[SG/DS] Extreme weather (was Georgia in winter)

1 posts ยท Feb 16 2000

From: Beth Fulton <beth.fulton@m...>

Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 09:37:29 +1000

Subject: [SG/DS] Extreme weather (was Georgia in winter)

G'day Alan,

> Considering the range of temperatures here on Earth, plus natural

I'd say a pretty big one! For instance, many of the reserves from down here
that were heading off to Timor did a month of acclimatisation in Townsville
first. I grew up in a place where it got to -15 deg C in winter (OK not
cold by you "above 60the parallel" guys but cold enough to freeze the pipes
and outdoor dunny solid - and that's bad in my opinion) and then upto
45+
in summer, the whole way you tackled things changed with the seasons. So if
you saw even one of the extremes on a battlefield (let alone both if your
somewhere, say a planetoid, that goes diurnally between the extremes) then
you're going to be effected via endurance, heat stroke, potential equipment
failure etc etc. I haven't got round to doing an extreme terrain game yet, but
I've been thinking over accumulative movement and reaction test
penalities to do with weather/terrain (e.g. Green start as normal but as
things wear on they go off the boil as the heat (etc) takes its toll).

Cheers

Beth