[Weather seasons and terrain attrition]

On 2/23/2022 at 11:45 AM, William Blake said:

Slight problem - the game is feature complete, or so we heard. 

Bigger problems:

• Time in KoH2 is abstract. Meaning that you don't see years or months going by in game. And if you have a king lifespan say 20 minutes  (I don't know, taking numbers out of the blue). This would mean that in order to make it in proportion you will need winter to summer change every 30 seconds or so.
• If you make seasons change much slower, your kings would die after ~3 winters which would be awkward.
• If you make seasons just a visual candy people would rant about "how come these kings are so out of sync from seasons is this a fantasy middle earth"?
• Economy is not season dependent. In order to make economy change with seasons you need fundamental change to game mechanics and balancing hell all over again.
• If you make economy season dependent it would be really awkward not to have seasons affect military gameplay. Especially considering things like "how come its winter but in a tactical battle there is no snow", Or  "it is winter, but how come there is snow while I'm fighting in Africa" and so on. So you need seasons in all military aspects. That would be even more effort.

So if you look at all that and take into account that people already lost patience with devs roughly 5 times in the last 2 years, I would take a guess and say that seasons are not going to be in KoH2. At least initial release.

You must be fun at parties.