Playing on Unlimited

I used to play with the game set to unlimited...my game still defaults to that every time I start a new game, for some reason. MCCC lets you customize culling settings and also flag households specifically to not be culled for sure, so I stopped using the unlimited setting back when I started using that mod.

As far as if it is bad or not, really depends on your PC specs. The main reason for it is performance.

I've played on unlimited for a while. I play rotationally too and have a lot of households. I haven't had any issues but as was posted above, it depend on your computer specs.

I do. We are getting to where we kind of have to with all the pack NPCs if you don't want to mass delete them. After I make my Sims, it is always over and I have to.

I was kind of nervous at first, but not after it becoming normal. Plus my hardware upgrade in January 2021 means I sweat it even less.

I play on unlimited. The only thing it does is that you have no limit on how many sims can you keep safe from culling.
To keep sims safe from culling, go to manage households and add households from the other household section to My Households section and they're safe.

Culling still happens on unlimited setting, but the game won't limit on how many sims can you keep safe from it.

I always play on unlimited. I don't like forced limitations for anything I've purchased. Let me, the player/consumer, be the one to determine what is too taxing for my system. If it starts to create lag or some other nonsense, then I know I need to change the setting.

So far, I have experienced no performance drops.

Unlimited mode? What's that?

Thanks for replying! :smile: it sounds like I might be okay, because my laptop is pretty new, so I was really worried it might put a stress on my laptop or something but I haven't noticed any lag from it I don't think. Fingers crossed it will work out because I like having my lots filled with Sims and I don't want them culled. The worlds seemed so empty before. I actually was hoping since I filled all the lots that the game would not generate as many townies but that doesn't seem to be the case.

@SailorCeti From the household manager screen if you look at the bottom right there is a maximum Sim count setting for your favourited households. I'm not sure what the default is, mine was usually 200, but with all the premades I have gone past this limit so I switched it to the next higher which is unlimited. In the manager you can click on the heart and it will move the household to My Households where they will be safe from getting deleted by the game population culling.

My maximum sim count is 150 sims. I have 81 sims including the five sims in my one playable household. I have 31 households registered as played to prevent culling.

I play on unlimited with about 500 Sims, and my laptop hasn’t exploded yet. :)

I use it all the time and have never had problems with it. It probably helps that I don't mind deleting any sims I don't like (especially pre-mades), so I never get more sims populating my saves than my system can handle, anyway. :lol: