Fed up with weather !

[svenks]

that the bad weather stays the same untill you reach ur port and exit the patrol

It is the infamous "no weather change for a long time after reload" bug, combined with the way we use this game.
Consider: You leave port in good wx. You sail to your patrol area or whereever using TC. Lots of virtual time passes, little real time and you don't save.
You reach your destination, and the wx may have turned bad now. But here you spend a lot of your time without TC, listening for and sinking targets - and a lot of real time passes and you have to Save and Exit for real life 'duties'. And when you reload, wx will be 'stuck' for what seems a long time!
Finally you run out of torps (or patience) and head for home, using TC. Now, the wx has many virtual days to change, and it will probably do so... And so you enter port at 5m/s and clear skies.
A workaround is of course to save and reload when the wx is OK. If you keep doing that, you'll always have clear skies - but it would be cheating (in my book, anyway )

BRGDS
Sven

[DrPepperMan]

Sailor Steve: Where's this weather generator mod on the other page ( mods page ) I did not see that mod there?

[Saintaw]

Originally Posted by DrPepperMan

Sailor Steve: Where's this weather generator mod on the other page ( mods page ) I did not see that mod there?

Find it here

I'm not sure the weather mod is working. It was working for me before with NYGM TW 1.03, but now with NYGM TW 2.01 in the last two patrols (2 Sep 39 to 17 Sep 39 and 27 Sep 39 to probably 10 Oct 39) I have had 90% of my days being gale force winds. Clear as a bell most of the time, but howling winds and seas to make even Noah a little on the queasy side.

I don't buy the TC argument. Even when sailing under TC about a day out of port the weather went from 6 m/s to 15 m/s. It stays that way until about a day out of port on the way back. Now I know fall in the North Sea isn't placid and serene, but I doubt that two hurricanes in a row would be coming through.

To my mind, 15 m/s winds (actually gale force) should be rather rare, and when they do happen should only be for a few days or so, and even then not on every single patrol, for weeks on end it seems.

I play with fatigue on all the time no matter the TC, so it makes it real annoying to have to bring down my watch crew every 4 hours and see them stagger limply down the ladder, or to stay submerged for 20 hours out of 24.

[Grey Legion]

Hmmmm...never really had a problem with the bad weather, thought that was just the way it is. I always think of das boot when the storm really hits and have a laugh.

I guess having it random is good but a duration cap should be in place so we can still enjoy a few "game" aspects.

[BenG]

If you were to just sit still in your U-boat for a long TC period (e.g. 7 days) would the storm "pass by"?

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by BenG

If you were to just sit still in your U-boat for a long TC period (e.g. 7 days) would the storm "pass by"?

As long as you dont save & load the game, yes.

@Fab: 15m/s winds at sea arent so rare. I see them all the time in weather reports.