Longer seasons?

don't have it in right now but will put back and test it

"bandit5;c-17851325" wrote:
don't have it in right now but will put back and test it

Thank you. Bad thing with longer seasons is that it takes AGES to test lol

Honestly, I think we should be able to customize season length...

> @Dakota88 said:
> Thank you. Bad thing with longer seasons is that it takes AGES to test lol

I put the the altered mod through several seasonal cycles, and although each season will reset after 28 days and start back at its beginning, the game does advance to the next season on the 91st day, as intended. One has to cope with a bit of climatic yo-yo-ing (which honestly, isn''t entirely inaccurate) but the mod does it does work to produce a full, 364-day year.

Until a better solution comes along, this is about as much as can be hoped for.

"Phaeton99;c-17854473" wrote:
> @Dakota88 said:
> Thank you. Bad thing with longer seasons is that it takes AGES to test lol

I put the the altered mod through several seasonal cycles, and although each season will reset after 28 days and start back at its beginning, the game does advance to the next season on the 91st day, as intended. One has to cope with a bit of climatic yo-yo-ing (which honestly, isn''t entirely inaccurate) but the mod does it does work to produce a full, 364-day year.

Until a better solution comes along, this is about as much as can be hoped for.

Thank you for testing this. Does it mess up the calendar all the time or will this work?

> @Dakota88 said:
> Thank you for testing this. Does it mess up the calendar all the time or will this work?

So far, the calendar has worked fine. I have marked the beginning of each month and set various holidays, and everything has progressed normally regardless of the 28-day repeat issues. I do recommend using the weather control console commands to deal with the "unseasonal" weather than the reset problem inevitably causes, which can be hard on planted gardens, but that is a secondary issue.

"shadowphantomness;c-17835624" wrote:
I would love 90 day seasons myself.

I found 28 day seasons to be moot, as I might as well not have seasons in my game. I can't even imagine 90 days worth of the same season. I use LilMsSams 21 day seasons instead of 28. But, I don't have it currently installed as she has not updated it. Three week seasons works out so much better for me. I'm able to have my Teen and Child Sims quit school for the three weeks. I place Liberty Day in the middle week and Labor Day on the first Monday in the Fall. Two days prior I have the school age kids resume school (I use the MCCC mod for this). Works out great.

As for asking Scumbumbo, sadly this person has passed away.

"Phaeton99;c-17855831" wrote:
> @Dakota88 said:
> Thank you for testing this. Does it mess up the calendar all the time or will this work?

So far, the calendar has worked fine. I have marked the beginning of each month and set various holidays, and everything has progressed normally regardless of the 28-day repeat issues. I do recommend using the weather control console commands to deal with the "unseasonal" weather than the reset problem inevitably causes, which can be hard on planted gardens, but that is a secondary issue.

I haven't yet used the calendar since the patch only play-testing my new builds for today's download of the EP. As far as unseasonable weather, I've always had that. It rains nearly every day in the spring and summer. Spring is often colder than normal. I'm not certain it's the patch, is what I'm driving at. Weather has been a mess in my game nearly from the beginning, I'm so sorry to say. I'll have to check it out today. Just waiting for the EP. Oh, and it's now time. :)

MCCC has a seasons cheat built into one of it's modules which can be accessed via the mailbox. I have all my seasons set to 28 days. But to make it more realistic I prefer to go through each season three times before moving to the next season. As soon as the clock changes to midnight and the season changes, I access the cheat and go back to the beginning of whatever season my world was in before midnight. It's quick and handy, and you don't have to change any of your file data or settings. :)

Carl's Seasons options mod could maybe help with this, as it would allow you to switch seasons easily whenever you want. You could just make it one season until you're ready to move onto the next one. The video explains how it works. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tm2vcrYzQw

If i recall in The Sims 3 seasons, we could choose to play in whatever season we wanted to via the settings?