Thank you all for answering my question. Just the thought of 1,000 homeless sims makes me weak. LOL
I appreciate the link to a mod that works to simply stop more homeless from being generated. I think that is the route I will take. My 200+ homeless sims should be plenty to fill all the roles needed, so I will simply flag them as "do not cull" along with the other sims I want to see in my game, indefinitely.
I do use MCCC to make my favorite sims immortal and never culled. But I want to keep my total sim count in game under 600, including animals. I have always played with aging off, but I also do not want my sims to ever die, from any cause. I have never enjoyed story progression. I want a totally static world (which is the way it used to be back in the day, like I think maybe for Sims 2), and that is why it is important to me that sims are generally pleasant looking.
The only sims I want changing are the ones I am actively playing, and fully control. If I want another family to change along with my active family, I will rotate play between them.
Knowing what I now know about the way the game is set to work, I am going to organize my worlds differently. I will delete all venues I do not actually use on a regular basis. I will never need a bar in every world, for instance. And I will rethink what I want venues to do for my sims, so that means deleting several EA venues and building my own. I will also rethink which EA pre-made families I want in each world, because it might be better to keep my game under 500, including pets.
Well, to be informed makes all the difference. I'm off to do some rethinking, repopulating, rebuilding, and a LOT of deleting. LOL
