Constant Rain

"CommanderKeen;c-16629736" wrote:


Sorry, but no. In real life, it does not rain every single day.

Actually...it depends on where you live. Ever experienced a Florida seasons? During certain times of the year it rains every single day without fail for about an hour almost at the exact same time each day.

It doesn't rain that often in my game to be honest and threads like these always makes me anxious cause I'm nervous that they will decrease things so it happens very rarely, like most of the stuff in this game... :neutral:

"Icewolf;c-16651049" wrote:
It doesn't rain that often in my game to be honest and threads like these always makes me anxious cause I'm nervous that they will decrease things so it happens very rarely, like most of the stuff in this game... :neutral:

Yep I agree, it rarely rains in my game too. They always try to make everyone happy they need to stop and leave the game the way it was intended.

I've tried to turn off the rain & thunderstorms in my game., but it isn't working. Is there some trick to it? I've repaired my game, deleted all the cache files. I'm playing in Willow Creek. I've played thru a whole year.

In the save I opened after installing Seasons, the first weather I saw was rain (the household I opened lives in Newcrest) . I started a legacy style save the next morning though and haven't seen rain once. In that save I've gone through 14 days of winter and 5-6 of spring without rain, even when my sim has visited other areas besides the one she lives in (Windenburg).

Hi folks,

There's a new mod that may address this issue. They have tweaked all the seasons/weather per world. It also enables thunderstorms in cold weather http://modthesims.info/download.php?t=615961

This mod aims to improve the weather of all seasons for all worlds except
New Crest by changing the type of weather and temperature than can occur in each season (early, mid, or late). It also alters the weight of all the various weather and temperature for each seasons so certain weathers are more likely to appear on some seasons, and other weathers won't appear at all.

I am currently using it and so far I've noticed that Summer in Willow Creek still has thunderstorms, but is less rainy overall.

I have finally experienced rain in my new save - 25 sim days into the game.

"fadingaudio;c-16632577" wrote:

"pepperjax1230;c-16632478" wrote:
I have it 14 days and during summer it rained everyday except a couple of days it was hot and nice.

It is random and it depends on where your sims live because Willow Creek gets more thunderstorms then the other worlds.

That's great, but it's not random no matter how many people who don't understand coding, programming, and math says this, it will still not ever be true. That's not how programming works and computers cannot generate true randomness in their selection. It's not physically possible. Random number generators that are so popular aren't actually random either. They can't generate true randomness and everything they do is based on mathematical equations. This is true for every single game, program, and computer coding in the entire world. This needs to be adjusted because it's not playable when you have 28 straight days of rain. No matter how many people might like that, many of us don't. It's okay to not like it and wish it to be tuned differently.

This "I have it 14 days and during summer it rained everyday except a couple of days it was hot and nice." really shouldn't happen especially in worlds like Willow Creek where it's based on southern area of the US. While they get rain, they don't typically get that many days of rain. 3 out of 14 days being sunny isn't normal for that part of the world. That's 79% chance of rain for the entire summer season. That's crazy out of the ordinary for that area of the world. If you put it into real life terms you'd be looking at most of June, July, and August being just rain. I live in a state that's literally considered one of the rainiest in the entire country even *we* don't get that much rain. So it's not even realistic at all. You have to understand proportions are going to be off because sims don't have 3-4 months per season like we do in real life, but if you turn it into a percentage that's where it really shows how unrealistic and odd it is.

Here's how randomness works:
Unless you have a sample pool over SEVERAL THOUSAND, a true proof that something ISN'T random is if it's evenly distributed.
Seriously, if you COULDN'T get 28 days straight of rain, it wouldn't be random.
The problem is that our brains don't accept that but tries to find patterns. It's an instinct. That's why we think that hitting double sixes (or natural twenties, or whatever dice you are rolling) 5 times in a row "isn't random", when it truly proves exactly that.

Or another example: If you play 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 at the lottery, you actually have exactly the same chance of winning as if you had submitted a random series of numbers. It's just that our brains assumes, wrongly, that it somehow would be more unlikely, because our brains do not like randomness.

This means, that before you have played Willow Creek, In Summer, For about 2000 Sim Days, written down and then analyzed the weather data, you have no way of telling if the game is faulty, or rigged, or...

Again, the fact that you got 22 days of rain in a row very strongly indicates that it is RANDOM. Not the other way around.

The weather generator in the game probably has a max and min percentage setting for each acceptable type of weather during a particular season. It sounds like the percentage span might need some adjustment, but at the same time, it doesn't necessarily cause the exact same persisting weather for all players. In some of my saves it's raining a lot while in others, almost not. Even during the same season.