Howto: Complex zone based weather system

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Event 12:

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Name: Move weather upto row 0
 0)    ' This function does everything it says basically moving weather from row 1 to row 0
 1)    LOOPER: TempVar903 FROM 0 TO 7
 2)      SETVAR: TempVar901 = CheckStringList(0, 1, TempVar903)
 3)      EXECUTE: ExecSetStringList(0, 0, TempVar903, TempVar901)
 4)      ' Lets set row 1 to clear just as an emergency backup
 5)      EXECUTE: ExecSetStringList(0, 1, TempVar903, 0)
 6)    END LOOPER
 

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Weather forecast table


There are two rows in this table and row 0 = current turn row 1 = next turn.
Then each column represents the 1-8 zones of the map.

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Monthly Weather table


This table has rows for all 8 zones. then each column is 10% chance of predicting weather for a given zone
0 = clear
1 = mud
2 = snow
3 = blizzard

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Landscape type translation table
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This table translates clear LT's to Mud LT's to Snow LT's to Blizzard LT's.

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Weather Penalty
This is where we put what the offensive penalty is based on weather.