What's with the rain on this server?

[Wikar]

So it seems like every zone constantly rains, or starts to rain more often then normal. I don't remember this aspect of the game in live, at least not that frequent.

Even places likes Field of Bone where it's a desert, rain more often then no rain. Maybe I am being a bit delusional here but has anyone else noticed this?

P.S. If anyone knows how to remove the sound of rain/thunder I will be content in this matter, thanks! ;)

[nilbog]

Eqemulator issue in general. It is on a wish list.

Across the board, I think it should rain something like 35-40% less often. Then, less often than that depending if the zone is a desert.

Will be fixed eventually.

[SpangoNuts]

I found it even raining in Akanon a few days back

[myriverse]

Climate change. Blame those tinkerin' gnomes. They ruined their lands and are trying to ruin everyone else's.

[LiQuid]

I HATE the sound of:
rain
thunder
that STUPID thunderclap when approaching the lava lake in Lavastorm.
Wisps and wisp pets in Sky...

All that stuff is like a hojillion times louder than the rest of the game, even on 5% volume and make playing with headphones on a pain in the butt...

Oh wait, we're just talking on rain. Yes. It rains to much. And when it does rain it seems to rain way too long... If I'm camping something outdoors and it starts to rain I prepare to hate my life for the next few hours at least.

Stupid rain.

[Wikar]

Yeah especially when im on teamspeak, I have to turn off the sound of the game when the thunder goes wonkers, it just floods everything else.

[Vermicelli]

Sick of constant thunder? Here's how to change it.

http://www.project1999.org/forums/showthread.php?t=12623&highlight=change+thunder

[myriverse]

I love the sound, but really hate the visual effects.

[harnold]

its a pretty easy fix in the eqemulator code, i dont know if they have altered the weather code on p99 otherwise id post a fix

[harnold]

also dont forget its supposed to rain more often in the karanas, with accompanied messages that say something like "The storm gets harder (something like that, not sure what the exact messages were)" along with increasing/decreasing rain intensity

[seped]

And when it does rain it seems to rain way too long... If I'm camping something outdoors and it starts to rain I prepare to hate my life for the next few hours at least.

Stupid rain.

Not too surprising, here's your culprit


if(zone->zone_weather != zone->weather_type)
weatherTime = (MakeRandomInt(1800, 7200) + 30) * 2000;
else
weatherTime = (MakeRandomInt(900, 2700) + 30) * 1000;

Assuming milliseconds, you're looking at a minimal of an hour of rain as soon as it starts, up to 4 hours and change before it even has a chance to stop raining, and then it only has a 20% chance to stop raining at each check. Unless I'm missing something (which with a scary code base like this is likely) it's going to be an average of 2.5 hours per check while raining, then 30 minutes per check while not raining. It really seems like this if statement should be reversed to give the desired behavior, unless counter-intuitively zone->weather_type is not the default weather state of a zone (dry/raining). Huge caveats as I've never looked at the code base before just now.

[nilbog]

its a pretty easy fix in the eqemulator code, i dont know if they have altered the weather code on p99 otherwise id post a fix

I don't believe weather code has ever been touched. If you look into it and create an appropriate fix, it will certainly be evaluated and considered. Thanks.

[Nirgon]

http://i.imgur.com/fd61v.gif

[nilbog]

I found it even raining in Akanon a few days back

Fixed, pending update.

[Faerie Blossom]

We tried to warn you about global warming.

[LiQuid]

Sick of constant thunder? Here's how to change it.

http://www.project1999.org/forums/showthread.php?t=12623&highlight=change+thunder

Beautiful... BEAUTIFUL!!!

[Kimm Barely]

Thank god. That effing thunder.

[mishurza]

if you really dont like the rain turn off the sky box. goodbye inclement weather

[maximum]

http://www.project1999.org/forums/showthread.php?t=1613

[Unidus]

Disabling thunder in your sound files is the best thing you can do when playing with sound on this server.

[Brut]

You have entered the Ocean of Marr.

[Jenithia]

Donate your spare opals to your local high level druid! I usually carry around opals to cast Wake of Karana for this very reason :)

[maximum]

Disabling thunder in your sound files is the best thing you can do when playing with sound on this server.

Link: "Sick of constant thunder? Here's how to change it. (https://www.project1999.org/forums/showthread.php?t=12623)"