Weather Reporter-Tu'lia

[Romanova]

I searched and didn't see this mentioned, sorry if it has. But this is something that's been bothering me that there is no weather reporter for sky.

Considering there are only three zones with light weather and all 4 light weather/day related trials for the cure potency staff can be done in sky, I'm surprised that this hasn't been added yet.


Yes, I am aware you can use your magian spectacles , but I think it's silly that all other trials you can sit in a city and check a reporter before running out, where for this you have to get a tele and portal up to sky every three game days to check.

It's not game breaking, but considering there are so few zones with light and it's such a huge benefit to kill on lights weather vs. lights day, and that you can do it for other zones, it would just be something really nice to have.

(yes, I also know light weather is rare, which is yet another reason I'd rather check an npc in jeuno before planning my evening).

[RAIST]

eh.. it's seasonal. Been a while since I needed to catch mobs up there...but I think it was winter/spring cycle for more frequent wind.. or maybe it was Sspring/summer, but spring is standing out to me for some reason. Light typically peaks during the solstaces. Once you catch the pattern, you can plan more accordingly.

Weather also sometimes has a pattern aligned with neighboring zones as well--even when they don't share the same two weather patterns...like, you can kinda guage what to expect in Volbow based on what is going on in Kuzotz (Altep/Kuftal/Terrigan).

[Romanova]

eh.. it's seasonal. Been a while since I needed to catch mobs up there...but I think it was winter/spring cycle for more frequent wind.. or maybe it was Sspring/summer, but spring is standing out to me for some reason. Light typically peaks during the solstaces. Once you catch the pattern, you can plan more accordingly.

Weather also sometimes has a pattern aligned with neighboring zones as well--even when they don't share the same two weather patterns...like, you can kinda guage what to expect in Volbow based on what is going on in Kuzotz (Altep/Kuftal/Terrigan).

sky doesn't share weather with any other zone, and looking at weather patters for seasons doesn't really help too much when it comes to this zone:

http://images.wikia.com/ffxi/images/..._Intensity.png

July is coming up but good luck guessing what day that is on that one little dot lol.

http://images.wikia.com/ffxi/images/..._Frequency.png

and

http://ff11info.com/bazaar/en/weather.php

don't bother even listing them.

again, not game breaking, but sorta doesn't make sense they didn't add it in.

[RAIST]

it follows a similar pattern to ro'maeve. Kuftal shares a similar pattern to Altep. And Vunkerl to Pashow. Bubu to Onzozo. More linked zones, just not coming to mind atm.

The more dominant weather for some zones may share some common time frames with the dominant weather in a connecting zone, even though they may be different weather elements.

[Romanova]

it follows a similar pattern to ro'maeve. Kuftal shares a similar pattern to Altep. And Vunkerl to Pashow. Bubu to Onzozo. More linked zones, just not coming to mind atm.

The more dominant weather for some zones may share some common time frames with the dominant weather in a connecting zone, even though they may be different weather elements.

[edit] actually on further research you are incorrect.

Ro'maeve shares weather with zitah, not with sky.

Zones share the weather within their own region. Ro'maeve is a part of Li'Telor, Sky is Tu'lia.

[Raksha]

Zones share the weather within their own region.

I've never seen fire weather in konschtat/la theine.

[Romanova]

I've never seen fire weather in konschtat/la theine.

You misunderstood. I meant that zones that share weather are in the same region (ie east and west altepa share weather and are in the same region), not that all zones in the same region share weather.


[edit] either way, when zones do share weather they have the same weather possibilites. This is not even the case with ro'maeve and sky.

Ro'maeve can have thunder/doublethunder/ and wind

sky has light/ wind

[Raksha]

You misunderstood. I meant that zones that share weather are in the same region (ie east and west altepa share weather and are in the same region), not that all zones in the same region share weather.


[edit] either way, when zones do share weather they have the same weather possibilites. This is not even the case with ro'maeve and sky.

Ro'maeve can have thunder/doublethunder/ and wind

sky has light/ wind

gotcha

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[RAIST]

You misunderstand what I am saying. It's not that they share the weather, it's more that when a nearby zone is having it's dominant weather, the neighboring zone has a good chance of having it's dominant weather too. There are some exceptions of course (Grauberg and Attowha for example--they tend to spawn a weather almost constantly at times, regardless of what other areas are doing), but if you've spent a reasonable amount of time hunting weather an a lot of zones, you will start to connect some of the dots.

It kind of mimics real life like that. It stands to reason if I have stormy weather here in my town, one can expect that a nearby town either recently had stormy weather, is having it now, or may be getting it soon. It may be more/less severe, or just as bad. They may just get the high winds while we get the thunderstorms...but there is a link. The same principle more or less applies in FFXI.

When there were dust storms in W. altep, wind was often pending in Kuftal (which is regionally aligned with Volbow, not Kuzotz--so it often meant wind cycles may pop in Teriggan also).
Vunkerl/Pash/Rolan [s] would often align their thunder cycles pretty close, but when water was up, Vunk would sometimes be more prone to spawn short wind cycles, then go into thunder.
When wind was in season for Attowha and wind was up at Mea, Attowha would start getting wind in it's forecast--would be earth if it was in season. Again, different regions, but close enough in proximity to share similar cycles.

As for Sky/Ro'Maeve linking up...when I was running to sky and thunder was up in Ro'Maeve, wind was often pending for sky. Wasn't always up at the same time, but it would often be within the next 3 day cycles--but sometimes I cought them together.

There IS a connection, jsut not a direct 1:1 connection.

[Romanova]

how does any of that help in the sense of making a weather reporter useless?

while interesting to ponder none of that counters what I was suggesting in the OP. Every zone has access to a weather reporter, but sky. This is something I felt was overlooked by the devs when they made the trials since weather wasn't that important previously. (outside of small stuff like smn quest).

Pondering what "might" effect sky weather doesn't negate the lack of a weather reporter.