Indoor Swimming Pools in Winter

Even installing a room stat makes no difference, I wish they would address this issue. We can put plants undercover why not swimming pools too! I am now wondering if putting a pool in a glass house on a community lot makes any difference. Has anyone done this or built a swimming pool indoors on a residential lot? Is this the same as a community lot in Winter?

There is a new lot trait from EL that seemingly affects pools.

Geothermal
Natural heating lowers utility bills by generating power, and keeps any pools warm.

"PrincessrozeeS;d-976788" wrote:
The one thing that has bugged me is why indoor swimming pools cannot be used in Winter. They are indoors and surely shouldn't be effected by the winter cold, ice and snow etc. Whenever my Sim goes to the Harbor Quarter Gym in Winter the pool is unusable for Powerhouse group meetings. I can understand that pools outside freeze over but not indoor ones. :/

I built a pool in the basement of the library in the Uni town so my mermaids would always have somewhere to swim. They haven't had any issues freezing or being cold when using it in winter. I have not checked since the patch or latest update though.

Other than "Swim laps", Can't use an indoor pool for swimming. Weird thing is, can swim laps in an outdoor pool during a blizzard, heh heh!
Seem like it shouldn't be too difficult to fix. Like growing plants "indoors" all you need it a roof. Even hovering way up a few levels. Also counts as "indoors" for Sims.

P.S. Apparently you can use the toys too even in an outdoor pool in winter like the diving board.

After numerous pools indoors, I have started using Geothermal lot trait and just build them outdoors. It seems they can swim outdoors easier than swimming indoors, weird.

This issue is so annoying. I had this once when my sims lived in the penthouse in San Myshuno, they couldn't use the indoor pool because it was snowing, outside.. ?

It is also annoying how Sims with Iceproof reward trait still get uncomfortable from freezing temp

Sounds like a bug to me. Indoor pools shouldn't be effected by winter weather es9if your sim has the heat on inside.

I'm only briefly in here because I'm in the middle of something else but I actually know the answer to this. Swimming pools do work inside in winter. The pool at the Harbor Quarter Gym is actually outside because the roof is open. That's why you can't use it in the winter in its original state. If you were to put a glass roof up, you would be able to use it in the winter. Windenburg is cold and snowy in the winter. I know that it almost looks like it is an indoor pool but it is not. Some of the other worlds have hot days in the winter during which you can swim outdoors such as the desert worlds and Sulani.

I have multiple indoor pools that sims use in winter. Among those that I have added include: an indoor pool in the Fontainebleau Penthouse in the Arts Quarter of San Myshuno that has glass walls to see the city; an indoor pool in a massive gym that I reconstructed in Oasis Springs where I let sims from different worlds visit in winter for swimming; the gym in Del Sol Valley has a pre-made indoor pool. It's not quite the subject but I added an outdoor pool to the gym in Willow Creek and various outdoor pools in some of the worlds.

"Sharonia;c-17924476" wrote:
It's the same with plants. If the weather is to cold it won't let them be planted in doors, it makes no sense really.

I have a large greenhouse with plants growing year round just fine. The only time I've seen them dormant is if I moved them inside from outside during the winter, but after a few days they woke up.