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Seasons and random weather

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dylanwtn

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I would love to see seasons implemented into the game. Remember in Animal Crossing you can only catch certain bugs/fish in different season? What if there are "seasonal" Pokemon? It would add a whole new strategy to the game. For example you can only catch a Snover or Delibird in the Winter and you can only catch a Sunkern in the Spring or Summer. Of course people would be able to just change the DS internal clock to the date they want which would be kind of unfair.

What about realistic weather? Instead of having routes or cities with constant weather it can change at random. Maybe you can have some sort of "Weather Report that shows where there it's raining snowing etc. I just thought these were interesting features that would be perfect for the next generation.
 
About random weather, HAH. I've gotten nothing but crappy rain and snow that won't stick over here in Alabama. :(
 
I've been asking for this since last May. It'd make trainer battles so different (Okay, maybe not really) because of the weather changing so often. I'd love this feature, especially seasons. The games already run off the DS clock and calendar, so why not?
 
No season-exclusive Pokémon, please. I hate changing the clock to cheat, and I'm not waiting around a whole year for a freaking Sunkern. I'm all for aesthetic seasonal changes, and even a slight adjusting of encounter rates between different seasons wouldn't be bad, but having some disappear entirely if it's the wrong time of year doesn't sound like fun to me at all.
 
Oh for sure. Change encounter rates, but don't make them dependent on the seasons.
 
Only if it's not actually dependent on real time...

That is, the game's seasons occur at a much faster rate.
 
Oh man, I was talking about this with my girlfriend a few nights ago. Seasons would be so interesting. And Maybe some different forms to go along with extreme seasons? Like if it's snowing a certain Pokemon species might have a form for thicker coats and if it's summer they may shed the coat? And you could change the form with items, or maybe there could be a guy who specialized in seasonal changes who could just change it around when you go to his house. Seasonally exclusive Pokemon could be annoying, but how about Pokemon that are overly abundant in certain seasons? Like: Snowver could be rare in certain place during summer, but in winter it's common.

On weather, I think it would be interesting to get roaming weather changes and weather that was a little better done. So if there's a storm in one route, it doesn't just disappear in the one next to it. Maybe it could be less powerful in the routes around it UNTIL it disappeared. And every so often the storm would move farther north or south or whatever. Eventually it would just die down, but moving realistic weather would be an interesting thing to implement.
 
I'd like weather on x route to be different on certain times, like, on any given day:

Route 407 Weather =
Normal 60%
Rain 15%
Sun 15%
Fog 10%

The game could recalculate the effects say, every... 2 hours in game time, so if it's raining on route 407, the new chances are:

Normal 30%
Rain 60%
Sun 0%
Fog 10%

And so on.

Sun effects would also have to stop immediately after the sun goes down. Maybe introduce a counterpart for sunlight during the night?

And make Morning Sun and Moonlight less effective during night and day respectively.
 
I don't know, I think if we went real-time seasons, so long as it didn't remove the chance of finding certain pokemon but did increase the likelihood of finding others, then perhaps it wouldn't be so bad. And then they could make it gradual as you approached the joining between seasons.
 
Make the backgrounds of the areas different too, so in Winter, the ground is brownish or white with snow, and in Summer, it's green with Flowers.
 
Having seasons sounds like a great idea, but I agree about not having certain Pokemon disappearing during certain seasons. Lower encounter rates though, definately.

I would really like to see more of a variety in weather. I'm sick of some routes having rain or snow almost 24/7 and most not having any at all.

This isn't quite a weather thing, but, on the chance there would be a volcano in the new region, wouldn't it be neat for it to have lava flows from time to time? They wouldn't be dangerous, because they would be slow moving, like the lava flows in Hawaii. During these times, there would be a very high encounter rate for some fire-types, like maybe Slugma and Macargo swarms.
idk, this was just something that popped into my head.
 
No Fog. Get rid of that weather, and just straight up get rid of the move all together. So useless and so annoying.
 
Katherine said:
Having seasons sounds like a great idea, but I agree about not having certain Pokemon disappearing during certain seasons. Lower encounter rates though, definately.

I would really like to see more of a variety in weather. I'm sick of some routes having rain or snow almost 24/7 and most not having any at all.

This isn't quite a weather thing, but, on the chance there would be a volcano in the new region, wouldn't it be neat for it to have lava flows from time to time? They wouldn't be dangerous, because they would be slow moving, like the lava flows in Hawaii. During these times, there would be a very high encounter rate for some fire-types, like maybe Slugma and Macargo swarms.
idk, this was just something that popped into my head.
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There's only one active Volcano in Hawaii, and it's on an island no one's allowed to go to for safety reasons. (ie, it's never slow, and it's always dangerous)

For that matter, most active volcano's blow toxic gas up into the air and the magma carries it around with it.
 
I would like to see them implement , Moon and Sun, features.

At nights you would see the reflection of the Moon.
I want to see that moon glow when at nights.
perhaps areas that can only be seen and walk to while it is night.

Also, Seasons that change, leaves can fall. Sakura trees =D

perhaps even wind, wind that you can see, different kinda of environment , desert , snow, forests and thee rest,

I want much more in game events. Perhaps even pokemon that you can See walk in the grass. like event pokemon.
 
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hundera said:
There's only one active Volcano in Hawaii, and it's on an island no one's allowed to go to for safety reasons. (ie, it's never slow, and it's always dangerous)

For that matter, most active volcano's blow toxic gas up into the air and the magma carries it around with it.
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Ack, whoops. This is what I get for assuming and not doing the research. -faceslap-

Thanks for correcting me. :)
 
Moac said:
At nights you would see the reflection of the Moon.
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A small, somewhat related note: I want to see the reflections of clouds on the water before and after rain come back. That was one of the absolute best graphical touches in RSE, in my opinion, it really added a touch of realism.
 
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