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Waffling on Seasons...
Duke_Darkwood
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But now that it's on sale, I feel like I really should decide. Now, it seems it adds a whole lot of great things to the game, but I'm also hearing about some of its features - working as they are intended - impeding many players' play styles (I have the "one thing you dislike" thread up in another tab as we speak). Everything from disproportionately increased bills to seasonal impediments to gardening and garden-related gameplay (herbalism, some cooking) to autonomous behaviors failing to take weather into account, and more.
I enjoy TS4 greatly, and really want to see all it has to offer, so I'm wondering - how good are the pros? How bad are the cons? And to what degree do we have control over the levels of impact things have (I know there are at least Game Options governing the severity of weather, for example)?
I enjoy TS4 greatly, and really want to see all it has to offer, so I'm wondering - how good are the pros? How bad are the cons? And to what degree do we have control over the levels of impact things have (I know there are at least Game Options governing the severity of weather, for example)?
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I find Seasons to be amazing because it increases my immersion as well as provides good benefits (for example, if it's cloudy outside my vampire sims can still go out during the day which is amazing) and it also provides beautiful build items.
As far as weather goes, you can't control it unless you have the weather machine, and with that you can change the weather for that day (except you can't make snow in Oasis Springs bc it's a desert) but each world has its own climate, so I'd pick your favourite and try to live there, much like one would do in real life.
You can also have a sim declare a love for a certain weather to a friend/family member, and it'll take that into consideration. For example, one of my sims declared his love for rain and thunderstorms and he no longer gets the scared moodlet for thunderstorms, which is a cute touch.
It went on sale sooner than I expected by the looks of it, and I doubt it'd be on sale any other time soon other than maybe Christmas, so I'd get it, honestly.
I didn't have any extreme death senerios either .. but that's been addressed.
As for the gardening I'm getting use to it I like some of the changes and some are taking more planning. Mostly I just plan on having a green house for those "real" gardeners in my game.
Plants going seasonal will be a bit of an issue for my third household; they have a substantial garden, ranging from herbs and vegetables all the way to Growfruit, Plasma Fruit, and Forbidden Fruit of the PlantSim (and I recently got them the alien fruit and intend to plant it when their week comes around again).
But I'm gonna take the plunge and get it. I want to see the new features, I want the stuff it adds. I'll learn to roll with the punches, as I usually do. Besides, it seems some of the worst drawbacks are bugs that have since been patched out.
P.S. Oh, and yes - the sale is what prompted me to make this topic in the first place. I'd been tossing the notion back and forth almost since it launched, and figured some outside input would help decide the matter.
You might just be happy to know that the exotic "occult" plants are not seasonal. Plasmafruit, Mosquito Trap, and Wolfsbane I know are all year. I'm willing to bet Growfruit is all year, too. Might just be others, some hybrids even. Gardening has become serious business with Seasons.