Playing on Unlimited

I play with unlimited and I have set MCCC to not cull any sims and my game is working fine in an almost three year save.

"kalaksed;c-18032855" wrote:
i play on unlimited and have just shy of 600 sims (596) atm... should prob'ly go in and do another batch of manual culling and editing again, esp since have even more i want to add to my worlds at some point

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)

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 use it all the time and have never had problems with it. It probably helps that I don't mind deleting any sims I don't like (especially pre-mades), so I never get more sims populating my saves than my system can handle, anyway. :lol:

I play on unlimited with about 500 Sims, and my laptop hasn’t exploded yet. :)

My maximum sim count is 150 sims. I have 81 sims including the five sims in my one playable household. I have 31 households registered as played to prevent culling.

Thanks for replying! :smile: it sounds like I might be okay, because my laptop is pretty new, so I was really worried it might put a stress on my laptop or something but I haven't noticed any lag from it I don't think. Fingers crossed it will work out because I like having my lots filled with Sims and I don't want them culled. The worlds seemed so empty before. I actually was hoping since I filled all the lots that the game would not generate as many townies but that doesn't seem to be the case.

@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.

Unlimited mode? What's that?

I always play on unlimited. I don't like forced limitations for anything I've purchased. Let me, the player/consumer, be the one to determine what is too taxing for my system. If it starts to create lag or some other nonsense, then I know I need to change the setting.

So far, I have experienced no performance drops.

I play on unlimited. The only thing it does is that you have no limit on how many sims can you keep safe from culling.
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.

I do. We are getting to where we kind of have to with all the pack NPCs if you don't want to mass delete them. After I make my Sims, it is always over and I have to.

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.