How many played sims do you have in your game? I usually play in only one save game with different families, which makes my sims count very high. Which are the highest number you ever reached and which problems come with it?
As much I love to have many own sims in my world, as much I don't want to have so many NPC's. I delete them every few sim-days, but they spawn like weed. I finally want to get rid of them, do you have an idea
76. I play rotationally and that is about 16 households right now. I used to have it set at 80 max but upped it to 150 although I have never gone over the 80 mark. Agree about the spawning. Everytime my sims go to a venue, instead of using the existing townies, it spawns more and I have to go delete them. I have so many unplayed sims now, I don't know why it won't use the existing ones.
One save with a family in every neighbourhood but i do play on long lifetimes so still on the first generations after approx 2000 hours .I switch between households every in game Sunday . Only thing i hate is how the game constantly spawns more and more townies with stupid mismatched outfits and freaking ugly usually , The game seriously needs to use the ones already in game before spawning more
I have one main save to play in and other stick to a couple of households varying in size. I only add and rarely delete so consider this my maximum.
My sims manager tells me 109 sims in my households but about half of them are just in there for safe keeping. I absolutely dispise sims culling and would turn it off if I could. Imagine one day suddenly having friends or family erased from existence. So somewhere around 50 sims I actually play or have played with.
For played Sim count, mine is down to about 275 or 280 ish. I had reached over 300 recently but decided I needed to whittle that down so I just went through and marked a bunch of the ones I don't really use much, unplayed.
My performance is still pretty good, though I have a pc system way above recommended specs that's fairly new. I was getting fewer Sims on community lots for a while so I think reducing the Sim count helped.
Since I have a lot of Sims (creating Sims is one of my favorite things to do) I try to keep everything else in moderation. Sim and house inventories are usually low, I use lots with good routing space and generally low on clutter for most, I try to use the bb.moveobjects cheat as sparingly as I can, I regularly clean out my screenshot folder, delete cache files at every patch and download, and minimize my mod use. MC Command is my only script mod, and I use no autonomous phone, no celebrity walk, and no situation outfits in the magic realm. I have no CC (though I really want to use some, it's just that CAS is so cluttered already.) I also go through the unplayed households and delete most random generated townies regularly.
I play with aging off, environmental eco effects off, naps off, life balance off, Ailments off and neighborhood stories off. I keep weather effects on, romance on, invites on, and all Occult related things on. I do play with cheats active most of the time. I also use the "Save As" feature once in a while and game repair, to refresh my game save. I mainly play one major ongoing save file, so I recently moved all my Sims to a new save file and had to replace all the lots and everything, which took a while.
I do not have For Rent, High School Years, Businesses and Hobbies, or Adventure Awaits, nor Parenthood, Dream Home Deco, Home Chef stuff pack, or several kits and I feel that my game runs pretty well, no major errors or crashes, but I do have some bugs. The one thing I probably really need to clean through is my library. I have way too many things saved there.
This game, as old as it is and with so many moving parts, does require a certain level of maintenance and balance or it gets overwhelmed. That's just how The Sims is though, it's always been this way.
