Sims keeps deleting my houses and families
Product: The Sims 4 Platform:PC Which language are you playing the game in? English How often does the bug occur? Often (50% - 99%) What is your current game version number? Version 1.55.105.1020...
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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.
