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7 years ago

Seasons decorations disappointment

Ok so I'm a little bit disappointed with the seasons decorations. I mean they are great but there's one feature I loved in sims 3 and I wanted back to sims 4 and I'm sad I didn't had that feature back

What I'm talking about is the fact that the decorations in house don't chance automatically with seasons. I mean I decorated my house with pumpkins and etc for fall season and now its winter and I have to delete everything and put winter decorations. It would be great if instead of delete them if I could hide them and then when its fall again they will appear automatically. Like that I don't have to spend my live decorating and deleting and decorating and deleting stuff.

I thought this feature from sims 3 will come in sims 4 but I it didn't. I liked to see my house changing decorations automatically with the seasons and it would be less work for me ofc because I would only had to decorate one time for each season and not all the time.

So yeah this is what I'm disappointed and I hope I would see this feature in the future. Also we don't have seasons festivals like in sims 3? :( I'm sad about that too.

I only started to play recently so I'm still figure everything out but I totally need more icons for the holidays in calendar. I'm also hoping to have a patch with beach related stuff or even a game expansion idk with some exotic place to go on summer and have a tan in the beach etc.

Tinacolada00
7 years ago
I’m also disappointed in the decorating. Also, I can’t set my exterior decorations until the day before the holiday? I want to decorate for the upcoming holiday a week prior at the latest.
jdunklin1
7 years ago
I guess I'm just lazy so I put up decorations for all holidays at once so I won't have to keep deleting lol
MichaelUKingdon
7 years ago
"hunniboo1;c-16632806" wrote:
I guess I'm just lazy so I put up decorations for all holidays at once so I won't have to keep deleting lol

just save your original room and save a Xmas decorated version. use the Xmas one when needed then switch back to your original one.

as long as we at least decorate a room once, it can always be saved with our other content, with a original saved two.

its nice to be able to remove and add it when needed on my current home.
Nindigo79
Seasoned Novice
7 years ago
If seasons are set to last 28 days each, it's probably less of a hassle than if they only last a week or two. But I have noticed that it bothers me too, to keep having to change decor from build mode. Someone could make a thread in the ideas section with possible solutions and suggestions for how to solve this issue :)
justme22
7 years ago
"fruitsbasket101;c-16629933" wrote:
I don't remember this being a thing in the sims 3. I still play it and still have to decorate my sims houses(inside and out) every holiday by hand. The decorations don't stay unless you keep them there. The only thing you can decorate and have it still be the same the following year are the lights on the house. Even then they don't change automatically with the seasons. You still have to change them if you want different ones.

Sims 3 had the Seasonal Lot Marker (you had to look for it in Debug Mode) where you could set decorations and such for each season. It was mainly used for setting up seasonal lots, like for the festivals but it could be used on home lots as well. Decorating can be tedious but in general I enjoy it. You could even have your Sims be one of those people who leave up their ~~Christmas~~ Winterfest decor well into the spring:

https://youtu.be/ov8qcuE6T8w
Lonewolf1044
Seasoned Spectator
7 years ago
Wow, I played Sims 3 most of the time and never knew, oh well, learn something new everyday. :)