Dying Population?

I use MCCC.

I always play with aging off except in the household I am currently in but then I play rotationally with over 20 households and everyone I care about age at the roughly the same pace except a few households (premade) and all the homeless npcs and townies. That means that my families will always have neighbours and distant and not so distant relatives in world. If I were to play only one household I'd use the MCCC thing, probably.

"Stina1701A;c-16997506" wrote:
I always play with aging off except in the household I am currently in but then I play rotationally with over 20 households and everyone I care about age at the roughly the same pace except a few households (premade) and all the homeless npcs and townies. That means that my families will always have neighbours and distant and not so distant relatives in world. If I were to play only one household I'd use the MCCC thing, probably.

Oh I didn't know we could turn aging off for everybody except the family that we play. I wish I had done this so all the popular townies hadn't died. I miss the goths and other familiar faces. I wish it was possible to add them back without restarting a new game. :'(

Just download them off of the gallery and replace them back into their homes.

"SimAlexandria;c-16997530" wrote:
Just download them off of the gallery and replace them back into their homes.

Maybe this is the excuse I need to just start over. I have been thinking about it for a while anyway and it I guess it will be fun building everything up from scratch again. Thanks for your replies. They have been very helpful. :)

I use MCCC, but I still go in (with full edit mode on) and edit in cas from the manage households tab. I merge couples and play with genetics to make babies. It seems kinda time consuming but really its not. If you do just a few tweaks and add a few babies every time you start up your game, then the worlds tend to keep pretty populated. Plus you can micromanage which sims marry and what kinda kids they have >:)

I play with aging off, I only age everyone up once every Winter. So, whoever die, at least I have the time to deal with it. I play nearly 60 households, so vacant houses would be very welcome :)

"calaprfy;c-16997705" wrote:

"Sharonia;d-957090" wrote:
What does everybody do to deal with the dying population in your games? I've been playing the same game for quite a while now, only one family and it's just been a realization to me that all the houses in all the different worlds apart from a few that I placed sim families into are empty, even the cheap houses are empty, all the sims have died of old age and not been replaced. I do have the "Fill Empty Homes" option checked but it seems like it's not working.

Do you repopulate yourself or just leave it?

The very reason I switched to a rotational player! I'm currently repopulating my worlds with the brethren of Malcolm Landgraab. How nice.

I'm considering becoming a rotational player. I think it could be interesting to play the different families.

"Sharonia;c-16997603" wrote:

"SimAlexandria;c-16997530" wrote:
Just download them off of the gallery and replace them back into their homes.

Maybe this is the excuse I need to just start over. I have been thinking about it for a while anyway and it I guess it will be fun building everything up from scratch again. Thanks for your replies. They have been very helpful. :)

I've had to restart in the past. Most of the time I start from Ground Zero. Lately, I've managed to simply roll back a game save or two. The latest patch broke a mod I was using and I definitely found it more favorable to restart my Global Superstar from his teen years. The mod has since been updated, to my intense relief and just today, he's made it to Proper Celebrity. (I always do a "Save As" and add a number and/or letter to the name of the save). I don't always delete the older ones, thank goodness, or I would have had to start by pulling this family from my library!

I would start over, if I were in your shoes and apply the aging off to all but the active household, this time. Good luck and HAVE FUN!

I play rotational with aging off. I build my sims world as I go with sims that are needed for other sim stories or story lines. I age them up as I wish and that depends on their story. Some never age.

I don't worry about a dead world. Everything is alive and well in mine and always evolving with characters I create to make it so. Every time new content comes out it is a guarantee that I add a couple of households to my save. Sometimes more. Or I re-purpose sims who have been waiting for new content and develop them with it.