I play with aging off, my sims age up when I decide it is time.
14 days per seasons sound good to me. But I am not sure maybe a bit longer would be good too.
In Sims 2 I usually go four weeks for each season since one week is too short. In Sims three I did a full month for Summer, Spring, Fall and two Weeks for Winter because my computer couldn't handle too much winter in that game on top of the rest of the struggling it did to do run it at all.
For Sims 4 it'll depend on how long we can actually stretch them but I'll probably do two weeks per season to start with and then adjust accordingly after that depending on what age length I'm playing.
I've been playing with aging off recently and age my sims up when I feel like it, but now with seasons, I want them to celebrate their birthday. I was thinking of each season lasting 10 to 14 days but that would mean that my babies would stay babies for 40 to 56 days (staying a baby for a year) ...
Do we really need babies for a year though?
I’m just kidding, I understand for realism. But playing the baby stage for 40-56 days seems like literal torture to me!
I've been playing with aging off recently and age my sims up when I feel like it, but now with seasons, I want them to celebrate their birthday. I was thinking of each season lasting 10 to 14 days but that would mean that my babies would stay babies for 40 to 56 days (staying a baby for a year) ...
Do we really need babies for a year though?
I’m just kidding, I understand for realism. But playing the baby stage for 40-56 days seems like literal torture to me!
Lol I only have them a baby for a couple of hours, just to get that screenshot of my sim cuddling her baby but even then it’s rare it comes out cute for me
For everyone who plays with aging off, how do you manage the “story progression” for the rest of the world? I’m not a rotational player, and I really can’t think of a way to make seasons work the way I want them to using any default age setting. I wouldn’t mind playing with aging off, and just choosing my sims’ birthdays, but I can’t be bothered to run around the world making sure their friends and family age up too! Can MCC help with this? I tried using it once, but got constant last exception errors even though it was the only mod/cc installed.
I think I am going to start with 14 days. I want my sims to experience favorite holidays but I also want my sims to experience season activities during their everyday. I can not believe how excited I am about this EP.
For everyone who plays with aging off, how do you manage the “story progression” for the rest of the world? I’m not a rotational player, and I really can’t think of a way to make seasons work the way I want them to using any default age setting. I wouldn’t mind playing with aging off, and just choosing my sims’ birthdays, but I can’t be bothered to run around the world making sure their friends and family age up too! Can MCC help with this? I tried using it once, but got constant last exception errors even though it was the only mod/cc installed.
You could set ageing off for played sims and on for unplayed sims. Or, what I do at the moment, temporarily play with ageing off for everyone - for example, I play 1 sim week per household and then when I get to the last house of my rotation I turn ageing on for everyone. That way, all sims age one week per rotation, including unplayed sims.
I saw the calendar was 4 weeks long. So if I keep that, will the month repeat itself? I can't plan too many holidays, because they include 4 (one a week) and I add 4, that will be two holidays a week. Is that correct?
I've been playing with aging off recently and age my sims up when I feel like it, but now with seasons, I want them to celebrate their birthday. I was thinking of each season lasting 10 to 14 days but that would mean that my babies would stay babies for 40 to 56 days (staying a baby for a year) ...
Do we really need babies for a year though?
I’m just kidding, I understand for realism. But playing the baby stage for 40-56 days seems like literal torture to me!
I usually only play them for three sim days but with seasons it would feel weird to age them up in the same season as they were born. lol, I don't think I would make it 40 sim days. I'll just probably age them up after two seasons.
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I’ve been playing with the Epic lifespan from Sims 3 using MCCC. Had it so there were 6 days per “season” and a 40 Sim year lifespan (equivalent of 80 years). My reasoning was that birthdays shouldn’t always fall on the same weekday and playing a pretty big rotation.
... and now with the holidays and all, I kinda wanna toss that out the window for like month long seasons.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who is massively conflicted about this!
My favourite lady sim just entered into the second trimester of a 120 day pregnancy, and I doubt she'll have the baby before seasons releases, so I'm hoping I'm able to set the season lengths to 6 weeks or so. I guess if it's not possible someone will mod longer season lengths soon enough anyway, and I'll probably have to hold off on getting it until there are updates to some crucial mods so she doesn't go into labour early.
I'll be playing the longest setting. It does mean that I'll be playing the same households during the same season but I've an idea to work around that. Once I've rotated through the entire list of households, randomise the list for the next rotation.
Initially I planned on just keeping them the standard 1 sim week but now that I’m watching the live stream I feel like I’ll need to make them longer to be able to really enjoy it.
I plan on creating sim versions of the same holidays that I celebrate in America which means there is at least one major stand out holiday per season that I celebrate. I feel like having a holiday per week would be a little much and a little exhausting. That’s how it’s currently set up in TS3 but I feel like it works better because the holidays are a little more basic. They’re not customizable like these are. These feel so much more hands on which I love but I feel like having to do that every week would just be too much and really cut out work and school and skill/aspiration time.
Plus, the longer the seasons are the more time I have to explore/use the objects and decorations. Since there’s so much more to offer with decorations as well it almost seems a waste to go through the effort of putting them up for just a few days. It also gives me more time to really see the transition between seasons and I feel like it allows me to really get into the spirit of it rather than have it fly by.
I’m gonna start with the seasons on a 4 week rotation and see how I like it. Part of me feels like that might be a little too long but we’ll see. I may end up settling for the 2 week rotation. I find it odd that they set it for 1, 2 and 4 weeks? Why not 1, 2, 3 & 4? I think 4 is a good place to stop but I don’t understand the point in skipping 3. Idk. It’s weird. Lol.
Im incredibly conflicted. The ideal would be 3 weeks, but thats not an option. My perfectionist mind just can't cope with the fact that i'll have either 8 months (sim weeks) a year or 16 months a year! Im all about realism, my sims don't even travel to another town without paying for a plane ticket or taking the train which goes from 3 to 25 hours... I think i'll have to deal with 2 weeks but thats such a bummer.
I really hope some modders will be able to make 3 weeks an option!
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14 days per seasons sound good to me. But I am not sure maybe a bit longer would be good too.
For Sims 4 it'll depend on how long we can actually stretch them but I'll probably do two weeks per season to start with and then adjust accordingly after that depending on what age length I'm playing.
Do we really need babies for a year though?
I’m just kidding, I understand for realism. But playing the baby stage for 40-56 days seems like literal torture to me!
You could set ageing off for played sims and on for unplayed sims. Or, what I do at the moment, temporarily play with ageing off for everyone - for example, I play 1 sim week per household and then when I get to the last house of my rotation I turn ageing on for everyone. That way, all sims age one week per rotation, including unplayed sims.
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I usually only play them for three sim days but with seasons it would feel weird to age them up in the same season as they were born. lol, I don't think I would make it 40 sim days. I'll just probably age them up after two seasons.
... and now with the holidays and all, I kinda wanna toss that out the window for like month long seasons.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who is massively conflicted about this!
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I plan on creating sim versions of the same holidays that I celebrate in America which means there is at least one major stand out holiday per season that I celebrate. I feel like having a holiday per week would be a little much and a little exhausting. That’s how it’s currently set up in TS3 but I feel like it works better because the holidays are a little more basic. They’re not customizable like these are. These feel so much more hands on which I love but I feel like having to do that every week would just be too much and really cut out work and school and skill/aspiration time.
Plus, the longer the seasons are the more time I have to explore/use the objects and decorations. Since there’s so much more to offer with decorations as well it almost seems a waste to go through the effort of putting them up for just a few days. It also gives me more time to really see the transition between seasons and I feel like it allows me to really get into the spirit of it rather than have it fly by.
I’m gonna start with the seasons on a 4 week rotation and see how I like it. Part of me feels like that might be a little too long but we’ll see. I may end up settling for the 2 week rotation. I find it odd that they set it for 1, 2 and 4 weeks? Why not 1, 2, 3 & 4? I think 4 is a good place to stop but I don’t understand the point in skipping 3. Idk. It’s weird. Lol.
I really hope some modders will be able to make 3 weeks an option!