Why is it so foggy on Smuggler's Rest?

[Coldin]

I think Smuggler's Rest looks fine, but why is it so foggy? Even with draw distance and landscape distance turned all the way up, I could barely see past 20 yards before everything was engulfed in fog.

I imagine this might be a performance thing, and a way of obscuring monsters spawning off in the distance. But is there any way the fog could be lifted just slightly?

[DelScorcho]

Marine inversion layer IMO

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_layer

[Coldin]

Marine inversion layer IMO

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_layer

Learn something new everyday.

If that's the dev's reasoning behind the fog, I will be wholly impressed.

[PurpleFooz]

Marine inversion layer IMO

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_layer

We actually went back and forth on the nature of the fog with the artists and designers. Some of us specifically had San Francisco fog in mind! It gives the island a sense of mystery.

That, and it helps performance.

[KreepyKritter]

Sounds kinda cool... wish I could come explore the pea-soup...

[QuantumFX]

That, and it helps performance.

OK everyone! We have developer confirmation! Throwing Obscuring Mist, Cloudkill, and Solid Fog on Harry in the Shroud will be 100,000x more effective than dungeon alert!

[Mister_Peace]

The fog helps the smuggling effort I assume.

[Ranmaru2]

We actually went back and forth on the nature of the fog with the artists and designers. Some of us specifically had San Francisco fog in mind! It gives the island a sense of mystery.

That, and it helps performance.

Really? I had performance decreases while running around Smuggler's Rest with ze fog, but when I was in Crystal Cove, everything was just peachy, and my computer should be stomping DDO in terms of performance, but thanks to memory leaks that still persist, it doesn't.

[Backley]

That, and it helps performance.

AKA: Gives a reason for why the object draw distance is so short.

I think it works well.