G'day Simmers!
I find it just a
tad annoying that there isn't a "switch hemispheres" option in Seasons that switches NYE/Christmas/etc to the opposite seasons.
Instead, I had to switch them manually on top of adding relevant holidays. A
bit tedious but I won't complain
too much.
Because it took a while to properly set them up, I thought I'd share my holiday setup for anybody wanting to skip some of the hassle.
You'll still have to make them yourself, but at least you won't have to figure out the days/attributes.
As you can see, my holidays follow the same kind of vague/nonspecific naming scheme as the EA's,
you can name them whatever you want.
National Day is very obviously
Australia Day, which I added in purely so I could use the BBQ attribute.
I also added
Halloween and
Bunny Day (Easter) and took out that Thanksgiving Day one, since we don't have that here.
I know that some of them fall into the wrong season. It's better that way, as the alternative is
having holidays almost back to back.You can fit them all into the right seasons if you use the longer season times (14 days/28 days)
I just personally prefer 7 days, gameplay-wise.
Here are the attributes I used (I changed some of the EA ones too) but you can use whatever you feel like:
Have fun and
HAPPY SIMMING!~Alien
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~ I personally like them, as they leave an amazing amount of Seed packets, to get your gnomes happy, they just ♥"LOVE"♥ Coffee! So my gift to them is always Coffee! Then I get my Sims to Sing with them, every time I get my Sims to Sing with them they leave Seed packets, oh & BTW if you have gnomes in your garden they will also join in the event & also give you Gifts, if you have done everything right & your Sim does not have the Nasty,Mean or insane, Sorry Erratic Trait, (they tend to Kick them, & you have to watch those Sims like a hawk in this Event!) Then you should reap the rewards, I often get around the 100 mark in seed packets, & mostly the rarer ones!
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And Christmas was based on Yule, which is the Winter Solstice! So that makes Christmas technically on June 21st in Australia! How cool is that?!
But I totally get the economically benefits of having all the holidays matching up (for production/manufacturing and stock market purposes).
I just thought it was cool!
Personally I came to this thread because I'm interested to see not only the antipodean-centric holidays others have added, but also what traditions they used to make the new ones and to tailor the existing ones to better suit how they are celebrated here. Any "Winterfest" pool parties, or "Watching Sport" added as a holiday tradition for National Day? (Funnily I hate sport in rl but I was bummed I couldn't add "Play Sport" to such a holiday to simulate the stereotypical Australia Day game of backyard cricket/footy).