148628-seasonal-cities

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I'm a big fan of how the cities look with the snow all over the place.  Why not keep it until winter actually ends (while getting rid of the holiday stuff when the time comes)?  For that matter, why not apply seasons to the capital cities?  It's something I've never seen any other game do, and there's no way it would be that hard to implement (just make 4 different versions and you're done).  
 
Do it.
			
				
	Edited January 1, 2016 by Lawlta Saareal	
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			I'm all for this, so long as we don't keep the winterfest jingles.	
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Signed. It would be weird to see Illium go from having snow piles on the ground to suddenly summer again when the clock strikes midnight.
 
Although, once you give players the fixed four seasons, they will want transitional phases, ie: leaves on trees during early fall -- mid fall -- late fall would be vastly different... and besides, the people from southern hemisphere (as few of them as it may be) might feel slighted haha.	
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			I love this idea!	
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			With Winterfest, at least, they could simply start it the moment Shade's Eve ends. American retailers have done worse with the corresponding real-world holidays, why wouldn't Protostar? :)	
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			Do it.	
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			The cognitive dissonance logging into Thayd this morning was staggering.  This coming from somebody that's dead tired of having to deal with snow (as in shoveling or driving in).  Either way, leaving it around longer would be neat.	
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			should make zones seasonal too. priority #1.	
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Three things:
Remember that the snow in Illium and Thayd wasn't naturally occurring: it was Protostar's doing with those fancy snow-creating things that were floating all over the place. 
Plus, since Nexus is an artificial planet, it wouldn't be too hard of a handwave to say that the planet simply doesn't have seasons.
Lastly, actual environmental design takes a frigging long time. Making sure nothing is clipping too badly with other things, that they aren't floating, that it looks good. It's no simple task. Making 3 additional versions of the city would be a pretty large undertaking for no immediate or obvious benefit to the game except 'it's cool'.
 
Would it be cool? It would be! But I'm fairly sure it'd be so low on the new feature list it would never make it.	
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Three things:
Remember that the snow in Illium and Thayd wasn't naturally occurring: it was Protostar's doing with those fancy snow-creating things that were floating all over the place. 
Plus, since Nexus is an artificial planet, it wouldn't be too hard of a handwave to say that the planet simply doesn't have seasons.
Lastly, actual environmental design takes a frigging long time. Making sure nothing is clipping too badly with other things, that they aren't floating, that it looks good. It's no simple task. Making 3 additional versions of the city would be a pretty large undertaking for no immediate or obvious benefit to the game except 'it's cool'.
 
Would it be cool? It would be! But I'm fairly sure it'd be so low on the new feature list it would never make it.
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			I miss all that snow.  Carbin plz.	
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			I'd be down for some seasons! I might even look to Protostar to provide me with items appropriate for the given season.	
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			I'll take a hard pass and instead ask that effort be directed to the creation of new content.	
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Redmoon's been created for over a year now, I'm assuming it is just bug fixes at this point.
 
Also, art team and design team aren't the same.  The argument's the same as when I pointed out the bugged exile warrior/engineer pvp armor.  People point out they need to fix pvp, as if they are both fixes of the same degree (one being a change to an entire system, the other being changing a reference for a model).  Don't derail this thread with an unrelated comment that is an idea and sentiment posted in more appropriate places all over the forums.	
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I love changing weather in games, it just adds something. So, I'm all for seasonal looks to various cities out there!
 
During Shade's Eve, I wondered why Sylvan Glade or Thermok Hold didn't get any love long with Thayd. Sure, one could argue that the main city only had the resources and all that, or those areas are more culture specific, but that doesn't fully fly in my mind. Maybe this year, we could get a little more decoration there. People will see it and go "Whoa, what's all this stuff?!"	
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