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columbia93
Seasoned Rookie
5 years ago

Seasons, Island Living, and terrible snow storms in Sulani

I'm pretty new to TS4. I have most of the "big" mods that most people have, as well as a few of the different packs, including Seasons & Island Living. TS4 comes nowhere near being as flexible as TS3 in seasonal issues. It's New Year's Eve and Sulani is BURIED under a very thick blanket of snow. I don't like that. A tropical island so....no. I don't even understand WHY it snows there. I don't know how to make it stop without going in and fiddling with the seasons tab every time I want to change worlds. (I jump around alot because each neighborhood is very poorly limited with activities and such.) I can't click on the ground to stop the snow (TS3), and it seems like any changes I make with the tab changes other neighborhoods, too. Without using the machine that changes weather AFTER having to get really high handiness (I believe), is there any way to fix it so that Sulani doesn't get snow, or cold? I don't want to have to keep going into the Seasons tab every time I change neighborhoods!
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  • JoRN1414's avatar
    JoRN1414
    5 years ago
    I haven't had snow in Sulani. I usually play 28 day seasons and use no mods. It does rain a lot and get cool in the winter, my Sim can get the 'chilled' moodlet. But, I've not seen snow yet.
  • columbia93's avatar
    columbia93
    Seasoned Rookie
    5 years ago
    Again, the mods I use are the ones that the majority of people do, and it has nothing to do with weather. I never use MCCC to change the weather. I also play without mods every single time EA updates TS4 because it defaults to that. I open the game without mods and CC and play a little bit and then exit without saving, all to make sure it doesn't crash. It was still snowing. And the snow isn't a dusting, it's a full out storm.

    Honestly, despite some prevailing attitudes here, I'm not making it up. I've also been playing The Sims since it came out with the first version. I understand how the games work (TS4 less than the others because I've not messed around in it like I have with TS2 & TS3), how mods work (have even written a couple for my own play in TS3), and over the decades have taken everything out and put it back in more than I can even count. With the purchase of a new PC a year ago and moving all of the Sims games to Origin, I've even gotten quite good at "fixing" updates that break my games via the registry! So I'll keep trying to find out what's going on and hope that someone comments who actually has experience with this!
  • SEREFRAS's avatar
    SEREFRAS
    Seasoned Veteran
    5 years ago
    Snow in Sulani, that's so cool. I don't use any mods, so my warm worlds never get snow.
  • Lonewolf1044's avatar
    Lonewolf1044
    Seasoned Spectator
    5 years ago
    "amp107;c-17663680" wrote:
    Might be one of those bugs that don’t effect everyone. Maybe just to narrow things down remove the mods temporarily and do a play test to see if you still experience the issue?


    Could be as sometimes plans in Sims 4 sometimes does not go as planned or not planned. :)
  • Isharell's avatar
    Isharell
    New Spectator
    5 years ago
    "Kathykins;c-17674794" wrote:
    Would be nice for Winterfest, honestly! Winter deco looks so out of place next to palm trees and sand and sims in bathing attire.



    Santa Claus and tinsel does look weird in the tropics at first. But you can get used to seeing Winter/holiday decorations with palm trees after a while. I live in Florida - no snow down here, but at holiday time they bling up the palm trees. Now it seems quite normal to me - people wearing shorts or bathing suits walking by lush greenery and palm trees decorated with Christmas lights, with light up elves, snowmen, etc on a green lawn. LOL

    edited to respond to the right person
  • Kathykins's avatar
    Kathykins
    Seasoned Newcomer
    5 years ago
    "Isharell;c-17678441" wrote:
    "Kathykins;c-17674794" wrote:
    Would be nice for Winterfest, honestly! Winter deco looks so out of place next to palm trees and sand and sims in bathing attire.




    Santa Claus and tinsel does look weird in the tropics at first. But you can get used to seeing Winter/holiday decorations with palm trees after a while. I live in Florida - no snow down here, but at holiday time they bling up the palm trees. Now it seems quite normal to me - people wearing shorts or bathing suits walking by lush greenery and palm trees decorated with Christmas lights, with light up elves, snowmen, etc on a green lawn. LOL

    edited to respond to the right person


    This is the stuff I only see in movies :D I live in a country that has cold and snow practically half the year (Norway). It started to chill in mid September here, and won't have any warmth to speak of until maybe March/April. We are quite used to having white christmas, although we have less snow some years. But its unpredictable, we had huge snowfalls in April/May 2 years ago. Followed by a very hot summer, though. Too much of everything that year :D

    "joRN1414;c-17678114" wrote:
    "Kathykins;c-17674794" wrote:
    Did you check the calendar and see if it was "Mysterious weather", like MDianaSims mentioned? Because that was the first thing that popped into my head. Personally, I've never seen it, its never happened in any of my saves. And I've had sims living there since the release of IL, almost exclusively. Would be nice for Winterfest, honestly! Winter deco looks so out of place next to palm trees and sand and sims in bathing attire.

    I couldn't find the issue on AHQ, could be nobody else has experienced this, or they just didn't bother to make a report on it. I did search for "snow sulani" and "snowstorm", but nothing spesific came up. Couldn't find anything in the compiled list either, when looking at IL and Seasons lists. Might be worth it to post there also?


    Does Sulani get mysterious weather? I haven't seen that either. I love that weather. Everything happens. Oh, wait... did anyone ask if you have the weather machine?


    I think it does anyway, but it must be extremely rare weather. I've spent much time in Sulani, and I can't remember ever seeing it. I've seen mysterious weather more in Oasis Springs, but that was before IL released. I tend to choose the warmer climate worlds for my sims. And Sulani is perfect, no freezing or heatwaves. Never had snow there, but now I really would like to, just to see how it looks. Have to check if my current sim can afford that weather machine :)
  • Leilathaa's avatar
    Leilathaa
    5 years ago
    I've never seen snow in Sulani, Del Sol Valley, Oasis Spring and StrangerVille, and I also use a couple of mods including MCC. All I can think of is a weather machine or mysterious weather. I checked in internet and someone had a similar problem when they installed the weather mod. Even after removing the mod, the problem persisted. You could try disabling mods, fix the game through origin and then check. Just to be sure. If not, and it still bothers you a lot, maybe uninstall and install Seasons & Island Living or the entire game? How long have you had this problem? Maybe the update broke something and they will fix it soon?

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