Culling in the Sims 4 for Sims Living in Houses

When they added the two tabs "My households" and "Other households" to the game, the explanation was that the "My households" was for sims you don't want culled. So, pretty sure that any sim in the "other households" tab is able to be culled, even if they live in a house.

But I have not noticed my game doing much culling at all, and I've never noticed a household that lived in a house get culled, so it may depend on your computer's specs how likely that is.

I have created families, and when I saved them, they would disappear with each new family. I was on the PS4, and I couldn't understand why.
I figured out that in order to keep all your families in the game, you have to save over the previous family. It keeps all of your Sims, and you don't lose them, all you have to do is keep track of each save file in order not to save over another one.
Also, make sure to play the families you want to keep, so the game doesn't cull them.

Nope, @Nikkih, houses are not protection from culling unless the sims are also in "My Households" rather than "Other Households".

@Simmingal, you only get an actual notification of a sim who is culled if they 1. Live in a house and 2. Are known by one of your played sims. Which means there's surely plenty of sims who are eligible for culling where the only way you would know they were culled is if you somehow care enough about this unhoused, unplayed, unknown sim to notice their absence.

The limit on total sims in the game has also been raised several times and is now up to something like 800. The odds of you noticing a sim being culled out of 800 sims when it culls mostly unhoused, unknown sims in the first place is kind of low. That said, in my game, with all of the households I rotate between and how many total sims they know between them, I see culling messages a couple of times in each generation.

idk i just have premade sims and some sims from ts2 tho maybe i just haven't gone over the limit yet I'm pretty sure id notice if someone was missing (well aside from baby ariel and some of the get famous sims ive deleted myself in favor of you kno actual ts2 sims

then again i may test transferring them to my households because that way i could set other households "die by accident"in neighborhood stories which could auto kill the random townies i keep cleaning out hmm

also isn't sim counter just for "my households" i mean its at 0 with the households in other

If all you have is premades and a handful of TS2 households, you are nowhere close to the sim limit, so no one is getting culled. Though I have to question how that is all you have in your game given that you aren't using mods. The game auto-generates a lot of random sims to fill roles unless you use mods to force it to use existing sims.

"Simmingal;c-18082256" wrote:

also isn't sim counter just for "my households" i mean its at 0 with the households in other

Yes, the sim limit is just for "My Households". But that's not the culling limit, that's just the limit on how many sims you can protect. Culling will never cull sims in My Households (unless you go over the limit you set for it). Culling effects "Other Households" only. There is no way to see, in game, how many sims total you have, unless you use mods (MCCC has the feature, for example).

There's also no way for a player to adjust the limit at which point the game will cull sims. That's a completely hidden limit as well, but people who have poked around in the game files said it's at 800 a few years ago and no one has indicated it's gone up (again) since then.

"Stormkeep;c-18082257" wrote:
If all you have is premades and a handful of TS2 households, you are nowhere close to the sim limit, so no one is getting culled. Though I have to question how that is all you have in your game given that you aren't using mods. The game auto-generates a lot of random sims to fill roles unless you use mods to force it to use existing sims.

I routinely delete any new randomly generated sims after and before each play session
cause I don't want anything to do with them
the game uses any sim it deems fit for the role
so yeah you'll have landgraabs tending massage tables and other funky stuff
but i rather have that than the randomized townies
...well they'll keep spawning even with all the roles filled though so its really just deleting them over and over

I just checked and compared the sims with fresh save
and I've had this save 2+ years and i still have all the sims in my game
well except i added DU homeless ones back in as one household
cause I keep thinking they're randomized townies and deleting them while doing my random townie purges :lol:
oh and the get famous homeless girl cause i always mistake her for randomized one too I guess I'll need to give her makeover :lol:

oh and mayor whiskers was missing from the manage households
but tbh I think mayor is just hidden because i think i added and unadded him to household before
(well if so now he is cloned, i mean can there be too many mayor whiskers)
same goes for my probably million photographer sims that I should hunt down
cause i keep doing that to them by accident too so they don't show up in household manager either but they'll randomly show up at places :lol:

I am thinking of a similar thing. I have a lot of sims in my "other households" who are one person households. If i delete those households, will the game generate more?

Yes, culling will hit sims that live in houses if they are in "Other Households". The culling does favor homeless sims though. It also favors sims with which your played sims don't have relationships, which means you won't notice it often.
Every one in a while when your sim gets that phone call about someone moving and getting rid of all their electronics and going 'off the grid'. That's a sim household your sims do know being culled.

Funny, I was just about to post about this. I've been remaking all of the worlds and when I just finished and was going back to the first world I redid, I noticed ALL of those households were gone. ? All that hardwork. So because of this, I have answers!!

"Brd709;c-18081313" wrote:
I am thinking of a similar thing. I have a lot of sims in my "other households" who are one person households. If i delete those households, will the game generate more?

Yes, the game generates more.

"Zenovis;d-998465" wrote:
Hello!

So I filled most of the houses in my neighbourhood with sims I created, which all end up in “My Households”. I was thinking of moving some of my households to “Other Households” instead and focus on a few households I played the most. Before I do this, I was wondering if culling can affect sims that are living in residential lots (ex. the Goths) as well, or just homeless sims?

Yes to this also!! The game will delete them!!! Boo!! ? Really crappy if you ask me. Not sure if there is a mod to fix this or not.