MAKE SIMS 4 HOUSEHOLDS BIGGER!!!

I don't have anything against them increasing it, but I have no use for it. I don't think I've ever even played a household larger than 4.

I voted yes, but its not that annoying. I just don't like that pets are lumped into the 8. I do use MCCC to raise it to 10 for pet breeding, but move out the kittens/puppies to stay at or below 8 for editing purposes.

I would like this to be changed not to actually play with more than 8 sims (would be too stressful for me personally), but because it's a good idea for storytellers so if they want to take screenshots or film something, they can just put all sims they need into the same household.

I'm fine with it :) btw in ts2 I use large hh mod xD

"MadameLee;c-16667675" wrote:
um Sims 2-3 (and 4) you can only have 8 sims w/o mods. But Sims 3 had it a bit different with pets that it had a little branch off the main one unlike the current one

Uh, no. In Sims3, my Sim Dad had to give up his horse so his wife could have another baby. In Sims2 my family Sims would roll the desire (Want) to have ten children. The only way that was possible was to ship a couple of the older children to university. But, then they couldn't return to the family home. :open_mouth:

As for me, I wish we could have more than 8 Sims on a lot. I love HUGE families. Mostly, because I started playing my Ancestors, which is a hoot! However, they all had large households. Children didn't often survive past age five, and some were miscarried, far more often than we know. Some died in infancy. This happened so often it was recommended that parents didn't name their children prior to age 1. Take a look at the death records. It's not uncommon to see Baby Last Name. They may give the gender, Baby Boy Last Name. But that generally means the child didn't survive infancy. Trying to play my family with a certain amount of accuracy is hard enough as per the limits of game play. No way to properly build a fort, no way to have the Cherokee strike, et al. No way to divorce my 18th century Sims from their CELL PHONES. "Gee, honey, I won't be home for Dinner this afternoon, I'm stuck out here in the wild chasing after the raiding Indians."

What galls me is to have to decide which of my fifth great-grandfather's siblings I shouldn't have born in the game? Keeping in mind, that he was baby number seven when the game only allows for six. Let alone which of his aunts and uncles to omit.

Used to have a mod that could fix it. Now, it can't. Mysteriously. Am I to thank EA for that? I play this game for a bit of fun and to relax. If I want to be forever frustrated I'd simply work on my Genealogical Brick Walls, nonstop.

@GalacticGal
You can still use MCCC to have larger households. The issues with the game crashing only happen if you have pets in your household. I've recently played households with 9 and 15 sims without any crashing or other game problems. If you only have sims in your over 8 households then it will be fine.

nvm .. :)

"verlainem;c-16667693" wrote:
Years ago I would have said yes more, but now I can barely handle 8 sim/pets combinations

I've currently got 7 Sims (6 human and a cat) and it's hard for me to keep up. About to retire my two eldest Sims and move them to a small house in Oasis Springs (they'll take the cat with them). A family of 4-5 is much more manageable for me.

I'd say bump it to an even 10/12 household space. It's not a goal, it's an option, not everybody has to max out their family but for those of us who want to max it, we can, maybe do some challenges, raise pets, maybe be the ultimate cat lady (or man), it's an option I think we NEED.

Yes i struggle with more than two sims, doesn't mean i'm against the idea of upping house numbers in terms of storage volume because of it.

Personally, add more sim spaces, 10 or 12, i think 12, that way simmers/sims wanting the old 10 kids aspiration goal can do it without having to kick 2 or more out to reach that total. or if you just want alot of pets, the ability is there, or should be.

Also it would be fun watching my sims struggle with like 10 angry cats, never be fooled by their adorable grumpy faces

I'm okay with the limit for sims being 8 but with pets I think there should be a few more slots specifically for pets.