Hi Everyone!I have heard that if you 'favourite' your household, they don't get culled? I am keeping Lothario, Caliente, Goth, Dreamer and Pleasant in my favourite tab. Will the game cull them eventually? How does it work?I want to be able to look back at the family tree and see everyone!Can I prevent culling?

Yes you can. Doing exactly that. Marking the families you don't want to be culled as favourites.

@telmarina thank you for confirming what i had only read. :smiley:

"Misslizard;c-17454148" wrote:"telmarina;c-17448976" wrote:Yes you can. Doing exactly that. Marking the families you don't want to be culled as favourites. Hey just a question- What happens when these families die? Do their ghosts get culled eventually even if their descendents are in the favourites? When they die, they won't be in favourite household tab, thus they will be eventually culled.

Even if a family is in your favourites, the family tree will eventually cull as well. I've noticed it will only maintain at most about 4 or 5 generations of information.

thats so sad, i was hoping it would retain the information. i know i can use mccc to never cull certain sims but i dont want to do that with every.single.sim in every favourite household.

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19 Replies

texxx78
5 years ago
Yes you can. Doing exactly that. Marking the families you don't want to be culled as favourites.
misslizard
5 years ago
@telmarina thank you for confirming what i had only read. :smiley:
misslizard
5 years ago
"telmarina;c-17448976" wrote:
Yes you can. Doing exactly that. Marking the families you don't want to be culled as favourites.

Hey just a question- What happens when these families die? Do their ghosts get culled eventually even if their descendents are in the favourites?
EgonVM
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
"Misslizard;c-17454148" wrote:
"telmarina;c-17448976" wrote:
Yes you can. Doing exactly that. Marking the families you don't want to be culled as favourites.

Hey just a question- What happens when these families die? Do their ghosts get culled eventually even if their descendents are in the favourites?

When they die, they won't be in favourite household tab, thus they will be eventually culled.
BK747
New Veteran
5 years ago
Even if a family is in your favourites, the family tree will eventually cull as well. I've noticed it will only maintain at most about 4 or 5 generations of information.
misslizard
5 years ago
thats so sad, i was hoping it would retain the information. i know i can use mccc to never cull certain sims but i dont want to do that with every.single.sim in every favourite household.
karon_shiruba
5 years ago
Not sure if it helps you, but thats what I do: I add the ghosts to my active household and move them to another household and leave them in the favourite tab. The only thing that bothers me is that they constantly call you, if your sims know them.
Huiiie_17
5 years ago
"Karon;c-17454306" wrote:
Not sure if it helps you, but thats what I do: I add the ghosts to my active household and move them to another household and leave them in the favourite tab. The only thing that bothers me is that they constantly call you, if your sims know them.

I did the same after one of my sims' mother died and I got the notification that her spirit is fading away, since she died off-screen and I didn't have an urn. She only called once though, probably because I rarely play in a household which actually has any relations to her.
Simmerville
Legend
5 years ago
"Misslizard;c-17454274" wrote:
thats so sad, i was hoping it would retain the information. i know i can use mccc to never cull certain sims but i dont want to do that with every.single.sim in every favourite household.

Take a screenie of your fam tree to save a copy just in case. You will of course not save the popup info, but it might still be of some value.
Menn78
5 years ago
I believe if you set it at a number of Sims to unlimited, then they will not be culled? Default is at around 200 Sims. Or use MCCC mod to prevent culling.