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Originally Posted by adion
I hope your Dad was involved with Market Garden, a Monty fiasco. Both Monty and Patton had big egos but, in my opinion, I think Patton was the better general. Having said that, your Dad was/is a hero in my eyes. It is absolutely amazing what these young people accomplished. The freed millions of people and did it with courage not iPhones! The Red Army getting in to Berlin first was all politics. Was your Dad British? I lived in GB for almost 7 years working for ITT. I loved it. Almost as much as Greece. Neither country is the same any more. Of course, neither are we. Back to the weather channel, I made a spreadsheet and did the calcualtion for NY, Brooklyn and Boston. Again, very close to what is in OOTP. Only a 1 % difference in a couple of months and that may be to numerical rounding in EXCEL. I think my process is not worth the time and effort as it is essentially has the same percentage as the game. I think your idea of trying to more closely associate weather conditions with the parks in the game is good. However, I think trying to do it is a micro way, i.e. daily conditions, time frames, etc., would be a tedious endeavour and not likely to be undertaken by the OOTP team. If someone like you did a mod for this, I am not sure how it could be incorporated in the each park.
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A huge thank you on behalf of my Dad, may peace be upon him. Were he still with us, he would have turned 94 this past July! I loved his war stories and he had many many to tell. Hearing what you said of him - he would have been extremely honored knowing you were a Marine. Even though he was U.S. Army (he was born outside of Detroit) - he had a love for the Marines and was very proud of his nephews who served in the Corps. Unquestionably, he was always - is now - and will always be - my hero.
Here's a story for you - and it is particularly poignant given that my family heritage is Jewish from Polish and Hungarian communities - Dad always said the toughest part of serving in WWII was not getting shot at a bazillion times, or getting caught in a firefight (and he said it was a miracle that he and the Lieutenant who was with him somehow crawled out alive), or having his jeep destroyed by mortar fire (he had gotten out of the jeep to go behind a tree to relieve himself - and within about 20 seconds or so - BOOOOM!!!!), or almost having another jeep destroyed (with him driving at breakneck speed) when the gunner of a Panzer swung the turret around and opened fire and thankfully just missed thanks to a dip in the road (he said he HEARD the sound of the shell as it flew over him - the dip in the road saved his life)... none of that....
The toughest thing for him was liberating the concentration and death camps. I can't remember specifically which camps he helped liberate - but he had flames coming out of his eyes any time he talked about it, which wasn't very often. He said that EVERY man in their unit - every one to a man - that they ALL knew why they were there when they encountered the camps. He said they all - as one - took upon themselves the firm resolve to put a stop to what was happening if it was the last thing they did. He said it didn't matter what religion, color, creed, background, ethnicity, etc. - every single man had what he called a burning rage inside them after seeing the camps. They understood why they were there.
Interestingly - I did some research 15 or 20 years ago and discovered that unbeknown to us - we lost a (very likely) relative (same family name and she came from the same region of Hungary that my grandfather came from) in Auschwitz. We never knew. Go figure! It was never talked about when I was growing up.
BTW - I agree wholeheartedly - Patton was a far superior general. Arguably the greatest general in U.S. history. Dad lamented that he didn't serve under Patton - said he would have loved to have served in his forces. Even though he only saw him once in person (and didn't meet him - only saw him) - he said of him - "General Patton ... now THAT was a general!"
My favorite Patton story (and I think there are multiple variations of it so details may differ) - Patton was advancing on a specific German stronghold and wired Ike that he was about to attack to take the position. Ike wired back with order to stand down and not advance to attack - too risky for casualties - saying "will require four days to take". Patton - after having taken the German stronghold, wired Ike back - "have taken the position in less than two days - do you want me to give it back?"
Ok - now - onto weather - lol
Agreed - it would likely be overly tedious for the OOTP developers to implement a weather system in, as you said, a micro way. However - what I'm trying to do is to USE that micro level of detail of daily records as a means of racking up to a total percentage that would be accurate for a given location - AND - would help the OOTP folks beef up the weather by offering more TYPES of weather. Again, rain right now is simply.... rain. There's no differentiation between light rain - a long-duration rain event - a heavy thunderstorm - a quick-hitter... all of which can impact play. I'm looking for the weather system to be fleshed out more. Make it deeper - richer. Right now is still FEELS (for lack of a better way) .. 'cosmetic' (to me at least). I would like to see the weather more impactful and more varied. If the game is capable of transitioning from cloudy to rain - then it should certainly be capable of transitioning from rain back to cloudy - or - clear - cloudy - thunderstorm - rain - then clear again.
And right now - it's pretty close to 100% of the time - if a game starts off cloudy - at some point - it rains. That does NOT happen like that - 100% of the time - in real life! Early season games, especially in the northern US, can be played in their entirety under a heavy overcast - without a single drop of rain falling.
And down south - just ask the folks in Atlanta or Dallas about those quick-hitting thunderstorms that come rolling in during the late afternoon or early evening from May through September. It can be clear blue skies at game time - and pouring with rain and hail by the sixth inning.
Would LOVE to see that in the game.
I'll be interested to see how the numbers I'm compiling rack up.