200 Is Not Enough (Increase population limit)

so how do you play if you need more than 200 sims in one game ?

i play rotationally, family after family
in TS4 i am now at nearly those 200 & realised that i don't like to play some of the families cause they are boring to play, so i plan to move them out of this game to make room for new or the offspings of those families i like to play
to rotate between 200 sims takes a long time, a very long time

i also think to play rather smaller communities in different set ups of games & fill the houses with those sims which are housed but prone to culling could help with the current limit

& what do you mean by

So many empty houses, so many unplayed Sims.

make a new game, put there your unplayed sims & play them there
fill the empty houses with sims you won't play actively & so not marked as played & therefore probably to be culled at some point
make businesses & venues for your sims to visit, this limits the number of residential houses even placeable at all considerably
i am rather running out of space for the families than running out of played/safe from culling sims, TS4 is so small in space but then again, i don't have 3 of the packs which came with new worlds & lots, maybe that makes the difference

i could probably find it interesting to test it if there was a limit of 500 sims

how about a POLL ?

I have mine on unlimited (currently 162 played sims & growing), and so far it's been fine, NPC population has stayed about the same & it still culls the ghosts. The biggest problem I have is running out of room for them all, even with evicting all the non-played households. We really need world packs and/or CAW.

So you have about 200 sims in My Household section.
If you won't mind, put the limit to Unlimited. Unlimited means that you can have unlimited amount of sims protected (My Household section) while unprotected sims still get culled. You can change the setting in the Gameplay Options and Manage Households (in Manage Worlds).
This limit function was put in game because people were having problems with culling (deleting old sims to make room to new).

The limit is 575.

Well after I lost some of my sims' friends and cousins I went ahead and set it to unlimited and currently I have four hundred and sixty-something sims in my played games. I don't play with half of them but I don't want my sims friends getting deleted.

Game has not crashed yet either. It sticks sometimes but that was happening before anyhow.

"LoveMcQueen5683;c-16274313" wrote:
The limit is 575.

This.

Limit of a given save population before culling starts = 575
- to override: use a no-culling mod

Default maximum of a given save population that you can protect from culling using Household Management = 200
- to override: change the limit in your Gameplay settings; this is per-save

I put My Households into unlimited and it's currently at 318. So far no problems whatsoever, no crashes, no slowing down, everything runs smoothly. I also keep culling unwanted newly spawned townies regularly, and making sure I save the ones I've edited and want to keep.

It's not so much about wanting to play all 318 sims, it's about having consistent neighborhoods where librarians, gym trainers, nannies etc are the same ones you've met before. 'n the townies wandering around are familiar, creating an image of consistency.

You can up the limit right in the settings. I don't understand the complaint.

I'm confused about this post. You can set to unlimited

I am at 197 sims/pets and am going to switch too unlimited soon. I like rotational play. I play each household for about a sim week. It does take a long time to get through them all but it makes so I don't get bored with a household either. I like it better than just playing one household. I also like to create new sims at times too especially when theres new cas content and new careers.