Clearing up the weather

[Kriegsspieler]

I have been a fan of Stony Road ever since I discovered it, mostly for the careful preparation it requires, as Muadib remarked in another thread. But one thing that might make it play a little better might be to modify the formulas for determing what happens in the weather. With all the other difficulties one faces in, say conquering Belgium or France, the last thing you need is to sit around for a week or so in prime fighting season in May or June, waiting for the rain to stop so you can attack those francophone hordes with an efficiency of greater than 10%! Moreover, speaking as someone who has often livead and traveled in weestern Europe, I can say that week-long periods of steady rain during those months are pretty uncommon.
So my question is this -- is there any way to tweak the weather to make the climate between especially May and September a little less rainy?

 

[gzav]

im not sure the weather can be changed, i think its hardcoded.

 

[Kriegsspieler]

Hmm, that's bad news, if true.
Is the weather noticeably worse in Sweden during the summer? Maybe that explains why there's so much rain!

 

[unmerged(16983)]

I really hate the entire weather system in this game. It's just ridiculous. Every time I declare war on a country, every province in it starts raining or storming, but of course it never rains when I'm defending. Rain can last for months on end in a single province, delaying an offensive, and screwing up your game completely and very unrealistically. And the entire concept of having the "most common" weather for each week just makes no sense. Weather should either be integrated into the terrain modifier for each province, based on how rainy it normally is there, and based on what month it is, or it should be day by day, and actually reflect the chance of it raining in that area. The way that it works right now is nothing but frustrating and annoying. Weather has never in real life caused an offensive to be delayed for months. A few days, maybe, but never months.

 

[Kriegsspieler]

Yes, I have to agree, but it never seemed to matter terribly until I started playing the Stony Road mods almost exclusively. In basic HOI, who cares if the weather is bad? You're still going to wipe everyone out.
It's odd that weather is so badly calculated in HOI, because weather used to be one of the most easily simulated features of practically every earlier-generation strategic or grand-tactical game that I played in earlier years.

 

[Willard]

Pause, save, reload.

It works everytime...