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#### Glitch Weather

I'd really like to see weather in this game. Like when its cloudy or sunny, when you get a mood boost every few minutes. When it rains, it could reduce your mood every few minutes. Snow could leave behind snow piles which you could dig with a shovel for snowballs, and ice would leave ice on the ground which you could scrape to get icecubes.
Also there could be occasional "severe weather" events like tornadoes, which kill all the trees and leave lumps of earth on the street it hits and hurricanes, which floods all the underground areas in the region it hits. You could swim in there for a certain time and then you'd drown and die if you spent too long in there and can not enter the flooded regions for a certain amount of time. Sort of like the AL buff.
I know that some of these aren't good for glitchen, but they would certainly make the game more interesting.

Posted 10 months ago by AwesomeCardinal2000 | Permalink

### Replies

- Great idea, also proposed elsewhere. Your mood adjustment based on weather is new, and I like it.
  Posted 10 months ago by CrashTestPilot | Permalink
- Stoot has said (somewhere) that originally they planned to have all the scenery change for time of day and to have regional weather too. He also indicated that it had fallen completely off their radar, which isn't surprising.
  I agree that it would be awesome, but given the other urgent matters facing TS, I expect it will be a long time (if ever) before we see those enhancements.
  Posted 10 months ago by Pascale | Permalink
- @Pascale What kind of other things do they have to worry about?
  Posted 10 months ago by AwesomeCardinal2000 | Permalink
- Um, the housing system?
  And no doubt this weather thing would take tons of work.
  Posted 10 months ago by SeerQueen | Permalink
- It could definitely take lots of work. There's shortcuts that could be used which would be less spectacular. I don't think this is the sort of company to put in a half-measure for the sake of getting it in though ;).
  For instance, weather could in theory be regional, anc calculated once per game day per region, with every street in the region experiencing the same weather, and the weather being loaded as a simple background art layer with no in game effect other than that you get a slightly different background. Fairly easy to do but not very engrossing :).
  Posted 10 months ago by Moehr Ossum | Permalink
- Definitely something to be added to the "Glitch Wish List," but like has been said it isn't a priority at the moment. Great idea about mood modifiers. ^_^
  Posted 10 months ago by Mal'akh | Permalink