Weather

[allendominic90]

Can anyone help with the weather. i have had three in game days of rain now.

has anyone else had this or silly question know how to make it stop

Dom

[Damien]

Funny I have the opposite, I have had 0 rain at all. 40hrs played and not 1 drop.

[JPSGT40]

No occurances of rain for me either. 80 hours of play.
I've had 3 occasions where the whether indicator shows rain in forcast, but it never happens and the indicator goes away after a couple hours.

Playing real-time (1x speed). I've seen videos where people play as 120x and they seem to get more frequent changes in weather and clouds.

I've only ever seen clouds once, right after sleeping through the night, but they disappeared after just an hour of playtime.

[Ziko]

3 days rain my best so far :)

[allendominic90]

very odd. im playing in 5x and have had nothing but rain for days

[JPSGT40]

I'm playing on Ravenport map, so southern California.
Maybe the Felsbarrn map has different weather parameters.

[Morbeck30]

I played for 56 hours and now it does not stop raining, I lost all my crops.

[Silky Rough]

Originally posted by JPSGT40:

I'm playing on Ravenport map, so southern California.
Maybe the Felsbarrn map has different weather parameters.

It certainly rains but I've not experienced consecutive days.

Wondering if the rain is supposed to fall X number of RT hours and if you have it on 120x - it rains for "days".

[X]

75 hours on FellsB... no change in weather.....

[Deadmanrunning-=dust=-]

Originally posted by Damien:

Funny I have the opposite, I have had 0 rain at all. 40hrs played and not 1 drop.

You are not alone. :-)

60 hours here and no rain yet. Playing on Ravenport, mix between 5x and Real Time.

[DrXmL]

same Felsburne no waether changes but i try just run gume in 120 and it shut happen. but you load game back hoping it will change never happen

[Harag]

I played a custom map other day tend to play x5 speed, solo - on the night of day 1 it started to rain, and through all day 2 and night 2. not sure after that as I switched maps.

On the map i'm on now, not a drop of rain yet (though only on day 2 - lol)

I was wondering - is the weather MAP based - e.g. can the modder specify how much rain a map gets (e.g. desert map vs tropical maps) - or is it completely random by the game ?

[Angrymarten]

50 hours in Felsbrun: no weather changes... so it's more like Sonnbrun ^_^

[JPSGT40]

Giants have known about this bug since November, but no patch has addressed it yet.

Problem is the game does not resume the weather at the correct point in time when you go back into a savegame.

For example:

Your current weather calls for a 14 hour period of sunny weather.
You play for 5 hours (1x realtime, for example).
You save and exit.

Later you resume your save game.
But weather engine does not continue from where it left off -- instead of resuming the current weather with 9 hours remaining (14 hours minus the 5 hours you already played), it instead starts the entire 14 hours of sunny weather over again from the beginning. Doh! Bug!

The data to make this work is already in the savegame files, but the game is not utilizing it. They never finished programming it all to work.


Workaround 1:

You can edit your environment.xml in your savegame folder to change the weather or the duration of the weather as you like.

The duration paramter is obvious; it is the # of Hours for that segment of weather.

There are 3 known values for the typeName parameter:
SUN
CLOUDY
RAIN

I prefer CLOUDY with variationIndex="2"
It's nice weather and gives a little nice variety.


Workaround 2:

Simply speed up time until the weather changes, then save. But keep an eye on your crops and animals, of course.

[Kimmaz]

I have had rain 3-4 times and it lasted less then half a day each time. I got 100 hours so far on my first and only save on fs19 ;D

[Rekkajulle]

300 hours here and no rain yet