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StarlightSims_22
Rising Rookie
5 months ago

Unplayed Households Disappearing

After the Life and Death update, I created a new save file and downloaded a bunch of sims from the gallery as NPC's. I've noticed recently that some of these NPC households have disappeared. I do have aging turned off but I've never had an issue with NPC households being automatically culled and new NPCs are still spawning. Only a week had passed in game when I noticed a particular NPC had disappeared and was no longer in the game. I've only seen ghosts culled in my game in that short space of time. 

I've seen a couple of similar bug reports (the last about 3 months agao) but they don't exactly match the issue I'm having and apparently there was a fix for one of those issues in a recent patch that only affected new saves. I've never had the error code 800. I do have UI Cheats Extension mod installed, which I always keep updated.

Is this a bug or are my NPCs just being culled now?

6 Replies

  • Culling has always been part of the game. If you go over a certain amount, they are removed.

    Do you have a lot of Sims ?

  • StarlightSims_22's avatar
    StarlightSims_22
    Rising Rookie
    5 months ago

    Ah, OK, thanks. I knew the game does cull sims but it's never happened this quickly before. I counted 35 culled in the 2 week period. I've just counted my sims and there are 673, not including any hidden households. So I guess (if the max before the game culls is 670 as google suggests), the new pack has probably just tipped my sim count over the max. 

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    5 months ago

    I think the latest was 800 but depending on how many you have hidden, maybe it was even over that.

  • StarlightSims_22's avatar
    StarlightSims_22
    Rising Rookie
    5 months ago

    OK, I don't think I could have that many hidden households, but I'll delete some more households and see what happens. Thanks. 

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    5 months ago

    Do let me know if they keep disappearing even with less Sims. UI Extension shouldn't be responsible for this but if it continues to happen, please do a clean user folder and test a backup of your save on that.