With it raining everywhere, it'd be neat if the Subetan lands got weather! Just like in RL where weather is uncertain, it could be that way in Subeta, too.

Could be the standard kinds of weather - rain, hail, snow, sun, wind, storms, overcast (aka cloudy), freezing rain, heat waves and making it appropriate to each area (I can't see snow or freezing rain in Delphi Beach, for example lol!)

In places where there'd be different weather, like Sacred Lands, Arctic Frost and Darkside, why not sandstorms and heat waves for Sacred Lands, blizzards for Arctic Frost and Magma showers for Darkside?

There could also be different temperature ratings for each land. Maybe there could even be a Weather Center located in Centropolis where you can check and see what the weather and temperature is for the day.

I don't support this considering how busy the artists are already with new and revamped pieces that include but aren't limited to: items and overlays, pets species and colors, NPCs, battle challengers, special avatar bases, and other art that's produced for site events/holidays/plots.

I also don't see a point for this other than aesthetics tbh.

I would only support this if it served some sort of purpose other than looking pretty. ; n;

I think this is a really cute idea in theory but in practice I'd worry about both what mentioned and it causing more lag.

Neopets has a weather thing, and honestly there's no point to it other than an avatar you can unlock when it's snowing. I don't see a point to having it here, honestly. I mean, the rain overlay looks pretty cool on some of the lands, but I don't really think we need half a dozen more drawn, much less something changed daily depending on what the weather is going to be, especially if each are of the map is going to be different.

Neopets does pretty much exactly this and I've never really understood the point.

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Shadowglen still has rain, and it gets dark at night, unless they stopped doing that. I think the only other area I'd want to see get weather is Arctic Frost, because some light snow flurries would be nifty.

On Neopets, it's just a single page that lists the weather for the various lands. Outside of the avatar, it has no purpose, not even aesthetic.

I wouldn't mind seeing more weather in Subeta's lands. I've always liked how Shadowglen rotates randomly through several different images (starry skies, dark and rainy, ghosts...). It could be nice to see that in other places if it's not too much trouble.

Of course, this plot isn't over quite yet. That could very well be the plan. :P

I was actually thinking of this and thought it would be a great idea, especially since if they do it the way it is now it'd just require a few generic overlays.

But I was thinking it could be used for like if you have a rainy day in the gardens and you had a seed you wouldn't need to water it that day and in some places weather could affect who shows up in the battle arena, so some people could only be fought when it was like sunny in Centropolis, or making it more unlikely to unlock someone like a snow storm and Mama Mush.

Or areas of the site could be unlocked or closed off depending on the whether and I think it's a great idea in theory, but the effort that would need to be put into it to make it a reality that is actually worth it is too much, imo. Because I don't think it'd be worth it for just the aesthetic changes and I don't think it'd be worth it unless a large portion of the site was affected by weather, and that's just too much work right now.

Yeah, I'd be concerned about more lag as well.

I think I read at some point that wanted to move back to icons for ease of navigation and use the current maps as page headers, but I could be remembering this wrong and there's also that anything can change here.

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Just a cosmetic change to add this much scenery to the maps strikes me as bit of a waste considering the other things that could be drawn or redrawn. I'd like to see additional purposes if we got weather here.

I do like this idea quite a bit, and I would definitely enjoy having such a feature, but I also feel like it wouldn't be anything but a pretty feature. If someone does decide to go ahead and do this, I imagine it wouldn't be a very high priority, what with all of the revamping that still needs to be done. Still.... maybe someday in the future, it might be fun to have this feature added. xD And of course, it would have an On/Off option for users who would prefer consisnency on the maps.

This is a nice idea and I think it could be pretty neat, pretty no doubt, but I wonder if adding something like this would negatively effect the site speed wise.. considering that there's already enough trouble during events..

However I wouldn't mind if the weather was tied to certain things such as... If it were raining in a map you have an increased chance of getting the Tempest RE when navigating/refreshing in the map.. for as long as the rain stays there.