Any way to have more than 8 sims in a household?

Haven't seen one yet - it would need a mod. I'd suggest checking Mod the Sims and mod forum here. You could consider managing them on rotational play in multiple houses in a neighbourhood. Think of the neighbourhood as a family compound.

I have three guys in a polyamorous relationship. No jealousy... but no marriage either.

I suppose with your sim, you could do as some US Mormons do and have your sim legally marry his first wife and throw parties as 'spiritual weddings' to the others.

The code is designed with max 8 household sims in mind, the game will probably break with more than 8, a mod is possible but I wouldn't risk it.

I don't have a harem or something in my game, but one of my married sims regularily woohoos all 4 maids (2 male and 2 female).

Yes, you can have more than 8 Sims in a house. Just use the cheat: sims.Spawn
This will spawn a random Sim in your household. You can then just use cas.fulleditmode to change him/her to your liking.

"Snooty;12707299" wrote:
Yes, you can have more than 8 Sims in a house. Just use the cheat: sims.Spawn

This will spawn a random Sim in your household. You can then just use cas.fulleditmode to change him/her to your liking.

... or you move your sims' other wives and children into the houses next door... happy switching!

"Savage_Unicorn;c-16073617" wrote:
soooooo i would like more toddlers. i know about the sims.spawn but that spawns adults

Hello @Savage_Unicorn
Welcome to the forums :)
MC Command Center Mod allows you to have more than 8 sims in a household
It can be downloaded at
https://deaderpoolmc.tumblr.com
There is information about the mod in this link
https://deaderpoolmc.tumblr.com/doc/overview
There is further information about the modules by clicking on the yellow titles on the site page.
The setting is found in
MCCC > MCCC Settings > Gameplay Settings > Maximum Household Size

I tried that with the mc commander but it didn't work. Either that or I didn't know how to make it happen.

"catitude5;c-16073942" wrote:
I tried that with the mc commander but it didn't work. Either that or I didn't know how to make it happen.

Check out the selection of MCCC tuning options. I think you can access what you want via the computer, to denote household size. I stumbled across it recently. But up until recently, I still had two other mods that allowed for the larger households. (These were designed to work with earlier versions of MCCC, so they were compatible.) I accidentally deleted them by not removing them from my Mods folder when I did a reset of my game. Face/palm. Now, I'll have to see if MCCC truly does allow for the larger households. If not, I believe I have a copy of that other mod. You can also click on the mail box for additional options for MCCC.

"Snooty;c-12707299" wrote:
Yes, you can have more than 8 Sims in a house. Just use the cheat: sims.Spawn
This will spawn a random Sim in your household. You can then just use cas.fulleditmode to change him/her to your liking.

I went to edit them with full edit mode and it only had the first eight characters i made able to edit.

if you use cas with more than eight sims, then since the game engine can't deal with more than eight sims it deletes sims after the eighth.
(we had a similar issue in sims 3)
this is why mc command center has its own cas that edits one sim at a time.
basically you need mcc to edit a household with more than eight sims. no way around that.

and its possible you may not be able to use mcc for this purpose anyway; i cant save when i have more than 8 sims in the household, so i dont bother with mcc and just suffer under the 8 sim limit T^T

regarding polyamorous sim relationships - you probably know this but for anyone who doesn't the reward trait for the serial romantic aspiration will stop poly jealousy. ofc if you have triangle-poly instead of v-poly all the sims need the trait which is tedious to gain without using cheats