Now that Luke mentioned the mod kit once again, I thought of one mod I'd love: one that makes it rain less often. I love the weather effects (and don't want to turn them off), including the rain but mostly the snow. And the change of weather is really cool.
But gosh, does it rain often and often in Banished.
I hate it when it rains when I want to plan--on my computer it is super dark when it is raining.
Planning is hard indeed, and screenshots look dull with the heavy rain.
I agree...
I've turned off my weather effects because of the hit (...other synonyms here?) to visibility.
I did that too, finally. Even though I liked the sound effects for the thunderstorms.
You can turn off the weather effects??? Man, you learn something everyday. Does that mean that there's no snow?
No rain and no snow ... 'nothing but blue skies from now on'. The wind sound is still there. I haven't had a tornado since I turned the weather effects off, but I'd guess that would still show up -- it would be weird to have buildings and people being destroyed/killed for no apparent reason. :o
Snow magically appears on the terrain. Nothing falls from the sky, though, and the light doesn't dim.
Yeah! I turned off the weather effects and now I can see! Snow on the ground but not in the sky.
less raid YES but also ... less smoke from houses , it s ugly as hell
I love the rain. I'd love it if it were possible to have it going year-round. I know it's a detriment to visibility, but... the sound. Goodness, the sound. Beautiful.
Then again... it would be hard to see if it were on all the time. So essentially, I don't mind at all when it comes, but I am happy when it's not there too.
Likewise, snow is difficult in spotting the difference between wooden houses and stone houses. I don't mind though. It's beautiful also.
in caesar IV we had rains, but also some lightnings hitting the ground... and the sound was awesome too ^^
but ya, i still like rain, but god! please less often !
also, i know i play with disaster off... what you think about lightnings hitting the ground and get forest fire ?? wouldnt be great ? haha
@Demonocracy -- deposed slum lord
and eternal optimist, great combination. ;)
@Demonocracy, you love rain? You're not from Vancouver or Seattle, are you? One of the hard parts for this California boy now living 30 years in Southern Ontario is not the cold Winters. It's the eternal gray of November. I get quite testy when it's been two weeks since anyone saw the Sun. Give me -25 C and Sun any day. This year I had to go to a meeting in Saskatoon (where there are plug-ins in parking lots for your block heater) in February and I thought, "Well, -30 or 40, but at least the Sun will be shining." Wouldn't you know it, they had a warm spell (-15 or so) and it was cloudy.
I like Sun in Banished, too. And I've not noticed less smoke from chimneys since I turned off weather effects.
@rkelly17 -- I don't want to get into a pi##ing contest with you, but you should try the Pacific Northwest sometime, if you want to be depressed by persistent, no-end-in-sight, you're-doomed drizzle. I include the NW US and Canadian BC.
@rkelly17 I do, in fact, live in Portland, Oregon. : )
@salamander I know what you mean about endless gray. It's my understanding that while Seattle gets more rain, Portland has fewer sunny days. I've also spent a number of years living on the Oregon/California border coast where they have only one season pretty much all year round. (And it's the gray season!)
@Demonocracy -- I lived in Corvallis for ~6 years. If you're in Portland, I'm incredibly jealous. When I retire, my wife's already said we're moving back to the PNW -- no arguments.
@salamander I've been through Corvallis and lived in Eugene for a number of years. I prefer Portland to both though. Well, minus the traffic. For our population, our traffic is just awful.
Okay, heads might explode, but I LOVE the cool, rainy, drizzly, cloudy/mixed/variable days of old Seattle. I mean old, because with climate change, we are getting what used to be late July/August weather in May already. Spring is my favorite time and this year summer has been going for a month and its just early June. That means endless days of mowers, blowers, weed wackers, tree grinders, industrial noise as people love to disturb the air with their stupid tools as they brutalize their environment. I live carless in a dense inner city neighborhood, not too many lawns or shrubbery so there isn't much to maintain to begin with, yet some of my neighbors seem to just crave their almost daily multi-hour sessions of blowing around dust and mowing the scraggly grass in the median strips that is already brown from heat and lack of rain. I'd rather enjoy the mandatory open windows for birdsong and breezes, but no, summer to me is just heat and noise. I can't wait for rainy fall weather already lol!
And I say that as someone who spent many years living in deserts and the tropics. I'd never have guessed how adapted I've become to cool and grey and drizzle, I just love it. I am outside more here than I ever was in 'perfect' sunny southern CA. (Okay, that's because there are so many places to be outside here, where CA is just about endless hours in cars and finding parking at stripmalls, ugh...)
Rant over. I LOVE the sounds in Banished. Since my wine version won't play the music, all I get are the ambient noises, somehow I never get tired of them. The rain does mean I don't plan anything during those times because I can't see much, but that is when I love to follow people close up as they wander my forested villages, its just so beautiful.
I can't get over how gorgeous the game really is down on the ground, I almost resent having to resurface my meandering to zoom out again to maintain vigilance so nobody starves, things get built, newlyweds move out, all the stuff that takes attention. I'd rather be a gatherer wandering around with baskets of mushrooms and onions lol;)
But back to mods: I'd really like to see a tropical version of Banished, with monsoons and dry seasons, the appropriate food crops and domestic beasts, different trees to harvest and goodies to hunt and gather. It can only imagine how beautiful it would be if done to the same standard. I don't know anything about who/how the graphics were done, but I hope they would do the job, or point to the third party software used to create other climatic versions and additions.
Tropical sounds interesting, but it couldn't be Amazonia. The piranhas would eat the chickens when they walk across the river bottom. ;D
You mean the chickens that trample herders, cannot beat the piranhas?
Maybe that explains it: Revenge of the Undead Chickens.
New SciFi Movie -- MegaChicken. Guaranteed to knock MegaPiranha out of first place.