[WIP] Weapon Addition and Replacement Suite (WARS)

[Deleted140275User]

It's been kind of scary here; the next few days in particular have the potential to be terrifying, what with the forecast heatwave and a big fire springing up out of nowhere and now getting awfully close. So, uh... not getting much done on the mods at the moment unfortunately; too busy trying to prepare things in case we do need to evacuate.

 

 

Hey hey :smile:

 

Do you already know, if it will be necessary to start a new game with PEACE and WARS or if it is possible to implement them into a running game?

 

Thank you.

With both mods you'll need to start a new game unless you want to see lots of weirdness (at best).

Alright, thanks for the information :)

 

Wish you good luck. Hope this situation is over soon.

[antistar]

Thanks. :smile:

 

To give people an idea why I'm taking this fire in particular so seriously, here's a photo a friend took near his place the other night. I live quite a bit closer to the fire than he does.

 

And here is the predicted spread of the fire for today. Fortunately they're predicting it will spread mostly away from the city, but that is a huge spread, and that is just for today. Weather conditions are supposed to be worse tomorrow, if anything.

 

So I'm still focussing on being ready to evacuate if necessary.

 

 

Edit: Here's a three-day worst-case prediction map. Yikes. Well, they do say "worst-case". Hopefully it won't be anywhere near that bad.

Edited January 31, 2020 by antistar

[nexusguy]

Damn, things are getting worst by the day, i haven't been following the case from the start, did they find the trigger? I mean the event that started the disaster?

[fraquar]

These kind of seasons run in cycles, but you only need to look at the interactive map to understand MAN has been the trigger of nearly all of this.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-50951043

Pause that interactive map on Nov 1 and you will see that the vast majority of fires are originating in (or in the immediate area of) populated areas - and ALOT of different places simultaneously.

 

Tell people they are supposed to slow down at a yellow light, what do they do? Go faster. I'm not getting stopped here, no way........

Tell people they are under a burn ban, what do they do? Burn anyway, who the hell are they to tell me what I can or can't do?

[antistar]

Damn, things are getting worst by the day, i haven't been following the case from the start, did they find the trigger? I mean the event that started the disaster?

This specific fire was the result of a freak accident - it was started by a military helicopter's landing lights, apparently.

 

Note that that news report is from a few days ago. There fires are definitely not easing at the moment. Here's a more current report.

 

 

These kind of seasons run in cycles, but you only need to look at the interactive map to understand MAN has been the trigger of nearly all of this.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-50951043

Pause that interactive map on Nov 1 and you will see that the vast majority of fires are originating in (or in the immediate area of) populated areas - and ALOT of different places simultaneously.

 

Tell people they are supposed to slow down at a yellow light, what do they do? Go faster. I'm not getting stopped here, no way........

Tell people they are under a burn ban, what do they do? Burn anyway, who the hell are they to tell me what I can or can't do?

In response to some suspicious misinformation being spread though social media - seemingly with the aim of convincing people that arson was the primary cause of the bushfire crisis, rather than global warming - the ABC did some fact-checking that revealed that that was not the case. Most of the bushfires have been the result of lightning.

 

That's at least a little reassuring, in a way. This time last year (actually it was exactly a year ago, come to think of it), I came across a small fire in the bush very near my place. It had been smouldering away overnight, with some visible flames. I called the fire brigade, of course. The thing is, I'm definitely no expert, but it seemed very suspicious to me; like it had been deliberately lit. Fortunately it had rained overnight.

 

If that had happened this summer - or if it does happen - well, it doesn't bear thinking about.

 

 

Anyway, sorry for all the posts that aren't about progress on WARS, everyone. At least you know that I haven't died in a fire though, right?

[Longstrider92]

Dont apologize i am more than grateful to see that you are still alright and online to make such posts. Stay safe and im hoping things get better soon over there

[nexusguy]

Yeah but, even though it was caused by a freak accident, why didn't it stop? I mean how long these fires had been occuring? Something is not right...

[antistar]

Dont apologize i am more than grateful to see that you are still alright and online to make such posts. Stay safe and im hoping things get better soon over there

Thanks - and things have settled down a bit, for now. The fire is still there, still out of control and still huge - last I heard, it's burnt over 20% of the ACT - but the worst case predictions didn't come about, fortunately. So far we haven't had to evacuate. We were in a state of emergency (for the first time in seventeen years), but that was just downgraded to a state of alert, which is a relief.

 

 

Yeah but, even though it was caused by a freak accident, why didn't it stop? I mean how long these fires had been occuring? Something is not right...

Oh, you meant the bushfire crisis generally? Like I said in an earlier post, Australia has been in a bad drought for years now, and then this year was drier still, and then this summer rolled around with its all-time record-breaking heat... and the country lit up like a powder keg. The fires haven't stopped because they're megafires. Megafires plural. There's just so many of them, they're so big and so violent that fighting them has been... well, the term "horror bushfires" has come up a lot.

 

There are a few reasons for the drought and consistently higher temperatures over the last several years. (More than a few, I'm sure, because climate and the environment is complicated.) The most obvious one is climate change, of course. As I understand it though, this year that was compounded by a much stronger than usual positive Indian Ocean Dipole.

 

Just a whole lot of bad stuff happening at once.

Edited February 2, 2020 by antistar

[Longstrider92]

Well lets count the little blessings. I am still hoping for more good news. i just hope people will be able to rebuild and continue forward.

[antistar]

Same. There's a fair bit of rain ("a fair bit" relative to the extreme drought conditions we've been in, at least) forecast for the end of the week. Hopefully it actually happens this time - the last couple of times didn't turn into much of anything - and hopefully it puts out the nearby fires - or helps, at least. I don't know the official figures - and the fire is still spreading anyway - but in that image it certainly looks like an area greater than the whole city has been burnt by that fire.

 

The horror bushfires were just dubbed "Black Summer", and while I think it's a pity it had to come from our current PM, I can't think of a more appropriate name for them. Past disastrous fires in Australia have had names like "Ash Wednesday", "Black Friday" and "Black Saturday" - notably all single days. This time it's an entire season - and even more notable is that in reality it's been even longer than that; by accounts the fire crisis started in June last year.

 

If anyone wants an idea of the horrific conditions some people have survived, this news article has some just unreal footage in it from people caught in the middle of fire-storms. That girl India and her father, holy damn what bad-asses.

 

 

Anyway. Since things have settled down here for now, I've been able to get back to work on the mods, at least for the time-being. I'm doing a bit on PEACE at the moment.