"Hot weather" outfits should be more connected to actual articles of clothing

I prefer it with the set categories, though I wish we had more default options in both Hot and Cold categories, and I wish the game had a "wet weather" category for raincoats. I also wish the game could distinguish between inside clothes and outdoor clothes, both for everyday clothing and the Hot and Cold weather categories. For one thing, sims could take their shoes off in the house, and they could have jumpers and cardigans for cold days at home, which would be separate to their winter coats. As it stands we can set multiple outfits but if it's cold in the house and the sim puts on their Cold weather clothing, the game will randomly choose between outfits. If they did it the way I suggest, perhaps sims would also take off their hats indoors too.

You can basically set any clothing to whatever category so this can lead to absurd results. If you set a coat as hot weather outfit your sims will consider it as such.

This does not bother me much but it would be nice if more clothes were flagged for hot weather. Somehow it feels as if they missed a lot of clothes when they picked hot and cold categories. And swimwear should have the same effect on hot weather as hot weather clothes.

I give my sims multiple cold weather outfits, one for indoors and one for outside. But as mentioned above the sims will mix them up and can still choose for wear coats and hats indoors.

A separate category for rain outfits would be nice. And realistic. Sims with rain outfits would take longer to get wet.

I like the way they have set up the categories because, for once, it gives us complete control.

I use the everyday category to set Spring and Autumn clothing, when it's not too hot but also not freezing. Therefore, it makes sense that they would be too hot in those clothes if it were Summer.

I also have some bare feet or socks-only outfits that they can wear indoors if I want them to look really relaxed with shoes off, especially in the Summer where I like to see them bare footed.

And for cold weather outfits, I have some set with sweaters rather than coats so they can wear a cold weather outfit indoors.

For rain, you could just have an extra outfit in everyday/cold/hot they can change into which is suitable for rain wear.

There are a lot of outfits that work for hot/cold weather not tagged as such, so I typically remove the tags when setting those outfits. I was thinking of making an Erratic Sim who wears warm weather clothing in winter and cold weather clothing in summer just for fun.

Completely disagree. The way it is now puts the power in my hands rather than in the hands of somebody at Maxis and I like it that way. I just wish they did a better job tagging the clothes is all.

"Mariefoxprice83;c-16948807" wrote:
I prefer it with the set categories, though I wish we had more default options in both Hot and Cold categories, and I wish the game had a "wet weather" category for raincoats. I also wish the game could distinguish between inside clothes and outdoor clothes, both for everyday clothing and the Hot and Cold weather categories. For one thing, sims could take their shoes off in the house, and they could have jumpers and cardigans for cold days at home, which would be separate to their winter coats. As it stands we can set multiple outfits but if it's cold in the house and the sim puts on their Cold weather clothing, the game will randomly choose between outfits. If they did it the way I suggest, perhaps sims would also take off their hats indoors too.

Really good points! I guess what I really wish is that I could set my sims being in their underwear as simultaneously both "hot weather" and "sleepwear." Right now, there's really no way for a sim to stay hot or cool while sleeping, except a thermostat, which is fine I guess, but what if I want to play my sim huddling in comfy jammies for warmth cause they're trying to save on heating costs? Sleeping in a biig ol' sweater should at least keep them from freezing, lol.

"elanorbreton;c-16949944" wrote:
I like the way they have set up the categories because, for once, it gives us complete control.

I use the everyday category to set Spring and Autumn clothing, when it's not too hot but also not freezing. Therefore, it makes sense that they would be too hot in those clothes if it were Summer.

I also have some bare feet or socks-only outfits that they can wear indoors if I want them to look really relaxed with shoes off, especially in the Summer where I like to see them bare footed.

And for cold weather outfits, I have some set with sweaters rather than coats so they can wear a cold weather outfit indoors.

For rain, you could just have an extra outfit in everyday/cold/hot they can change into which is suitable for rain wear.

This brings to my mind an idea that I had but haven't fully tried yet. What I've been thinking of is using some of the outfits it sleepwear category for their relaxed home outfits. The upside is that sims would only use those at home which is what I want (can't have shoeless everydayoutfits in rotational play). The downside would be that not all their sleepwear would be sleepwear exactly but frankly I don't think I would mind that.

Overall I'm in favor of the category system. Aside of the hats and wintercoats indoors the athletic clothes bother me most. It's really hard to pick something that fits summer, winter and gym also... (for sims I'm not currently playing).

"musteni;c-16952348" wrote:

This brings to my mind an idea that I had but haven't fully tried yet. What I've been thinking of is using some of the outfits it sleepwear category for their relaxed home outfits. The upside is that sims would only use those at home which is what I want (can't have shoeless everydayoutfits in rotational play). The downside would be that not all their sleepwear would be sleepwear exactly but frankly I don't think I would mind that.

That's a good idea. I've been trying to think of a similar workaround but never quite got around to it.

"Cupid;c-16950475" wrote:
Completely disagree. The way it is now puts the power in my hands rather than in the hands of somebody at Maxis and I like it that way. I just wish they did a better job tagging the clothes is all.

I mean, the problem is that clothes only keep a sim cool, for instance, if the clothes are tagged as warm weather clothes and it's placed in the "warm weather" outfit category. So that's not really much control. If I put clothes on them for their hot weather outfit that isn't explicitly labeled as hot weather clothing items, the sim will still overheat. But, if I put clothes that are labeled as warm weather clothing in other outfit categories, like sleep or or workout...then they will still overheat. I thought I could make a warm weather and cool weather sleep outfit to keep them warm/cool during extreme weather, but that doesn't work. And the actual warm and cold weather outfits are still limited to clothes actually labeled as such, so there's not much wiggle room there either. I really don't see how there's any control for the player when you're so narrowly restricted to ONLY those options. The weather effects the sim no matter what--I just want a little more versatility in the options of how to deal with it.

"FanPhoria;c-16952463" wrote:

"Cupid;c-16950475" wrote:
Completely disagree. The way it is now puts the power in my hands rather than in the hands of somebody at Maxis and I like it that way. I just wish they did a better job tagging the clothes is all.

I mean, the problem is that clothes only keep a sim cool, for instance, if the clothes are tagged as warm weather clothes and it's placed in the "warm weather" outfit category. So that's not really much control. If I put clothes on them for their hot weather outfit that isn't explicitly labeled as hot weather clothing items, the sim will still overheat. But, if I put clothes that are labeled as warm weather clothing in other outfit categories, like sleep or or workout...then they will still overheat. I thought I could make a warm weather and cool weather sleep outfit to keep them warm/cool during extreme weather, but that doesn't work. And the actual warm and cold weather outfits are still limited to clothes actually labeled as such, so there's not much wiggle room there either. I really don't see how there's any control for the player when you're so narrowly restricted to ONLY those options. The weather effects the sim no matter what--I just want a little more versatility in the options of how to deal with it.

The hot/cold labels don't matter. Any outfit will work as long as it's in the right category.