ok, so the work on ocean currents for my setting is getting to be more complicated and difficult than I thought. I will probably spend a few days to a week or more just trying to figure it out, based on my schedule. but I have alot of fiddling around with it to do to get it right. once I have that sorted out, though, I can begin to place the climate zones and figure out what the world looks like. I am trying to make this all fit a certain general guideline, so if it's not working out the way I want it, I may go all the way back to the drawing board and start over again. tweaking things here and there until I get it to work out the way I want it to. but that said, I may just have to accept that some features I originally wanted are not scientifically feasible. which is all well and good, that's why I'm doing this in the first place! if some concessions have to be made, I"m ok with that. but I still want to make it fit the basic design I had in mind.