Tooo Much Rain

Even if the discussion has been carried away by disparate comments, I noted the same and asked for improvement suggestions here.

On Serenity Server, our tech wiz SilverSatin waved his magic wand and now rain stays away most of the time. It's a sight to see, the sky darkens... clouds roll in... BAM! clear day once again! "rain rain go away"

that is a good idea. And it is possible to capture the next occuring weather event via the api and have that trigger a plugin to set weather to default. Throw a randomizer in the mix and you have a tool to greatly increase the chance of clear skies.

My idea about a weather plug-in is somewhat more complex.

The game has an internal calendar, it is then possible to get the current month and day => season. A plug-in could then set a prevalence of clear sky with very occasional storms during summer, more rain and some fog during autumn, more extreme conditions during winter (very bad weather alternated with very clear days), much rain during spring.

A "master volume" setting would tune the whole from a strong prevalence of default weather to the full variability.

In principle, it would be possible to establish a daily cycle too, but unfortunately wind is not supported separately (the wind cycle tends to be daily). Also, it would be possible to define several weather patterns (a 4-season pattern as in temperate latitudes, a 2-season (dry and wet) pattern as in equatorial latitudes) but probably, as the weather is global for the whole world, it would make little sense.

I agree. I love it that we HAVE weather, but it does seem to rain at least everyday in game days. Sometimes more. Maybe randomized to just 1/3 of days or less? Also fog is pretty darn thick at times, comically so, but I believe this is noted and will be fixed.

A plug-in along the lines I described above is now available here.

The whole thing is rather experimental: feedbacks are very welcome!