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 used to play with the game set to unlimited...my game still defaults to that every time I start a new game, for some reason. MCCC lets you customize culling settings and also flag households specifically to not be culled for sure, so I stopped using the unlimited setting back when I started using that mod.As far as if it is bad or not, really depends on your PC specs. The main reason for it is performance.

I've played on unlimited for a while. I play rotationally too and have a lot of households. I haven't had any issues but as was posted above, it depend on your computer specs.

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.

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 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.

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Kerrybubbles
Seasoned Rookie
5 hours ago
I play on unlimited on a very low end laptop and I don't have any problems.
Simmerville
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
I used he limits for a long time, but then had to switch to unlimited because I was pushing the limit and afraid to lose my families. So, for a few years now, I've been playing 400+ sims on rotation. My computer is low-end but I think size of active household and content on active lot makes a bigger performance difference than unlimited number of sims. I'll report back when I reach 1000 sims, lol.
SEREFRAS
Seasoned Veteran
3 years ago
I actually keep it on 80 with my 6 Game Saves.
SimuLord
3 years ago
I have only about 50-55 actual played sims. If the game's culled any of the other NPCs in my world, I haven't noticed...so they must not have been that important.
GalacticGal
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
Thanks for the heads-up, @Stormkeep .

Thank you @ModerateOsprey I will do that for certain. :)
moderateosprey
New Spectator
3 years ago
"GalacticGal;c-18034351" wrote:
"ModerateOsprey;c-18034345" wrote:
"GalacticGal;c-18034331" wrote:
"ModerateOsprey;c-18034288" wrote:
"LynnPlayz1;c-18034279" wrote:
I don't know how anyone can have more than 80 played sims tbh. I only keep my household as played normally and that's only 8.

Edit: wait, culling? Oh no

I have more than 80 actual played sims :grin:

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!

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?

You mean the sims icons in live mode? Yes, they show for all the sims. They can be a little small when there is a lot, but tweaking the UI scaling in options helps. What you can't do is manage the household in CAS. MCCC allows you to load a single sim into CAS if you need to edit.

Thank you. Yes, I forgot one time that you must use the CAS in MCCC. I ended up losing my Rock Star's fiancée by forgetting. Mind you she was one of three over the limit, so why her one has to ask? Oopsie. Made for an interesting storyline, in which he had a full and complete meltdown and used Juice for solace. Suffice it to say, he was a mess. But then in walked a gorgeous NPC and he fell in love. I've since saved this Sim to my library. She's now a triplet. LOL Glad to hear the UI does indeed work. I had no idea we could tweak it in settings, however. A full house is hard on these old eyes, even with my new glasses. Thank you again. :)

If you are struggling to see things, definitely look at the UI scaling. My eyes aren't what they were and I play on a 4K TV so the UI is tiny. The UI scaling is a godsend. You will find it in the Accessibility section in the Options.
JaggidEdje
3 years ago
"GalacticGal;c-18034351" wrote:

Thank you. Yes, I forgot one time that you must use the CAS in MCCC.

If you ever try it again, just remember that MCCC has more than one method to access CAS, and if you have more than 8 sims you need to use the one that opens it just for the selected sim and not the one that pulls in the whole household. Otherwise, even accessing CAS through MCCC can cause the issues you had in the past.
GalacticGal
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
"ModerateOsprey;c-18034345" wrote:
"GalacticGal;c-18034331" wrote:
"ModerateOsprey;c-18034288" wrote:
"LynnPlayz1;c-18034279" wrote:
I don't know how anyone can have more than 80 played sims tbh. I only keep my household as played normally and that's only 8.

Edit: wait, culling? Oh no

I have more than 80 actual played sims :grin:

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!

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?

You mean the sims icons in live mode? Yes, they show for all the sims. They can be a little small when there is a lot, but tweaking the UI scaling in options helps. What you can't do is manage the household in CAS. MCCC allows you to load a single sim into CAS if you need to edit.

Thank you. Yes, I forgot one time that you must use the CAS in MCCC. I ended up losing my Rock Star's fiancée by forgetting. Mind you she was one of three over the limit, so why her one has to ask? Oopsie. Made for an interesting storyline, in which he had a full and complete meltdown and used Juice for solace. Suffice it to say, he was a mess. But then in walked a gorgeous NPC and he fell in love. I've since saved this Sim to my library. She's now a triplet. LOL Glad to hear the UI does indeed work. I had no idea we could tweak it in settings, however. A full house is hard on these old eyes, even with my new glasses. Thank you again. :)
moderateosprey
New Spectator
3 years ago
"GalacticGal;c-18034331" wrote:
"ModerateOsprey;c-18034288" wrote:
"LynnPlayz1;c-18034279" wrote:
I don't know how anyone can have more than 80 played sims tbh. I only keep my household as played normally and that's only 8.

Edit: wait, culling? Oh no

I have more than 80 actual played sims :grin:

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!

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?

You mean the sims icons in live mode? Yes, they show for all the sims. They can be a little small when there is a lot, but tweaking the UI scaling in options helps. What you can't do is manage the household in CAS. MCCC allows you to load a single sim into CAS if you need to edit.
GalacticGal
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
"ModerateOsprey;c-18034288" wrote:
"LynnPlayz1;c-18034279" wrote:
I don't know how anyone can have more than 80 played sims tbh. I only keep my household as played normally and that's only 8.

Edit: wait, culling? Oh no

I have more than 80 actual played sims :grin:

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!

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?