Well... as I stated elsewhere the difference between having Seasons installed or not really impacts the world. As in if your Sim hates rain, she is... SOL.Also, speaking weather / climate: I find it a little amusing that the every day outfits and the cold weather outfits are 90% the same gear. Also seems "realistic" when as an outsider (I am Swedish) compare my pre-consieved notions about Britain with this pack :smiley: One of the Cold Weather outfits (the padded vest one) even has rolled up sleeves. And Wellies, of course. Over here you would have to have like 3 layers of socks in those to not literally lose your toes in winter. Not to be too mean about it but I always get a giggle when some home renovation show *Cough* Grand Designs *Cough* goes on and on about the new house having three glass windows as if it was an innovation from last year or something. :wink: I guess "Twelve degrees and raining" is typical Xmas Day and Midsummer's Eve weather.Other than that... at least two of the women's hair styles really scream "English Soap Opera" to me. Again, I am not making fun of people from Britain, I am fully aware that we are all weird to others. That's the point of being human after all :smiley:

Oh, more:I just now realized that I recognize the birds! As in the models for the wild birds are actual birds I can see from my window! And the bird calls in the woods are the same I hear when walking the dogs :smile:

What do they need three glass windows for with 12 degrees and raining weather on Christmas? Isn't that a bit of an overkill?

"crocobaura;c-17989320" wrote:What do they need three glass windows for with 12 degrees and raining weather on Christmas? Isn't that a bit of an overkill?You save heating costs. But then... Serious question here:Is it actually common in stone cottages to have no insulation? As in the wall is just one layer of big stones and nothing else (as in a lot of the builds for Bagsley)?

"Sindocat;c-17989346" wrote:Those stone cottages are about 700 years old, so yes. Modernizing a Cotswold cottage is a challenge, even when it isn't a listed historic structure. I heard they have very low ceilings as people weren't that tall 700 years ago. In my country when people get married we usually wish them a "stone house" as a sign of long and durable relationship. Most traditional houses around here are made of wood and clay, they are durable, but not as durable as stone. Not many people preserve them as they don't know how to upkeep them, hence most houses are rather new builds.

Those tall rooms are so bad during winter. I have friends with a house like that and all the heat goes to the ceiling in winter and your feet freeze like hell. ?

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Beardedgeek72
New Spectator
4 years ago
Oh, more:

I just now realized that I recognize the birds! As in the models for the wild birds are actual birds I can see from my window! And the bird calls in the woods are the same I hear when walking the dogs :smile:
crocobaura
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
What do they need three glass windows for with 12 degrees and raining weather on Christmas? Isn't that a bit of an overkill?
Beardedgeek72
New Spectator
4 years ago
"crocobaura;c-17989320" wrote:
What do they need three glass windows for with 12 degrees and raining weather on Christmas? Isn't that a bit of an overkill?

You save heating costs.
But then... Serious question here:

Is it actually common in stone cottages to have no insulation? As in the wall is just one layer of big stones and nothing else (as in a lot of the builds for Bagsley)?
crocobaura
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
"Sindocat;c-17989346" wrote:
Those stone cottages are about 700 years old, so yes. Modernizing a Cotswold cottage is a challenge, even when it isn't a listed historic structure.

I heard they have very low ceilings as people weren't that tall 700 years ago. In my country when people get married we usually wish them a "stone house" as a sign of long and durable relationship. Most traditional houses around here are made of wood and clay, they are durable, but not as durable as stone. Not many people preserve them as they don't know how to upkeep them, hence most houses are rather new builds.
crocobaura
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
Those tall rooms are so bad during winter. I have friends with a house like that and all the heat goes to the ceiling in winter and your feet freeze like hell. ?
Beardedgeek72
New Spectator
4 years ago
"crocobaura;c-17989365" wrote:
Those tall rooms are so bad during winter. I have friends with a house like that and all the heat goes to the ceiling in winter and your feet freeze like ❤️❤️❤️❤️. ?

Yeah I can imagine how bad they would have been before central heating was installed.
Simburian
New Traveler
4 years ago
In the UK some level 2 listed buildings have to put secondary glazing inside as they aren't allowed to change the windows' structure. Nowadays ceilings have gone back to being about 8 feet (2.4 metres) high in apartments but in old Victorian/Edwardian ground floor apartments (like mine) they were usually 9ft 6inches (nearly 3 metres) or roundabout and lower in above ones. Curtains are more expensive but there is a greater sense of space!

We have all grown much taller in the past hundred years so a lot of renovators of old cottages have lowered the ground floors in order to get through the doors there at least, without hitting their heads.
crocobaura
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
"kaiwrysims;c-17989396" wrote:
I didn't know that humans have grown taller. I wonder why that might be.

Better and more food. Malnourishment in infancy and early childhood causes stunted growth.
logionX
Seasoned Hotshot
4 years ago
Yeah, I'm from Sweden myself so I sometimes wonder if Maxis are aware how a lot of the cold outfits in the game would not protect them very well against the cold. You can still look good and wear good clothing against the cold...

No radiators in the game (except that old looking one from Vampires) baffles me as well, I remember building an apartment recently and I reacted on how weird it looked with no radiators around. Especially in rooms with windows.
Beardedgeek72
New Spectator
4 years ago
"logion;c-17989405" wrote:
Yeah, I'm from Sweden myself so I sometimes wonder if Maxis are aware how a lot of the cold outfits in the game would not protect them very well against the cold. You can still look good and wear good clothing against the cold...

No radiators in the game (except that old looking one from Vampires) baffles me as well, I remember building an apartment recently and I reacted on how weird it looked with no radiators around. Especially in rooms with windows.

There is also a huge difference in "cold weather" clothes. Like on one end you have the Cottage Living and City Living stuff (thin jackets, maybe a scarf, maybe a sweater, always open jackets) and on the other you have the Snowy Escape stuff which is true actual cold winter wear as we (and Canadians, and Russians and whatever) recognize it. You know, that keeps you warm in -25 centigrade.

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