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Originally posted by lemoncroissantlizard

It never even crossed my mind that rimworld made use of the equator etc. Made it especially wierd for me that the game had a map before caravans, but now it makes sense

I remember back when we added the 3D planet for the first time. Previously the game had used a constrained 2D map of part of the northern hemisphere, and just used the seasons to describe time passing.

Of course once you do a whole planet with southern hemisphere you can't describe time by seasons, since those seasons are different in different places and it wouldn't make sense if you moved around.

So we had to add quadrums. Which are weird. But people were so confused about them. So many complaints asking why we were using these dumb sounding made-up words instead of just seasons like before. We had to - it's geometrically required!

Heck most of the world doesn't even have the 4 named seasons really.