Lets create more randomness in this game!

Add in tsunamis, epidemics, volcano eruptions, tornadoes, military strikes and meteor strikes

Tsuanamis - kills 20% of your pop
Epidemics - lose 10% of your pop and have 0% pop growth for the next 30 turns.
Volcano Eruptions - kills 10% of your pop and destroys 1% of your land
Tornadoes - Destroys all your food on hand.
Military strikes - Military expenses increase to 500% for 10 turns
Meteor Strikes - destroys 2% of your buildings and 5% of your military.

Add in Treasure Finds, Kings Birthday, Explorer Day, Purchaser Day, Invisibility and Graduation Day

Treasure find - your people find a gem that is worth 250% of your per turn income!
Kings Birthday - as your people celebrate your birthday, all population gives 150% tax revenues and military work for free for 10 turns!
Explorer's Day - your people explored an addition 0.5% of your land today!
Purchaser Day - your goods take 0 hours to reach the market for sale
Invisibility - Your spies will be be successful on every op for the next 3 ops.
Graduation Day - a random category of tech will double its points up.

treasure: pci or pti?

grad day: grabbers have low amount of random techs like spy and med which they don't need so those getting doubled up doesn't benefit at all.

mil strikes: that would put heavy mil countries near bankcrupcy.

tornadoes: getting that in the middle of batch explore or 20 turns teching would suck.

bday: WE ARE fluffING EMPERORS/EMPRESSES NOT SOME fluffING KINGS/QUEENS. :P

invinsibility: morons would just love that.

tsunamis, epidemics and volcano: would hurt cashers alot.

That would be the best plan ever, random chance of destroy everything!!!! Lmao people would get so angry!!!!

Can we have one called the "end of days earthquake": An earthquake occurred destroying ALL OF YOUR BUILDINGS!

if gets 10 earthquakes then 11th will destroy all buildings.

We should also include a random chance of having your country deleted while running turns.

aaaaaaaaaand back to topic, lost ~400 buildings today to earthquakes and yesterday during batchexplore had lost 200+.

Bump, DEATH TO EARTHQUAKES!!

wishful thinking, my total building loss in ffa is so far beyond 1.5k (avg ~100 buildings per country (varying from ~2 to ~250). alliance i haven't seen eqs at all.

Ill keep topping till there is action. It really is just some crap fluff me over event.

i got eq yesterday which destroyed 5 buildings and having 100 bpt means that can't fix that until next batchexplore or until next eq which destroys 95 buildings.

It sure seems like you've increased the frequency in response to this thread. What the fluff.

i've got ~10 past week in ffa. mostly to my techers.

Heh, I have changed nothing! Though I am considering lowering the frequency...

(or severity)

If you're willing to change it please don't even consider keeping $500,000,000 random events in the game, it is totally absurd.

Yeah, I am spending like 4 turns per day on Alliance selling goods and tech, and still have had 2 earthquakes this week. What the fluff.

or maybe take into consideration how many times you've been hit by earthquakes in a set?

i have lost count how many eqs i've seen in ffa in this set.

*shakes head* I still don't know why the military would build buildings on earthquake zones. Makes no sense to me that they game has those.

just got 2 eqs in ffa which destroyed well over 1k buildings total. not exactly nice at this point of set since each turn spent on building up cost me near 10m and countries (cashers) were somewhat fully built already so no higher income either after rebuild.

Bump

Whenever a forum moderator deletes, edits, or flags a post as being unhelpful, the frequency of earthquakes increases in all of that player's countries. If your country gets a lot of earthquakes, think critically about the posts you've been making recently on the boards.

If you think this is such a huge problem, perhaps you should spend your bonus points on luck. If it's not worth doing that because you can use them better elsewhere, then is this really worth fluffing about?

*gives hard kick to slagpit's ass*

this is huge problem for those who have ~100k+ acres, rebuilding would cost way more than it costs at 30k and income loss would be higher too.

as for all-x its a problem especially for techers when eq destroys less buildings than bpt is so there is money loss anyways (direct and indirect).

early set eqs are turnwasters which screw up start up strat.

investing luck is waste of time since its benefits are impossible to proove.

bit over 800 turns before 1st eq.

got few fires and others before that.

It is a game mechanic that doesn't serve any purpose, nor is it fun, and it causes a lot of frustration. The randomness is too swingy in close top 10s. If a game mechanic doesn't serve any purpose and impacts the game negatively, then it should be redesigned or removed.

If the intent of random booms and droughts/tax rebates/etc is to simply add randomness for the sake of it, but they average out in the long run to not really have any impact, then why is the game mechanic there? Randomness for turn-based games such as random explore rates help to stop botting/scripting countries in the first 100-1000 turns so you cannot script a perfect first X turns bot, but earthquakes/booms/etc doesn't even achieve this purpose.

The fact that the Luck bonus is completely outclassed by other available bonuses also mean that the Luck bonus is badly balanced. Either the Luck bonus needs a severe buff, or it actually needs to be less opaque in what it does.

either zorp doesn't get any earthquakes or those are minor.

I've changed my mind, fluff earthquakes.

I'll take twice as many oil fires/tax rebates/droughts and half as many booms to get rid of them.

that took long. :P

That's the spirit! lol

fuzzy logic: 8 countries can spend ~800 turns on building up (each ~100 turns in row) w/o eq and once techer spends 20 turns on teching it gets eq and after next 20 turns teching (after rebuild) another.

earthquakes rule as a means to make xin crazy

Earthquakes are tied to forum post count, hence Marshal 😝

pfffffts@kohn00b

then you and fordy would get those near same amount as i do.

lost nearly 500 buildings in 2 earthquakes and spent only 4 turns. thx alot.