Dwilight Map

[Vellos]

Man, winters are great though. There aren't as many monsters to go around messing up your regions. Sure, in winter there's starvation, but when the food is going into the monsters' stomachs, or being destroyed by them, it evens out in the end.

Err.... opposite. Winter has more monsters.

[songqu88@gmail.com]

Er... hey Anaris what was it that you told me one time about monsters hibernating and how the current spawn system doesn't make too much sense?

[Chenier]

Er... hey Anaris what was it that you told me one time about monsters hibernating and how the current spawn system doesn't make too much sense?

Whatever it be, I'd rather they spawn more in winter, when there's less food for them to eat. :/

[songqu88@gmail.com]

Now that'd be too easy, sorta. More adventurers hunting only monsters I guess. Then it's just the less common and less annoying undead to fight. With the allowance of adventurers with nobles on Dwilight, there seem to be a few more adventurers on the continent. They help a little, I guess.

[Anaris]

Whatever it be, I'd rather they spawn more in winter, when there's less food for them to eat. :/

How would that make sense?

Monsters spawn more in autumn, when there's lots of food around.  However, due to the way Dwilight is set up, you will often notice more monster attacks in winter, because it takes the rogue areas that long to "overflow" into the realms.

[songqu88@gmail.com]

And...that's the part that makes less logical sense.

Them monsters should be sleeping in their caves or something in the winter and start popping out during spring hungry and roaring for some juicy peasants to eat. Then again, maybe these are arctic monsters like polar bear mutants that move in the winter. Or maybe monsters are actually migratory predators. Hmm...

[Anaris]

And...that's the part that makes less logical sense.

Them monsters should be sleeping in their caves or something in the winter and start popping out during spring hungry and roaring for some juicy peasants to eat. Then again, maybe these are arctic monsters like polar bear mutants that move in the winter. Or maybe monsters are actually migratory predators. Hmm...

Once monsters have spawned, they're out there.  They're not just going to disappear.

Spawning itself, though, is greatly reduced in winter.

[Chenier]

And...that's the part that makes less logical sense.

Them monsters should be sleeping in their caves or something in the winter and start popping out during spring hungry and roaring for some juicy peasants to eat. Then again, maybe these are arctic monsters like polar bear mutants that move in the winter. Or maybe monsters are actually migratory predators. Hmm...

Autumn is when food starts getting scarce and they need to make provisions for winter. It's the *most* logical season for creature that hibertate.

Then again, who says they hibernate? Spawned monsters don't disappear. Therefore, winter would be the most logical season because food is scarce in the wild and they must roam to civilized lands for food.

It could also be argued that summer is the most logical time for them to spawn, as food is abundant and they can breed all they like.

Really, you could argue for any season, because we don't have the slightest idea what the heck a "monster" is. I'd personally go for winter as being the most logical, though, for the reasons I stated. They don't appear to hibernate, so they'd be more likely to go out in the open when food is scarce, like wolves and coyotes do.

[Perth]

Then again, maybe these are arctic monsters like polar bear mutants that move in the winter.

Except Maroccidens' winter is more like a rainy season, not a cold, snowy one.

[Shizzle]

Except Maroccidens' winter is more like a rainy season, not a cold, snowy one.

Who says so? Are there any rules set about climate? If so, where? I'd like to know them :p

[vanKaya]

The people of Maroccidens say so.

[Vellos]

How would that make sense?

Monsters spawn more in autumn, when there's lots of food around.  However, due to the way Dwilight is set up, you will often notice more monster attacks in winter, because it takes the rogue areas that long to "overflow" into the realms.

Hm.

This actually, to me, makes a lot of sense, and explains some curiosities I've had about monster spawning mechanics for a long time.

[Perth]

Who says so? Are there any rules set about climate? If so, where? I'd like to know them :p

Nope. There are no rules about it, of course. But there was some consensus among many in Terran (at least) about it some time ago. I'm pretty sure Madina RP's things like that as well, given the whole pirate culture stuff.

I think it is the result of the region weather labels and just some creative thinking. It only makes sense really for our far southern region of the continent to be warmer in general than perhaps the more naturally cold areas to the far north.

Here are to fun links that don't say anything about climate (though I swear I read about it on the wiki once) and perhaps somethings could be added about climate to each or either of them.

http://wiki.battlemaster.org/images/Westcontinentweatherareht2.jpg

http://wiki.battlemaster.org/wiki/Dwilight/Maroccidens

[Vellos]

Chesney's latitude places it south of the Desert of Silhouettes, but north of the Palm Sea. It's weather area is South Mediterranean.

Snow never falls in Maroccidens. Madina and Forland are more like North Africa in terms of climate than they are like the arctic. Presumably they are wetter, however, hence the Palm Sea not being the Sahara.

[Indirik]

It only makes sense really for our far southern region of the continent to be warmer in general than perhaps the more naturally cold areas to the far north.

Northern hemisphere bias FTW! 

Dwilight doesn't really have any of the obvious geographical clues like, say, AT does regarding prevailing climate. For all we know, the entire island could be tropical.