Seasons

[Altena]

I think it would be a nice touch (maybe farrrrr too much work... especially for release) to include seasons that cycle.

Autumn - tree's shedding leaves etc
Winter - snow / cold / windy
Spring - lots of green / flowers / life
Summer - sunny by day / thunder storm at night

Now I know this sort of workload isn't very viable, maybe if we all expected ARR in 2014, however an alternative would be to add specialized weather effects that are associated with the seasons..

However just imagine say Coerthas, in Summer the snow would melt and it would have a much more 1.xx look, and in winter it would snow.. But yes workload isn't very viable.

An alternative would be to introduce weather effects that are only apparent during the specific season (leaves falling from the sky in autumn, sleet falling during winter etc). This way the seasoned effects don't have to modify the landscape, but would still get the feeling / impression.

[Fantasia]

I think it would be a nice touch (maybe farrrrr too much work... especially for release) to include seasons that cycle.

Autumn - tree's shedding leaves etc
Winter - snow / cold / windy
Spring - lots of green / flowers / life
Summer - sunny by day / thunder storm at night

Now I know this sort of workload isn't very viable, maybe if we all expected ARR in 2014, however an alternative would be to add specialized weather effects that are associated with the seasons..

However just imagine say Coerthas, in Summer the snow would melt and it would have a much more 1.xx look, and in winter it would snow.. But yes workload isn't very viable.

An alternative would be to introduce weather effects that are only apparent during the specific season (leaves falling from the sky in autumn, sleet falling during winter etc). This way the seasoned effects don't have to modify the landscape, but would still get the feeling / impression.

I like this.
It's probably worth noting that, in XI, weather changed depending on the season. For example, heat waves were quite frequent in the summer, and next to non-existent in the winter. I don't think it's much to ask for =)

[Azzi]

I think this would be great but I believe Yoshi has said something about this being difficult to impliment, not sure where though.

[Enma]

It's been already said by Yoshi himself, that there won't any seasons cycle. There will be different areas, with different weather/climate, but introducing a cycle would mean "rebuild" again all the maps (Changing textures, creating new models, etc.). It's not necessary.

[MyKotoShi]

It was discussed during the most recent Live letter.

Ma Ya Hi

[Altena]

Ah right, I forgot all about that until you guys mentioned it..

I expected the workload to be far too huge to implement anyway.. But yes I do remember how XI had the sutle season system. I meant something more dramatic / noticable (weather effects only available during that season)

But oh well, just throwing it out there.

[yukikaze_yanagi]

However just imagine say Coerthas, in Summer the snow would melt and it would have a much more 1.xx look, and in winter it would snow..

From my very very secret informations, now coerthas is in perpetual winter. No more seasons on that mountains ;_;

[Altena]

From my very very secret informations, now coerthas is in perpetual winter. No more seasons on that mountains ;_;

Secret? We all know that :P It's in the concept art to begin with.

It would have been a nice area to expand on but the boss has already spoken so let my thread fizzle out with the Time Mage, death penalty, and ugly grass threads.

[KaMuiSouZou]

It was discussed during the most recent Live letter.

Ma Ya Hi

Seasons are a nice idea but it's understandable why they wouldn't be able to implement it. I'm excited however for the location specific weather, such as snowfall in Coerthas. I instantly thought of Paramina Rift (and hunting for that damn White Chocobo) ^^. I think the only location specific effects we had in 1.0 were the desert storms in Thanalan and the Purple weather in Mor Dhona?