Need Help/Suggestions for Managing Multiple Households - More than 60 Sims

[RushTX]

Hi everyone!

I play generations, and currently my very first Sim family has expanded into approximately 18 households (unless I've forgotten any, which is entirely possible). I have approximately 61 sims. 

Does anyone have any suggestions or tips on how to manage them? I try to play one household for a few days then switch to another. I've seen someone mentioning turning aging off, but exactly how? I mean, I know how to actually do that in settings, but there are several options.  Should I turn off aging for only the current played household, for only my households (meaning all of them at the same time), only npc's? I don't care much about the npc's, so I'm guessing they can age up as normal. But what do you all (who play multiple households) do far as managing multiple households?

I like for each of my Sims to meet their soulmate, get married, and have children. But sometimes once I get around to them, they are halfway through the Adult stage, and having babies means they likely won't be around to see their kids grow up and become adults. I have MCCC, and sometimes I flag/freeze sims for No Age, like when they are aging MUCH faster than their partners (for some strange reason).

I do have long lifespan on.

So....please share any tips you have on this. (I know there is probably a similar post to this one, so feel free to point me there as well. There are just WAY too many to sort through.)

Thanks!!
 

[oshizu]

@MarianT is the forum expert on rotational gameplay.

My only tip would be to set the Gameplay Options as follows:
Auto Age Played Sims: Active Household Only
Auto Age Unplayed Sims: No

Then, you play each of your households for the same amount of time (say 4 days or a week) and when you start your last household, you switch "Auto Age Unplayed Sims'" to Enabled for that same period.
This way, all your households and the NPCs will age exactly the same amount of days in each round.
Sorry if I got the names of the settings wrong, I'm not in game right now.

[MarianT]

@RushTX , oshizu has it right. You want aging on only for the Active Household. This will prevent your other households from aging up -- except babies being born. If you don't care about the other Sims in your world, you can leave them alone, or do an Auto Age for unplayed Sims once in every rotation. 

If there's a disparity in the rate of aging between spouses, that could be because female Sims don't age while pregnant.

I don't use MCCC or any mods, so can't give you advice on that.

[RushTX]

Thank you both for the suggestions! I'll give that a try. In the meantime, I created like a 7x5 table (like a calendar, where I can add in when I want certain sims to age up, get married, have kids, or whatever.

Thank you again!

Rush