After playing casher in FFA and suffering thru 100s of earthquakes at least 4-5 per day this reset, I must say it would be nice if earthquakes randomly only affected certain buildings.

At least there would be a lower chance of it hurting a country, unless being played as a rainbow.. depending on the strat being played there would be times when earthquakes destroy 0 buildings.

--- Similar to oil field fires or bushels being burned, or even worker strikes if there are 0 indys.

Alternately:
maybe make different types of natural disaster, i.e hurricane (casher), tornado (farmer), tsunami (oiler), volcano erupts (techer), asteroid strike (indy), earthquake (all). <-- spice things up a little

at least it would decrease the chances of having to constantly rebuild... :)

Might be neat to have it possible to join the Red Cross or something. Costs similar to GDI but it cuts the cost of earthquakes or something?

neatish idea but why not just get rid off eqs? neither won't happen. we have campaigned against eqs alot w/o results.

we don't need more disasters.

drunck: eq destroys less buildings or income/production drops less?

Hey I'm just the idea guy, you math nerds figure out the details =P

i like the "gdi for disasters" idea ... something like "insurance" ...

maybe something you set on the management page, from 0% to 100% ... where 0% is like it is now, and 100% means you get zero disasters

the "premium" cost should probably be a function of land, buildings and nw, and should be more than linear, that is, 100% insurance should be too expensive to run it all the time, kind of like taxes work now

maybe even get a cash "settlement" as partial "compensation" for losses ...

personally, i'd rather do away with them, but it is, as marshal said, seemingly never going to change, but nevertheless, pleasant to imagine

marshal understands perfectly well the benefits of earthquakes ingame, it is just an inside joke he and i have, where he pretends to want them removed.

braden, could you please take the time to explain to me the benefit(s) of earthquakes and/or disasters. i don't see how they work toward game balance or add any strategic aspect to this strategy game. thanks in advance. :)

btw, is there a way to delete a post ... i posted a blank post by accident, so now i've edited to ask how to delete it thanks again

eqs only help if you are switching strats and you have some old strats buildings left (unlikely) or buildings destroyed + unbuilt land = bpt and even then help is minimal.

db: only mods and admins can delete posts.

I took care of it for ya DB ;)

I do like the red cross idea, it would definitely help with lowering the damage being experienced.

Marshal I am not looking to increase the amount of disasters in a reset but to distribute this amount. So instead of say 12 eartquakes there are only 2 eq in a reset the other 10 disasters are redistributed as something else. These would also only target specific building types.

eqs are random, to change those might make them less random.

this is the benefit of earthquakes; marshal not recognizing the low flying object above his head as poorly constructed wit.

Maybe they are random, but I have noticed that some countries are affected more than others. Had at least one country that got 10+ eqs while some others just got 1-5 (during a whole set). Seen this pattern for a few sets now, but maybe it depends in what order you play countries or something (i.e. seem eqs usually occur after playing a few countries).

its random, many times 2-3 countries have gotten eqs and then next 5 haven't gotten any and then next 1+ get eqs and rest won't get any.

so far ~100 buildings lost to eqs in ffa.

Thats nothing, had one country getting two in a row and lost 4k buildings last set :)

yea cuz you are fat. :P

i lose normally ~1k buildings per set in ffa.

random means random its not linear country to country you could technically get a set with 0 eq for all countries the possibility is their same as you cold get 100's per set for every country, order won't matter either random doesn't stack :P

But earthquakes are annoying AF! especially in FFA when OCD kicks in and turns are low -_-

It actually kindof works this way already.

It's a random amount from like 0-x% (where I don't remember x), recalculated *per building*

ie you could be a casher and lose 0% ent 0% res, 5% indies, and come away almost unscathed!

i lose quite a much indies and i carry only 500 ics.

better off to leave it alone, if you add more variables then it adds more chance for it happening all together.

braden disagrees with you.

would a drunk person ever agree with anyone other than themselves?

braden agrees with others occasionally.

why not remove it