Season of the seasons

TDVM · August 2

At the moment I think it is impossible because of the game engine, but what is the probability that it will be added in the future?
It would be interesting to see a winter riften, summer windhelm or a full winter cyrodiil. A would like to know ZOS's answer to the question about the change of seasons.

What city or place would you like to see at a different time of year?

Syldras · August 2

TDVM wrote: »

At the moment I think it is impossible because of the game engine, but what is the probability that it will be added in the future?

Probably zero, if they already changed achievements from "per character" to "account-wide" and reduced the storage time for messages and guild store listings because of server space issues. Also, considering the content reduction from year to year, they certainly have no interest in including an extra set of textures and weather effects for each zone (or at least the ones that have a climate in which seasonal differences would show).

El_Borracho · August 2

So the only MMO I saw do this successfully was GTA Online, and even then, it was just a couple weeks of snow and winter from Christmas to New Years. Was pretty fun for the timeframe, and by the time the novelty wore off, it was back to normal

Pelanora · August 2

Oh! I want seasons!

I want the snow piled up in Solitude, and then the spring flowers.....

Nharimlur_Finor · August 2

Yeah!
Let's have floods, bushfires, landslides and droughts as well. Not sure how the landslides will work...

Should this go into the 'harder overland' bit bucket?

Nharimlur_Finor · August 3

too harsh?

MjolnirVilkas · August 3

There's mods for Skyrim that do that and it's quite impressive but not straightforward to set up. So if anyone into Skyrim and want to see the province in different seasons, maybe check it out.

While the idea for ESO seems interesting, I doubt it's doable. Also, keep in mind that some areas don't have traditional seasons. Windhelm is subpolar, northern Skyrim is permafrost. Doubt there's any harsh winters in A'likr or The Cat Land.

Pelanora · August 4

LaintalAy wrote: »

too harsh?

Too foolish?

Pelanora · August 4

MjolnirVilkas wrote: »

There's mods for Skyrim that do that and it's quite impressive but not straightforward to set up. So if anyone into Skyrim and want to see the province in different seasons, maybe check it out.

While the idea for ESO seems interesting, I doubt it's doable. Also, keep in mind that some areas don't have traditional seasons. Windhelm is subpolar, northern Skyrim is permafrost. Doubt there's any harsh winters in A'likr or The Cat Land.

Of course it's not doable, the servers can barely handle the content they have now. But it would be fabulous.

belial5221_ESO · August 4

It would mean the devs would have to go throguh all zones and redo em for diff seasons.Then have to backup all the changes so diff seasons would be easier to enable as needed.That would take time and resources from bug fixes and new content creation,and probably server resources.

Pelanora · August 5

Yea we get it. It would still be fabulous.

As would, for that matter, putting ai under npc in cities so they do different things.....