For those that play rotationally, with the default of the seasons set at 7 days each season, how are you going to factor that into your play?
Will it make your rotations longer? Will you change the default time for each season?
I want my sims to experience all the seasons through out their life, but I usually am only with a household for 1 sim week before I get bored and want to move onto the next one. I'm not sure yet how I'm going to factor the seasons into my game play so I'm looking to see what other people are thinking of doing.
My EA ID is TranquilloSims - where I upload starter homes, family homes and some more ambitious creations.
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I play with long lifespan, so missing a couple of weeks with one family isn't too big a deal.
It doesn't bother me much that a sim might miss a season.
It's more for me than it is for them.
I am going to attempt to play this game with ONE family. Which isn't my play style at all. I prefer to run the dynamics of the whole town, but that's impossible because every sim is the same. I'm hoping I can invest in one family.
I've only played a couple of times since JA came out. It bothers me that the game I loved for almost 20 yrs is not as interesting or engaging as the past. I can't get in to the toddlers or the pets, or anything.
I said the sims 3 sims were robotic, ( and they were to me) but the sims 4 sims are even worse. They don't care about anything. And that makes it hard to play a game I have loved for so long.
Sorry for the long-winded response, and in answer to the question. I am planning on trying this game a different way to see if it helps me get back in to it. If not, then I can't buy seasons....and I can't justify buying anything else for this game. It just might end up being a game that is not for me any more.
I did think about just playing a single household, but every time I try that I get bored too quickly & can't stand not seeing my other sims around town, or being stuck in the same neighborhood all the time. I need variety.
Another of my own sims (Souk Phen) came by
I LOVE that is was Souk and not Vlad or Caleb! And I LOVE that is was random and just happened! I wonder if this is because it was a new save and not just me overwriting my old saves.
Now this wants me to go play Souk and his wife too. And THAT story of her brother trying to find her after she was taken by vampires. I love Souk. I love all my sims I've created.
I’m not really that concerned with Sims missing seasons when I’m not with them since I hold a lot of multi-household events on each lot. (Some of my families have spread to 5 or 6 branches and have cousins all over, so every birthday party and wedding turns into a family reunion. Between that and the toddler play dates, I see my other households quite a bit.) I suspect that with the custom holidays this will only increase, so they’ll still get to experience the season even if it’s not my week with them.
I am kind of tempted to play one a year though...
while his woman that he just asked to move in with him because he loves her is like this:
Yup. Seriously. And I am supposed to immerse myself in sims who don't know what's going on in their world? His little bit of surprise and concern didn't even last any length of time. As soon as Souk got his drink and left, LW didn't care about Paula one. Single. Bit. He went to watch tv. And THAT is why this game has lost me.
I don't think I can even get in to playing ONE household and get involved in their life. I can't overlook this crap. I can't get immersed and keep playing storytime when the game can't even give me a workable storyline to play with!
Seasons isn't going to change what's WRONG with Sims 4.
All the sims err'day
Babies are 0-1 years
Toddler is 1-5
Child is 5-10
Teenage is 10 - 18 (I just make them look like tweens until 13/14)
Young Adukt is 18-40
Adult is 40-60
Elder 60+
Playing this way it’d take me over 1500+ days to hit elderhood. I’ll more likely skip years as I see fit and aim for interesting mile stones and story line as opposed to truly dedicated and strict years.
I'm kinda sad really, as I like to have the families I play intertwined within the same save, but I just can't think of a way I'd like to carry that on and not miss the seasons with each household.
The only other way I considered was if we can extend the seasons to, say, 10 days long then I could pick 5 families to play in one save and play each for 2 days. But that's quite a short time before moving on.
My sims are spread out in the different worlds, so I don’t know how the seasons work between the worlds. I guess it could be different, like it could sunny in one world, and winter in another?
I’m fine if I missed playing with some families experiencing some seasons (in live mode), due to the varied rotation times. I can experience those seasons again, if the seasons are fast. (I usually turn aging off for my sims families, and control the aging myself.)
I have recently bought some more packs, including Dogs & Cats and Jungle Adventures, and the worlds are so lovely, so I just can’t wait to see how/if seasons will affect those places!
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I don't know how people do it.
Hey @Francl27,
I was told this trick by another player and it helps me age my townies at the same time as my rotated families.
I pick one family to be the start of the rotation - Family A, if you will.
I turn aging on for active household only and for townies.
When I switch to the next household, Family B, I turn aging off for townies.
When I rotate back to Family A, I turn aging back on for townies.
So it looks like this:
Family A: Aging on for townies.
Family B: Aging off for townies
Family C: Aging off for townies
Family A: Aging on for townies again.
Rinse and repeat.
That way my townies age with my sims.
But you're right, Seasons is going to complicate how we play rotationally. I'm looking forward to the changes though.
I agree, it depends what save I'm playing. In one save I have one family as my rotational, so I want the townies to age with my family. In my other save it's a bunch of interconnected families and I play with aging off, because it's just easier that way and my play style is more loose. When it comes to the sims, it's all about finding what works for you.
I don't get why people don't think Sims 4 don't have diverse families and I had multiple sims break off relations, some sims who have multiple love interests and some sims are harder to get together then others, etc.... One wrong move, families can go down hill fast actually. Like just calling off a wedding because I decided I wanted to wait for Seasons messed this one couple big time. Since I like the couple though, I made sure they worked all their problems or others I would of just let them be.
Lets make this a reality!