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adion · 09-16-2016, 09:36 PM

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.

09-16-2016, 09:36 PM	#808
adion All Star Starter Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 1,376	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.