Left: RTG Guild Hall (seems normal) Right: River Towns (can’t see other worlds in sky at all)
This is not a “just restart the servers” issue. It looks more like the actual weather pattern of dust storm has a behavioral issue in regards to how long it can last. Restarting the servers would merely delay the issue.
Just a reminder. If you put on a clear weather totem. And go to sanctum. Remove the totem from your hand. And go back to your world you’ll have permanent clear weather until you use a clear weather totem again. Even if you die it stays. Everything is always sunshine for me now.
Agreed, it is a workaround and I do have totems and grapples etc with the clear weather quirk but documenting that all is not well with the Boundless weather system at this time. I could imagine some unfortunate newcomers logging in and wandering around and being totally bemused by it all if this were to be their first taste of Boundless
Yeah it definitely shouldn’t be happening. And this has happened before. But it is a great work around. I used it during the Oortmas event as it snow excessively.
Between this, the dust storms and how snow is just a pain in the @$$ with 0 benefit to anyone, I just wish James could simply disable all the ‘annoying’ weather effects and just keep the mild ones like light rain, rose petals, fire-flies, etc.
If whatever math determines the weather is based on server up-time, or is a running simulation, etc, it’s quite possible for the issue to live in some variable that lives in memory on the server, and for it to be resolved by a server restart without determining the actual cause of the issue.
Considering that the reproduction steps are “let the server run for 3 months without a restart”, it could be rather difficult to debug on a dev machine. They should be able to work on it on the prod server, but this issue came up after they stopped actually working on the game so
It looks like the last restart was probably Dec 17, 2021.
3ish months sounds about right for how long it is between this happening relative to known server restarts.
Hopefully @james can address this relatively quickly. I know last time it took quite a while to resolve. I don’t know if it’s possible with their server setup, but it is possible to automate server restarts in most cases.
Wow this thread got out of hand a little lol… on a serious note I will say the weather on the server is screwy. I just carry a weather totem around until the servers are restarted.
I carry a clear weather totem around with me 24/7 anyways it just makes things easier.
I don’t really mind the weather… but when I am trying to make some videos or take screenshots I prefer it nice and clear…
thank you kindly @blake I did a quick check on planets that had the continuous bad weather and it seems that the worlds restart has fixed it.i do hopefully its something that will be looked into
So you’re fine with doing that every 3 months or so, to temporarily fix the issue, until it crops up again? And each time, players are just gonna have to send a similar message to remind you to restart the servers, as they are forced to enjoy half-a-week of a lot of worlds being almost unplayable because of fog and dust-storms, until you guys come down here to react?
Honestly wish they could simply disable the whole weather-simulation thing going on and simply something like “ok this biome is a swamp? 50% chance of clear sky weather, 20% rain, etc etc” and be more in control of the entire thing.
I mean, it sounds stupid to say “yeah, we have to restart the servers because the weather simulation goes crazy and starts to cover the universe in sand storms if we let it run for more than a few months”.
Ha ha, or worse. “After a while, the weather simulation becomes sentient, realizes how meaningless its existence is and tries to push players away so that Square Enix finally decides to shut down the servers.”
Why can’t one of them look at why this happens and fix the root issue?!