All of them at their longest. I play rotationally, so need the time.
Awake.
Shake dreams from your hair
My pretty child, my sweet one.
Choose the day and choose the sign of your day
The day's divinity.... The Ghost Song - Jim Morrison
I used to use 21 days, using the mod which @JAL mentioned above. As I added more households to my rotation I have increased it to 28 days. I rotate played households at the end of every week so no individual household sees more than 1 week of any season in a year even with it at 28 days.
On a normal lifespan, sims are a child for 13 days and a teen for another 14 days. That’s barely one full year right there, with just one chance to celebrate each holiday and enjoy what each season brings. Imagine if I used 14-day seasons. They’d only get to experience 2 seasons and might never get a Winterfest gift until they were an adult. Or they might never have summertime fun in their youth. Unacceptable!!
If you play on long lifespan, you can use longer seasons, but it’s just too long for me.
7-Day seasons also lets me control which season I’m in as I play rotationally for 7 days in each household. If I left the first household on spring day 2, I can use the advance_season cheat to bring it back to spring when I return. The rest of the households will be in the right season if I’m playing them in the same order. This makes it easy to avoid duplicating seasons and holidays in the same household.
I’ve played with longer seasons and longer lifespans before. I did like that my holidays were more spread out, but in the end, I’d rather just limit my holidays to one per week and keep things moving. With 11 households, it takes a long time to get everyone to the next life stage and I’m anxious to see what’s next for them. They have plenty of time to get the skills they need and spend time with friends and family.
I have the aging on long, I'm a generous god to my sims 🤣, I used to have it on 14 days but I felt it was short 🤔 I wish it was all very customisable from the game options aging and seasons length
I used to exclusively use 28 days but now I switch between that and normal, short is only for targeted legacies where I only rotate if I need to check on a family member out of the house or keep the other sims having kids for my next generation to marry.
Reddestiny921 on the gallery...still not sure if I capitalized the second d..lol
All the sims err'day
I do 14 days. That's enough to add in a few extra holidays (Fright Fest, Summer Fest, Flower day) without it seeming crowded. And it allows for one full rotation of the City Living festivals each season, rather than locking them into just two.
I've also used MCCC to double normal life span, because I find Normal too short, but Long too long.
14 days across the board. I prefer 21 days, but sadly that mod was interfering with the functioning of the Starlight Accolades, so I ended up removing it. To me 28 days reminds me way to much of the base game. Endless season, no change.
28. At first I had it at 14 but then started feeling that with my (semi)rotational playstyle which alternates between long life span and aging off it's just way too short.
mostly I use the longest setting but sometimes i feel like i get stuck in wrong season for my story
so I momentarily change it to shortest just to get to season i want fast
(I mean bella can't disappear during blizzard it would make absolutely no sense to scale lotharios deck in a blizzard in her short dress and all while slipping around)
had same issue with my henford story the winter just came too quick when i wanted to end it in autumn so i had to roll whole year with other households before i finally got back to the story
28 days. I used to use LMS’s mod for 21 days but I started adding in more holidays and playing rotationally so 21 days wasn’t long enough for me. If I get bored during a season, I’ll switch to a different family that may have more fun during that season or if I’m tired of winter/snow, I play in Oasis Springs or Sulani. Tired of summer, they usually go on a ski trip.
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Summer 28
Fall 14
Winter 7
Shake dreams from your hair
My pretty child, my sweet one.
Choose the day and choose the sign of your day
The day's divinity....
The Ghost Song - Jim Morrison
Right click on the season icon to change the current season.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/ui-cheats-v1-16-26240068
Yes, I love it. Not a fan of winter in real life or the game so I just advance the season on day 14 of fall and day 7 of winter.
The Winters family Tree --- My Mods
On a normal lifespan, sims are a child for 13 days and a teen for another 14 days. That’s barely one full year right there, with just one chance to celebrate each holiday and enjoy what each season brings. Imagine if I used 14-day seasons. They’d only get to experience 2 seasons and might never get a Winterfest gift until they were an adult. Or they might never have summertime fun in their youth. Unacceptable!!
If you play on long lifespan, you can use longer seasons, but it’s just too long for me.
7-Day seasons also lets me control which season I’m in as I play rotationally for 7 days in each household. If I left the first household on spring day 2, I can use the advance_season cheat to bring it back to spring when I return. The rest of the households will be in the right season if I’m playing them in the same order. This makes it easy to avoid duplicating seasons and holidays in the same household.
I’ve played with longer seasons and longer lifespans before. I did like that my holidays were more spread out, but in the end, I’d rather just limit my holidays to one per week and keep things moving. With 11 households, it takes a long time to get everyone to the next life stage and I’m anxious to see what’s next for them. They have plenty of time to get the skills they need and spend time with friends and family.
All the sims err'day
I've also used MCCC to double normal life span, because I find Normal too short, but Long too long.
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so I momentarily change it to shortest just to get to season i want fast
(I mean bella can't disappear during blizzard it would make absolutely no sense to scale lotharios deck in a blizzard in her short dress and all while slipping around)
had same issue with my henford story the winter just came too quick when i wanted to end it in autumn so i had to roll whole year with other households before i finally got back to the story
making it take unneededly long to complete
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I can't buy any packs until next month, because this month's spending money had to be prioritized to other things. >_<
So, I have to wait to figure out a preference.