50? 100? 200? How many do you have and what do you consider to be a good size?


Right now I have about 77 - I just restarted Sunset Valley a few days ago. 100 seems like the number stuck in my head, but I wonder what you guys think.

I have 7 self-created families, totalizing 28 sims. Plus the pre-made families and NPCs. I wonder if that's why my game is effing slow...

Anyways, how many people is in Sunset View in a vanilla game?

About 70 I think. I plan on making it 100 or more over the coming years, but I will do it slowly for performance reasons.

0 atm.. working on something, but will probably be upwards to 60/70 once I'm finished

Two. I play on a tiny island, and not counting NPCs, there's just the two of them. If they need friends, they can bug the people in foreign countries. Though I may need to move them to a real town eventually so they can do the careers.. but only after they max every skill.

IIRC, when I used Awesomemod's destroyallhumans command on Sunset Valley it wiped out a bit more than 100 Sims (townies and npcs).

I repopulated the town with about 30-40 Sims, but it still feels pretty empty, so I plan to add more.

I'm on a save file for my Legacy, and right now it's going to about 200. Not by force either.

Well, some Sims I've merged, but only because I really wanted them in there xD

i have 160 sims in my game, and i think 50 of them are homeless people, and 6 families came from my legacy.

Around 180. I have about 70 sims that I use to populate worlds (I switch a lot between custom worlds) and then I let story progression run wild. It seems to equalize at around 180 even if there are empty houses available. Has anyone ever gone over 200?

In one of my hoods, I filled every household and let story progression run for 8 sim weeks. It was interesting, to say the least.

Since most of the original sims got old and died, I'd say about 100, but it was near 210 when I started. (wth on not repopulating)

Then, I have about 128... Jesus! It's time to make some tragic stories!

well you can alwasy use twallan's story progression and stop the aging and dying i think the town will still populate and it might be even possible to reach 300

Man you people have so many, I have 36, all playable, scattered between 15 households.

ani, was that a custom hood?

For those with close to 200, how long does it take to load the neighborhood? o3o

You lot must be using CFF surely? And if yes, what was your limit before CFF?

Yep. It's great, I'm accessing 4GB of memory instead of 2GB and I've never had a crash since I installed a couple months ago. However, I have had a few instances where bad routing, game background processes, or CC have caused memory to spike and slowed down the game badly. Personally, I think that just outlines some of the memory managment problems inherit in the game. It should have a way to capture those and re-address the problem without affecting gameplay - especially when you're accessing 4GB of memory. But CFF is such a great tool I don't know why it's not stickied on the help forum. Then again it does directly alter the exe file so there may be problems we haven't run into yet.

Before CFF I rarely went over 90 sims because my game would start to slow down. Really, it depended on the world I was playing and the size of the household (both in sims and the size of the lot - including house and furnishings.) Some custom worlds I was able to get up to 120 without any problems because of their small size and the houses were small and simple. But generally, 90 was the stopping point.

I don't mean to go off topic, but could someone please link me to this CFF thing/a thread about it here? It sounds interesting and helpful based on NekoCat's post.

Anyway, I'm not sure exactly how many Sims are in my neighborhood. I'm only playing with one who has over 10 kids. I noticed that there have been an oddly large amount of deaths in my current town, so maybe the game's trying to lower the population...

Yeah theres a new tutorial:
http://www.modthesims.info/wiki.php...ash_workarounds

I have 26 Sims in 11 households, 13 men, 13 women. 26 Service Sims and 2 homeless. Just started this town so looking forward to it's growth.

Never heard of that before, so nope. But it does take a little while to load.

nope i don't use CFF explorer since im lazy setting up things, but my town loading goes from 15-20 minutes to load. in-game it pretty much goes well.

Holy crap, 15 minutes? I thought my 3 minute load was bad. :gonk:

yeah my town loads for 15 minutes, or so im not sure if its either the population or the CC.

I'm playing the Simtopia world atm, and have about 50 inhabitants so far and counting. My game also loads for 15 mins Aya Alexa, I think we love CC too much :P

yeah, were like shopaholics for sim items. i wonder why that trait wasn't added to the game