Bad weather

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For reference, I think that’s the thread from the last time it occurred: Weather System Acting Up?

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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…

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@Damagekai @anon34275467 @HOST @majorvex
These are the pictures I took in May 2021 on Raxxa when the bad weather bug showed up again.

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My problem with the weather is that I really like the rain sometimes, so it sucks when my outdoor rain is suddenly indoor dust.

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server maintenance got announced in-game. and currently the game is not playable

hopefully it is regarding the weather issue

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I’ve restarted all the worlds which I think should fix the weather issue since it did last time.

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thank you kindly :slight_smile:
@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

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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?

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Thank you Blake.

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Well they could set them to automatically restart monthly @anon34275467

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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?!

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Rhetorical question I suppose.

@Goblinounours

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Yeah.
But when we’ve been saying for a while “oh the game is in ‘maintenance mode’”, and the truth is that the devs are no-longer really fixing issues like this, just applying temporary band-aids… it’s painful to watch.

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Even if the game wasn’t in maintenance mode, it would probably still be cheaper to have a junior employee restart the servers every three months than to track down and debug the root cause, then roll out a fix.

Game companies (and software companies more generally) usually make decisions based on simple economics rather than code quality.

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@majorvex. Maybe we can close this before it turns into another “just complain about the Devs because we don’t like what they do” thread.

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Thank you @blake :+1:

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Hands Blake-chan a :cookie: :heart: :heart: :heart: :cookie:!!!

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@blake
Thanks Balacké!

Every time I hear the name Blake I think of this. :point_up_2:

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