Boy, I can't wait for weather to be implemented...

[DylPickle]

I'll be honest. I'm busy and haven't read much past the topic post, but just to stir up discussion....

Why have disadvantages? Make the advantages BE the disadvantages.

Maybe all a blizzard should do is make 40% of the outside actions be unseen by unaffected characters?
Maybe rain should increase farming to increase a farmer's potential to make profit?
Wind can speed up boats,
and so on and so on.

But do they really have to have a serious downside that will turn people away from the game?
We have diseases that torment people enough.
Why not add something that will randomly aid characters, instead of randomly harming them?

[Zanthos]

yeah, i was thinking that maybe weather would do like 80% good and 20%bad, and never anything bad enough to get someone angry enough to quit, maybe something like wind blowing a ship off course (but now that we have sails, maybe one of them could be used to counteract crosswinds?)