Does anyone else play on this setting? There is a warning popup when you switch, so I have some anxiety, although nothing has happened in my game yet. Is it harmful to the game? What do you think? Not worth the risk? I play on rotation and I just like to favourite all the Sims so that they don't get culled before I can play them, because I've heard the Sims will disappear from the game after a while if you don't play them.

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.

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Simmerville
Legend
4 years ago
I used he limits for a long time, but then had to switch to unlimited because I was pushing the limit and afraid to lose my families. So, for a few years now, I've been playing 400+ sims on rotation. My computer is low-end but I think size of active household and content on active lot makes a bigger performance difference than unlimited number of sims. I'll report back when I reach 1000 sims, lol.
ferevabatman
Newcomer
9 months ago
What specs do you have and do you play w cc or mods? I’d like to have this many sims personally but I’ve noticed mine start getting cut in half (half their bodies are missing) at around 300 mark.
Kerrybubbles
Seasoned Ace
9 months ago
I play on unlimited on a very low end laptop and I don't have any problems.
EnkiSchmidt
Hero
9 months ago
The overall number of sims is less important than the number of sims in a zone, how full your inventories are and how cluttered your lots are.
I ran into issues with all those things (at one time I had thirty sims in my household, then an alien abduction happened and the game said, nope, that was too much, my friend). But simply having a high sim count never caused issues.

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