So I rotate between about 85 sims in one of my saves. It’s about 24 households
5 of those houses are my main House Holds, the families that my story revolves around, the rest are more or less either extended family members or supporting characters that my sims interact with… more or less on a daily basis.
To help with family play, I actually make family Clubs, like House Hoggarth is my Large family of 8 sims, the mom and dad and six kids, so I had the mom establish the House as a Club, and added her children and the family activities include eating bathing and sleeping and then the last two club activities are tailored to the type of family they are.
For social I said be friendly toward certain Houses
And don’t be mean towards certain houses. And then the last is participating in summer activities.
They like to farm, garden, Cook, Bake, and they’re also a Family of knights, Trying to develop Knighthood more, right now it's just looking like a medieval College Fraternity.
While the other Family like House Charmont their club consists of a family of 4 sims. And Same thing Eat, bathe, sleep, I wanted Magic to be their club activity, but it’s chaos. So books telling stories and music is their favorite way to spend family and leisure time.
If I’m taking one sim out, I really just want them to live so I leave it on “Care for Self” while I’m away with a sim.
