What's your "Sim Count" in your save file?

Why do I want to know?

• No official update announcement about the "Population limit before auto-culling" for many years.
• After my save file got "auto-culling" when my Sim Count reached 616, I worried that my population was too big already or not. I used the mod to disable culling, but I still worry when I add more sims in my save. (And if activate L&D, many more sims will be added)
•  So, I want to know other players' cases because the last topic like this was in the old forum and no one talked about this again.

That's all. Thank you in advance to anyone who shares your population number. You can add more information about how you manage your population if you want to share. I love to read your playstyle as well.

About related topics that I discussed before

Maximum population in the save file before sim culling? | EA Forums - 4964511

Let's share your population statistics by "Log Population Details"! | EA Forums - 5005107

I have 230 -60sims saved with a favorite heart in my sim bin. I'm not in game so I can't give an exact number. These are played sims in all of my saves.

They will not die until I allow them to. I can't rotate my gameplay fast enough to play these household therfore I stopped adding new sims to my favorites in the household bins

I pick and choose the household that I want to play and feature slowly after gameplay progression. They are all active in the game and I watch them as I play other household. 

I like to play all the household that are in my favorites so it takes months to get to some of them. They are all still active in my gameplay.

I play an extremely slow game and save in order to play all 200+ household...probably never finish it..

MiataplayNever mind, the approximate number is enough.

If this didn't count sims in other households, you might be busy rotating. I played less than 10 families because I originally played with only one family.

The good thing is that you can play with a variety of characters. I saw your story about moving many families from San Myshuno temporarily too. It might be slow (and hard work) like you said but it would be heartwarming when think of them like real people. ^__^

I only moved 8 sims that live in that city and they are all happy and relocated. It wasn't difficult. 🙂

Glad to hear that it's not hard work for you and also happy for them!

You know a sudden move is difficult when bugs are infiltrating the city. I just want a fix. 

My sims live the best simulated life that I can offer so I just want them to be comfortable while the bugs are being investigated....It's not the players fault if their game is updated. My sims understand this and forgive me for uprooting them so abruptly. 😂  ♥ 

Yes. My sims are dear to me.

It's been a while since I checked, but I would guess I have 740 active sims. I normally free spirits 1 year after a sim dies, so there might be a few ghosts but not many. 740 might include horses and some pets. Thanks for the heads up, I did not think about all those Ravenwood added ghosts might add a large number of extra sims that I will not play. Maybe wiser to stay off until I learn more about sims imits. I do believe the limit is way beyond 1000 if you have most packs - I read some where that the limit is lifted for each pack, but I've not seen this confirmed from EA. 

I'm scared 👀 to go that high, but I want to.

How many households can the game have in favorites/ hearts before the game starts culling your favorites? ☺ 

It's good to have some positive thinking during the hard time. I also visited and saved screenshots of corrupted San Myshuno without saving it because it will be only this time. (Please be only this time, please don't let us wait for the fix too long.)

If I have a lot of free time, I will play temporary save files too. But as I am busy this month, I decided to stop playing the story until it's fixed. Or if I want to play, I will go to redesign the lots from another world instead.

I am not sure if the 740 active sims you said are sims in "my household" or "played sims" but you have more than me anyway. I play aging-off, so no ghost from death.

I am now aware that Ravenwood may create more random ghosts to fill the neighborhood. But I hope that it won't create if there are enough existing ghosts in my save file. (I hope that it's not like a "bar regular" case where the game will create new random townies every time even though I have many sims already.)

As I said above, my save file started culling already. I have a mod to stop this. So I am curious if other people have the same limit or not. Or it depends on the size of the file. (My save file is currently 21 MB)