[PLEASE READ] Save Game Corruption

I am so sorry to hear that this happened to you cmcdanie. This is exactly what happened to me last year when I installed Lovestruck and Life & Death. If you search my threads on the forum, you will come across detailed workarounds that I implemented to be able to play the game without my saves corrupting and still add Lovestruck & Life & Death if you are a PC player because in my case, the MC Command Center mod was required. Basically, I had to delete enough lots in a good save file just before I installed the new packs so that when I installed the new packs that came with new worlds, my game had the capacity to absorb the additional content. However, this left many of my Sim's Households "homeless" so this is where I had to use MCCC to combine the households whose homes were deleted to make space in the game with the Sim Households that were left. MCCC allows you to have up to 108 max Sims in one house. In my game, after I merged households, I now have households ranging from the game limit of 8 Sims to one house that has around 32. Most of my houses are around 12 to 16 which isn't to bad but this allowed me to keep all of Sim generations intact. The only negative is that in order to "full CAS edit Sims" in the households exceeding the 8 limit is that I have to move some of them out temporarily, edit them in full CAS, then move them back after I finish. If I don't need to edit in "full CAS mode" like changing clothes, hairstyles, etc. I can do all of that through MCCC on one sim at a time without moving any sims out of the larger households. I also think that you can just use the mirror or wardrobe furniture for this also but I am not 100% certain because I have not use this feature in the Sims 4 yet. The other drawback to having more than 8 sims in a house is that it takes the game longer to load the lot and once it loads, there can be a delay in some of the interactions since the game has to process more data on more sims but that usually smooths out after a few minutes of playing. I found that it is actually more fun to play with households that have from 16 to 24 sims. Also, since I have alot of large houses, my houses now do not feel as empty it are utilized better when there are more than 8 sims. I normally try not to exceed more than 24 sims per house to keep the game at an optimal running state and reduce game lag. So far, as long as I don't add any additional large builds or additional Expansion packs that contain new worlds, I have been able to avoid the save corruption problem for now. However, until this problem is fixed, I will not purchase any new content that involves adding new worlds such as the "Businesses & Hobbies" or "Enchanted by Nature" expansion packs because if I was to add these expansion packs to my game, I would be right back a "square one" and I would have to delete even more builds and combine even more sims into one house just to absorb the additional objects that these new worlds would add that triggers the save corruption problem in my game that I had before.