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Merging housholds impossible

Hi, I wanted my Sim's fiancé to live with him. My household currently has 6 Sims (5 humans and 1 cat). The fiancé, however, has 2 cats. And that's a problem, because the cats can't live alone, but also can't both live in my household. Is there a way to solve this? Some kind of workaround, or something?

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    peno11
    4 months ago

    OK, so, I actually solved my issue. I went to Manage Worlds, found my Sim's fiancé's household, moved the cats into another family (I hope Goths will take good care about them, better than they did about Cassandra, who died in this gamepelay 😮) and then, finally, asked the fiancé to move with my Sim. Now, they are happy together. Thanks to everyone's help. Turned out I should think more about this before asking. But maybe my problem will help someone else in future facing similar issue.

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  • @peno11 There's currently two issues. Could you describe in more details what you are seeing ? Maybe add some pics ?
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    Households in The Sims 4 can only have 8 sims.  Included in that count are the C&D pets.  This is hard coded into CAS.  So, you have one more sim between the 2 households than the game will allow in a single household.  So, in your case, the only way to combine the households is to either move or delete a people sim or a cat to get you down to 8 sims.  

    If you play with mods, there is at least one mod that I know of that will let you have more than 8 sims in a household in live mode but even that won't let you merge the two households. The household can grow to more than 8 sims, but you can't merge other sims into the household to go above 8.  And using that mod option is somewhat risky because it requires you to edit one sim at a time in CAS using a separate option in the mod.  If you forget and take the entire household to regular CAS where the entire household goes, a random household sim will get permanently deleted as the 8 sim limit is enforced by CAS.  There is no mod that I know of that will let you take more than 8 sims to CAS.  Because of that drawback, I don't recommend having households above 8.

    Hope this helps.

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    peno11
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    4 months ago

    OK, so, I actually solved my issue. I went to Manage Worlds, found my Sim's fiancé's household, moved the cats into another family (I hope Goths will take good care about them, better than they did about Cassandra, who died in this gamepelay 😮) and then, finally, asked the fiancé to move with my Sim. Now, they are happy together. Thanks to everyone's help. Turned out I should think more about this before asking. But maybe my problem will help someone else in future facing similar issue.

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