Dying Population?

"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 have trouble remembering that I need to go and do some rotational play from time to time for just this reason. ...So periodically I go into manage households and either create new families /family members through CAS options or download and place more from the gallery. I really really should try and remember to do some rotational play so that I can see future generations of some of my favorite NPC families and not just the ones who marry into my main house.

That said, I use MCCC and it does a fairly good job of marrying and making babies from the NPC community so that the world continues to change and grow.

I have aging turned off and am a rotational player, however I too had a bit of a problem with population. The best solution I have found is to go into Manage Households and add sims from the gallery to the "Other Households" tab. This way I always have a healthy population. You could always move some of these sims on some lots too.

I repopulate myself. While I don’t play most of the pre-made households, I will move them out, move them in with each other, marry them off, etc.. I’ll take them into CAS and give them children and age them up.

Also, with how old this particular save is and with how many households I rotate between, my own Sims take up much of the space in all of my worlds.

I use MCCC story progression to keep my towns populated.

I'm a new rotational player and I really like it. I turned off aging for houses I'm not playing. I still get the random death and age-up. But it's kept the game more fun and interesting to rotate around. I don't follow a specific timeline for when I switch families. I didn't start with aging-off so I needed to replenish a few homes. I got them all from the gallery and I'm super impressed with how interesting gallery households are! I was tired of townies with no skills and no careers. Last night I went around and spruced up the worlds with new houses and lots as well. It's pretty cool! At first I was annoyed my "fill empty homes" toggle didn't seem to work either. But now I'm happy.

I just use MCCC.

And since I also have a mod that disables the creation of random townies, I make sure most of my sims have more than one child. Depending on the type of sim, that can range from 2 kids to over 6. And though I will *never* play with the (unfortunate) sim that manages to have over 6 kids, those extra sims are still there to populate the world so it's never too empty.

@gemjas What mod do you use for preventing random townies? Didn't know that was a thing. Curious to try it.

I use MCCC. I like my worlds to feel alive and see my Sims that I have moved out, have lives of their own and have some story progression. Ghosts add to the population so I use LittleMsSam's Release All Ghosts mod to delete all ghosts in my game. It keeps them from getting deleted from the family tree too. So I use MC to populate my worlds and LittleMsSam's mod to delete them when they die.

"Sharonia;c-16997517" wrote:

"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. :'(

You can also set it separately for played and unplayed households. Aging for played households give you options for aging on, aging only for active household, and aging off. Then there's a checkbox for whether you want unplayed households to age.

i keep aging fully off and i also have death turn off