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Land of Eternal Rain
« on: February 05, 2008, 06:15:00 am »
This may be more of a feature than a bug, but I'll report it anyway.

I have a fort spanning a (tropical?) freshwater lake and a tropical freshwater swamp.  The temperature is either warm I think, as the western edge of the lake freezes for about a month in winter, which I don't think happens in hot weather.

Anyway, it began raining when I started my fort.  I'm in the mid-summer of year 2 and it hasn't stopped (I searched my announcements carefully).

Welcome to Nerzotir, land of eternal rain.

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Re: Land of Eternal Rain
« Reply #1 on: February 05, 2008, 08:30:00 am »
Did you fiddle with the weather on/off settings in the ini while it was raining? I had this happen back in the 2d version when I did that.
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Re: Land of Eternal Rain
« Reply #2 on: February 05, 2008, 09:39:00 am »
The west side of the map might be a colder biome, which does freeze for a short time.
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Re: Land of Eternal Rain
« Reply #3 on: February 05, 2008, 12:30:00 pm »
It could be a feature. You might have embarked to a rainforest of some sort.
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Re: Land of Eternal Rain
« Reply #4 on: February 05, 2008, 01:25:00 pm »
Can I have that seed? I am a precipriofile.
Makes me think of Kurt Vanngut's Venus.
Or Seattle...
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Which is close to Bay12 games headquarters...
Hmm....
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Re: Land of Eternal Rain
« Reply #5 on: February 05, 2008, 01:39:00 pm »
There are actually places on Earth where it rains almost constantly. One in Bangladesh and the other is in South America near some waterfall.
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Re: Land of Eternal Rain
« Reply #6 on: February 05, 2008, 01:43:00 pm »
quote:
Originally posted by Grue:
<STRONG>There are actually places on Earth where it rains almost constantly. One in Bangladesh and the other is in South America near some waterfall.</STRONG>

The part about the waterfall seems pretty natural :P

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Re: Land of Eternal Rain
« Reply #7 on: February 05, 2008, 05:01:00 pm »
Afaik it's Kerepakupai, where water was enough time to evaporate during the 3000ft+ drop and then condensates in a relatively cold air layer, a couple hundred ft above the ground, causing near constant rain above the lake at the bottom.
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Re: Land of Eternal Rain
« Reply #8 on: February 05, 2008, 05:02:00 pm »
PTTG:  The seed is useless as of today.  Even if you use 33g, you might not get the same result.  I have heavily modded raws, you see.

Also, fun fact:  Constant rain means more shrubs and trees than you can shake a stick at.  I think there was an average of 3 trees per 5x5 square or so.  Pretty heavily forested.  And with the rate at which saplings were sprouting, it'd probably get even denser over time.

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