Culling Questions
Hey guys, I have a tricky question. I ran into such a problem in my game: I have a family that I play, and one of the members of this family has a child with an unplayed sim. Then the unplayed sim di...
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@justyniaok1 Personally, I play with aging off for played and non-played sims. Mine all age up when I have them do it. Some people play one active household per game save to have more control. You can adjust the aging settings in options. You can turn aging off or on for played and for unplayed households in any combination you like.
As far as the child you lost from the family tree, you could try to roll back to a previous save to when they were still there. For future reference, keeping backups of your game and saving sims/homes, etc. to hour library for safekeeping is a good practice. I will add a few links below that may help. Please let us know if you have additional questions:
- Rotational play: https://www.carls-sims-4-guide.com/tutorials/rotational-play.php
- Retrieve previous save or backup your game: https://sims4.crinrict.com/eng/2014/09/save-games/
- Save to your library (households, rooms, lots): https://www.carls-sims-4-guide.com/forum/index.php?topic=26324.msg439569#msg439569
Hey,
I don’t think you understood my question, but thank you so much for taking your time and giving me all this information!
I’m trying to figure out how the culling process works, and how the played vs unplayed sims get culled?
Is it enough for let’s say one sim from a unplayed family to be played in order for all the unplayed sims to be in the family tree and not get culled from it?
@justyniaok1 As far as I understand it, if you play a sim household (all sims are in a 'household', even if it's just a household of one), it is moved to your 'played/favorite households' (and has a solid blue heart in households rather than an empty heart), and that the households in your 'played/favorite households' do not get culled. If any sims gets culled it will be from the unplayed households. Please refer to this article for more information about sim culling and relationship culling: https://sims4.crinrict.com/en/2016/06/culling-what-is-it-and-what-does-it-do/
- @justyniaok1 @SheriGR is right.
But I think you might be a little confused as to how "Played" and "Unplayed" works. The "Played" tag refers to the household, not the individual sims. If you play a house, the entire household will be tagged as "Played".
If you play any household, even for a moment, the entire household will be tagged as "Played". Now this is different than "Favorite" households.
Open up the household manager from the neighborhood screen. "Played" households will be the ones with the bright-green plumbob. The Favorites will be the ones with the solid heart.
I believe the ones tagged as "played" will never be culled.
Since families can be in different households, if one is played and one not, the one that's not tagged as "played" could possibly be culled.
The best thing to do would be, every time you move a family member out, go and play them for a moment after moving them out. This will tag the new household as "Played" and prevent them from being culled.- @Psychotps Thank you so much for your respond! I have another question on the topic, maybe you can help with this one too.
I have a family that is "played" one of the sim (SIM A) marries an "unplayed" sim (SIM B), who now becomes played. SIM B has a whole unplayed family that I did not make played- they are NPC.
So these two sims live together have children, and then SIM B dies of old age, and he gets culled.
Question: What was I doing wrong? Did he get culled because he still had part of his family unplayed?
