Dynamic Weather would seal the deal.
SlinkySlim666
Panama City, Florida Join Date: 2017-02-27 Member: 228333Members
Panama City, Florida Join Date: 2017-02-27 Member: 228333Members
Hey guys, There is a whole lot of people who think it would be awesome if you added in some dynamic weather. It would be amazing! That would add a whole another layer of ambience and realism to the game. Especially since there is mention in game of a massive weather event. It would be so much more scary being stranded at night and then here comes the rain. Id love to see something thrown together for us in the experimental build.
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Oh, it's real acid, alright. There are two types: sulfuric acid rain, caused by sulfur dioxide (commonly from coal power plants); and nitric acid rain, produced from nitrogen dioxide.
Generally, it's more of a problem for plants and fish, but if the concentration is high enough, you'll feel it on your skin.
To get acid rain, though, you need a vapor in the atmosphere that produces acid when blended with water. In the case of acid rain, that'd be hydrogen sulfide. Really, all the Aurora would be putting out would be metal vapor - which would cause chemically-contaminated rain, absolutely. Just not acid.
Edit: Also, yeah, roaming weather patterns would be interesting. Especially if storms blew through and shook up the environment so that it exposed more resources.
but maybe underwater weather. like areas with alot of activity kick up dust making it difficult to see, maybe strong currents here and there kicking stuff into the side of your base.
Most of the smoke would probably be carbon dioxide, actually. Nitrogen dioxide is a product of burning fossil fuels - gasoline, butane, bunker oil, et cetera - whereas carbon dioxide is a result of almost all combustion.
However, nitrogen dioxide was produced in significant quantities during nuclear tests, principally by the shockwave fronts. When the Aurora's core blows, it might produce enough of a shock to produce enough nitrogen dioxide to cause acid rain. It'd be a short-lived phenomenon, but it's within the bounds of reality.
Au contraire, mon frere! Any shallow seabases could easily be damaged by heavy wave action, and the reduction of solar penetration due to storm clouds could render solar power collectors inoperative. It could also provide a viable excuse for respawning some resources in the Shallows, as wave action and currents could "uncover" deposits, as suggested by @Kyman201. (Although not with actual terraforming of the world, though.)
But in an atmospheric sense, it'd be incredible. Thunderstorms at sea are amazing, but, as you say, we're underwater most of the time. Have you ever heard what thunder sounds like underwater? Epic. Astounding.
If you build a base on the islands then it has a lot of relevance actually.
Im not saying all underwater is safe, just deep area like the koosh & reef. I doo like the idea that shallow area get new loot could use a reverse effect that the sea treaders do.
All what might be possible is a little rain. But I'd even welcome that little change.
So +1 for me
Realistically, a blast powerful enough to put up a good-sized, lifepod-tumbling wave like the one in the trailer would probably just kill you outright. (Plus, the surface wave would travel a lot slower than the airblast.) If you have to involve water, the shockwave would raise a nice mist from the surface, but that's about it. Better to just stick to airblast knocking you off the lifepod.
Now that you mention it, how come the explosion doesn't outright kill everything surrounding the Aurora when it blows up? If you say the water would cushion the sea creatures from the shockwave, then what about the resulting radiation? If it's enough to kill you unshielded, it should adversely affect the wildlife as well. (And yeah, maybe you could handwave it with "alien lifeforms = different physiology" but if that's true then they wouldn't be safe to eat).
Actually, things in the water would be affected even more, since the blast energy is being transmitted directly from the hull of the Aurora into the surrounding water. It'd be like dynamite fishing with a...well, with an exploding starship. There should be a lot of dead stuff floating on the surface or sitting on the bottom.
(Yay! Free reaper steaks!)
Well, Tarkannen, there are some structural differences that would make an organism more or less affected by sharp pressure changes without rendering it inedible, but anything strong enough to resist that magnitude of pressure shift is probably made out of carbon steel, which, yeah, isn't safe to eat.
Sooooo reapers then