Sims keeps deleting my houses and families

I know they didn’t all die. I have life span very long and I just had made them. I have unplayed houses age turned off. 

I am now putting them in my households to ensure they aren’t deleted but I prefer not to have them all in there. 

And I do play rotational. 

I just don’t get why it chooses to delete a house out of other households. 

Thanks for your help.

And the furnishings weren’t all deleted.  They are still there in the house until I put somebody in the house then they’re deleted. 

Its weird. 

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@firequeen76 If you don't put them in my households, they'll be culled. That's by design. They don't die, they are removed from the game.

You can find info about culling here: https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/905991/culling-relationship-culling-amp-decay-current-status/p1

The furnishing issue is probably this: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/TO-ADD-Can-t-move-into-furnished-homes-as-value-is-0/td-p/5743394/

 So you’re saying that you are supposed to have every single household in my households?  Even the sims that came with the world?  So when it says recommended 200 that means don’t play more than that?  To me the game should not be culling people for me.

 Thanks for your help I will check out the link.

Kristie

@firequeen76 You need to have the ones that you care about in My Households. If you care about the premades, yes they should be in there.

The 200 Sims is a recommendation cause the game can get very laggy if you have too many Sims in your world. If you have a strong computer, you can also set it to unlimited and then you can put as many Sims into my household as you like but be aware that it can lead to performance issues and you're doing it at your own risk.

There's a reason why culling is in the game. There's more information about the whole topic in the thread I linked above.

I play rotational. The game is deleting my households. The ones that are supposed to be safe. Actually even more. It’s deleted the households I have just been playing with. WTF? Why aren’t you addressing this issue? At this point the game deleted 4 households. No I am nowhere near capacity. I have only 60 sims in my households but the game keeps culling them. The safe households. They don’t die. They keep getting deleted by the game. These are all households in my households not box or other. The game is destroying my progress. I’m not even close to max on households to be culling. The stupid game keeps deleting my households. 

@CircuitD 

From what you have said, you must be keeping your households under the Other tab in Manage Households.  Households under that tab will be marked as not played and will be subject to deletion when the game culls sims.  To keep your households safe from deletion, you must keep them under the My Households tab. 

Another thing you can do to avoid sims being culled is set the Maximum Sim Count dropdown at the bottom of Manage Households to a higher number.  Choices are 80, 150, 200 or Unlimited.  Depending on your computer hardware, you can easily run the game with more than the minimum 80 setting to reduce culling if you have a good computer.   

Take a look at the plumbob icons in the upper left corner of the MH household portraits.  There are 3 different icons, grey, light green and dark green.  Dark green denotes played sims, light green and grey denote unplayed sims.  Both green icons will show on households under the My Household tab and grey only shows under the Other tab. Households marked with either of the green icons are not subject to being culled.  Households with the grey icons are subject to being culled.  The difference between the dark green icon and the light green icon is that, with aging on (auto age unplayed sims checkbox checked and the auto age played sims dropdown set to Only Active Household, is that households with the dark green icon won't age while you are not playing them and those with the light green icon will age. 

And finally, if you are willing to use mods, specifically, MCCC, you can shut culling down altogether.

Hope this helps.

All I can say, the defaul culling and managment of the households are for short term games. If you play any lenghten life of your sims I highly reccomend to get the mod MCCC, in there you have option to never  use culling or set it to just cull specific perimiters. Have 400+ sims in my game, playing with 2 family trees (spread out in several households) and is into the 8th generation in one of the trees. Another nice option is that you can freeze the aging in played households, so next time you play it they are the same age as last time you played them. If you'r not into mods I wish you luck.