Relationship Culling Destroys Lore

"Babykittyjade;c-17975959" wrote:

"babajayne;c-17975890" wrote:
Well, I just started a new game again with the same idea of playing all the households with teens. I clicked the heart on these households which moved them into “My Households” which is what we mean when we say they’re “Favorited”, right? The Sim count is 49 so I’m not even close to the max of 200.

@Cinebar Those relationships exist when I first load the households. Siobhan is indeed in a relationship with Sergio, and has friends outside the household (Luna and Sofia). But no one would know that unless they played those sims first or favorited them, apparently. So the game does actually have lore, it’s just this mechanic that’s washing away the details before we even find them.

I could be wrong but I believe this is a design by choice because of how bloated sims 3 became holding onto all the relationships and memories.
I've even heard people complain about memories in sims 2 leading to bloat and corruption if a sim is deleted. Which is why I think we haven't got a memory system.
It's all to keep performance smooth ?

I understand the purpose is to keep the game smooth. It just seemed so heavy handed to me for all those relationships to disappear that quickly. I hope that favoriting them and starting off with all of them “played” before the first culling helps prevent this (I guess it happens during that weird slowdown around 3am). So I’m going into each household on the first day this time and we’ll see what happens.

In my last main save, I had about 8-12 households and the culling still happened between sims I played. The only difference now is that I’m clicking the heart. If this doesn’t stop the culling when I’m well under 200 sims, I really think the culling process needs to be tweaked.