What does temperature in FT mean?

tcberry

Hello, I participate in a collaborative worldbuilding project known as Eshraval, and I was plotting my cities on from one of my maps on an overlay, and I came to the realization that I don't have any idea what the temperature value expressed in FT means. Is it mean temperature? Is average temperature? Does it mean anything? I'm at a loss.

Monsen

According to the help file, it is average temperature (Over the course of a year)

jslayton

To be exact, it is (spring temp + summer temp + fall temp + winter temp) / 4. The temperature and rainfall are sampled at 4 equally-spaced points in the orbit starting at maximum northerly axial tilt, those values are then averaged to get the result.
The temperature model in FT is overly simplistic in that it does not model movement of air masses or land/sea heat transport. The rainfall has the same class of problem in that air masses do not enter into the model.

ForeverDED

Under "Specify Base Temperature" there are "Random" and "Variance" input boxes. What do these mean and do? I couldn't find anything in the Help files.

Monsen

Variance specifies how much the (average) temperature varies from equator to the poles. Earth should be about 32C
Random determines the amount of randomization allowed for generate local temperature variations.

ForeverDED

Thank you, Monsen!