"Admiral8Q;c-18034142" wrote:
So 'unplayed' and NPC's etc don't count towards this.
That's because the limit is just a limit on how many sims you can protect from culling in the "My Households" section, not how many trigger culling. There's no settings available to actually alter the culling triggers (without mods). If you send them to "Other Households", they are simply not protected.
Unless you use mods that allow you to protect sims that are in Other Households or that disable culling, any sims in the "other households" category could get culled regardless of what you set the limit to. Though special sims and any sims in houses don't get culled either way unless you have a LOT of sims in the world, from what I've read.