There's BO's mod, which uses a different method to allow more sims: https://www.leefish.nl/mybb/showthread.php?tid=2139

Should hopefully get around your issues (if not tied to streakers or other potential adult sims).

Try BoilingOil's version (though that "does not conflict with ANYTHING" kind of makes me skeptical): https://www.leefish.nl/mybb/showthread.php?tid=2139

I believe you actually need the mod as well as editing the userStartup. They each seem to address different methods of increasing number of sims on lot. BO's mod does mention it at the bottom.

I edited the userStartup while having Cyjon's mod, it didn't work. The 6th member still could not join. I will try out other versions, but for now I just took the mod out and played normally.

Has your Sim actually rolled that fear? It sounds like that wording precedes the repoman/is a hidden fear. I've never had it roll in my game at least, and I've been testing quite extensively lately just how little money Sims can get by. It's insane how much free money is thrown at Sims all the time, I wish RL was like that!

Greek Houses have levels - do the levels limit how many sims can move in? It seems strange the message would be about 8, though, if that is the problem. And the wiki actually says this isn't an issue. Hmm.

My guess is a mod conflict - you could probably find it by doing the 50/50 method on a throwaway copy of the hood.

Edit: Oh duh. Sorry. You found the problem mod already. Well, I'm tired and not reading correctly.

I have just had a look at Cyjon's mod and his mod simply replaces the entire calculation of whether or not a household has space with an operation which always returns true no matter what.

So I'm guessing, the Greek House joining process probably refers to this process but isn't expecting to get a "return true" result.

That would make sense, because the original BHAV reports three values - the total number of members, the number of sims and the number of pets.

BoilingOil's mod reports these three values each as 1, 0, 1, bypassing any calculation. That might be why it works where Cyjon's one doesn't.

You don't need to add the lines in UserStartup for BO's mod to work on-lot (like for several similar mods), but adding it allows you do add families from the neighborhood window (comments section, pg7).

Has anyone heard from @AndrewGloria recently? I haven't seen him around for a while. I hope he is OK.

Considering he loved this post, I assume he is!

I'm more or less OK, though at the moment I've got a cold that might be COVID. I'm writing a fairly long comeback post in the Sims 2 Thoughts thread, but, quite honestly I'm too tired to finish it tonight. I'll try to post it tomorrow.

Does familyfunds not work in apartments?

It does work in apartments, I've used it myself.

Oh, no pressure to post. I just was worried because you usually post a lot. Glad to hear you are OK Rest up.

Quick question... you know the LTWs Popularity, Romance or Family sims can get where they need a certain number of a relationship type? What happens if one if those Sims dies or they drift apart? Does the Sim with that ltw lose permaplat status?

I thought it did, but it wasn't working for me. Jessica Peterson got a 75k bonus, so I tried to edit the Peterson household's funds to -75k, then move Jessica out and then change her funds to 75k.The cheat did not work, I couldn't change anything at all. I tried every possible combination, household name between quotes, fixed amount, +/-, proper capitalisation, nothing. After I moved out Jessica it did work and I could set her funds to whatever I wanted, so I moved her back in with no money and tried again. Both inside the household and from neighbourhood view it never changed their funds. The workaround I found was to move the entire household out, edit their funds as I desire while in the bin, move the household to wherever I want Jessica to live and move out the others.

Thanks for your understanding @simsfreq! I'm still trying to post, but I keep falling asleep as I try to type. I'll leave it another day.

Once they have gained it, they have gained it.

Cool, thank you!

So apparently familyfunds just doesn't work specifically with the Peterson family, I don't know why. I tried to change the funds after I moved Jessica into her new house and again it didn't work, so I had to go with the good old terrain paint method to bring her down to 1000 simoleons. Is there a hidden space in the household name?

Do you have another household with the same surname? Sometimes the game thinks you mean the 'other' family.

Get allmenus installed so you can use the Money [amount | +amount | -amount] cheats. Barring that, Sim Manipulator has the option in the menus.