Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-24622648-20141125011514

My idea, probably suggested before is to add as you may guess, seasons. Lets start off with every students favorite season; summer.

Summer would be well summery. The days would be long and bring hardly any change to what the regular game is at now other than cutting the chance of rain in half. Great right? However, with the removal of rain all drinkable water sources regen half as quickly, this includes all ponds, waterfalls and wells and anything else you can drink from. This also adds a small nerf to farming, all crops will take 10% longer to grow, as plants need water to grow.

Fall is great, except for the lack of leaves. Thats right, during fall when a tree regens it takes twice as long, the same goes for bushes. You can still farm during the fall, but not as effectivly as in spring, all farming speeds will be cut by 40%.

Winter would be nice, a time to relax and enjoy your hot, non-existant cocoa. That is until your character starts freezing to death and becomes dehydrated. During winter, the non well water sources will freeze over when a storm is over them, meaning you can't drink from them anymore. However you can thaw these by putting a limitless fire source near them. And you will develope a cold if you stay in a storm for too long, cureable by sitting by a limitless fire for a bit. During your cold, your GUI health will drop twice as fast as in a storm. And as for storms? Well they now will snow instead of rain; you won't be damaged but LAND masses below the storm will be covered in about a half stud deep snow even if the storm doesn't cover the whole island. When walking in snow your walkspeed will drop by 1. And you wanted leaves during this season? Well too bad, you will have to wait 4 times as long for plants to respawn. Any crops planted before this season will grow, but if they are planted after the season begins, they will grow, but at a 90% speed decrease. This season is the time when you want to stay inside by your nice warm stove and wait out the winter, eating your pies and bread, maybe sipping on apple juice.

Spring is a time of growing, pretty flowers and of course cleaning. But you don't have to clean, I won't make you. Instead, you will be stuck inside hiding from the storms as they occur 25% quicker then in the current game. And with these storms, your drinkable water sources will also fill up 20% as fast as usual, water is at a surplus so farming is too. Thats right, farming will now be buffed after it's recent murder. During this season Growing speeds are increased by 30%, your crops have water, and sunlight, what a great day it is. Now would be the time to start stocking food for the coming summer droughts and then the full blown killing of farming and the injureys of water.

All seasons would last for about 60-90 minutes, and 5 minutes prior to the change a notice would be sent out by the server onto the chat. At the time of change another notice would be sent.

All criticism is welcome, as this is my first real suggestion. Any stats are welcome to change, and the whole suggestion is obviously able to be killed. Enjoy.

Edit1-Some stats changed, a correction made. Respawn times rather than chances and storms will now freeze water sources until thawed by a limitless(forge, smeltery, bakery, stove) fire. Colds are given when under a storm for too long, and cured by standing near limitless fire for a bit. Thanks to NoBanana for his ideas. 