Can I have seasons without seasons?

Yes go to options a realy useful place to go you can choose lots of different options here

Can't you un-tick hail, snow, rain and so on? Wouldn't this work? And there is the new testingcheatsenabled true cheats that can help maintain an eternal Pacific West Coast kind of condition.

Sorry, I meant more player preferences (what season you like and why in game wise (I haven't had a chance to play much yet caused been working and to save me some trail and error), cause I wanted to avoid the 'why did you buy it?' line) I initially thought fall would be like our fall but the frost looks like snow which was the season I was going to either have unselected or a short span.

I did mention it was weird and trust me my current settings are weird considering the expansions I have I opt out of lots but the stuff I keep I love (ie I love wet weather and fog which is why i got seasons I had a feeling players have a choice to skip seasons they didn't want).

Sorry a shot in the dark I didn't know how these forums work, my first post and now I just feel a fool to have asked X/ :P

Sorry if mistakes auto correct typing in transit

Lizziemay12 wrote:
Can't you un-tick hail, snow, rain and so on? Wouldn't this work? And there is the new testingcheatsenabled true cheats that can help maintain an eternal Pacific West Coast kind of condition.

I have only had a test of fall with only rain and fog selected but got frost which looks like light snow. I am not familiar which cheats. Do you think spring or summer would give a more wet temperate rainforest? Thanks for the input ill have a try when I get a chance.

yabajen wrote:
lol I was going to say what's the point of buying the expansion then but I asked a similar question when Supernatural came out cuz I didn't want supernaturals in my game but I wanted the recipes, plants and decor etc :mrgreen:

Yes I felt a little odd asking myself :P

your best bet would be to set the season to a very long fall (like 28 days and do the rest of the seasons at 3 days each.

if you open up the cheat console Ctrl/Shift/C then type in "testingcheatsenabled true" (no qoutations, and make sure theres that space before true. Then you can "shift and click" anywhere on the lot and a menu will pop up "Seasons" thus you can change the current weather to what suits your gameplay. You may need to do it often but it allows you to create what your looking for.

Recognize this though. In both Sims 2 and Sims 3 the weather was designed to be like natural climate variability in the real world. (I'm an atmospheric scientist)So some seasons will be very dry and warm or very dry and cold. Some may be very wet and cold or very wet and warm.

For instnace, in Sunset Valley it POURED everyday during the season. It wwas almost non stop. It got cold QUICK too, eg It was snowing heavy on the last day of fall. Skip to Hidden Springs, first time test with Seasons. I used testingcheats (that I expalined to you) and switched to Fall instanty because it's been summer for years lol (in real life years) go figure it only rained ONCE in all of fall last night, but it was extremely cold very early. This is an example of variability within the programming of weather and seasons. it's not because it's a different world so that world has unique weather. Doesn't work like that.

If you have a very long summer season you'll get better chances at heatwaves if you have a very long winter you'll have better chances at blizzards and so on and so forth.

Don't uninstall Seasons. That seems sinful! LOL ;) Good luck Fellow Simmer! :)

Summer is fairly close to pre-Seasons Simming weather, if you give up on the fall idea and don't want to mess with the other seasons.

Personally, it may be a while before I do a perma-season in Sims 3. After all, we've had a perma-season since it was released. A Fall broken up with a season like Spring or summer should warm things up so it doesn't get too cold, so there should be less frost. The tradeoff is that the trees won't be permanently orange.

Conclue wrote:
your best bet would be to set the season to a very long fall (like 28 days and do the rest of the seasons at 3 days each.

if you open up the cheat console Ctrl/Shift/C then type in "testingcheatsenabled true" (no qoutations, and make sure theres that space before true. Then you can "shift and click" anywhere on the lot and a menu will pop up "Seasons" thus you can change the current weather to what suits your gameplay. You may need to do it often but it allows you to create what your looking for.

Recognize this though. In both Sims 2 and Sims 3 the weather was designed to be like natural climate variability in the real world. (I'm an atmospheric scientist)So some seasons will be very dry and warm or very dry and cold. Some may be very wet and cold or very wet and warm.

For instnace, in Sunset Valley it POURED everyday during the season. It wwas almost non stop. It got cold QUICK too, eg It was snowing heavy on the last day of fall. Skip to Hidden Springs, first time test with Seasons. I used testingcheats (that I expalined to you) and switched to Fall instanty because it's been summer for years lol (in real life years) go figure it only rained ONCE in all of fall last night, but it was extremely cold very early. This is an example of variability within the programming of weather and seasons. it's not because it's a different world so that world has unique weather. Doesn't work like that.

If you have a very long summer season you'll get better chances at heatwaves if you have a very long winter you'll have better chances at blizzards and so on and so forth.

Don't uninstall Seasons. That seems sinful! LOL ;) Good luck Fellow Simmer! :)

Thank you and yes I did rather want to kick myself thinking of uninstalling :)

MouetteSheridan wrote:
Summer is fairly close to pre-Seasons Simming weather, if you give up on the fall idea and don't want to mess with the other seasons.

Thanks, I really haven't had enough time to test out too much (that it might just be a variable thing as Conclue mentioned, I haven't even had a chance to test spring! :P) been working so much, I even missed that seasons was released! It is good to know summer is the closest to pre-seasons. I just know there are some die hards that know everything about an expansion within the first 24 hrs and wanted to see if I could get as much insight as I could :)