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From a few things I've been reading, it seems that sims are supposed to change into outdoor clothes if they go outside in the rain?  Mine don't.  They don't react to it in any way either, no running to get out of it or anything, they just carry-on as they've always done.  If they're supposed to do either of these things, then clearly I have something stopping it, but I don't want to try to find out what if they're not supposed to do it anyway. 

I thought they only changed into outerwear if it was cold.

So did I, but I've seen mention of them changing in the rain.  Maybe that's the problem game and not mine then!  Still seems stupid that they walk around in the rain and don't bat an eyelid.  They even do it in thunderstorms.  I wonder if they can get struck by lightning, I think maybe they can.  I do hope so.

Have them sit outside in an in-ground hot tub during a thunderstorm. You'll see. :P

My first ever thunderstorm my simmie got struck my lightning. It was so awesome and made me jump.  ;D

Or swim...with the whole family. Fawn became an orphan that way.

and none of my sims have ever been struck by lightning! I send them to sit in hot tubs in storms. Sadorandom bloody bullshit!@#@$

Mine seem to like stargazing in the nude, usually straight after having a shower, but no lightning strikes yet. One of them froze solid last night for the first time which was amusing for all of seconds before I realised his needs were dropping almost as fast as sim on fire. Fortunately a friend was on hand with a hairdrier.
In a similar attack of sadorandomness I've never managed to turn anyone into a plantsim yet, despite many gold gardening talent badges and lots of bug spraying by the sims.

I had a frozen sim, face down in the snow - I kept waking up other members of her family and sending them outside. They totally ignored her, not a hairdryer was whooshed from the tush, they turned round and went back to bed. She nearly bought it, only Insim woke her up to suffer cramps and a warning that if I didn't look after her she would lose the baby.

There can be a blizzard going on and if my Sims go outdoors through the garage, they never change into outerwear.

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I thought you needed to place a coat hanger-thingy by the door for them to change into outerwear automatically?

My garage doors don't allow Sims to walk through them, so that's not an issue for me.

Sims do not turn on outerwear for rain at all: they only (sometimes) put it on if it is actually cold outside.

No, they'll change whether you have the halltree or not.

ETA: What gets me is the ghosts.  They'll change in and out of their outwear as they wander from the house to the outdoors and back.  Silly ghosts!

No Unneeded Coats should suppress this silly ghost behavior.

So does the hall tree have any function in the game other than forcing your Sim into outerwear by clicking on it?

Not really.  I've put it on a lot of my community lots, and actually in most of my houses, just because sometimes my Simmies change into their outwear when they go out but then "forget" for some reason to remove their outwear when they come in.  Only helps with playable Sims, of course, but at least they don't have to sit through a date wearing their parka, and I don't have to send them all the way to the bedroom to change when they're at home.

Witch: I had to direct the friend to warm the frozen sim up... the option appears when you click on the frozen sim. He got sent to bed with a warming hot chocolate after he woke, despite being near death and wanting to do some other outdoor activity. Sometimes I think they crossed humans with lemmings to get sims.

If the temp is borderline, sometimes they don't change out of their coats even when going into the house. Technically this would be the time to use to coatrack (or Pes's hack) but I just let them walk around inside in their coats like the idiots they are. Except in my current home, as they have a "clean room" to walk through and decontaminate from being out in the acid rain.

I think that's the same with archways, they kind of only recognise doors when it comes to outerwear.

Clean room? Acid rain? Please elaborate! It already sounds cool, but I want to hear more. :)

Just figments of my imagination. The neighborhood has been "cleansed" due to some naughty behaviour and is currently working its way back to normal...slowly. Spinning off the Apocalypse Challenge. No playing in the rain or snow is allowed, no plants can survive outside. Oddly, Fawn's kids (sans Geranium, the first) have all rolled a dark grayish skintone, too, which I'm choosing to believe is due to slight contamination from mom walking to and from the carpool while in her first trimester. She also had a heck of a time getting pregnant with her fourth, which would make sense as the reproductive system is one of the first things to break down during extended exposure to low levels of harmful chemicals.

 :D No I clicked on the frozen sim, clicked every combo I could think of, no option to warm up or rescue. :( I was sort of hoping for my first accidental death (except for burning)).

About radiation, I don't have a clean room, but my cyberhood has quite a high residual radiation count which changes sim genetics over time. This is how zombies and vamps became possible, these modified sims are the ones who are descendants of the original settlers that were dumped by the wormhole. The most recent arrivals are still mostly OK genetically, although can be contaminated by the vamps and JM's zombie mod.

Perhaps the warm-up interaction is relationship based and has minimum daily/lifetime requirements. Maxis EA seem to favour applying that sort of logic to other interactions. I suppose it could also conceivably be based on personality, perhaps there is a 'good samaritan' personality that is more likely to whip out a hairdrier for the benefit of strangers.

Maybe, but one of the sims I dragged out of bed was the female sim's husband with whom she was on very good terms.

For me there is a bit of a lag between the sim collapsing due to freezing and another sim being able to hair dryer them. Perhaps you clicked too soon? This only seems to happen with the cold weather as I can direct another to throw water on an overheated sim straight away.

No. she'd been out there since the afternoon, I thought she'd gone in to bed after a snowball fight and didn't notice she wasn't in bed till about 1am. I was really looking forward to seeing the hairdryer stunt. I've removed insim, I'll see if I can get it to happen again. Maybe insim was blocking the action somehow.

Can pregnant Sims freeze?  Or are they immune to it given they aren't allowed outerwear or any wear except those borings outfits?

Well, mine was pregnant and freezing.