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.

"kalaksed;c-16274227" wrote:
yeah, 200 is just the suggestion. according to threads where people dig into the code, 575 is the number of sims allowed before the game really starts trying to cull some. and 200 is...way below that (also, the number goes up with each expansion or game pack. not so sure on stuff packs). as is, i'm at 200 myself, and on the verge of bumping up to unlimited...

also, for the person asking about why some have so many sims favorited, i doubt anyone really plays 200 sims, but it's nice to see the same (often edited...) townies everywhere and many people get attached to them, esp the ones they edited (i like some of my edited townies so much that i put them up on the gallery, and others seem to enjoy them too. like a dj, two single parents with toddlers (kids aged down so sims could have others to go on toddler play dates with), my 'neohippie and daft punk' and a few others). the two new librarians that just recently spawned for my libraries are actually what's pushing me to go over the 200 sim limit

Those hawt librarians man.

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

I have my game on unlimited and I have about 140+ in my favorites and several more in the unfavorites. In my favorites I have ALL housed Sims, both played and unplayed along with several nonhoused Sims/townies that I like and don't want to loose out of the game. I am a bit worried when I get the Pets pack and the Vampire pack which will increase my favorites (because I plan on favoriting ALL the housed Sims from those packs). If the increase is alot or goes too close to the 200 mark, I guess its time to make choices. But until then I am not worried and I find that, at this time in my gameplay, 575 limit is enough.

Personally, as the family trees don't get damaged anymore when culling accurs, I don't mind loosing ghosts and other non favorites Sims.