household of 8 sims - no more breeding?

[Nadira]

I have 2 households with 8 sims and 2 cats (male/female). Both households were each one time hit by the pregnant animal bug before I got the new version of Pinheads/Syberspunks "move in".

The option to have the animals mate has suddenly disappeared. The last time I noticed the option was before the sixth sim moved in and then two of the women got pregnant (making the 8 full), but I cannot tell just the exact point when it disappeared, since I only noticed some time later.

Also the "is master" symbol has disappeared from all animals who allready had masters (it´s still in the animal´s memories who´s their master).

As I understood, the game should allow up to 12 sims a/o animals on the lot (with a maximum of 6 animals). Then why is there no more breeding possibility? Or is my information on numbers wrong?

Is this a bug or just one more of EA games (non-)features?

[Sleepycat]

according to the guide

household maxiimum = 10 sims and pets

no more then 8 sims

no more then 6 pets


Anyway, I use LotFullOfSims (from mts2) plus Squinges morefamily and morepets hacks (from InSIM)

Plus I have

uintProp   maxTotalSims 50
uintProp   maxTotalHumans 35
uintProp   maxTotalPets 15

in my userstartup.cheat file to get around the neighborhood screen move-in-merge limit.

I hate being limited 


edit - I have a Lot with 10 sims and could have moved-in-merged from the neighborhood screen - Tara Katt and her 3 cats

[Nadira]

I hate being limited 

Me too!
Thanks for your help!
I am always careful not to stuff my game with too many hacks. But since this combination works fine for you, I will try it and see what happens to my cats! Hopefully restored to fertile ....

[kuronue]

it was announced as 12 in a lies and propaganda filled chat, but later reduced to 10.

[Bangelnuts]

I am plagued by the pregnant pet bug in my houses where there are no pets everytime I want to move in a sim or get a sim married 

[Karen]

I am plagued by the pregnant pet bug in my houses where there are no pets everytime I want to move in a sim or get a sim married 

Try syberspunk's fix available here: http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,6631.0.html