Is it normal that when the weather is rainy, heavy rain or thundershowers that sims prefer to go eat outside??? They do this, then get the uncomfortable moodlet from getting wet or almost getting struck by lightning... Just wondering if this is a bug or if it's normal..
If it's possible, would there be any way to make them prefer to eat indoors during certain types of weather (ex: rain/heavyrain, thundershowers, snow/snowstorms)???
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This explains so much why sims in one of my households will take the long way around to the back porch instead of going to the dining room adjacent to the kitchen (the picnic table for relaxing is spacially closer than the dining table).
Most Sims seem to want to eat where there are other Sims, but I think 'Loner' Sims will purposely avoid the table where a Sim is already sitting to eat alone. Chair quality also might come into play - I think they sometimes choose a more comfortable chair (say, a reading chair) if the dining chairs don't have a high comfort rating. I've even had Sims crouch in front of the refrigerator to eat, rather than sit at the table. (No idea about that - they weren't starving, and the chairs at the table weren't that bad.)
Once this happened and I really thought my sim was silly, I found out that there was a balcony on 2nd floor, giving shelter to where the outdoor dining table was located. So my sim was actually stayed dry when it was raining. A shelter like this should not affect any temperature effects, though.
1) Those Seasons settings are universal for your entire save, so it will also remove thunder/lightning storms from all the other seasons.
2) Did you make sure to click 'Apply Changes' to make sure you actually saved those settings?
3) Have you tried just patiently waiting for the weather to switch out after the end of the day, or even week? Perhaps the change doesn't work retroactively and will only generate weather with no thunder/lightning on new forecasts.
Just some things to help you out