ADB123
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Since I always play the Game with Advanced Weather set to “On”, and always complain about the resulting unbelievably bad weather, I decided that I ought to try a game with Advanced Weather set to “Off” just to see what the difference really is. So I set up a Scenario 2 Game as the Japanese against the AI with Advanced Weather set to “Off”, and let things rip. (BTW – I set the AI to “Easy” just in case having it at “Normal” or “Hard” brought in any added Weather penalties for the Human side.) Of course, Turn 1 has no Weather effects, so I did a few things for Turn 2 to test out the Weather effects, particularly on Aircraft, and let it go again. What I saw surprised me. Immediately in Turn 2 many of the Japanese Naval Search flights were scrubbed due to “Bad Weather”. While most of the Japanese bombing and sweeping attacks took off as planned in the Morning, a number of them didn't get off the ground until the Afternoon because of bad weather, and many Fighter Escort flights were split up from their bomber attacks due to bad weather too. All-in-all, I couldn't see a lot of difference between what I got with Advanced Weather “Off” and what I usually see with Advanced Weather “On”. BTW – turning Advanced Weather “Off” did not affect Fog of War at all. I couldn't see any Allied units that I didn't detect with my Search planes or Recon Flights. I played a few more turns and things remained pretty much the same. When I scrolled my mouse over various bases, units and TFs I still saw variations in local weather being reported – some areas had “rain”, some “cloud”, some “thunderstorms” and so on. One obvious difference is in the large-sized “Weather Map”. The full screen Weather Map looked like this: Partly Cloudy___Partly Cloudy___Partly Cloudy Partly Cloudy___Partly Cloudy___ Partly Cloudy Partly Cloudy___Partly Cloudy___Partly Cloudy While, of course, the full screen Weather Map with Advanced Weather “On” usually looks like this: Iceberg Earth________Iceberg Earth_______Iceberg Earth Noah's Flood_________Noah's Flood________Noah's Flood End of the World_____End of the World_____End of the World My guess is that Advanced Weather set to “On” simply adds additional “bad luck factors” to those already in place with the baseline weather. Those additional factors seem to increase with time and never seem to go away. I didn't run the “Off” game for a long time, but I did get the feeling that Weather was not going exponentially “crazy” as it seems to do in the “On” position. So as far as I can tell, there doesn't seem to be a good reason at all to use Advanced Weather in the “On” position, unless one wants to be a total masochist. Certainly, I have no intention of ever setting Advanced Weather to “On” in any future games now that I've seen what the “Off” position looks like.
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