I'll be damned, twice!

[nepeta]

Good morning everyone,

I Just got hit by 2 meteors in a single game, and I'm shocked. Never since I started playing the game did I get hit by one, and it 's been many years. Is it an alien perk, to have 4 or 5 bases destroyed at random, or could have anything to do with the large number of bases (150+)?

I'll continue the game, keep expanding, perhaps I can trigger another strike?

In any event, I think it's a cool thing, too bad I've never had one before. Maybe one of the cpus will get struck next time

[GooglyBoogly]

since they are so rare, meteor strikes are poorly documented.
If you could confirm the crater and kill radius - i'd love to add this info to the datalinks (see sig)

[nepeta]

I'll make another game, which I'll save every turn, perhaps I'll get lucky.

A good way to evoke a meteor strike seems to be to play a large map
(70+ x 140+) with 80-90% land, and go for a lot of bases. Over the course of about 10 games (some on small (20x30) maps), I've had 2 games with 2 strikes, 1 with a single one. Blast radius is hard to determine, I'd say a strike takes out about the size of the remaining garland crater, including its outer limits, it eradicates all cities in it.

[nepeta]

Have not been able to reproduce a meteor strike, guess I jinxed myself... Sorry

[nepeta]

Jinxed twice too. After about 30 games I gave up hope for another meteor, made the previous post, then got hit twice in the very next game I played.

Here's the screenshots of the aftermath: 2 extra garland craters. (You can see the first on the mini-map, it's above the gaians.) The second screenshot leads me to believe the outer limit of destruction is the river around the crater, there probably was a city there. Also note there are no units/terraforms visible except for a former in the first picture, I believe it moved there after the comet struck. The first meteor didn't spawn a river, don't really know why.





Now I'm afraid to resume the game

[GooglyBoogly]

hmm, so the meteor didn't wipe out the former on the edge of the crater shown, interesting.

[nepeta]

I think, and already wrote , the former moved there after the meteor struck.

[GooglyBoogly]

sorry, i was overcome by the pix, at least now I know how big the crater is, and the radius of destruction (7X7 for both)

So if you really want to play it safe, build all cities 4sq+ away from capitol

I assume the resource bonus tiles were unaffected, and not generated by the meteor itself?

[nepeta]

I can't remember. Is there a way to move back a turn? There is no way I'm gonna remember all bonuses for all bases ^^

[GooglyBoogly]

the resources should be there from early on in the game, even a save from 10 turns ago should suffice.
There is a view command that lets you see the terrain without any improvements and/or bases and units.

[nepeta]

If I get another one I'll check that

[dgh64]

Yeah, resources don't move around, so just save at the beginning of each game and use the scenario editor to reveal where they were after a meteor hits.

[mail2345]

I can't remember. Is there a way to move back a turn? There is no way I'm gonna remember all bonuses for all bases ^^

Maybe autosave might have info.

[nepeta]

I had a really weird experience, a meteor on a sea map. All of my meteor strikes so far have been (iirc) while playing Usurper. I took the opportunity to check on the resource bonuses before/after meteors, they don't get destroyed as GooglyBoogly assumed.

[GooglyBoogly]

...I assume the resource bonus tiles were unaffected, and not generated by the meteor itself?

But it is good to have confirmation anyway