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[Farce]

There's the Silent Hunter games.  Simulation game, where you're a German U-boat captain.

I've only experience with 3, and even that was an LP, but...

High visibility in clear weather, garbage visibility in fog, rain, and storm.  Rough seas also prevent the use of your deck gun (your big, anti-ship cannon) - they may also wreck your torpedo's trajectory, if they like fly out of a trough in the waves or whatever.  I think rain'll also mask the sound of your engines?

Did I mention it's a simulation game?  It's pretty tough, you'll need to know WWII-era flags to find the proper reference manual (also a bit of German, I think, as the manuals have the titles in German), then you'll have to sort out what make the ship is.  Then, you'll need to do a bunch of geometry and trig to figure out the ship's speed and distance and crap, and then plot the trajectory for your torpedoes to hit it where it will be.

[Askot Bokbondeler]

that game is damn ugly, and expensive as hell, also

i wont take that back, the game is still ugly and it's still too damn expensive. it's kinda fun, too, tough, i've bought the 3 dollar version and will probably play it for a few weeks

[ryacko]

The game developer's reasoning for pricing the lifetime version for $55:

A lifetime registration is a long term investment and truly a lifetime registration: every single version update or a new version of the game are playable to you as a full and complete registered versions. And if you are wondering for how long the game has existed now, the answer is: over a decade.

So basically if I bought a current version registration once a year every year, for 18 years, it'd only cost $54.

[Muz]

Your not missing out on much. The game just seems too little when compared to DF. Unreal world is about 10% of what DF is. And you have to wait until winter is over with no speed up. How long is that? 1, maybe 2 hours?

I wouldn't put it that way. It's 10% of DF maybe, but that's a lot more than 80% of games I've played. First thing I bought with Paypal and well worth it.

On topic... just about every soccer game, whether management or exhibition, has weather conditions in it. And weather factors in very heavily on both attendance and performances. My players tend to do better with rain because I don't really rely on technical dribbling anyway

[Askot Bokbondeler]

actually, it's more like 200% of adventurer mode, 3% of fortress mode, and 46,91% numbers i pulled out of my ass with a margin of error above 100%.

i'm curious, wich version you bought, tough?

[Paul]

I've never had crash issues with URW, and I've played it on and off for quite a few years. The worst I've had was the occasional bug that caused it to freeze on zooming in, but as far as I know those have long since been ironed out. You must have some kind of issue with it. I've heard people having problems with Windows Vista and 7 where you have to install it in your user folder or run it as an admin to give it access to the files or something along those lines, but I've never had a problem with it on Windows 98, ME, 2000, or XP. I think I played it on Windows 95 too, haha.

It has undergone some pretty drastic changes since I first played it. It went from a game where you had multi-level caves with monsters and gold coins to a fairly realistic survival simulation based in a fictionalized Finland where all the trading is done on a barter system and you hunt and track animals for food to eat and skins to make clothing or trade with. And simulated weather with associated sickness, frostbite, etc. I bought a lifetime version years ago before he offered the $3 single version registration. All the time I've played it I've definitely gotten my moneys worth though - and I'll probably wind up going back to it in a few years and playing it more.

It's not for everyone, but it has a certain charm to it that keeps pulling me back in. I've yet to find another game quite like it.

Anyway, this thread is about games with weather conditions, so I'll stop derailing it

[Duelmaster409]

The Harvest Moon series?

[Micro102]

Harvest moon was a nice game. Also Sim Ant, which made the game harder when it rained. Too bad I can't get it to work though

[Paul]

I loved SimAnt hah. I still have my old CD for that game sitting in my games rack. The weather in that one is pretty simplified. You just have occasional rains that wash away pheromone trails (which can make your ants get lost). I don't think it had any other effects...

Fun game though. The only thing that bothers me is your colonies grow faster when you aren't there in the "Full game." Even if you do nothing but play as the queen sitting there laying eggs and watching things happen your colony won't grow near as fast as the other colonies you aren't playing currently. This makes it so that you never want to play as a new colony, since you are better off just playing an established colony and letting your new ones grow on their own way faster. You end up just popping from colony to colony, moving into a soldier ant body, and leading an attack on the red ants. Then you wipe out that nest and move on to the next, making sure to go back in and finish off all the new red colonies before they grow big again as you go.