[CF-Devel] New weather stuff, and bigmap thoughts

[Tim Rightnour]

BTW, I don't know if you ever get on IRC, but if you do.. I'd like to chat with
you about some of this stuff.

On 29-Oct-02 Todd Mitchell wrote:
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      I don't know if you read the map list, but I proposed changing the bigworld
     
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      map so that mountain2 bacame mountain4 (no_pass) and wasteland becomes
     
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      'glacier' which is passable (icy graphic tile - in CVS).
     
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      I ran this on my server (ran a find replace program on all world maps except
     
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      Lake Town) the and saw the following effects:
     
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      1. The landscape was much more interesting to navigate as the blocked tiles
     
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      were not all bunched together.
     
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      2. There was a large amount of new territory made available as icefields
     
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      (new winter ecology to develop).
     
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      3. Lots of premade nooks and crannies for encounters ready to be developed
     
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      I really liked it and propose it as a change to the big world map.
     
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      I like the idea that instead of the traditional north-south pole climate
     
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      pattern, that bigworld could be considered a elevation climate pattern (warm
     
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      low, cold high).  Who says the world has to be a globe?
     
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      This could have some effect on your weather if you include the glacier tiles
     
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      as adding to humidity.
     
     
Basically, I did use a pole-based climate system.  However, the north and south
poles are the NW and SE corners of the map.  Elevation should play a major role
in temperature, but right now I'm not sure I've tuned it right.

I'm not familiar with your proposal, but I would like to see some snow-capped
mountains up high.  My initial thoughts were that if the game was set to one of
the higher dynamic settings, the poles would freeze solid, creating a small
frozen ice/glacier area for people to play around with.


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      4) A side note, but I really think a good streetlamp graphic would be
     
     
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      I was starting to use the braizer in this context (see the new inns in the
     
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      CVS) and was going to extend this to the cities as well.  This sort of
     
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      lighting is great atmosphere.
     
     
I completely agree.  Larger cities might be really well lit, almost daytime at
night, whereas smaller ones might be more sparse, spookier.

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