How long will you set your Seasons?I noticed in jennthya's thread a tweet from SimGuruGraham that a season can last from 3 to 28 days.I hadn't given this any thought, but I think I might start thinking how many seasons I would like to see a Baby-to-teen experience. I would certainly like them to experience all the seasons before they turn YA. It would depend on how many days you have set for their age stages and how many days you have set for the season. I would think you could slice it many ways.My current age stage distribution set against a 7 day season. Assuming, I can set it for 7 Days.Baby: 3 days (Spring)Toddler: 5 days (Spring cont/ Summer)Child: 7 Days (Summer Cont/ Fall)Teen: 16 Days (Fall cont/ Winter/ Spring)Young Adult: 30 Days (Spring cont/ Summer/ Fall/ Winter/ Spring) Adult: 20 Days (Spring cont/ Summer/ Fall/ Winter)Elder: 9 Days (Winter cont/ Spring)So over the lifetime of a sim born on the first day of Spring in my game, they will experience 4 springs, 3 summers, 3 falls, and 3 winters.If I want the baby, toddler, child, and teen stages to each experience all four seasons, I'm going to have to adjust some numbers. I think I will be satisfied with children experiencing all four seasons before they reach YA.What do you plan to do?

Well, I don't necessarily go by the age(s) of the sims I'm playing but more or less by the season. I live in the desert (thanks California..) and it can get well up into the 100's so usually I'm dying. Seasons gives me a break from it so I'll be keeping my winter and fall a little (LOT!) longer than my spring or summer.To be honest, this EP does give you realistic abilities but helps out as you can try new weather(s) that you don't have in your RL town. But hey, guess I'm weird like that. :lol:Anyways, CK, do you have any houses or sims that you've decided on playing in your game once you get it? :mrgreen:

I've disabled auto aging, because I don't want my sims I've worked ages creating to die when I'm playing as someone else, so with families I just age up babies and toddlers when I'm bored of them being the age they are. I hope you can set the seasons quite long because decorating for christmas and halloween and easter and all that will get so boring if it's every 3 days or something!

@Eleanor1815, I believe that you're playing TS4 and posting what you hope you can do in the new Seasons EP in a thread for The Sims 3 Seasons. You might want to post what you've posted over here in the Sims 4 Expansions section for others to see it as well as there is several threads already created about the new Seasons EP... ;)http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/categories/the-sims-4-expansion-packs

Closing this one down as the thread is nearly 6 years old :smile: Thanks,-Mage

Oh man CK, I hadn't thought about syncing it with sims' ages. I'' figure that out when the game gets here :lol:I'm not sure how long exactly I want my seasons yet in days, however since I'm really big on the holidays, I want autumn and winter to be the longest. I hate winter IRL, but it gives our sims more options and new weather effects.

How long will you set your Seasons?

43 Replies

PsychYourMind08
13 years ago
Oh man CK, I hadn't thought about syncing it with sims' ages. I'' figure that out when the game gets here :lol:

I'm not sure how long exactly I want my seasons yet in days, however since I'm really big on the holidays, I want autumn and winter to be the longest. I hate winter IRL, but it gives our sims more options and new weather effects.
LadySmitan
13 years ago
I don't know, I was thinking it would be nice to play out a full 'year' as each age but then if you had each season at 7 days long you'd be playing as a baby for 28 days x_x I don't think I could cope.
catloverplayer
Legend
13 years ago
Mainly 28 days prehaps longer if I decide to leave it on winter a while.

I'll however start with 3 days due to testing purposes. I want to test all the seasons and festivals.
lukypalms54
13 years ago
im setting each season to 28 so its like realife really long , plus i want to enjoy each seasons to its fullest :)
ck213
Legend
13 years ago
I think a 3 day test would be good to try things out. I don't know how I feel about the 7 day season cycle yet. I think between 7 and 14 days might be good for me.
Samacoy
New Spectator
13 years ago
It said that the default was seven days, which I had been thinking about setting it to before that little tid bit was mentioned. It seems like a good number to me.
Simsocity
13 years ago
Well, I don't necessarily go by the age(s) of the sims I'm playing but more or less by the season. I live in the desert (thanks California..) and it can get well up into the 100's so usually I'm dying. Seasons gives me a break from it so I'll be keeping my winter and fall a little (LOT!) longer than my spring or summer.

To be honest, this EP does give you realistic abilities but helps out as you can try new weather(s) that you don't have in your RL town. But hey, guess I'm weird like that. :lol:

Anyways, CK, do you have any houses or sims that you've decided on playing in your game once you get it? :mrgreen:
ck213
Legend
13 years ago
Wow, with a 28 day season with my current distribution, it would go like this.

Spring: Baby to Teen
Summer: Teen to YA
Fall: YA To Elder
Winter: Elder

I would have to have my sims live longer to experience more than 1 to 2 seasons per age stage.

I think I'm just going to have to play the game to get the balance between life span and seasons experienced per life stage.
cloeyjane
13 years ago
7 days for now.
ck213
Legend
13 years ago
mw1234 wrote:

Anyways, CK, do you have any houses or sims that you've decided on playing in your game once you get it? :mrgreen:

No, I haven't thought about that. I have no idea what I'm going to play. :-)
I think I might recreate a TS2 home that I loved playing in winter.