How to do Rotational Families with Seasons?

I play my houses for 1-week increments too, and i’ve been trying to figure out the same thing. They have confirmed via Twitter that the default length for each season will be 7 days, so if you leave everything as is you’ll be spending 1 season with each family before moving on. (Most likely this is what I will be doing; I view my entire save as one town so it makes sense for me to spend spring with one house, summer with the next.)

If you want to, you could adjust to playing 4 week increments so you are going through an entire year cycle. Trying to make seasons shorter to fit in a week probably wouldn’t work as well; you probably wouldn’t be in each season long enough to enjoy any of them.

I think what we all need to do is first discover how many days each season lasts. Once that is determined, we can adjust how many days we spend in each household in order to experience each season.

"GalacticGal;c-16504685" wrote:
I think what we all need to do is first discover how many days each season lasts. Once that is determined, we can adjust how many days we spend in each household in order to experience each season.

Each season last 7 sim days

"CrystalAbyss1;c-16504757" wrote:

"GalacticGal;c-16504685" wrote:
I think what we all need to do is first discover how many days each season lasts. Once that is determined, we can adjust how many days we spend in each household in order to experience each season.

Each season last 7 sim days

But it can be adjusted. That's just default. I suppose rotational players can amp it up to the highest amount possibly, unknown as to what that is yet.
Though I bet if you had somebody good with the weather machine you could make life a lot easier for rotational players. (Speculating, based on some info about it.)

It sounds too like you can make it eternally one season.. so maybe you can set it to a season.. play all the families and reset it to another? I guess this is something to figure out when it hits. I've been thinking of this also but only because I'd be worried about the families with gardens.

"calaprfy;c-16504857" wrote:
Why do I get the feeling that seasons is going to raise more issues than enjoyment?

Well not for me anyway... as the player I have to figure out how to avoid situations I don't want and how to prepare it's part of gameplay.. I might be worried but I'm sure there will be a solution.

This (along with the question whether we can change climates to give, for example, Windenburg warm climate) is one of the questions I need to be adressed before I consider buying. I play irregular rotations, can be anything between 12 hours and a week, depending on the flow of the story. So adjusting my playstyle isn't an option.
Ideally we could set a season's duration to infinite and then change it manually to the next when we are ready. But they said seasons would blend into the next, so it might not be that easy to switch.
At the end of the day I don't care whether I need to use an ingame mechanic, a cheat or a mod, as long as I can customize my game to my liking.

Edit to avoid double-posting: Another thing that just occured to me are the customizeable holidays. Even if we can set a seasons length to infinite, only one family will officially get to celebrate the holiday for that season. Except if we could maybe define the length of a holiday? Like, holiday x will last for 4 days?
Definitely minor headache territory.

"EnkiSchmidt;c-16504938" wrote:
This (along with the question whether we can change climates to give, for example, Windenburg warm climate) is one of the questions I need to be adressed before I consider buying. I play irregular rotations, can be anything between 12 hours and a week, depending on the flow of the story. So adjusting my playstyle isn't an option.
Ideally we could set a season's duration to infinite and then change it manually to the next when we are ready. But they said seasons would blend into the next, so it might not be that easy to switch.
At the end of the day I don't care whether I need to use an ingame mechanic, a cheat or a mod, as long as I can customize my game to my liking.

Edit to avoid double-posting: Another thing that just occured to me are the customizeable holidays. Even if we can set a seasons length to infinite, only one family will officially get to celebrate the holiday for that season. Except if we could maybe define the length of a holiday? Like, holiday x will last for 4 days?
Definitely minor headache territory.

I haven't been completely on top of all the info coming out about seasons, I kind of want to be surprised and discover most of it myself. But I do recall hearing, reading, or something that they will be customize-able holidays? From how I was understanding it (and I could be completely wrong here) was sort of like an better version of a club.

That might not be the best way to describe it and that's certainly not how it was described. But that's what I thought of when I first heard customize-able holidays. It's something to keep in mind when they start answering questions or doing the livestream to ask about.

So far, I'm still hesitating between :
- Doing one week = one household = one season. It's the default setting we've been told, so it's possible and I'll see all seasons relatively quickly. But I'll have to decide which season each household will have, so a bit more micro-managing if I don't want a household to have Summer several times in a row.
- Doing one full rotation = one season. It's only possible if we can set the length of each season really high, or if we can stop the passing of seasons completely. No micro-managing needed, and it's close to what I did in TS2 but I have lots of households in my rotation so I won't see all seasons before a long time.
- Doing something in between, so one rotation = 4 seasons = one year. It's what would fit the best with my current aging setting. It's a bit quicker to see all seasons, but there's still a bit of micro-managing to have each household experience all seasons.

I have been trying to work this out in my head as well. The easiest solution for me is to rotate through all four seasons on one family then switch to the next. I just didn't want them to age too far ahead of the neighborhood kids so this really doesn't work for me either.

Then I thought about making all four season summer then do my entire rotation through summer, then make all four seasons fall..do my entire rotation again. I just don't know if it is possible to make all four seasons one season. This would work for me best because each season is 7 days and my rotation is a 7 day rotation. I am hoping to be able to do this.

Then I thought about rotating four families at a time. Each of then experiencing a season. So family 1 is spring, family 2 summer, family 3 fall, family 4 winter. Then start family 4 spring, Family 1 summer, Family 2 Fall, family 3 winter and so on. This solution is complicated and aging may be an issue.

This is the worse solution but might be my only option. Age the sim family during spring, turn off aging and finish out the next three seasons. Then move on to the next family. OMG it will take sims forever to age and die..my go back to a normal or even short life span if this is my option. Each rotation will be soooo long but at least my families will get to experience all the seasons.