I had thought for awhile that it'd be nice to have the world landscape customizable by the WORLD server, for example being able to change the amount of altitude change in the mountains, change water level, etc. I'd decided that this would be bad, probably leading to a great many worlds with that many more chances for bugged landscape. I nixed this idea due to increase server load, but what I would like to implement is customizable weather patterns.

Here's what I'm thinking. The person running the WORLD server would be able to choose a few options as far as weather is concerned. "Storm Activity" would dictate the chances that a storm system would develop, "Jet Stream Speed" would dictate the speed at which the storms would pass throughout the land (if I don't have moving storms, this will dictate how long they last), and finally, "Intensity" would dictate the range of storms power.

I would like the see Day and Night cycles in the game (maybe a split into 8-hour days), possibly with actual sun and moon cycles. However, I wouldn't want to do it unless we could pull off dynamic shadows based on the sun/moon's location. Clouds would make things darker, fog would occur in the morning (and after rain), etc. Weather would make a valuable tool in planning an attack.

Of course, this would also allow for each House to research Meteorological Technology, and allow them to predict the weather (with limited accuracy) up to six game days in advance (two real world days)

Yes, you read me correctly above, sea level. Why limit combat to land and air? Imagine the thrill of being able to park a Battleship type vessel off the shore of your enemy's base and launch long range attacks. Slow siege.

That's kind of the point of this game. I want to avoid the fast flare-type action of today's deathmatches. Well, let me rephrase that. I want to keep the fast action of melee combat, but I want that combat utilized in a war machine effort. I imagine mission that could take a few hours to complete, sprinkled with fast combat between goals.