Natural Disasters

Why no disasters?

In galciv2 why aren't there natural disasters? I would like to see planets losing factories and farms to hurricanes and other planetary disasters.

The game would feel more real. More research to calm the affects of disasters and unique planetary disasters. It wouldn't make you feel like a screen jockey.

What do you think stardock?   
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Reply #1 Top
bump?  
Reply #2 Top
That would be a good idea for stardock to do but... having that happen on all your planets (espescpecialy if your going on gigantic with abundant) would be alot of micromanaging. Also I think that would be a thing the planatary government would take care of ( It would be like the president telling everyone exactaly to rebuild everytime a tornado strikes kansas).
Reply #3 Top
although there are a few random events that are related to natural disasters, at least two of them are drought/famine related, but they kind of hint at the disaster happening on several planets at once, which doesn't make a whole lot of sense, there is one or two meteor shower events, one event where a moon or some huge object is going to crash into a planet and the race that are the victims (some minor race incapable of interstellar flight I guess) are the ones that you have to save. Theres also an interstellar plague event.

So there are a few random events related to natural disasters which would be significant. Things like tornadoes, quakes, volcanoes, and hurricanes would be something localized and the planetary government would take care of it.

However, if it was something very severe like a Krakatoa or Tambora sized eruption which would really wreak havoc and would require some outside help, that could be an event.

When you have a huge number of planets, approaching 100 or more, then chances are that at least one could have some big local disaster at any time. But the majority of the random events are related to military, political, research, or morale things.
Reply #4 Top
Yes the random events were where the natural disasters such as famine, meteor hits and other acts of nature happened with way to much frequency in V1.0. Now in V1.2 they gone to the other extreme and they rarely happen now.
Reply #5 Top
they can still happen a couple times in a game, but yea, the famines and stuff have gotten rare.