weather?

I was wondering what the plans are regarding features such as weather (rain, snow, storms, etc.) and water movement (waves, currents)?

A rain forest would be awesome

We have a weather system running on the servers already, but we no longer render it.

We have a real-time fluid simulation that computes the wind, as well as dynamic cloud generation with spatial structure (it could be raining in your corner of the world, but totally clear several simulators away) that occasionally rains. All of the weather data is currently streamed in compressed format to the clients. This was one of the first things we did when working on this project.

However, due to rendering limitations we don't actually show much of it. There are a few wispy clouds, but even those have been visually attenuated to avoid showing offensive rendering bugs that can only be fixed by a faster/smarter render engine and more CPU/GPU horsepower.

Someday we'll get everything else working great so we can once again enable weather without dragging your FPS down to unacceptable levels. The display of the already existing weather will be a future feature-add.