Quote Originally Posted by Hashmalum View Post
But very hot objects such as volcanoes (and modern cities!) create their own microclimates. Besides, the weather game effect (which is what we really care about here) doesn't necessarily reflect any sort of real-world process or reasoning--maybe fire magic works better in a heat wave because of elemental imbalances in the ambient mana, or whatever. Who knows, it's magic. The weather causing rocks to appear? That's obviously supernatural right there. Just give us the weather effect and don't worry too much about the real life climate of volcanoes.
Yeah... but unfortunately SE just refuses to see things differently. No matter how much sense it seems to make to everyone else, they appear to be stuck on the whole atmospheric/meteorological approach to weather.

Until they change their stance on that, gonna have to come up with other angles to convince them to tweak things. Until then, best we can probably hope for is for them to do something to the actual drop rates when the ideal conditions exist for geodes to drop. For the life of me, I never understood why they have that stupid cool-down timer....can't help but think removal of that BS mechanic would have a profound impact on the supply.