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Questions for people with Seasons
QueenofMyshuno
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I've been admiring all of your beautiful seasonal screenshots, and I'm thinking about getting Seasons, but I want to make sure I have some control of the seasons and they're not controlling my game. My questions are:
1) Is it possible to leave some seasons out? Like if I want my world to have mild weather, could I only have Spring and Fall and leave out Summer and Winter completely?
2) Is there a way to keep a season going until I'm ready to switch? I know you can set seasons for a certain length of time, but is there a way to keep resetting it so that the season doesn't change until I'm ready?
3) This doesn't have anything to do with control, but I remember Sims 2 seasonal outfits where the cold weather outfits did not match at all to what the sim would wear once they went indoors. So, they'd have a total wardrobe change every time they stepped outside or came back inside (rather than just having a coat that went over their existing clothes). I always hated that. Is it the same in Sims 4?
Thanks.
1) Is it possible to leave some seasons out? Like if I want my world to have mild weather, could I only have Spring and Fall and leave out Summer and Winter completely?
2) Is there a way to keep a season going until I'm ready to switch? I know you can set seasons for a certain length of time, but is there a way to keep resetting it so that the season doesn't change until I'm ready?
3) This doesn't have anything to do with control, but I remember Sims 2 seasonal outfits where the cold weather outfits did not match at all to what the sim would wear once they went indoors. So, they'd have a total wardrobe change every time they stepped outside or came back inside (rather than just having a coat that went over their existing clothes). I always hated that. Is it the same in Sims 4?
Thanks.
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2. no
3. yes
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Yes, by the weather machine or a cheat code.
In my game, they will change their outfit accordingly. But, I heard that in some other Simmer games, they wear the same outfit.. it could be a bug or they forgot to switch on the thermostat..So far, my Sims change their outfit..
seasons.set_season X
X would be either number 0 through 3
0 Summer
1 Fall
2 Winter
4 Spring
There is also this cheat that changes summer to fall, fall to winter, winter to spring or spring to summer.
seasons.advance_season
If they are not working you'll need to first enter this activation cheat
testingcheats on
There is also a mod that I like that deals with seasons and weather, but at the moment their site is down for maintenance. When they get it up and going I'll post a link to it if you are interested.
1) No, but two things. One: each world has it's own unique climate. Example: OS rarely sees snow and it never sticks to the ground. Two: With the options in answer 2, you can customize the weather to what you want. And essentially have only one season for whatever house your in.
2) No, but with either cheats (as LaBlue mentions) or with the weather machine, you can essential stay in the same season indefinitely, or have only seasons you want. You can only set seasons to 7, 14, or 28 days. And, say you wanted the Burk's in WC only have winter... then you turn it to 28 days, and use the cheats or weather machine to turn the season to winter. Once those 28 days are up... do it again. You really can control the seasons any way you want with cheats or the machine. I haven't personally tested this, but you can even make it snow, rain, or be sunny with the machine upgraded. So, it is possible, it will just take some work on your part.
3) Yes, total wardrobe category. I believe, even without seasons, you should have the cold wear and hot wear in game already. I believe that was patched in and not exclusive to Seasons (Because it never made sense to me why they'd give those options to people without seasons)>
Sims don't automatically change out of cold weather gear when they come insided. And if you give your Sim the Iceproof and/or Heatproof purchasable traits, they won't change into the appropriate outfit even outdoors.
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I think OP's concern is more that she would like for the sims to, for example, put a jacket over their existing outfit when they go out in the cold and take it off when they come back inside rather than total outfit changes, but that isn't how it works in this game.
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Just untag "Cold weather" in the cold weather clothing category to see the full catalogue and make your sims' cold weather outfits as close to their everyday outfit as possible. You could even give them the very same outfit, but add a hat and gloves. Then, when the sims spin into their outerwear, it will look as if they just put on the hat and gloves.
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Not exactly the perfect work around but still possible.
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