birds, Lizards, Snakes, Rodents etc) do not have a max allowance. As long as you can afford them, you can have as many as you would like.
The game does not set the number of sims per household by the specs of your computer, EA sets the limit for the game, Not the specs of a computer. And your computer HAS to meet the SPECS of the game. The game will not adjust to the pcs compats. If your computer doesn't not have the correct processor or graphics card it's not gonna run correctly, or maybe not at all. That's the problem alot of ppl are having now with the PETS EP. The more advanced graphics for the game, the higher specs are gonna be...
I've had it in my game before... to try it out, it works. I removed it, I have had no problems with my game.
Um... then how was I able to make a 10-member household?
You really wanna see it? 6 pets and 4 sims:
So yes, you can have more than 8 members to a household.
As always..you can have up to 8 sims in a family. And, you have up to six pets in a household. However that doesn't mean you can have 14 sims/pets in a family. The limit of active sims/pets is 10.
So you can have any combination within the 8 and 6 limits that adds up to 10 family members.
maybe the sim as more then one baby going to be born when mine wouldn't let me add anymore with 8 in my pregnant sim had twins which made it 10
All I did to keep the game from moving in sims is remove all the houses. If sims have no where to live they can't move in. The game will still put in service sims and register operators, mixologists and all, they will live off world without a house to steal. So I will take and either make a family in Cas or download one already made. I move it to a big empty lot and build them a house. That way I get just the sims I want in the town. But yeah I use just User created worlds that are unpopulated to do this as it mucks up the game if you delete sims, so I won't use the EA ones in worlds where I want to play just the sims I choose. I started this world with just 4 families that already had a pet or two I downloaded. My own sims I made in CAS. I have since made 2 more big families for the hood with no pets - and they have somehow secured their own pets once I finished there houses and moved them in.
But as I move each family into it new house I play them just one sims day to get them set up with skills and jobs according to their traits or wishes. Sort of get them established, and then go to the next family and empty lot and start over with them next. I do tend to go back to a family if I see a mom expecting and play them to try and make sure their baby gets good traits and a normal name. Left to EA's choice some babies have atrocious names. But other than that I don't play with the families I added for my own household to mingle with again until my sims finds a mate and sometimes I dod go back to that sims house to push the relationship along, as I try not to use any cheats. It keeps the game more interesting to me. I do use the motherlode cheat to build each families home though, just not my own sim. I make mine work their bottoms off and build their homes a bit at a time off of their own earned money. No easy street for my main sims for sure. hehehe
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No I know it isn't that because I had a sim I kicked out of the house before she got pregnant and I wasn't allowed to "try for baby" until after that sim was kicked out....