How Do You Manage Your Population?
I'm just playing through my first proper legacy, the Everything Legacy Challenge. Being on a normal lifespan, I can see the sims around me ageing quicker than I am used to and I suddenly had a panic a...
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"asimbsim;c-17409862" wrote:
Do you use mods? I use MCCC for story progression, and every now and then I will go through all my neighbourhoods and move in random sims/families from the gallery to fill my population. I move them all to unplayed households, and MCCC lets them age, pair up and get married automatically, have children etc. And then when it feels like I need more children because my legacy family is about to start a family, I'll move in a bunch of families with young children. And when my legacy sims are YA then I'll move in a few single YA's to socialise with/meet and start relationships. I really like how it works. The sims I've chosen get married and develop these lives without me having to do anything much :)
If I didn't have MCCC I'd probably do the same with downloading sims from the gallery - it's a really quick and easy way to keep things fresh, and change populations, without having to do a huge amount.
Yes, this. If population growth matters to me, I use MCCC :) It's the most natural, and it always makes me laugh with its odd pairings. I reactivated it recently and ended up with the cutest little gay couple in town, both men, one's an alien :joy:
If I really don't want to use mods, I might do what you do - going house to house to add tods etc. - but it's always such a hassle and as long as ageing is left on, the issue just keeps coming back all the time.
