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Medium Priority Reduce Monthly Storm Chance

ANSEL said:
Bad luck I guess, every time I lured a enemy ship to the fort, a storm was raising.
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Oh, what month are you in? Storms and rain are more common during the Caribbean rain reason.
 
June does get double the amount compared to, say, April.
But it goes up quite a bit more still:
Code: 
// Screwface : Chance to have weather conditions degrade is according to the month and seasons in Caribbean
   int month = GetDataMonth();
   int rainrisk = 100;

   switch(month)
   {
     case 1:  rainrisk = 30; break;
     case 2:  rainrisk = 30; break;
     case 3:  rainrisk = 30; break;
     case 4:  rainrisk = 30; break;
     case 5:  rainrisk = 40; break; // beginning of the wet season
     case 6:  rainrisk = 60; break;
     case 7:  rainrisk = 70; break;
     case 8:  rainrisk = 90; break;
     case 9:  rainrisk =100; break; // twister maximal risk
     case 10: rainrisk =100; break; // twister maximal risk
     case 11: rainrisk = 80; break;
     case 12: rainrisk = 30; break; // dry season
   }
// Screwface : end
Should we start about thinking of reducing this a bit across the board?
 
case 1: rainrisk = 30; break;
case 2: rainrisk = 30; break;
case 3: rainrisk = 30; break;
case 4: rainrisk = 30; break;
case 5: rainrisk = 35; break; // beginning of the wet season
case 6: rainrisk = 55; break;
case 7: rainrisk = 65; break;
case 8: rainrisk = 85; break;
case 9: rainrisk =100; break; // twister maximal risk
case 10: rainrisk =95; break; // twister maximal risk
case 11: rainrisk = 75; break;
case 12: rainrisk = 25; break; // dry season
Something like this perhaps?
 
Ya, sailing in September can be a real bear. Last year I got caught in 4 storms in a row when approaching Grenada. Ships were badly damaged but did manage to limp into port. This year sailing into Nevis it was just one storm but it just never seemed to end. Again the ships were heavily damaged. Both times the storms came out of clear skies with no warning.
 
So some balancing required. I know the Caribbean can be stormy at times, but not ALL the time. :wp

I'll use @ANSEL's suggestion and if after that you guys think it should be further reduced, we can do that too.
Just a matter of finding values that seem reasonable.
 
Hate to bring up an old thread, but...

Is there any change on the surprise storms front? I'm on Apprentice and so far in my campaign probably 8 out of 10 times when I go to sail mode from worldmap, there's a surprise storm even though nothing ever appears on the worldmap to indicate it...even the loading screen is the normal 'Sea' one. It's great having it every now and then to make it realistic, but it's a bit game-breaking in this amount :eek: Is there a way to disable this?

Sorry for the potentially noobish question...
 
@Robert Nutter: I moved your post here instead because it is very much related.
We reduced the Storm chance in Beta 4. See the posts above for more details.
But I think you're still on Beta 3.4, so you may want to make the tweak described above yourself as it isn't in your game files.
 
By the way, do storms even trigger from directsail? I'm yet to see one. Strong winds, yes. Rains, yes. Storms, no.
Of course, it's December - January in my games, not a stormy season. Still, I get storms on the worldmap.
 
jsv said:
By the way, do storms even trigger from directsail? I'm yet to see one. Strong winds, yes. Rains, yes. Storms, no.
Of course, it's December - January in my games, not a stormy season. Still, I get storms on the worldmap.
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Absolutely. They're significantly less common though, and you need to keep in mind that directsail's weather is progressive: a storm is far more likely to happen if it's already rainy and windy, for example. I think they're less common in directsail because so many more conditions need to be met for them to happen; they can't just appear out of thin air.

Or at least, that's how it's supposed to work. Hylie's post says otherwise.
 
It was already rainy and windy before the storm started. What stands out is that it was one right after the other with no break between then so I could escape to the world map. It was just a storm, a notastorm, a storm, etc.
 
morgan terror said:
Absolutely. They're significantly less common though, and you need to keep in mind that directsail's weather is progressive: a storm is far more likely to happen if it's already rainy and windy, for example. I think they're less common in directsail because so many more conditions need to be met for them to happen; they can't just appear out of thin air.
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Yes, I remember them working that way. I meant, in beta 4. I should've been more clear about. Well, Hylie does play beta4, so I guess I just was lucky to avoid storms so far. :)
 
Hylie Pistof said:
It was already rainy and windy before the storm started. What stands out is that it was one right after the other with no break between then so I could escape to the world map. It was just a storm, a notastorm, a storm, etc.
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Yeah, i've seen that too. I think it's because when you get out of a storm, you're one step away from getting back into it, so the only way to get completely out of that cycle is to land somewhere and rest a few days. I'm not sure if the code works exactly like this, but i reckon the weather conditions have a quality from 1 to 10, and each hourly change comes with a chance of that value going 1 point up or down. So if a storm is 1, getting to 2 would mean getting out of the storm, but there's a 50/50 chance to get right back into it on the next hour. Maybe more. It's quite likely that the rainy season would make for more of a 80/20 chance, or somesuch.
 
morgan terror said:
Yeah, i've seen that too. I think it's because when you get out of a storm, you're one step away from getting back into it, so the only way to get completely out of that cycle is to land somewhere and rest a few days. I'm not sure if the code works exactly like this, but i reckon the weather conditions have a quality from 1 to 10, and each hourly change comes with a chance of that value going 1 point up or down. So if a storm is 1, getting to 2 would mean getting out of the storm, but there's a 50/50 chance to get right back into it on the next hour. Maybe more. It's quite likely that the rainy season would make for more of a 80/20 chance, or somesuch.
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While the technicalities may be a bit different, I think that is a pretty accurate description of how it works.
 
from some sailing on the worldmap I can say I do notice storms but They aren't as plenty as before.
I don't know how it behaves during opensea mod behavior.
 
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