-37 F is not a cold snap

[Xavori]

It's literally 10 degrees (F) colder than any recorded temperature ever in England.

And we're supposed to deal with this using nothing but Middle Ages tech?

Ya know, this is why you mod Rimworld so that everything can be done indoors....

[BobOnix]

Messaggio originale di Smugass Braixen-Chan:

I will never remember what temperature water freezes at in Fahrenheit because it MAKES NO ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ SENSE!

Just use Metric. It's easier.

if you remove salt or any chemical from water to create a purer form you can go much colder before it freezes.

also ice melts at 0 degrees, or 32 F :P

[svlla]

hey it gets that cold where I live...maybe its considering windchill as thats what really matters to your skin

[Xavori]

Messaggio originale di James Finn:

You're right.

It's not a cold snap.

It is THE cold snap.

THE cold snap that occurs at least once every winter, and sometimes twice.

On top of that, given that my average winter temp is around -15F (or almost 40 below freezing), winters are pretty boring in my village since nobody can safely go outdoors for most of it.

I've heard talk in the village of moving to Siberia to get away from the cold...

[dwarfaxe]

Messaggio originale di Pandemonium:

Messaggio originale di Smugass Braixen-Chan:

I will never remember what temperature water freezes at in Fahrenheit because it MAKES NO ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ SENSE!

Just use Metric. It's easier.

if you remove salt or any chemical from water to create a purer form you can go much colder before it freezes.

also ice melts at 0 degrees, or 32 F :P

Not to quibble, but adding salts or chemicals lowers the melting temperature. That's why we salt the heck out of roads in winter.

[bettysteve]

the twice a year, EVERY year, life destroying weather events, how did medieval Britons survive to modern day?!!!
and a settler in a room with 10 kilns, 3 smelting furnaces and 2 smoking huts all going flat out, and a single tile "chimney" that makes the game think outside, but under a roof, yet the settler working them passes out from frostbite?! maybe lower the extreme weather event to occasionally rather than mandatory?

[Philtre]

Messaggio originale di bettysteve:

and a settler in a room with 10 kilns, 3 smelting furnaces and 2 smoking huts all going flat out, and a single tile "chimney" that makes the game think outside, but under a roof, yet the settler working them passes out from frostbite?! maybe lower the extreme weather event to occasionally rather than mandatory?

The game's temperature system is very basic. Heat sources do not heat the immediate area, they heat the room they are in. If they are not in a room, they have no effect on the temperature. So the "outside" temperature is the same everywhere, regardless of what's nearby.

[Thor'sHammer]

Lurker here - Just checking the game out, but found this thread funny. I've played a lot (LOT) of Empyrion Galactic Survival (highly recommended!!!!) and it has a similar problem with physics when it comes to water. Go to the bottom of a lake and dig down and you hit land. Go down 10 feet and you can breathe, fire weapons, build bases, whatever. The water never flows into the hole ... Wonder if this has the game game engine - Unity?

[Smugass Braixen-Chan]

Messaggio originale di Thor'sHammer:

Lurker here - Just checking the game out, but found this thread funny. I've played a lot (LOT) of Empyrion Galactic Survival (highly recommended!!!!) and it has a similar problem with physics when it comes to water. Go to the bottom of a lake and dig down and you hit land. Go down 10 feet and you can breathe, fire weapons, build bases, whatever. The water never flows into the hole ... Wonder if this has the game game engine - Unity?

Unity wouldn't have anything to do with that.

Unity is just a program for making games, really.

[HulaGremlin]

Western Europe is surrounded by water and is effectively a giant peninsula. By extension this creates an environment that has a moderated climate. -37F is a common thing (sometimes for a week, and sometimes twice or more a year) in places far removed from the coasts like the interior of Russia, the interior of America, etc. Its the kind of cold that you step outside and you can feel the snot in your nose freeze. And yeah, you wouldn't go outside but to maybe hunt or whatever. That's the climate of the game, i'm not sure what the problem is. Also, yes, with stone age tech. Its called fire and fur.

[Smugass Braixen-Chan]

Messaggio originale di HulaGremlin:

Western Europe is surrounded by water and is effectively a giant peninsula. By extension this creates an environment that has a moderated climate. -37F is a common thing (sometimes for a week, and sometimes twice or more a year) in places far removed from the coasts like the interior of Russia, the interior of America, etc. Its the kind of cold that you step outside and you can feel the snot in your nose freeze. And yeah, you wouldn't go outside but to maybe hunt or whatever. That's the climate of the game, i'm not sure what the problem is. Also, yes, with stone age tech. Its called fire and fur.

"i'm not sure what the problem is"

Because the game is set in Britain. Yknow.. A part of the world 100% SURROUNDED by water.

[Rex]

Messaggio originale di HulaGremlin:

Western Europe is surrounded by water and is effectively a giant peninsula. By extension this creates an environment that has a moderated climate. -37F is a common thing (sometimes for a week, and sometimes twice or more a year) in places far removed from the coasts like the interior of Russia, the interior of America, etc. Its the kind of cold that you step outside and you can feel the snot in your nose freeze. And yeah, you wouldn't go outside but to maybe hunt or whatever. That's the climate of the game, i'm not sure what the problem is. Also, yes, with stone age tech. Its called fire and fur.

Can you point to one place in the United States where -37F is common? Because I live here. It's not.

[Thor'sHammer]

Messaggio originale di InsidiousRex:

Messaggio originale di HulaGremlin:

Western Europe is surrounded by water and is

Can you point to one place in the United States where -37F is common? Because I live here. It's not.

Ahhh ... Fairbanks, Alaska AVERAGES -16°F and can go as low a -66°F. -37° is quite common there. Or did you forget Alaska is part of the US? ;-)

In the Continental US? Numerous cities in North and South Dakota as well as Minnesota routinely hit that temp and lower. Recently trending downward too (... climate change ...).

Yep, pretty common temp here in the US.

Britain on the other hand is warmed (currently) by the Gulf Stream which comes around Florida and swings out (around West Palm Beach) and flows through the Atlantic, ending at Britain, being responsible for it's warmth for the area and it's famous rain.

IDK if that was in play back in the 9th and 10th centuries tho'. I do know it's been shifting recently and the scientific community is becoming seriously concerned about it possibly breaking apart. If that occurs we'll be in a wild ride as temps all over the place pivot to new norms.

Weee-Haaa!

Brits will NOT like the effect as they freeze their butts off when the North Sea becomes the dominant temp source. They might see -37°F regularly. And burning temps in Summer as the Gulf Streams moderating effect goes away, and constant sunny days become the norm. Their umbrellas will see new duty as sunshades. :-0

[Smugass Braixen-Chan]

Messaggio originale di InsidiousRex:

Messaggio originale di HulaGremlin:

Western Europe is surrounded by water and is effectively a giant peninsula. By extension this creates an environment that has a moderated climate. -37F is a common thing (sometimes for a week, and sometimes twice or more a year) in places far removed from the coasts like the interior of Russia, the interior of America, etc. Its the kind of cold that you step outside and you can feel the snot in your nose freeze. And yeah, you wouldn't go outside but to maybe hunt or whatever. That's the climate of the game, i'm not sure what the problem is. Also, yes, with stone age tech. Its called fire and fur.

Can you point to one place in the United States where -37F is common? Because I live here. It's not.

He said America. Not the USA.

But that's a moot point, because this game is DEFINITELY not set in America.

[Thor'sHammer]

Messaggio originale di Smugass Braixen-Chan:

Can you point to one place in the United States where -37F is common? Because I live here. It's not.

He said America. Not the USA.

But that's a moot point, because this game is DEFINITELY not set in America. [/quote]
LOL! Welllll ... if you want to split hairs calling it AMERICA rather than the US, that adds Mexico (not much chance of -37°F) and Canada which ups the cold game a bunch, so what's your point in this post, I missed it?

NOT being a smarta$$, just literally don't get your point :-)

[Smugass Braixen-Chan]

Messaggio originale di Thor'sHammer:

Messaggio originale di Smugass Braixen-Chan:

Can you point to one place in the United States where -37F is common? Because I live here. It's not.

He said America. Not the USA.

But that's a moot point, because this game is DEFINITELY not set in America.

LOL! Welllll ... if you want to split hairs calling it AMERICA rather than the US, that adds Mexico (not much chance of -37°F) and Canada which ups the cold game a bunch, so what's your point in this post, I missed it?

NOT being a smarta$$, just literally don't get your point :-)

When I said they were talking about America, not USA, I was literally thinking of Canada and Alaska. ^^;