How Many Households?

I just got finished setting up a new game, with all the Lots filled up with houses and community venues and every single house has got sims in it. I plan on rotating around them all - 127 households!! Lol. Whether I will actually manage that or tire of it quickly I do not know.

So... how many is the most households you've ever played in one save? And how long did you keep it up for?

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36 Replies

Suziish
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
Just off the top of my head (and the not-so-proud "owner" of a goldfish memory) I think my most was my BaCC save and that one had like 8 families I was rotating between.

It has been my favorite save, hands down. And I keep wanting to get back to rotating, because I loved it. But I have to get attached to sims and care about them, and I get so overwhelmed thinking of starting from the beginning and trying to get attached to 4+ entire families again.

So I keep putting it off.
akaniki
Rising Ace
5 years ago
At least 2 per town, some have 4 or 5.
bigbudburnin
5 years ago
Typically I have 1-3 active families at a time and I usually join them eventually. Once I'm bored with a family/gene line, I'll move on to another 1-3 active families. Eventually they all come together at some point - usually once I'm ready to play the older families that I haven't played for awhile.
Lyrie18
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
Wow such interesting ways in rotating! ?

I just started and technically it is 3 households,

Week 1: Adler Family.

Week 2: Stone Family.

Week 3: Dice roll to pick a household out of 10 possible picks. I play one of them for one week. Also aging comes on for that week.
Deafsimmer
5 years ago
At the moment, I have 23 households (97 played sims in the same save). It can get a little confusing, especially when some relatives in the legacy challenge have similar genetics. That's why I use the Plum Tree App. At the moment, the family has spanned six generations. Sometimes when my favorite Sim households are out and about, there would be distant relatives on the same lot. If I play a certain household for a storyline, I stick with the household until the storyline is finished. Usually, my stories have drama in them... and a bit of magic and action, too!
Patch2008
5 years ago
When I ran my 10x10 legacy I had 14? households going at once. I had a few more than 10 because of the occasional set of twins that couldn't fit in the same house. But playing with that many households got a little hard because I don't turn aging off so I'd only really get to play each household for maybe a few in-game days, just long enough for the new YA to get married and get pregnant, and then it was on to the next.
If I turned aging off I could probably handle a lot more but I'm more of a legacy/generational style Simmer so that's not really my cup of tea.