How Do You Manage Your Population?

I created a custom template I use to start any new saves. In this save I've given the majority of premades a makeover and/or hot/cold outfits, deleted a few, merged a few households and bulldozed some residential homes. I've also added copies of favorite Sims I've played in other saves and remodeled townies that I liked. Some townies are service Sims and vampires. It's nice knowing exactly who will be delivering the mail instead of some random game-generated new Sim in every save.

I still get generated Sims, but not as many. I delete the ones I don't like/need with a couple now and then allowed to stay. If I really like them, they get saved to my library for the custom template. My plan is to eventually have enough remodeled service Sims the game won't generate as many. It won't ever stop completely, but it helps decrease their numbers.

These Sims run wild not in world or do their service jobs and premades do whatever it is they do. I see some premades as vendors if they don't have another job. I'll only interact with these Sims if they become friends or a spouse to my current household. Otherwise, I don't care about them much. However, I do enjoy seeing my own created fav Sims from time to time. :)

I've never played rotational, just one household per save. It's how I've always played for 20 years.

Happy Simming! <3

For MCC what are the best settings for story progression? I find the instructions for the mod so confusing.

Everytime one of my sims age i go to the family management to add a few toddlers and move some sims to other homes making new families to my liking.

"CaptainElsa;c-17410552" wrote:

"bshag4lv;c-17409987" wrote:
I use MCCC for my population control. Thanks to reading several ways of tweaking the settings, I no longer have massive sim invasion. I used the pregnancy and population controls to get my sims down to a reasonable amount, lord.

I don't know how people without Deaderpool's mod manage their story progression. I was pulling my hair out before I dl'ed his mod. :D

@bshag4lv What are your settings like? I'm not fully overrun but I have been twice.

You can limit who has pregnancies, like only married couples can reproduce. You can set when the mod checks foe eligible sims for reproducing to one day during the week instead of 2. I'm sure there are others, same sex can only adopt, only ya's moving out of parents' households get first dibbs on empty housing.

I hope this helps a little. There is also egwarhammer's thread that is very helpful and also deaderpool's tumblr. I just never took the time to check, most of this is trial and error, lol. :D

Good Luck!

I'm not really too bothered by the random npc's that are generated, however I do still do my fair share of god work and create new families to put in houses when the townies start dying of old age just to stop every house no matter how big containing a single sim.

"elanorbreton;d-972787" wrote:
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 about them all dying off and being left with nothing other than hideous randomly generated npcs.

So... I have started going through manage households and pairing sims off and giving them the occasional toddler to grow the population.

It got me wondering what everyone else does.

So, what do you all do to keep your population strong and varied in age groups? And do you keep returning to restyle them as they get older?

I use MCCC to have them autonomously marry and have kids, but sometimes I force things to happen too. And I use a NPC Control mod by Paulson to stop the game to randomly generate npcs to fill roles and place existing sims instead, I can also set them in whatever npc job I wanted.

But, I add all the maxis gallery sims in the world too, so to keep the population in control I use the chinese rule to have only one kid. I just break it in certain moments or if I feel like theres not enough people in my save.

"Kimmer;c-17410059" wrote:
I don't really care about the other Sims than the ones I play with and I'm okay with the randomly generated npcs, I've never had any problems with the way they look. If my Sim decides to have a romance with a random Sim I just fix their clothes and hair in CAS.
I don't usually do much with the population other than the ones that are my Sims friends. Sometimes I make them have spouses and children, but not often. The only thing that I often do is I add Sims from the gallery to the world, sometimes I make them myself. If my Sims have children I like to add families who have children too. I want to have friends and possible future spouses for my Sims. I don't use any mods.

This is me. I am usually wrapped up in the family or play that I want to happen and I don't mind other Sims as that is what you find in the real world. Sometimes, if my sim doesn't find someone to marry that I like, then I go ahead and make someone to put in the game. Otherwise, it stays as it is. It takes me long enough to make my Sims and house to my liking. I would never get to play if I had to change all that stuff.