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Originally Posted by danlisa
The built in weather generator for SH3 is a little 'quirky'.
So for example, if you are shadowing a convoy in bad weather and you save while in bad weather, you will have the bad weather again after reloading for AT LEAST 2 days game time. I say at least 2 days because that's the amount of time used before SH3 decides if it should change the weather based on a percentage chance. This is why you see reports of bad weather lasting more than 2 weeks.
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I have a little evidence to the contrary, but the way the weather system works does explain why I have seen only 3 changes in weather in 7 patrols!!! (I'm still on my first career here since SH3 came out!). Once, I got clouds and slightly increased wind, on patrol 2 or 3. On patrol 7, my first in a Type VII, I had a change in wind speed from 5m/s to 7m/s, later back to 5m/s, and just yesterday in the night it changed to 13m/s, wind direction finally changing for the first time ever from 0 to 351! Astonishing
But I've yet to see any fog or rain between Sept 1939 and April 1940
Anyway, the change I saw yesterday came after about 12-13 hours of game time (and about an hour of real time). I loaded the game at 9am in-game and saved around midnight.
Further to this, I had a silly save bug earlier in the patrol. Although I saved it when all was clear, my crew not alerted, when I reloaded next day my crew immediately went to alerted status and I had a pair of Swordfish off my stern about 10 seconds from their attack! This caused me to re-load the save point several times, to try to avoid deaths/damage that I was getting due to the error in the saved game. Eventually, I got off lightly so carried on my game as if it never happened.
Anyway, about an hour after this save point, the weather changed! (7m/s to 5m/s) Curious because I'd read about the weather bug, I reloaded yet again and replayed, and after the same period of time (~1 hour), the weather indeed changed yet
again(and again 7m/s to 5m/s). So this small piece of evidence goes against the 'reset weather timer' bug when you reload. Twice it changed within an hour of reloading the same save point.
That said, the weather change came as I passed south between two grid squares, so maybe passing certain latitudes trigger a change, regardless of the timer used for calculating changes in the weather normally? No idea, but just another spanner in the works
I'm running stock SH3 1.4b with a few select mods.