Small or Large families?

I prefer playing larger households since it's what I'm used to. I like having lots of different sims in the house so I don't get bored of playing the same sims all the time and have different experiences happening with each one. (I hope my explanation made sense)

I prefer small only because I just cant manage large households- I find them far too stressful! Autonomy off feels stressful because there are too manage sims to micro manage all the time, and autonomy on just means my sims are all doing weird and unhelpful things that I have to keep cancelling (eg I'm close to actually starving to death and there's a freshly prepared meal in the kitchen, but yes, let's forget about impending death and go and play on the pc... :s )
Any more than 4 sims and my brain starts to fry! I always used to play big households in previous sims games and really enjoyed it though.

I prefer large families, even though it can be stressful. I have a large family in real life (and that can be stressful too :D ).

No more than two sims per gaming household is my preference. More than that and the game becomes more like one of those ethological overcrowding utopian rat colony experiments from the 1960s... I start getting behavioral sink, losing empathy toward them, and I start figuring out unusual ways to kill off my sims.

I don't know which one to answer, because I rotate a lot the way I play. Usually when I'm trying something new in the game, like a different career or something like that, I play with small families, usually just one sim lol, but I also like to play with large families because it feels more challenging and it's fun to do parties and stuff with them.

I use the settings in MCCC to make woohoo 'risky' so the size of families in my game is all a matter of random chance and outside of my control. I prefer "smaller" families, but end up with households approaching the cap every few generations because of the random thing.

I play rotationally, so mine varies depending on the wants, needs, characteristics, space, and financial situation for each family. I can have as little as 2 people in a certain family up to 7. I don't think I've ever had 8 except when playing the 100 baby challenge. I'm the youngest of 6 kids in my family, so I generally love playing with a big family though.

I tend to play with two adults with two children max... that is a small family to me. Pets are, of course, part of the family but since they can't be controlled I don't really consider them part of the "family size" in terms of controllable characters... does that make sense lol?

I prefer small families so I can focus on individual sims more. If the house gets too crowded I usually get overwhelmed and lose interest.

I also have a huge love for sim genetics though, and it takes every ounce of power not to have a million babies just so I can see what they'd look like.

"jupkmn;c-16928531" wrote:
I don't know which one to answer, because I rotate a lot the way I play. Usually when I'm trying something new in the game, like a different career or something like that, I play with small families, usually just one sim lol, but I also like to play with large families because it feels more challenging and it's fun to do parties and stuff with them.

Yeah, depends on the family/Sim. Currently I've got a single Sim who I'm preparing to start an art gallery, then I'm leaving him unplayed so I can have other families patronize his place. This is in my template save. I plan to start a new save with the template as a base, with the goal of unlocking all the career outfits; I'll be starting with a household of four Sims each in a different career and go from there. Eventually there'll be a couple of kids (depending how the couplings shake) and they'll pick up where the older Sims left off, likely hringing in a couple of more Sims and going from there. So in that save I'll be playing anywhere from 4 to 6 Sims in a household. My ultimate goal is to test and see if I can move a member of the household to a new save and see if they keep the unlocks -- if so I'll add them to my template save and have them take over DSV Clothiers so they can sell the best of the locked career outfits -- maybe if I move two members of the household I can have two clothing stores.