Looking and Sandstorms

[Silent Bob]

Why can I look out and see into a sandstorm a tell what the terain is?  I mean if it was a sandstorm that is there when I go in that square I cant see a thing then why does it not say a sandstorm is there from the outside.  I mean thats silly aint it?  Or can I from the outside have the ability to see through a sandstorm, but when in it I am blinded?

[CindyLou]

I think it's probably a limitation of the code. The game has its zones, and if the weather is good enough to see in the room you're in, then that zone is "good weather" at the moment. And so in that zone, you can look in any direction and see whatever the weather in that zone lets you see.

Even if the next room is a sandstorm, but that's because the next room is a different zone. In zoneless games, things work differently. But as I understand it, diku has these limitations because it relies on zones for its world building.