Natural Disasters

[Mongoloid Cow]

I think natural disasters should be in, but can be turned on/off. Every year Bangladesh is flooded by Hurricanes. On Christmas Day, Darwin in Australia was flattened by a Hurricane (Cyclone Tracy in 1975) and on Easter another year, fires were raging across the continent. London had to be rebuilt after a fire. A big plague was the Black Death where 1 in 3 people in Asia, Europe, Northern Africa died. Japan has trouble with Earthquakes/Tsunamis. Mozambique was flooded last year.

[saracen31]

I'm sure they will be implemented, they seemed to be a popular feature in Civ I. And I'm sure you can turn them on or off.

[Barnabee]

I just decided to play civ1 a little (you now nostalgia...) and in it naturel disasters happen quite often. I really enjoy that. It gives a cool touch of unpredictable dangers. You could also prevent such disasters buy building various city improvments. I really hope that they used it in civ3.
Moreover I dream that they expended the concept to natural and empirewide events . Empirewide so that it touches not only the cities (like a drought for example, or a plague wave..) but the all empire. Events so that it could be good or bad ( a great harvesting can happen too....)
Any comments anyone?

[El hidalgo]

Originally posted by Barnabee
I just decided to play civ1 a little (you now nostalgia...) and in it naturel disasters happen quite often. I really enjoy that. It gives a cool touch of unpredictable dangers. You could also prevent such disasters buy building various city improvments. I really hope that they used it in civ3.
Moreover I dream that they expended the concept to natural and empirewide events . Empirewide so that it touches not only the cities (like a drought for example, or a plague wave..) but the all empire. Events so that it could be good or bad ( a great harvesting can happen too....)
Any comments anyone?

It would be cool if, say, a drought hit a certain area and affected all cities in that area -- say a certain stretch of plains, so cities along all continguous tiles (or containing them) would be affected. Or a hurricane or typhoon hits and affects all cities along a certain stretch of coastline. Actually weather and climate should be a big factor until the modern age, when better ways of coping (better storage, refrigeration means populations are less affected by drought; sea walls make coastal cities less vulnerable to storms; etc.) are developed.

[Nikolai]

I hope, but I'm not sure that natural disasters are in. It would be fine to have it, I don't see any reasons for not having it, but something is saying me that it is not for sure.

[Barnabee]

In fact by creating such concepts as golden ages and great leaders Firaxis allready has allready included "events" but I am not sure that they really developped it. For example we don't have any more news about great scientists or artists.....(which would have been really enjoyable). And I now highly doubt that they will be included
How sad it is! I am quiote a perfectionnist and a pacifict (a least in civ )

[Barnabee]

In fact by creating such concepts as golden ages and great leaders Firaxis allready has allready included "events" but I am not sure that they really developped it. For example we don't have any more news about great scientists or artists.....(which would have been really enjoyable). And I now highly doubt that they will be included
How sad it is! I am quiote a perfectionnist and a pacifict (a least in civ ) and I would have dreamed of such events as "Van Gogh has settled in Paris a cultural boost is to be expected has he has founded a painters's society" or anything similar. Does anyone has new info about it???

[aaglo]

On the other hand,
It wouldn't be nice (in world map) to have a volcano erupt, where there are no volcanos, nor major earthquakes on solid old bedrock... ect.

[OneFootInTheGrave]

Natural disasters were great feature of Civ1 and I hope they are implemented, just previewers did not notice them yet

As for vulcanos anywhere maybe there could be a special tile, or they could only happen in mountains and sea a,d 1 tile radius around the vulcano gets afected... but I think that overall it would add to the experience...

[Nikolai]

Actually, most vulcanoes are underwater. So maybe there could be an event of a vulcano erupt, and possible make a new island if
forcible enough! And, just think what would happen if one of my enemies had a ship on that tile!