Palm trees everywhere in towns where they're not supposed to be


ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue:

Palm trees really don’t grow in this area. The wooded areas look fine, but in the towns and populated areas, there are TONS of palm trees everywhere. It looks like just a quick region or biome fix would get rid of them.

Also it seems like the region is largely unaffected by seasonal changes, save for some odd coloring in the same areas in the spring time.

ICAO, coordinates, or specific location: KRCZ and many areas surrounding

[PC Only] Did you remove all your community mods/add-ons? If yes, are you still experiencing the issue?

yes

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

How often does this occur for you (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)?

every time

REPRODUCTION STEPS

Please list clear steps you took in order to help our test team reproduce the same issue:

  1. fly anywhere in the area

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What area is this? Name or location?

This is Rockingham North Carolina. The issue affects much of the surrounding areas. If you fly towards Albemarle you get the clear seasons back and no pine trees. I haven’t been too far in too many other directions just yet.

Oh ok. I figured. This is a known issue in the biome map that affects this area, where a single biome stretches from Washington to South Florida. It should be divided.

This presents a problem, as the biome combines two distinct weather patterns. Since each biome can only support one set type of trees, so a compromise must be made.

The options are:

  1. Florida would feature deciduous and pine trees.
  2. The upper region would have palm trees.

Asobo opted for the first solution.

To resolve the issue, it must be done manually, which is a lot of work.

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I live in Florida and there are deciduous and a ton of pine trees here. Not sure I understand the two options you list. Are you saying it was either/or?

Yes, depends on where in Florida. What city in Florida?

Flying around Puerto Vallarta Fall trees are turning fall colors lol

This is the problem area. The orange biome should be divided in North and South.
This is fixed in my mod. Seasons Enhanced.

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Well that’s a wacky design. This is in the orange zone… maybe it doesn’t need to run so far inland. Are folks also seeing palm trees up into western Kentucky? The map sure shows the orange going that far up :sweat_smile:

I live in central Florida right now but have travelled extensively from the northern part all the way to Key West to include the pan handle.

Yes. I used to live in Paducah Ky, about as far west as you can go, and there are palm trees at the Paducah airport. There are no palm trees in Kentucky in real life.

There it is then. The data for seasonal biomes they’re using isn’t nearly granular enough to allow any sort of realism. It’s got to be fixable.

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Moderator, please feel free to move this to wherever most appropriate.

I live near Washington D.C. and I can state unequivocally that there are no Palm trees along the National Mall. :wink:

BTW someone did an excellent job printing each of the States on the Lincoln Memorial!

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Yeah, Washington DC is looking pretty tropical with all the palm trees.

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Second this. There are numerous areas throughout Washington DC and even at the approach end of BWI where palm trees are displaying.

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What’s weird is that they chose palms over pines when pines can also be found all over Florida and most of that orange area doesn’t have palms.

YES, I was flying around DC earlier this morning, The White house lawn, The Capitol…all over the Mall in DC is filled with palm trees. Bizarre.

Also occurring in Arkansas. Sort of comical, really.

I found this in Washington DC today. Palm trees? :man_facepalming: