storms: i hate the weather model.

[kaptain klank]

i'm running GW 1.1 (with the random weather mod), will upgrade to GWX when i end my current career.

anyway, i hate the way the weather works in this game.

it seems like it's either-

1. perfectly nice
2. slightly choppy
3. rough seas
4. very rough
5. hurricane/never ending storm/ heavy fog.

why can't there be light rain?

why do the storms have to last for weeks on end?

my last patrol in made contact with a convoy and shadowed it for 8 or 9 days in the middle of an apparent hurricane.

8 days? 9 days?

my current patrol i made contact with a convoy and shadowed it for about 3 days whilst in the middle of a major storm.

i had to go to periscope depth every 1-2 hours to make hydrophone checks as the convoy kept making course changes.

after about my 60th dive to periscope depth my crew just about had a mutiny so i broke off contact and started heading towards my designated patrol area.

what is the longest you other captains have been caught in a storm?

i hope they fix the weather in sh4.

light rain would be cool, without heavy fog.

just because it's raining doesn't mean there has to be fog.

squalls would be cool.

a 4 hour rain storm would be cool....not 4 days. not 5 days. not 6 days. not 7 days.

damn i hate the weather.

[fredbass]

Check this out. Try it and see if it helps you.

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...ght=SH3WEather

[ReallyDedPoet]

Have a look at this post.

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...ight=ShWeather

Personally I like the weather, any of the books I have read, especially regarding the Atlantic Theatre, the weather was hell.

RDP

[johan_d]

Stuck in the MED, I am dying for some storm..

[AVGWarhawk]

The weather is ok for me. I believe quite a few weather systems were just miserable for days. Weeks? No! But many days? Yes. Heck, even where I live I have seen 5-6 days of nothing but rain. So IMHO it is not to far off the mark. Also, I think some of the hurricanes in the game are quite weak. Some of these hurricanes were strong enough to break the backs of some vessels.

[Corsair]

A hurricane is around 100 knots winds. The most we get in SH3 is 30 knots, and anybody who has lived in these regions will tell you that you get a lot more than 30 knots storms.
So in fact the weather in SH3 is tuned down. Only problem is to have heavy fog with high speed winds, but this is solved by using SH3 Weather as stated above.
The problem of weather change comes also from the SH3 function that resets the "weather change counter" to zero every time you make a save.

[stabiz]

I have always wanted calm sea AND fog, that would be so creepy and nice.

[Morts]

hmm
early morning with a nice red sun rise and medium fog with calm seas...oh god id like that

well if a better fog could be made

[johan_d]

fog.. fog.. fog.. verdamte nebel.. niemals, niemals gesehn..

I never had any fog.... always great visibility.. I want some fog!

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by stabiz

I have always wanted calm sea AND fog, that would be so creepy and nice.

I had this once. Really close to the west side of England. A Liberty came out of the fog on calm seas. I was tracking it with sonar only as I could only see it at about 800m and just a ghostly shape at that. Anyway she was 90 degrees to me going slow and down she goes.

[Captain Nemo]

Originally Posted by Corsair

The problem of weather change comes also from the SH3 function that resets the "weather change counter" to zero every time you make a save.

Does the weather counter speed up with TC?

Nemo

[Corsair]

Originally Posted by Captain Nemo

Does the weather counter speed up with TC?

Nemo

Nope, the weather checks are done according to the game time from what I understand. And weather check doesn't mean weather change, there is a probability that after check weather stays the same.
Anyway I am a SH3 Weather user and I like it. Haven't tried the last version yet, just installed it. (Available in the mods workshop forum)