Seasons and Rotational Play

I'm also a rotational player. So far I've adjusted well but I'm playing in spring, so weather isn't too severe. I've decided that the 28 day length does work for me because I really like dragging each season out. It feels more realistic to me and I notice subtleties in the weather every day.

For my own play, I've just decided that I will not follow an exact timeline for when I play each household. I'll just play them when I want to and they will get to experience whatever the weather is at the time that I'm playing. Because I move between the different worlds, I'm experiencing a lot of different weather. I will admit that when I send sims to visit another world, I have no idea what the weather will be like there. It is kind of fun and also kind of an adjustment.

Weather is basically just another layer in my game but it does impact it a lot. I haven't done too many holidays yet but so far I've found that I just need to decide what household I am playing for a given holiday. None of them are aging unless I say so, so I will eventually repeat holidays with different families.

I've decided that I'll just add new holidays for a given household while I'm playing it and then I'll delete holidays if I switch houses and they aren't appropriate for it. Basically, it's all just another thing that I adjust. I don't think I'll be shortening the seasons with a large rotation though. If I play another save with just one household, I'd probably make each season 14 days. 7 just feels too short for me personally.

Wait. Does aging off affect the seasons? Does it stay still if hte household has aging off?

"Neia;c-16559722" wrote:

I plan on doing 28 weeks seasons, but since I don't have exactly 16 households in my rotation, it will most likely shift a bit each year. I initially wanted to one year per rotation, but I didn't realize new year's eve would fall in the middle of winter, and it kinda throws off my plan.

I wish we could move the preset holidays to when we want them I want to keep them and use them in some of my more "traditional" game saves but I don't like when they fall. Maybe I can delete them and recreate them on the days I want? I haven't tried...I want to play without getting too entrenched in the tedium of setting things up yet.

"treece01;c-16559774" wrote:

"Neia;c-16559722" wrote:

I plan on doing 28 weeks seasons, but since I don't have exactly 16 households in my rotation, it will most likely shift a bit each year. I initially wanted to one year per rotation, but I didn't realize new year's eve would fall in the middle of winter, and it kinda throws off my plan.

I wish we could move the preset holidays to when we want them I want to keep them and use them in some of my more "traditional" game saves but I don't like when they fall. Maybe I can delete them and recreate them on the days I want? I haven't tried...I want to play without getting too entrenched in the tedium of setting things up yet.

You can delete and recreate the Holidays. I did it with Love Day because I wanted it earlier in Spring.

"RedDestiny92;c-16560197" wrote:
I rotated just fast enough to see one of my played sims was about to die of freezing, I got the notification but managed to warm him up enough.

Holy plumbob!! :hushed: :heartbreak: I hope that will be patched out or someone will create a mod that prevents this. I don't mind townies and unplayed Sims to buy the farm but NOT my played Sims I'm not playing at any given time :lol:

"Stina1701A;c-16561198" wrote:

"RedDestiny92;c-16560197" wrote:
I rotated just fast enough to see one of my played sims was about to die of freezing, I got the notification but managed to warm him up enough.

Holy plumbob!! :hushed: :heartbreak: I hope that will be patched out or someone will create a mod that prevents this. I don't mind townies and unplayed Sims to buy the farm but NOT my played Sims I'm not playing at any given time :lol:

You can set your game to where your sims don't feel the temps but personally I don't want to do that. I do want to play with that aspect...but just with my currently played households. I had to quickly jump out of my current household to save one of my other sims from freezing to death. Idiot just kept walking in front of multiple buildings just cheerfully freezing to death. Luckily his son had the sense to warm up with a shower at the gym.
I set their hot/cold weather clothes so maybe they'll wear them now?
I guess I should set all my sims clothes but for now I'm just keeping an eye on all my sims and the weather and doing it gradually.