Populating with MCCC

"Karon;c-17480442" wrote:
I think you can use MCCC, and have it set to populate the worlds with sims from your gallery. And, it works... slowly then adding a thousand of sims, but I think its better as it doesn't blow your save file in 2 generations.

no, my thought was not doing that. Just using the 10 families I put in the game and just populate the world from them. Keep the settings that won't move homeless sims into houses or let them marry or get pregnant. Only the main 10 families that live in houses can marry each other and populate.

I don't populate the world, i just start with the premades. But I'm always struggling with mccc population. I haven't found balanced settings yet. My world is so full and everything is a mess and im only in the beginning of the 3rd generation. I mean i can't recognize the fouding families anymore. They mixed with homeless, everyone had kids... it's complicated.

I don't want to loose my played sims progress so i won't start again, but i will change settings again. I had teen pregnancy on, but i will set it off; i will only allow marriages between townies and only YA and A. I will only allow 2 kids per household max...

If i could i would delete all non played sims and put back all the premades, but i think they aren't in the library or the gallery.

EDIT to add that it's being really hard to find single sims in my save right now. Not really hard, almost impossible. Everyone is getting married super fast. It may seem that i have my settings very loose but the truth is that i have downgraded marriage and pregnancy percentages a lot below standard...

I let MCCC control the moving stuff, for the most part. I stopped having single sims move out, because it was splitting up premade families. So instead of the Caliente/Lothario household having one house, they ended up with occupying 4. I leave the premades alone, unless I play them.

I have done makeovers on all premades, except DU, and saved them to my Gallery. They will be put in an empty save, in houses I will build or download for them. The rest of the world I'll populate from my library, or the Gallery. I will tweak MCCC (again) so that it will not only spawn YA/A sims, but also families (it used to spawn families with children and toddlers, don't know what setting I messed up).

NPCC will take care of the generated townies, so there won't be too many of them. I've used this mod a week or so now, and I really like it. There is no over-production of sims anymore, and the control it offers is awesome.

MCCC has some issues with the "Move Single Sims" settings that causes pets and potentially children to be left on their own, so maybe that's what you were seeing @Kathykins .

Regarding the thread, I've been trying to run tests to see how well MCCC populates things if I leave pre-mades to their own devices over generations (thanks to vampire hibernation) with pregnancies happening only once a week. I'll report back soon.

I have seen single child households, but that was apparently a known bug posted on the AHQ, and not a mod issue. It has been fixed, because I haven't seen it in a good while. I was left with a lot of orphans, and moved them into a house with a single townie "caregiver". Probably not necessary, but didn't have the heart to just delete them. Figured I'd gather them all in one place, instead of them being moved into homes by themselves.

To be honest, I have tweaked MCCC a lot, because I didn't like what was happening. It was marrying off premades I had plans for myself, and 8 out of 10 couples were same gender. Now, I don't mind that, at least half my played sims are exactly that, probably more when I think about it. But it was too much. And it messed up my plans. The tweaking is probably why I don't have full families generated anymore, only single YA/A. I'll need to look into that.

For cutting down on random sims, townieoverhaul_lessfame by bienchen does this well, only allowing essential sims to be generated

https://deichschafblog.de/bienchen/werde-beruehmt-get-famous/

I've read NPCC can cause issues like save corruption, and the game does not like when it can't find a Sim for an essential role.

Bienchen's mod cuts it down to the bare minimum while still letting the game do core functions without player input.

I have it set so that homeless Sims will not move into houses. I have the marriage percentages set very low (less than 5%) and same with the pregnancy settings. Only opposite sex couples can get physically pregnant, and adoption only happens 1% for straight couples and something more like 15% for same-sex couples.

I saw someone else mentioned that in order to help with population control, they set it so that only married couples have babies. This wasn't out of some moral idea but it meant that they had to first pass through the "marriage" check and then another check for pregnancy, which exponentially cut down.

So far, the balance feels about right the way I have my settings but I will try adding that last one if it grows out of hand.

Do you all just sometimes delete some Sims when it starts to get too huge? That should be possible in "Other Households" tab, right? Any problems with doing that?

I frequently delete sims in "Other", the "Not currently in world" crowd. Haven't noticed any problems yet. I've probably deleted some who were friends with my sims, but tbh they have so many friends (because the game is pushy and want every sim to be friends with every other sim. Its my pet peeve) I don't know the names of half of them. My sims don't seem to care, I don't care.

I just send my 400 year old Prime Master Vampire to the Nightclub when I feel the townies are getting out of control. The burst of anger does the trick nicely and a lot more entertaining. He’s always happy to help me with this. ?