Bring seasons to basegame... with a twist

Noooooo, I like my non-seasoned worlds to be the way I make them be. I don't want the game to define for me what they should be. :grimace:

I would love for seasons to be part of base game, it always felt weird for me to have weather in the game. However, I do respect those who does not want it, so if it were a feature in base game (say in sims 5) then it would have to be something you could toggle on and off.

Personally, I would say bringing restaurants and cafes to base game would be much more important. Dine out is ridiculous. Restaurants in base game - owning a business (including restaurants) in pack. It really shouldn't be that hard.

"VeeDub;c-18036578" wrote:
Noooooo, I like my non-seasoned worlds to be the way I make them be. I don't want the game to define for me what they should be. :grimace:

Agreed. The developer-decided climates for the Sims 4 worlds are the worst part about Seasons and one of the reasons why I avoided that pack for so long. (It would be less of a problem if we could create our own worlds, but as long as I need Del Sol Valley, Windenburg and San Myshuno to be the same city for space reasons, they also need to have the same climate.)

"EnkiSchmidt;c-18036745" wrote:

"VeeDub;c-18036578" wrote:
Noooooo, I like my non-seasoned worlds to be the way I make them be. I don't want the game to define for me what they should be. :grimace:

Agreed. The developer-decided climates for the Sims 4 worlds are the worst part about Seasons and one of the reasons why I avoided that pack for so long. (It would be less of a problem if we could create our own worlds, but as long as I need Del Sol Valley, Windenburg and San Myshuno to be the same city for space reasons, they also need to have the same climate.)

I don't have Seasons myself, and I don't want it. I understand why a lot of players like to have changing weather and such, but that's not important to me in this game, and it would hinder a lot of my story stuff if I had to deal with all that. :lol: But yeah, with or without Seasons, I want to be able to decide for myself which existing worlds belong "together" in imaginary regions with whatever imaginary climates they might have -- which I the player should be able to decide.

At least think about how much people who already buy season pack gonna pissed

That would be unfair for people who already bought Seasons.

"jpsulsuldagdag;c-18038160" wrote:
That would be unfair for people who already bought Seasons.

Also unfair for those of us who purposely didn't buy Seasons because we didn't want... you know, seasons. :lol:

I will always opt for a weather system in my games, and if those are made to be a basegame element I’d have no problem with it.
This system however, always needs to be optional. I’d rather pay for an optional pack than have a locked system in basegame that I cannot modify, so I’m not keen on the idea of so called “twists” at all.

Personally I would like to be able to chose climates and link worlds based on climate, e.g. a monsoon should affect both Sulani and Selvadorada at the same time because in some of my saves the Sulani beach is just down the road from the jungle. That way - when I travel between both worlds - the weather remains the same, making gameplay a lot more immersive.
Other times I’d want to turn off the system altogether.

I would imagine that Seasons is the best selling pack across all main Sims titles, so I doubt they’re going turn this little goldmine into a basegame feature.

If you want Seasons in your game buy Seasons. That's all I have to say.

I would have zero issues if at least some basic weather options like rain were made available for base game, but I don't think fixed seasons per world would be a good idea. They way you've proposed it, someone without DLC would only get to experience fall or summer. And maybe an unpopular opinion here, but I really don't like the way the discolored plants look in the fall and the spring. It's fine for transitioning between summer and winter, but I wouldn't want to be locked into either of those seasons.

"CAPTAIN_NXR7;c-18038208" wrote:

Personally I would like to be able to chose climates and link worlds based on climate, e.g. a monsoon should affect both Sulani and Selvadorada at the same time because in some of my saves the Sulani beach is just down the road from the jungle. That way - when I travel between both worlds - the weather remains the same, making gameplay a lot more immersive.
Other times I’d want to turn off the system altogether.

Also, this ^^. I really miss customization when it comes to seasons, the length of the individual seasons, the weather types, etc. If they ever do a refresh, that's what I'd like to see the most.