Seasons 19 WIP Updates (PC release 24/07)

[blue_painted]

EDIT: 317 cows are quite hard to feed.

Oh goody! Looking forward to that!

[Rahkiin]

We have now a German translation of the What's new post:

https://www.realismusmodding.com/blog/2 ... 19.de.html

[Meckel34]

There are both spring and winter varieties of Oats. The winter varieties will most definitely be frost resistant.

http://seedtech.ie/index.php/en/product ... winter_oat

Thank you. I've never Seen in Germany...

[alpha117]

So in regards to the Crop Rotation planner in Farmer Klein's video, there were several instances where leaving a field Fallow after planting and harvesting a crop the previous year led to a bonus in the previous years crop. How is this going to work? How is the field able to tell if I am going to leave the field Fallow for a year after I have already harvested the field and (assumingly) collected the grain with the bonus included? I don't understand how what I plant 'next' year will impact 'this' year's yield since I could easily change my mind post-harvest.

**edit** I'm stupid, its a rotation. of course it will affect what happens previous because its a loop. especially if its a shorter rotation.

I'm confused by this as well. I'm hoping it will all be explained in the manual they're gonna release hopefully today or tomorrow. If not, farmer Klein will have another video up today at least!

Its because its supposed to be a circle, so eventually it goes back to the top and then it would have an effect on that crop

I think the increase/decrease in crop yield only happens on the 2nd time around the rotation cycle, rightly so forward planning cannot effect historic yield; unless I've totally missed something??

[CudoYT]

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[theSeb]

I have two questions.

When the year is to dry, will you have to harvest earlier to have better yield?

If yes, has the in the wopster tool integrated water measure (with them you can see how much water in your fruits is) a function?
So that for each fruit type you have different values when you get more or less yield? (In reallife it is veeery important to look after these values) because at 18 % water in plants they have to dry the corn or fruit (you know what i mean)

Would be nice, then summer would be really stressful like in reallife!

Sadly we have not gotten to this level of awesomeness yet. Consider what we’ve done as the first steps on a journey to something great.

[usaric]

I´ve seen Farmer´s Klein YT video showing Seasons mod and I have to say, it is great! You guys did a superb job! Congrats.

But when I was reading your blog, I´ve seen you guys considered implementing "Crop Insurance" to the mod (coincidentally I made this suggestion a few months ago), but you gave up stating it was a cheat.

Well, it depends how you do it (anyway, isn´t the "Government Subsized" a big cheat)?

But let me suggest this. If you could enable this option in the Seasons Menu, like "Crop insurance - ON and OFF" (hence a player´s choice), a daily (or on each season transition) payment would be deducted from your account (I was thinking maybe 0,5% of the field(s) value). When you get a frost or drought and you lose all you planted, the insurance could refund you maybe 120% of what you´ve paid for the insurance on that year - or it could calculate what the average profit would be for that particular harvest and guarantee, let´s say 70% of the income). All of this calculations could be fine tuned to prevent it to be considered a simple Cheat. So my point is that if you plant and harvest all right, you only had EXPENSE, so I think the concept of the "Crop Insurance" is not really a cheat.

Another way of doing it could be: at the beginning of each year a pop-up message could ask: "would you like to hire crop insurance for all of your fields this year for $ XXXX? Click yes or no". That way you could decide not hire the insurance when putting your fields into Fallow.

Or even on the map menu, you click X (Lands) and then on a specific field you own and press a button to hire the insurance for that specific field that year.

So maybe you guys could re-evaluate this possibility in a future update. I thing it would be a cool stuff to have, at least as an option (enable and disable).

Thanks.

[CudoYT]

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[theSeb]

We could do all sorts of things. But then we would never release.

[PrincessJessi84]

*realismus accidently creates new farm game trying to add requested features for seasons19*

[ltl.vamp]

Imagine there will be a Seasons Simulator 21 with the Mod "Farming". LOL

[WGC Niklas]

We have now a German translation of the What's new post:

https://www.realismusmodding.com/blog/2 ... 19.de.html

Will the manual for how do include seasons into a mod map be available in German as well?

[bossmanslim]

I watched Farmer´s Klein YT video showing Seasons mod and it looks pretty good.

I have two questions:

1) How is a player supposed to deal with water requirements with a) no irrigation equipment and b) no drain tiling equipment? Can this feature be turned off? This seems like RNG to screw the player for the sake of RNG.

2) Why does crop rotation look backwards? Forward looking makes sense, but if I can't come up with a logical reason why planting something after the current crop would drive up the current crops yield. My assumption is that the player needs to actually look at each field when they start the game and enter in the current, previous and before previous crops (years 1, 2 and 3) and the enter in what they want to do for year 4; meaning it should actually look like this:

• Before previous state/crop - fallow - yield value pointless
• Previous state/crop - cerial - yield value pointless
• Current state/crop - canola - yield value pointless
• Plant current year - the players actual choice - yield value matters
• Plant next year - what crop - yield value matters
• Plant following year - yield value matters

If you look at the 22 minute mark in the video, when he scrolls through the crops, the value of the yield on the 4th crop never changes as he cycles through the 5th crop. The 5th crop value changes and the 1st crop (7th) changes. If the 6th crop were populated, it would change as well. This looks to be a UI labeling issue more than anything and works as expected if you view the 4th state as what you need to plant.

[theMavric]

Imagine there will be a Seasons Simulator 21 with the Mod "Farming". LOL

I use mods for equipment and maps. I will also be using Seasons. It's quite strange to say that I will essentially only be needing Giants for the engine.

Love it.

[JohnDeere77]

I watched Farmer´s Klein YT video showing Seasons mod and it looks pretty good.

I have two questions:


2) Why does crop rotation look backwards?

It dont. The rotation planner is just a planner. And the planner loops