Everything setting including MCCC has making new Sims not happening. I've checked the other households tab and nothing. No new Sims have been created without my approval nor do they ever.
I've been playing the Sims 4 for over 3 years now. Two of those years on the console and switched to PC when it became a free game in Oct 2022. I understand a lot about the game, but something is seriously off when your save file adds over 20 megabytes to its size without a lot of new Sims being added out of the blue to the game or lots of new houses built.
I only notice the size difference because every night after I'm done playing I back the save file to my cloud drive. And when I saw the new size, I couldn't believe it. Especially since I can't notice any issues, load time, etc and I wouldn't have noticed had I not been staring at the size of the file after I'm done playing the game and backing it up on the cloud.
So what I am hoping for is for some logical explanation to how this is possible and to correct it. Because what is to say it doesn't happen again out of the blue and create new problems from it?