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Seasons and Rotational Play
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I haven't gotten a chance to play Seasons much yet but I found it difficult to choose which save game I wanted to test seasons with since most of them I'm a pretty controlling rotational player.
I feel like seasons will have a significant impact on rotational play. Normally I like to play one household for a week, from Sunday to Sunday but I feel like I'm going to need to restrategize.
I think my biggest concern is winter. I don't want to have to set all my played sims hot/cold weather clothes until I actually play that sim/household. Can currently uncontrolled played sims freeze to death while you are playing another household? In other words; if I'm currently playing X and run into Y from another played household at the park during a blizzard...can Y freeze to death since I can't currently control him/her?
Anyway, just wondering if anyone has experienced any interesting ways that seasons have effected your rotational play. I'm thinking gardening will be a little trickier now and having all your households experience the different seasons & holidays, etc.
I feel like seasons will have a significant impact on rotational play. Normally I like to play one household for a week, from Sunday to Sunday but I feel like I'm going to need to restrategize.
I think my biggest concern is winter. I don't want to have to set all my played sims hot/cold weather clothes until I actually play that sim/household. Can currently uncontrolled played sims freeze to death while you are playing another household? In other words; if I'm currently playing X and run into Y from another played household at the park during a blizzard...can Y freeze to death since I can't currently control him/her?
Anyway, just wondering if anyone has experienced any interesting ways that seasons have effected your rotational play. I'm thinking gardening will be a little trickier now and having all your households experience the different seasons & holidays, etc.
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I just wish we could start with a season on day one in each household and say if I stop playing a household on day 7 and move into another household, when I go back to the former household their season would still be on day 7. That way I could progress each household with seasons evenly.
When I start from the beginning again, I will age through the summer etc so birthday are not always in the Spring.
I plan on doing 28 weeks seasons, but since I don't have exactly 16 households in my rotation, it will most likely shift a bit each year. I initially wanted to one year per rotation, but I didn't realize new year's eve would fall in the middle of winter, and it kinda throws off my plan.
One thing I've noticed so far is that while visiting the family in other neighborhoods, there can be different weather there, which adds another reason to go visit them instead of inviting.
I wish we could move the preset holidays to when we want them I want to keep them and use them in some of my more "traditional" game saves but I don't like when they fall. Maybe I can delete them and recreate them on the days I want? I haven't tried...I want to play without getting too entrenched in the tedium of setting things up yet.
I have only 5 households at the moment that I am playing and the settings I have so far are:
Seasons last 2 weeks. The lifespan is set on normal and for only for the active household. With the first family I set it to also age unplayed households.
It is working great at the moment because I play from Sunday to Sunday with each household and like this get to enjoy the season dinamically.
All my creations are CC free.
I don't think so. You can use the weather machine to try and change the weather or season. You can also tweak snow, rain, thunderstorms and blizzards in settings.
Yeah...not a fan of sims dressing themselves
To answer your question about uncontrolled Sims freezing to death.,.yes, they can.
I posted this same story on another thread yesterday, but I decided to throw an outdoor toddler play date during a heat wave. Some of the parents changed into their (hilarious) hot weather outfits, but not all of them. About 2 hours in, they started dropping so fast Grimmy couldn’t keep up.
(For what it’s worth, once I reloaded I tried again but used a different lot; one that has a building on it so they could go inside. This time everyone changed or showed up in the right outfit.)
Hmm....I'm not opposed to townies dying but I generally don't want my played sims dying without my approval. Lol. But even if I set the hot/cold weather clothes for all my household is that a guarantee that they'll wear them appropriately when I'm not playing them?
All the sims err'day
You can delete and recreate the Holidays. I did it with Love Day because I wanted it earlier in Spring.
For my own play, I've just decided that I will not follow an exact timeline for when I play each household. I'll just play them when I want to and they will get to experience whatever the weather is at the time that I'm playing. Because I move between the different worlds, I'm experiencing a lot of different weather. I will admit that when I send sims to visit another world, I have no idea what the weather will be like there. It is kind of fun and also kind of an adjustment.
Weather is basically just another layer in my game but it does impact it a lot. I haven't done too many holidays yet but so far I've found that I just need to decide what household I am playing for a given holiday. None of them are aging unless I say so, so I will eventually repeat holidays with different families.
I've decided that I'll just add new holidays for a given household while I'm playing it and then I'll delete holidays if I switch houses and they aren't appropriate for it. Basically, it's all just another thing that I adjust. I don't think I'll be shortening the seasons with a large rotation though. If I play another save with just one household, I'd probably make each season 14 days. 7 just feels too short for me personally.
Holy plumbob!!
You can set your game to where your sims don't feel the temps but personally I don't want to do that. I do want to play with that aspect...but just with my currently played households. I had to quickly jump out of my current household to save one of my other sims from freezing to death. Idiot just kept walking in front of multiple buildings just cheerfully freezing to death. Luckily his son had the sense to warm up with a shower at the gym.
I set their hot/cold weather clothes so maybe they'll wear them now?
I guess I should set all my sims clothes but for now I'm just keeping an eye on all my sims and the weather and doing it gradually.