Playing Large Households - Tips?

Take advantage of your clubs! Set up club activities to do things around your household, cleaning, repairing, gardening if you have one.. create a new club even and call club meetings at your home lot ... let your club members do your housework for you :)

Well, since you have a teen, you could have that sim help the parents with the triplets. Children can only do two actions with babys I believe. It helped for me, and I hope it will help for you too!

I agree with a lot that's been said! A couple things I might add is

1: Prioritize. Know what's important to you for each sim. Are you pushing to complete that aspiration? Or is the career more important right now? Maybe there's a club, or relationship, that you think need the most attention. Have a clear idea for each sim, so you can default to that whenever there's a decision to be made.

2: leaving the lot with a 1 or 2 and leaving he rest to "care for themselves" can be super useful, lol. Sometimes, if the needs aretoo overwhelming, I'll just bail and leave them to sort it out themselves. You can also have them build skills, tend garden and clean when away, by clicking on the little thingy by their icon, so if you just need a sim to get a skill up, leaving them to it can sometimes be better then grinding it out.

3:If you're gonna micromanage (which I do, sometimes. can't help myself :-P) I absolutely second using the pause button. When I'm feeling up for it, I'll just cycle through, pausing as I go, and cue up the next set of actions for everyone. Then unpause and--break! Off they go! That kind of play can be pretty exhausting tho, so know to pace yourself, lol.

> @Sha2520032003 said:
> I was curious how large of a household others Simmers play and if they have any tips for managing a large family. I usually don't play with greater than 4-5 Sims. However, my Sim just had triplets and I have 7 Sims in my house (2 YA's, 1 teen, 1 kid, 3 babies). One of my Sims has an active career and is a doctor. & I have a retail store. 2 of my Sims are leaders of clubs. This is my first time playing with such a large household and with all the activities I had before the triplets, it was manageable. But now...whew, I'm having a bit of trouble keeping my Sims productive plus managing the other things (i.e. active career, retail, clubs).
> For those that play with large households, how do you play? Any tips?
>
> Also, once the household increased to 7 Sims, I can barely see their pictures in the UI. It's like not enough space to have them all in a straight line and they're teeny tiny pics. Is there a way to enlarge this? I think it's a setting in options to change, but not sure which.

I currently have 6 sims in a household after a sim had twins. It's a case of stepping away and not trying to micro manage absolutely everything. For example, I let the kids do a lot on their own whilst I focused on the one sim's career and caring for the toddlers. Now they're all children and teens, the work load has eased a lot!

> @DaniHopkins said:
> Okay. I have a quick question and I have looked EVERYWHERE for an answer before posting but I have to know!!!!!!!!!
> I recently made 72 Sims in The Sims 4 with a plan to make them all students at Hogwarts but I have no way to add more families to the same household! PLEASE HELP!!! I AM SO DESPERATE!!! Creating all those sims...finding a decent Hogwarts... IT WAS MORE THAN 30 HOURS OF WORK I DON'T WANT WASTED!!!...and I was going to cite my sources on my BlogSpot page so everyone could have access...I know about the full house md but I REALLY don't want to add them all by name 64 times so if I try to place Hogwarts and then delete their houses? Should I try the Go To School Mod? Does that have an option to keep them at the school more then a day? Is their a better mod that I could be using? I NEED YOUR HELP!!!

That's just not possible or even playable. How would you manage 72 sims?!