Will there be weather effects?

[Sean Mirrsen]

Make it possible and modders will come to that.

[Redfish]

Ok it would pose problems if you'd start a game at night. You'd have to rely on wind tidals and geos in the beginning. But after that you soon get to a fusion which gives constant output. It would be nice to have these weather effect influence the way you manage your resources.

[AF]

Actually current day solar panel technology allows you to still maintain 70% energy production in comparison to daytime energy production. Thats because allt he latest Solar panel technologies use Infra Red mostly and Wether the sun's out or not everything emits infra red to some extent.

[PauloMorfeo]

... solar's ... would be able to store energy within internal batteries for use during night cycles ...

Ain't that what stored energy in TA already is?

... Removing their generic nature completely changes TA's balance and gameplay ...

The generic nature would be shifted into the wind generators and geothermals. They would become the ones that were more reliable.

What are players supposed to do during night time on a moon map?

Those would be very strategical maps. You would have to rely heavily on stored energy (and maybe "fission power plants").

It would increase the importance of Energy storage facilities, and could increase the tatical importance of attack timing, hitting the enemy close to dawn when their energy reserves are at the lowest ...

I see a whole new set of tactics becoming a possibility...

BlackLiger's idea is starting to seem to me like a wonderfull new idea.

[Warlord Zsinj]

Perhaps, but it sounds more like a mod than anything. The fans of vanilla TA would be up in arms to find their beloved gameplay tampered with.

I'm not against it as it is, but I don't think it should be part of the default gameplay.

[[KnoX]ElementalGizmo]

plug in a options then in the battle window such as limited d gun = prob fixed......but i dont see weather of day/night coming any decade soon

[drolito]

pfff ... we are not playing a car game !!! its not formula 1 ... why make lag with this stupid change ? if u want to play as if it was the night ... disable all solar energy maker and put "alt+f4" at the beginning ... now its night !!!

[tombom]

ElementalGizmo, it might be a good idea to stop bumping ancient threads. This one was from 3 years ago. How are you finding them?

[[KnoX]ElementalGizmo]

didnt notice lolz

[Relative]

didnt notice lolz