Populating with MCCC

I have MCC and I don't do anything with population control. I don't mind what the game gives me. If I don't like a generated Sim I go to manage worlds and delete them. The game will generate a new Sim.

I have don't fill empty houses but that's game options. If not I changed it so no one moves into empty houses.

I let the NPC Sims progress on their own. I did notice that the same Sims marry each other and the offspring stays the same in every save. When I get a new pack and start a new save some partners do change otherwise they stay the same.

I only use MCC to make the days longer, no relationship decay and to keep marriages intact. Also, I adjusted motive decay to account for the longer day. I think I changed it to 50. I changed seasons to 14 days (or is that game options or the mod? I forget) and pregnancy lasts 7 days in my game.

I used the mod to turn off emotional death and I right click to give recipes to my Sim and do other stuff. I use the cheats on the Sim and mailbox by right clicking all the time. Usually for motive control before a party or something. Sometimes I use it to change a trait without going into cas and I sometimes use it to summon Sims. Everything else is left to whatever the mod calls default.

I don't do any flags or mess with skill rate, population etc.

> @aaronrulz said:
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> Great settings! Mine are similiar now. Although my marriages are at 15 percent. Pregnancy percentages are I believe at 10...right now. So yes, I did the same with only married couples having kids. When that setting was off, I had one guy impregnate 15 different sims (in his defense, the pregnancy percentage was higher), but I thought it was a little ridiculous considering he was married. I do delete sims when there is too many.
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> Do you have "move out single sims" setting on? I wish there was a percentage for this but it seems to be 100% (as long as there are houses/apartments available)

Thanks! It actually makes a lot of sense to change to only married families having kids if you're obsessed with the genetics like I am. It's fun to scroll through the "Other Households" and look at the evolving families. It's confusing when the kids are coming from all different fathers and look really random. :joy:

Since I don't allow any homeless move-ins at all, I don't have a need for singles move-out. I prefer to only have played characters living in the lots, with a few exceptions (the big celebrities are in their homes, and one unplayed vampire family is in their home).

> @AnnLee87 said:
> I have MCC and I don't do anything with population control. I don't mind what the game gives me. If I don't like a generated Sim I go to manage worlds and delete them. The game will generate a new Sim.
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> I have don't fill empty houses but that's game options. If not I changed it so no one moves into empty houses.
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> I let the NPC Sims progress on their own. I did notice that the same Sims marry each other and the offspring stays the same in every save. When I get a new pack and start a new save some partners do change otherwise they stay the same.
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> I only use MCC to make the days longer, no relationship decay and to keep marriages intact. Also, I adjusted motive decay to account for the longer day. I think I changed it to 50. I changed seasons to 14 days (or is that game options or the mod? I forget) and pregnancy lasts 7 days in my game.
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> I used the mod to turn off emotional death and I right click to give recipes to my Sim and do other stuff. I use the cheats on the Sim and mailbox by right clicking all the time. Usually for motive control before a party or something. Sometimes I use it to change a trait without going into cas and I sometimes use it to summon Sims. Everything else is left to whatever the mod calls default.
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> I don't do any flags or mess with skill rate, population etc.

Yes, forgot to mention that my days are a little longer (set at 35 I believe). I made the days very slightly longer and the motive decays are at 60%. This also helps slow down the ballooning population just a tad.

One really fun thing that happened due to autonomous and risky Woohoo being enabled - I have a married couple with two almost-grown teenage boys. The husband's brother is always coming over and hanging out, and he kept flirting with the wife. Since I consider her loyal, I had her tell him "Just be Friends," and they agreed. But the next day he came back over and before I could even touch it, first thing he does is grab her and jump in the shower with her. Immediately she got pregnant. I shrugged and rolled with it. Turns out she's not as loyal as I thought, and her husband has no idea that late-in-life baby is actually his brother's!

The other mod I use is the Chemistry System and that really adds a lot of randomness in. It's the one thing I miss most from Sims 2 and really couldn't enjoy this game like I did Sims 2 without these two mods working together.