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REQUEST: Desert Weather Hack

by crumplebottom_marky4444 Posted 2nd Nov 2007 at 12:06 AM - Updated 8th Nov 2007 at 6:24 AM by crumplebottom_marky4444
 
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Forum Resident
#2 Old 2nd Nov 2007 at 1:19 AM
Great job looks good

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Lab Assistant
#3 Old 2nd Nov 2007 at 2:11 AM
Spiffy! perfect for those who play strange town a lot thanks

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Field Researcher
#4 Old 2nd Nov 2007 at 5:01 PM
Increasing the rain and hail is a great idea, but snow? I live in Arizona - southern Arizona - and we get snow maybe once every 5 years. Maybe it's different in other deserts, though.

is it can be sims tiem now plees?
Unsocialized Homeschooler
#5 Old 2nd Nov 2007 at 5:27 PM
It DECREASES snow, hail and rain.
Test Subject
Original Poster
#6 Old 19th Nov 2007 at 6:44 AM
I checked it, and it works the way it should. You may be experiencing this bug because 1) you have anotherone of my hacks interferring 2) it happened all by chance 3) you have your sims use objects that will increase their temperatures like hot tubs or drinking hot chocolate.
Test Subject
#7 Old 26th Nov 2007 at 10:07 PM
Quote: Originally posted by FionaSkye
Increasing the rain and hail is a great idea, but snow? I live in Arizona - southern Arizona - and we get snow maybe once every 5 years. Maybe it's different in other deserts, though.


Just so - it owes more to elevation than anything. Low desert - most of southern Arizona, as you note, but also uninhabitable expanses like the Sahara, which is what most people think of when they think of the desert - are very low in elevation, experience little rainfall, and stay hot year-round. High deserts - up around Flagstaff on up to Utah for example, and eastward into northern NM - are thousands of feet higher in elevation, don't get nearly as hot, have respectable winters, even seeing several snows per year (which is why Taos is one of the best ski resorts in the world!)

Heck, most people don't realize Antarctica is also a desert - in fact, the biggest on the planet! But these are clearly not the type of deserts the modder here is going for hehe.
Test Subject
#8 Old 20th May 2008 at 8:14 AM
If I download this, will it change the weather in all neighborhoods, or only in desert neighborhoods? I'd love to have desert weather in Strangetown, but I want traditional seasons in the other neighborhoods.
Lab Assistant
#9 Old 21st Jul 2008 at 1:58 AM
Thank you very much!
First I diseabled the snow in the ground in my game because all that white makes my pc slow down a bit. Then I disabled the winter in all my neighborhoods to end snowing. So I ended with two summers or two falls or two springs. But the rain and lightning are still a problem and that can't be diseabled via control panel.
Plus I hate lightning!
This hack will be most usefull.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Mad Poster
#10 Old 14th Apr 2009 at 10:29 PM
I would love this if I could apply it to only certain subhoods in a neighbourhood web. Then Strangetown and La Fiesta Tech would be so awesome in my MeggaHood. *sigh*
Top Secret Researcher
THANKS POST
#11 Old 27th Dec 2012 at 1:21 AM
Thank you! I play Strangetown, for the most part, and it bugs me to see so much rain and hail. I live in Southern California, which is mostly chaparral and desert, and I don't remember the last time it hailed!