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Sevrun

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temperatures
« on: December 10, 2008, 10:09:28 am »

how do I make the temps more reasonable?  if the maps are based on hemispheres then it should realistically be COLD for more than just the polar extreme and it sure as hell doesn't need to be WARM in areas that would still be northern bloody Canada if it were overlayed onto the actual globe.

Yeah, it's starting to really irk me that the only decent places to embark are WARM or SCORCHING and NEVER COLD...  I mean I've nearly frozen my balls off just a hop skip an a jump away from the equator in real life, and if it's based on realistic weather patterns then why is the entire map straight out of Dante's Inferno?
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Re: temperatures
« Reply #1 on: December 10, 2008, 10:40:48 am »

Well, cold areas can be habitable; you generally need an aquifer, however, and if on a glacier, magma.
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Re: temperatures
« Reply #2 on: December 10, 2008, 10:48:42 am »

To answer your question about modding: not yet. Presumably in the future.
However, you should know that the largest map is about 100 miles long on each side.
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