14.1 WEATHER

Will weather affect the game in any manner aside from cutting down view distance?

>>>I'd like to see the weather have a good effect. Sliding on the ice, slowing down travel due to snow, etc. The problem is that the worlds out there now seem to be too static. You can't have snowfall in a land not previously set up for it. When it rains (which always seems to be too much) the water never pools up, never causes flooding, etc. I'd also like to see some of the cool weather effects - tornadoes, blizzards, arc lightning way up in the sky that doesn't do anything but is cool, low lying ground fog that only hides the ground, etc.

Will the players ever be able to affect the weather?

>>>That would be really nifty. Rather than allowing individuals to spend an expensive reagent, I think it would take a group of powerful individuals and several different types of (craftsman made!) reagents.