Weather Question

[DeVeous]

I'm not sure if I'm in the right place to ask questions, but I wasn't sure the best place so here's where I picked.

Question. If someone was going to work on weather, I would assume one of the first items needed would be a data reference that would provide weather conditions by zone. At first I thought an extra field in the zone_settings would be good, a binary value like 0 = none, 1 = earth, 2 = wind, 4 = water, 8 = fire and so on. So a zone like Valkurm_Dunes would have a weather value of 9, for sand storms and heat waves.

But this wouldn't make it easy to provide frequency of of these conditions. Again, for Valkurm_Dunes we'd need to know sand storms(earth) happens occasionally, and heat waves(fire) are rare. Where as in La_Theine_Plateau you have frequent rain(water) and wind gusts(wind).

With that in mind I was thinking you might want an entirely new table with zone_ids and a field for each element, the value would be the frequency of that particular weather for the zone.

I'm curious if anyone feels like that would be over engineered?

Thanks

[whasf]

Two new bitmask fields in the zone_settings table, one for type and one for frequency, add them together (do some more math with Loraunt's randomization function) and you get your effect? That's my idea anyhow