How many sims can you handle at once in a household?

I don't usually play households more than 6 but I do have a save with 8 sims. Autonomy comes in handy. I'd only ever do this if there were no toddlers.
I did once have a save where my poor sims struggled to take care of 3 toddlers at once. They didn't have much money, the mom was always working, so their father stayed at home and managed them best he could. No matter what I did, their needs were always in the red. Back then I didn't know much about mods or cheats.

Minority here :tongue:
I guess I can handle 8 too though.
Atm I have 3 kiddies, one on the way, my husband and 2 cats so it's a full household, but cats are easy so they barely count.
Might end up having another child when a slot becomes free (probably when our older cat dies) so we'll have 5 total. I handle them fine, but only one parent works so it's easier haha. My two older girls are already in school too, so depends on how much you space your kids out. Haven't been on holiday in forever though hahaha. Ahhh miss those days.

Can definitely do eight. The action queue, pause button, and camera find are my best friends. Lol

Since early days on Sims3, I've always enjoyed playing a full house. I was bummed when pets came along and large families with pets wasn't possible. So, another baby or pet, because you can't have both. Personally, I wish they didn't add to the count, but was tied to the home lot somehow.

"Writin_Reg;c-16688105" wrote:
So you all that play the Sims 4 with 7-8 sims - what do you do when you decide to travel with one of the Sims somewhere - like on a date or go to a festival or night out? As the minute I go along with one sim somewhere - not a single sim left in the house will keep doing any of the things I left them doing - and to me that makes big families and households rather useless. Home work doesn't get done, sims do not take their baths, go to bed even if they are in the red - absolutely nothing gets done, they don't even eat. I am a player that loves to go places with my sims and do not feel like bringing everyone. I expect the ones at home to finish what I assigned them as I am off with the one sim somewhere getting their life and future on track. But not once do sims at home do what they were left to do, never mind care for their selves.

Maybe if I was a player that never left the home lot is the only way that would be possible. That is not the way I play. My sims like doing things and I like going with them - as in real life I can't - I am the one always left home. So I live vicariously through my sims - but unfortunately I cannot have big families and live through selected sims too.

I feel the same way about S4. Not only can't I multi task in S4, but I can't even count on sims to do what I say with all automony turned off. They cancel out my ques at times; I can't make them run; and they are obsessed with taking toddlers out of they high chair as well as toddlers getting down by themselves when I really want them to have a time out there. I get frustrated and just quit trying. Also, infants are tied to the crib and really don't feel part of the family and that is disheartening to me. I have realized that I don't play with a full house like I did in S3 and that is because multitask isn't something S4 has as far as the whole family. I can easily take care of 8, but I really don't enjoy it in the S4. There are times, that I go minimalist just because it gets exhausting leveling up all the time. I would've really liked to have seen the sandbox part of the Sims 1&2 as I really hate leveling up relationships/jobs. The needs go down to fast as well and get in the way of what I want to do. Really miss elixirs from S3. They have some really neat stuff in S4, but they really gutted some nice stuff out. Basically, in S3, I really liked playing a full house, but S4 is has changed my way of playing and not all of it is good.

My current household is composed of two parents and 3 kids but I move the kids back and forth between their grandparents when it becomes too chaotic.

I usually only play with one or two, but the maximum I've played while still having fun would be five or six. Usually when it gets passed that I feel like it's more of a chore than a game and I wind up killing some folks. Then again, I wind up killing no matter what...oops.

"Leahmiller2006;c-16687906" wrote:
Depends on the ages. The biggest games I have ever had included;
Mum and Dad (Adults)
Twin boy and girl(young adults) Athlete, Painter
Teenage boy Musician
Boy (Child) Gamer
Another boy(Toddler) Not sure yet.

I started the game with just the mum and she got married and had 5 kids.

I started with one sim. Then gave her a younger sister. Then gave them parents. Then gave the parents' parents. Then moved out the grandparents. And gave each grandparent parents. Made the lil sister a teen. The 1st sim a young adult. Her parents young adults/The grandparents adults. And the great-grandparents are adults from elders. But only the grandparents and parents can still have kids (of the ancestors.) And rotated between them. And the family tree got messed up on the mom's side. The O.G. sim didn't even know she was related past the grandparents. Barely even for them. But she knew everyone on her dad's side. Which was weird.

So I was rotating between them. And it was ALOT to remember. Too much. Yours is much better managed. RN I don't even know what they're doing. Just that all GGP's are on birthcontrol. And there's only room in each Side of GP's for 2 kids. Which would be the uncles of the MC. And the parents live with the teen sister. The MC lives a lone. And I think both sets of Grandparents have a toddler rn. OR one is pregnant and the other already has the toddler. They own an entire island in BBay.

"Writin_Reg;c-16688105" wrote:
So you all that play the Sims 4 with 7-8 sims - what do you do when you decide to travel with one of the Sims somewhere - like on a date or go to a festival or night out? As the minute I go along with one sim somewhere - not a single sim left in the house will keep doing any of the things I left them doing - and to me that makes big families and households rather useless. Home work doesn't get done, sims do not take their baths, go to bed even if they are in the red - absolutely nothing gets done, they don't even eat. I am a player that loves to go places with my sims and do not feel like bringing everyone. I expect the ones at home to finish what I assigned them as I am off with the one sim somewhere getting their life and future on track. But not once do sims at home do what they were left to do, never mind care for their selves.

Maybe if I was a player that never left the home lot is the only way that would be possible. That is not the way I play. My sims like doing things and I like going with them - as in real life I can't - I am the one always left home. So I live vicariously through my sims - but unfortunately I cannot have big families and live through selected sims too.

When other sims at the household are at home while the selected one is elsewhere, there should a little arrow above their greyed out picture. You can click on it and direct them to socialize with a specific sim, build a skill, clean, etc.

I like having full houses. My secret is probably the fact that in my "story" saves i use custom life span (thanks to mccc) that is alot longer than the one in game. That gives me more time with my sims and there for i don't feel rushed with compliting aspirations or getting promotions. I can focus more on the stories and so on.

For challenges my focus is more on compliting the challenge and not the stories behind the sims or situations so those saves have a complitely different feel and they get pretty chaotic. But i actually enjoy that too :D

Also i play autonomy on and i'm not a micromanager.

I said eight, but it honestly depends. You see, I usually start out with one two young adults, depending on story, but I play legacies. Generally, by the time they are adults and have kids, they are maxed out and have tons of reward traits. So I really don’t have to do much with them.