Extreme Weather Events

[Andrezj Kolarov]

So these would be random (but rare) extreme weather events. Every turn/day there would be a (small) chance of one happening, and they would last several turns. They would happen in specific Continents, so if a weather event happened in Asia it would only affect nations in Asia.

 

 

Snowstorm: Happens in Europe and North America in Winter. Food production reduced by -90%. Reduces effectiveness of all Aircraft -60% (both yours and any attacking enemy Aircraft). Reduces effectiveness of attacking Soldiers and Tanks by 30%. Random chance during battles that some of your Aircraft might crash (destroyed) and some of your Soldiers might die of hypothermia.

 

 

Hurricane: Happens in South America, North America and Asia in Summer. Food production reduced by -90%. Reduces effectiveness of all Aircraft -60% (both yours and any attacking enemy Aircraft). Reduces effectiveness of attacking Soldiers and Tanks by 30%. Random chance during battles that some of yours or your enemy's Aircraft might crash (destroyed) and some of your Soldiers might die due to hurricane damage.

 

 

Flooding: Happens in South America, North America, Asia and Europe. Food production reduced by -70%. Reduces effectiveness of attacking Soldiers and by 80%. Makes it impossible to use Tanks in ground battles (both yours and any attacking enemy Aircraft). Random chance during battles that some of yours or your enemy's Soldiers might die due to drowning.

 

 

Sandstorm: Happens in Australia, Africa and Asia in Summer. Food production reduced by -60%. Reduces effectiveness of all Aircraft -20% (both yours and any attacking enemy Aircraft). Reduces effectiveness of attacking Soldiers and Tanks by 30%.

 

 

Heatwave: Happens in Asia, Africa, Asia and South America in Summer. Food production reduced by -50%. Reduces effectiveness of attacking Soldiers by 30%. Random chance during battles that some of yours or your enemy's Soldiers might die due to dehydration.

 

 

Volcano Eruption (Sky Ash): Very Rare. Happens in all Continents and all Seasons. Makes it impossible to launch Aircraft attacks (both yours and any attacking enemy Aircraft).

 

 

Notes: *Obviously if two or more nations are on the same Continent and at war with each other, they would both suffer the same battle penalties.

*The numbers are just something I improvised, so don't take them as scripture, this is just a basic idea.

[Kamea Arano]

I believe these are in the works. Just not the war part. Correct me if i'm wrong Alex.

[Andrezj Kolarov]

I believe these are in the works. Just not the war part. Correct me if i'm wrong Alex.

I guess there would be two types of events, those that affect a nation alone and those that affect parts of the world or the whole world.

[Alex]

Yes, adding national, regional, and global events is on my to-do list.

[Dimitri Valko]

Yes, adding national, regional, and global events is on my to-do list.

 

Have any idea where it is on the pecking order? Will it come during the summer, later this year, maybe next year?

[Alex]

Have any idea where it is on the pecking order? Will it come during the summer, later this year, maybe next year?

 

Pretty low. We'll see how much work I get done this summer. Current priority is City Templates; next priority is War System. I'm always interested in adding more things for the player to do, so having national events that you have to deal with every isn't something I want to put off indefinitely.

[Dr Rush]

I'd much rather see meaningful updates, not random events for the sake of randomness.

[Alex]

I'd much rather see meaningful updates, not random events for the sake of randomness.

 

Events that affect resource production would be meaningful, as it adds randomly generated shocks to the economy. This makes it less predictable and more volatile, which is more fun for people trying to "play" the market.

[Dimitri Valko]

I'd much rather see meaningful updates, not random events for the sake of randomness.

 

It's certainly better than changing the war system for the hundredth time.

[Dr Rush]

Not when the war system is still broken.

[Dimitri Valko]

Not when the war system is still broken.

 

It sounds like the system is only going to get worse, from what I've heard in the podcast. Events like these will add more dynamism to the trade market (inflated prices during mass famine, lower during good harvests, etc.) and will add a bit of flavour to the war system.

[Morgan]

Great idea and certainly needs to be implemented. These little additions to the game are what makes it worth playing. 

[Ekejen Luish]

Why grave-dig posts when you can post the same idea for the 9,001st time on the forums?

[Ekejen Luish]

Also, I think that we should at least have some more logic to the volcano thing. Like it will choose a place that a volcano would be likely to occur, then it will choose a random affected radius. So let's say it chooses a place near asia on the Ring of Fire. Then it says all nation in a... say... 2,000 mile radius will be affected (uhhh it's a huge volcano). Also, if it was a large volcano (like what I just said), and it was in the ocean or near the ocean, all places near the coast of that ocean within a certain radius will be affected by a tsunami.

[WISD0MTREE]

Why grave-dig posts when you can post the same idea for the 9,001st time on the forums?

Why post twice in a row when you can edit it?