[Subtype Zero]

GlobalExplorer: The weather in SH3 really sticks in my craw, as well. I don't mind the fog and the rain so much, but that wind!!! It's almost as if the Devs never heard of rain and calm wind! Unfortunately, weather patterns in SH3 appear to be largely hardcoded. Modders can only effect, to some degree, the speed and frequency of weather changes. However, I do have some good news! You can expect to see a request for beta testers from Stiebler and I in the near future. We are currently working on a little project that we hope will address at least some of the weather concerns of the SH3 community. No promises, however.

I really like your idea of weather reports. From what I understand of the code, there is actually 2 weather patterns stored in memory: the present weather and the "changed" weather. If we could somehow read the changed weather ahead of time we could then "predict" it and send it via radio message (with allowances for errors in prediction--whoever heard of a weatherman who is right more than 40% of the time, anyway)!

Lastly, I also enjoy SH Gen. very much, although it did kill my previous career when it sent me on an intelligence gathering mission inside Dunkirk harbor in early April, 1940. I believe my life span from the time all the search lights and tracers went off was about 25 seconds!