Re: Which World gets the Least Rain?

@simsplayer818 - Yeah, weather can certainly add to the atmosphere. I have full weather turned on except, i think, weird stuff like thunder snowstorms. I know from experience every neighbourhood gets some kind of precipitation, but what and how much can vary from one to the other. For instance, the Lots on Mt. Komorebi only get snow because it's a snow-capped mountain. I built my reclaimed pagoda house up there on the big empty Lot (50x50) and it only ever snowed the whole time. No rain. I wish there was a way to waterproof Servos, but no such luck.

@iamsweetmystery , I'm glad your Servo is surviving! 🥳  Hopefully that will continue to be the case! 🤞🤞🤞

@simsplayer818 , you wouldn't want the weather we had this summer.  43.33 degrees (110 F) and a drought is NOT fun!  But while not the average summer weather, where I live it is still fairly common.  Wouldn't have been so bad if we had gotten our usual rain last May.  But the drought is almost over where I live but surrounding areas just a few hours away still have drought. See, to me, your weather sounds nice and refreshing! 😅Too much of anything can be tedious ! 😉

@iamsweetmystery , @simsplayer818 , and @xochiquetzl_xkvn  I was watching a video of someone (Call Me Kevin) playing Chestnut Ridge and it rained and thunder stormed quite often in the video.  Not sure what season it was, but I'm so glad you didn't put your Servo there! 😅 (Warning, Call Me Kevin's gameplay is hilarious but unhinged! He tries to have the worst possible outcomes! 🤪😈🤣)

@LadyAofPineapple , When I have played it in the past I never noticed, and it probably rained, but I just didn't think anything about it.🤦‍♀️😅  But it didn't rain for me as much as it did in this person's video or as much as you have experienced, but that must have been because of the season I was playing in, which I had set to a longer seasons. But the video I saw pretty much matches exactly with what you described!⛈  I'm sure if I were to be in a different season and pay attention to the weather, I will have the same experience as you did! 😅
Thank you for confirming the weather for us! 🥰

@PugLove888 - Oh, I know Kevin O'Reilly's content well. I've watched his entire Sims playlists multiple times, especially Jim Pickens, going all the way back to Urp John, the Forearm God. lol. As for Chestnut Ridge, I wouldn't even. I've played there a lot. I know better. It's more a tundra than an actual desert there, unlike the two actual dessert worlds. The place is a bit of a mess of weather that can be quite interesting, but definitely no suitable for a Servo.

@iamsweetmystery Ah! so you know! 🤣  Yes, I've watched most of his Sims videos, (especially Sims 4 and Sims 2) as well as most of his Minecraft videos, and Amoung Us videos!  His first Sims 1 video was very memorable! 🤣

The video I saw recently was the Horse Ranch video where he made a horse and colored/drew on it to look like Jim Pickens, and so he had Jim Pickens the human and Jim Pickens the horse! 🙃🤪🤣  Then he was planning on moving in or marrying Sienna to get acess to her horse, Flapjack, but when he saw that he could move her horse in without moving her in, he basically just stole her horse! 😰😱😅 I would have felt bad for Sienna, but I think she got off easy considering she was dealing with Jim Pickens (the human, not the horse)! 😅

I had only played a little in Chestnut Ridge (I had some family issues this summer and didn't get to play as much as I would have) and I must have set the season to start with as one of the drier seasons in that world!  But now I want to play there more since not only is it a beautiful place, but freaky weather instrests me!  
And no, you are right that it isn't a good place for Servos! 😰

@PugLove888 - Kevin's Sims content is a sort of vicarious chaos. I value my Simmy creations too much to play like that. I keep them alive at all costs. His commentary is also hilarious and I love a good laugh. As for Chestnut Ridge, I created 2 huge homes for it that I put on the Gallery. One is a horseshoe shaped ranch-style home with a courtyard in the center. I built it on the 50x50 Lot to the north. It's called Jezebel Junction. The other is on the 64x64 Lot in the southeast. It's called Applecart Acres, made on my second account, MissDystopian. I've spent a lot of time playing on both Lots and have quite enjoyed the region.

@iamsweetmystery Yes, I'm' the same !  If I wanted to test something chaotic or negative, I usually make a new save for it, because I don't want to mess up my beloved Sims that I have been playing with! 

I'm happy you've been enjoying Chestnut Ridge! It is a pretty world! 
I played a bit more in Chestnut Ridge yesterday, but I haven't had rain yet.  Right now I'm exploring the Nectar Making since I haven't tried that yet!  Hopefully it will rain!  Do you recall which seasons in Chestnut Ridge get the most rain/storms?🤔

@PugLove888 - I know while I was playing at Applecart Acres, it was during the winter and it was very snowy. Educated guess, It seems likely the heaviest rains come in Summer. I wonder if the season was displayed in Kevin's video where he got buckets of rain. Maybe that could give a clue.

@iamsweetmystery , that is probably it since I'm playing in Spring.  I would have to rewatch Kevin's video to know, though some people have the HUD hidden in videos.  
Where I live the rainiest season is always in the Spring, and the second rainiest is in the Autumn.  Summer is never the rainy season where I live! 😅🥵

@PugLove888 - I suspect the world is modeled after environments in and around areas like northern Texas, Oklahoma and such, given certain clues. I've lived in southern Texas for the last 6 years and we get a lot of our rain, and especially thunderstorms, in summer. Those areas further north are also more prone to snowy winters. We get some here, but its very little most times, if any at all.

@iamsweetmystery , I grew up in North Texas and I can assure you that May is our rainiest month on average! 😅That is followed by October.  June would be next, but all the rain in June usually happens in the first half of the month, and technically Summer doesn't start until after that. July is our driest month.  We sometimes get a little more rain in August when a tropical system wanders nearby from the Gulf, but this is never a guarantee. 😉 But this is why you in South Texas get more rain in the summer!  It just doesn't always make its way up to North Texas. 

I don't think Chestnut Ridge was modeled after north Texas, at least not how the real north Texas looks, more like what people think north Texas looks like, especially from people who have never been to Texas.  North Texas is more plains and prairies, which extend up into North Dakota and even Canada. .  Chestnut Ridge has too many rocks (mostly sandstone, which isn't prevalent in North Texas at all) and mesa-like structures and arches that I've seen in pictures of Utah (but Utah looks more reddish/rusty colored from what I've seen.  There also might be some other states that have similar features, though it doesn't quite look like New Mexico either. So, it could be a mix of some different areas.  

I can see with the color of the soil and rocks how one might think of Oklahoma, but Oklahoma looks more reddish or rusty colored as opposed to the more yellowish or ochre that I see in Chestnut Ridge. (Most areas in North Texas have more brownish soil as well as more limestone which is white).  And again, the parts of Oklahoma that I've seen for the most part have been flat and more like a reddish version of Texas, since it is mostly part of the plains/prairies.  

Granted, any state can have an area or pocket of a different terrain, but from what I can tell, this seems more to be like Utah, perhaps Zion National park, though I have never been there myself, only just looked at the photos that my relatives took when visiting there!   It just doesn't look like North Texas at all. 😉

@PugLove888 - I guess it would be more accurate to say the environment looks like it was modeled after spaghetti westerns that supposedly took place in Texas. As far as rain goes, though, we do get most of ours here, from what I've seen, in the summer. It's likely got something to do with the gulf and hurricane season. But the snow in Chestnut Ridge is far beyond what we get ever. It seems like a really heavy mashup of US mid-west and southwest and like they were just going for mostly a general old west movie vibe. Hard to really nail down beyond that.

@iamsweetmystery yes the tropical storms and hurricanes sometimes make it farther north to my area, but usually they miss us.  So it isn't too often that we get rain from them. Our summers are usually hot and dry. 

Since Texas was once covered by a sea, we have a lot of whiteish limestone, instead of the reddish sandstone that you see in Chestnut Ridge. North Texas is a flat plain/prairie, and isn't very hilly, and certainly not mountainous. Chestnut Ridge is definitely not the plains or prairies! We have a lot of grass (with some mesquite trees, live oaks, cottonwood, and hackberry elm in certain places.)

The pictures I've seen of Utah look the closest to Chestnut Ridge since there are more hills and mountains, and a lot of reddish sandstone. (Utah even has red sandstone arches on its license plates!)  Also, they get more snow than most of Texas does. 😉 Even if the developers were thinking of Texas, what they had in mind wasn't Texas but most likely was Utah. 😅

@PugLove888 - Been playing a lot in the new world, Tomarang. Definitely not a Servo friendly place. Not surprising since it's essentially a rainforest. One more to add to the "Servos don't go here" pile.