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fatalmoon's avatar
fatalmoon
Rising Vanguard
22 hours ago

Put Inventory Limits in Place

We've been told a few times by EA that we should not stuff our saves full of giant lots with tons of windows/greenhouses, and also not to keep tons of stuff in sims' inventories, especially if we have a lot of sims. Don't have too many custom tattoos. Don't take photos (if any, since they always turn black or break the game, even though photography is a big part of one pack and even the base game). Don't have too many rentals (even though the ad for that pack showed tons of rentals going up.) It supposedly is bad for the game and increases the chance of corruption.

If that is the case, then I think we should have a limiter on those things. For example, if 50 items in a sim's inventory is too much, then there should be a limit coded into the game for how many items each sim could have in inventory. House has too much clutter or windows? Too many rental properties? Why not a popup telling us we've exceeded the limit for that lot. Tell us exactly how many photos we can safely take. There is already a limit toggle for the number of sims we can have in the game before it starts culling them, so this would be something along those lines.

EA has put out all these packs and always markets the game as though we can do as much as we want, and lets us add pack after pack after pack and makes it seem like we have all these lots that we can build on. But when we try, the save ends up getting corrupted. Why not tell us what the limits are or stop us from exceeding the limits? 

 

6 Replies

  • Prov31Simmer's avatar
    Prov31Simmer
    Seasoned Ace
    9 hours ago

    Yea, just save the adult sim with their adult siblings and parents in your library. Save the spouses and kids separately in the library. Starting a new save, just start with the main household with the grandparents and adult kids. You then move out all the kids separately into their own households. The next step is to take the adult kids in CAS, get the spouse and kids from the library and merge the household. The last step is to fix those relationships in CAS. Setting up a clean new save can sometimes take me about 2 to 5 hours. It is worth it to avoid corruption.

  • fatalmoon's avatar
    fatalmoon
    Rising Vanguard
    10 hours ago

    Oh, you can reestablish relationships in CAS? I didn't know that. I will have to check it out. I don't quite follow what you mean by saving the older sim to be with grandparents, aunts and uncles in Library. Do you put them all in one household together and then save to library?

  • Prov31Simmer's avatar
    Prov31Simmer
    Seasoned Ace
    10 hours ago

    fatalmoon​, The way to get around that's to put the keep/save to my library the relationships with the older sim to be with the grandparents, aunt and uncles to the younger ones. I then reestablish connection with spouses and kids saved seperately via CAS. You don't need a mod, although that can make the tedious process faster. You do tend to lose relationships with friends, but I just reestablish new friendships like if they moved to a new town.

  • In Sims 3 we had the fire meter to tell us when we had reached our limits, it was annoying but it did have it's benefits. Something like that even just as a guide would be useful now, particularly with the size of Sims 4. I can tell if I have too much on a retail lot because it starts to go incredibly slowly, so I learned to limit store sizes. I can also tell if there's too much in a Household Inventory because emptying it takes forever but it's harder to tell with home lots and personal inventories. 

    It's an issue particularly on console and I'm quite diligent in clearing inventories and Townies to reduce my game storage. I know setting guide limits might be tricky as it varies by platform and I know we've been given advice lately on cutting lags but I can definitely see the merits of this suggestion.

  • fatalmoon's avatar
    fatalmoon
    Rising Vanguard
    12 hours ago

    But when doing that, if your household relatives don't all live together, then you will lose their family ties. I'm on Xbox so maybe there's a mod for that on PCs.

  • It would be nice to be given a greater idea on the limitations entail. I do not think the game caters to long-term legacy players or rotational player that have multiple families. About every 5 generations, I put my precious legacy sims in a new clean save to keep things from corrupting. 

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