Weather patterns

[Captain Nemo]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

2. Save the game and reboot the game...upon reloading the game engine will roll an imaginary dice to determine the weather conditions in your area.

Strange I thought the opposite was true, i.e. save game and reload during a storm or any other weather conditions for that matter and the timing of the roll of the imaginary weather dice is reset, so in effect the weather conditions you saved under remain with you longer.

Nemo

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Captain Nemo

Strange I thought the opposite was true, i.e. save game and reload during a storm or any other weather conditions for that matter and the timing of the roll of the imaginary weather dice is reset, so in effect the weather conditions you saved under remain with you longer.

Nemo

Certainly not my understanding or personal experiences whilst working on the weather patterns for GWX3.0...hmm

[Captain Nemo]

Stiebler (NYGM) produced a document called "Silent Hunter Weather Report". In it, it says "Saving and reloading a game has been widely reported by different players to reset the weather change counter to zero, causing further delays in weather changes". This has always been my experience in GWX, obviously others have different experiences. This report was added to and corrected by the developers of SH3 at Ubisoft and made interesting reading at the time.

Nemo

[Capt. Morgan]

After patroling through a solid 21 day storm , I came here and read through 8 or 9 of the many SHIII-storm threads and I also found something similar to this.

Of course I can't find that post now (admittedly, I'm not as motivated), but IIRC, it said that there is a bug in the SHIII weather generator. It's supposed to change the weather in no more than 3 days, but if you save and reload, the timer gets reset to zero, hence seemingly endless storms.

Since that time I'll just ride through storms w/o saving until they change. I've never had a storm last longer that 3-4 days which is fine by me - it's the North Atlantic after all.

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Certainly not my understanding or personal experiences whilst working on the weather patterns for GWX3.0...hmm ...

Save the game and reboot ...upon reloading the game engine will roll an imaginary dice to determine the weather conditions in your area.

While I play GWX 3.0 (with another 15 mods piled on top of it), I have no idea how it was designed, so I'm strongly inclined to take your word on this. I'm going to have to try it out (something I've deliberately avoided until now). Software eh? How it really works, and how it's supposed to work!