If There Was No Household Size Limit...

If there was no limit it would actually cause the game to stop playing, and everyone would stop moving. I tested this out with a couple of different mods from Sims 2 and Sims 3 and the results were the same. But I do wish that they would give us an option on the number of sims past 8 that we could play in the same household. Even past Sims games allowed more than 8 when you had pets. If memory serves me correct I the number was increased to 10. Only 8 humans max were still allowed though.

I would play with as many as my computer could handle. :D I love playing large families and right now I use MCCC to let me play with more than 8 sims.

As many as my computer could handle haha

I would like to play with a large family (lots of kids), or ‘royal’ families with lots of servants in addition to the family. Or even something like Downton Abbey where there are a lot of people with lots of storylines at once.

So no specific number, but probably a max of 20? Humans and pets total.

I would like to have maybe 10-12, mainly because I like having around 4 cats/dogs in a household but as it is now, I have to choose between having only a few pets or only a few children (my sims have big families a lot)

Isn’t the cap on sims that can load at once on a lot, something ridiculous like 18? But like other people mentioned even a full household now of 8 causes performance issues :(
If they could sort out the performance issues I’d love to have an increase, maybe double it to 16? Plenty of room for all sorts of households and scenarios :) 100 baby challenge would get a whole lot harder haha

Sometimes I wish we had up to 10. I would be really nice if pets didn't take up a household slot.

Normally I stick to 1-6 sims, but it'd be great to fill up all of my orphanages and boarding schools.

Or nothing would change, because I'm super afraid of culling.

It wouldn’t change for me. I play TS4 to chill, not to engage in the frustration of wrangling lots of sims.

No more than what I'd usually would play with on average 1-3 sims in a household. I know for a fact sim games just can't handle a lot of other sims in the area past it's limit. Eventually it gives up and sis just stand around doing nothing and maybe looking around. Like Simulation lag, but worse. Performance wise it just can't handle it not to mention I imagine the little pictures with the UI would look terrible with more than 8 sims. Though I do wish pets wouldn't take up any household slots at the very least. :*

I commend anyone for trying to control more than 8 sims as it sounds like a nightmare, especially if there's toddlers. :#