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Elliandre
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Does anyone else play on this setting? There is a warning popup when you switch, so I have some anxiety, although nothing has happened in my game yet. Is it harmful to the game? What do you think? Not worth the risk?
I play on rotation and I just like to favourite all the Sims so that they don't get culled before I can play them, because I've heard the Sims will disappear from the game after a while if you don't play them.
I play on rotation and I just like to favourite all the Sims so that they don't get culled before I can play them, because I've heard the Sims will disappear from the game after a while if you don't play them.
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As far as if it is bad or not, really depends on your PC specs. The main reason for it is performance.
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I was kind of nervous at first, but not after it becoming normal. Plus my hardware upgrade in January 2021 means I sweat it even less.
To keep sims safe from culling, go to manage households and add households from the other household section to My Households section and they're safe.
Culling still happens on unlimited setting, but the game won't limit on how many sims can you keep safe from it.
So far, I have experienced no performance drops.
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@SailorCeti From the household manager screen if you look at the bottom right there is a maximum Sim count setting for your favourited households. I'm not sure what the default is, mine was usually 200, but with all the premades I have gone past this limit so I switched it to the next higher which is unlimited. In the manager you can click on the heart and it will move the household to My Households where they will be safe from getting deleted by the game population culling.
a lot of my favorited sims are townies that i just like for various reasons, many have been around for rl years and gone through several edits, and things like restaurant staff have been thrown together into households for each restaurant.
with the numbers i've got, some of my non-favorited households do get culled pretty often but they're frequently the randomly generated things like bar regulars that don't even matter anyway. (i believe even when set to unlimited about 800 is still the technical max before mass culling happens)
will say that favoriting sims isn't always the best idea, as some seem to be designed to always spawn a new non-favorited version... the servo and college ghost from the university pack are good examples of this (i've got 5 servos and 2 college ghosts because of that. not counting the servos some of my sims have built themselves)
Because I can't; I keep all sigs turned off.
ohhh it's 800? That is good to know. I don't have half that yet, and I am always deleting random townies because I worry they take up space and might make the game run slower but maybe I should just leave them then. I usually leave the ones I recognize from lot jobs.
I think the max Sim count might depend on how many EPs you have, but I'm not sure. I think they boost the number with each one.
So far I haven't had any performance issues that I've noticed, but I kind of expect to at some point, especially if my Sims start reproducing after the romance pack comes out.
hasn't been updated in over a year, though, and when it was last updated 800 was the listed max. it very well may be higher now, since the person who read the files at every update stopped reporting in the thread
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/905991/culling-relationship-culling-amp-decay-current-status/p1
Ever since I lost everything, I've been restarting building up households, then converting them to "unplayed" (For now anyways)
I noticed that since I'm only keeping 1 Sim so far on as "Played" all the time, even with "unlimited" on, It says 1 Sim of unlimited.
So 'unplayed' and NPC's etc don't count towards this.
That's because the limit is just a limit on how many sims you can protect from culling in the "My Households" section, not how many trigger culling. There's no settings available to actually alter the culling triggers (without mods). If you send them to "Other Households", they are simply not protected.
Unless you use mods that allow you to protect sims that are in Other Households or that disable culling, any sims in the "other households" category could get culled regardless of what you set the limit to. Though special sims and any sims in houses don't get culled either way unless you have a LOT of sims in the world, from what I've read.
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Edit: wait, culling? Oh no
I used the term "played" but what the categories are actually called is "My Households" and "Other Households". The flag that keeps track of played vs. unplayed is separate. You don't have to actually play a household to protect them, you just need to have them in the "My Households" section of the Manage Households interface.
That's my bad for incorrect terminology and confusing the issue. I've edited my post to make it less...unclear.
Culling is also not nearly as bad as it used to be. It used to trigger at a pretty low total sim count, somewhere around like 150 or something. It's way up there now, at like 800. I don't actually protect any households any longer except the ones I actually am playing (which is why I mucked up the terminology).
And even so, I can't remember the last time I noticed a sim get culled...which means, if culling has happened, the game has done a great job of picking sims/households that I simply haven't had any meaningful contact with it.
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I have more than 80 actual played sims
I play rotationaly and some households have a lot of sims. I have a couple of hosueholds that contain 35 sims. Yes, with autonomy on it can be absolute chaos!
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I play on unlimited too. I just recently went over 500. I have a lot of big families. I've been taking the time this morning to delete CC I don't plan to use and preparing for the next game pack. I need a whole new world. That's why I wish the game wouldn't generate new sims for services, we should be able to have playable nannies, landlords and maids who work as maids when you aren't playing them.
Just the thought of that gives me a headache.
Its actually not that bad if you have single purpose households such as a 'factory' type setup - churn out crafts.
I first did it when the game was released and I tried to create multiple households on the same lot using door lock mods to keep the households apart. Was really pleased when they became part of the game. Bit of a faff to setup, but good fun!
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How can you even control a Sim, when they don't show up on the UI, though? This worries me. I want more than six kids in one household, but they don't have icons showing that I can access. What is your secret, please?
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