Seasons - Temperature Studies - Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Over?
notveryawesome:
I would think that fat could insulate against the cold just fine, but might cause a sim to overheat faster in the summer.
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: notveryawesome on 2007 March 11, 08:40:54
I would think that fat could insulate against the cold just fine, but might cause a sim to overheat faster in the summer.
That's the current implementation in testing, yes.
witch:
So skinny, mid-range sims would cool faster than perhaps buff sims who would supposedly have good circulation and a protective layer of muscle?
I don't understand why formal outfits cause sims to heat up so much - the males in tuxes maybe, but females with bared shoulders etc shouldn't overheat.
What does 'PT > 95:' mean? What does the PT stand for?
Naked, underwear and swim values should be about the same; PJs, everyday and work uniforms should be around the same.
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: witch on 2007 March 11, 10:28:12
I don't understand why formal outfits cause sims to heat up so much - the males in tuxes maybe, but females with bared shoulders etc shouldn't overheat.
See, that's the underlying flaw of, A: the unisex treatment of formal outfits, and B: The fact that warmth is determined by CATEGORY, instead of by type. Lots of outfits are categorized as both normal + formal, and those outfits become magically more warm when worn formally. If this had been determined by outfit instead of purely by class, all this could be avoided, and your sims could still freeze their asses off when wearing the never-to-be-sufficiently-accursed "bikini with heels" as an everyday. Male formalwear all seems to follow an established pattern, so the categorization works, but female outfits run the gamut from prancing about seminaked to even hotter and less pleasant.
Quote from: witch on 2007 March 11, 10:28:12
What does 'PT > 95:' mean? What does the PT stand for?
PT, personal temperature, AKA warmth. Basically, your sim, if heated only by natural decay, will always last a minimum of 5 hours.
Quote from: witch on 2007 March 11, 10:28:12
Naked, underwear and swim values should be about the same; PJs, everyday and work uniforms should be around the same.
For the most part, they roughly are. Note that pretty much the only time warmth/cold really even MATTERS is in "Very Hot" and "Very Cold" temperatures, as sim warmth will not drop below the relevant cutoffs at any given temperature range: Sims CAN'T freeze (except maybe very briefly due to capping bugs in the original code), UNLESS the outside temp is -70 or below. In fact, Blue is Beautiful: A sim turning blue from cold is a healthy color, because the chance of spontaneous plague contraction actually reduces when a sim is in the "freezing" range of <= -70. To be honest, we're not entirely sure WHAT is being modelled by the spontaneous plague. Sims can apparently contract the plague purely from being cold, and by cold, we mean "not on fire" (the chance of contracting the plague at >= 70 is 0, and is instead replaced with the impending fiery combustion), which violates the currently accepted germ theory of disease and apparently reverts us back to spontaneous generation. How Maxians can remain ignorant of the most important concept in currently accepted medical science is beyond me.
gjam:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2007 March 11, 10:56:09
To be honest, we're not entirely sure WHAT is being modelled by the spontaneous plague. Sims can apparently contract the plague purely from being cold, and by cold, we mean "not on fire" (the chance of contracting the plague at >= 70 is 0, and is instead replaced with the impending fiery combustion), which violates the currently accepted germ theory of disease and apparently reverts us back to spontaneous generation. How Maxians can remain ignorant of the most important concept in currently accepted medical science is beyond me.
So a sim is always at risk of either the plague or SHC? Bizarre.
I suppose they were going for the traditional belief that being cold compromises the immune system, making one more likely to become ill, but overdid it as usual.
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