Disasters

[Androv 6]

I was always kind of sad when an earthquake levelled my city in SimCity.

However I missed the randomness of disasters in SC4.. sure you could fry stuff with the lightning bolt but it wasn't so fun, and if earthquakes were that large we wouldn't really need to worry about them.

I think fires were the only random disaster that would happen, and that was only if you had part the of city outside a FD radius.

So what disasters would you like to see in Cities Unlimited, if any?


Floods - I haven't seen this since the SC2000.  If we've got a lovely 3D landscape, surely we can raise the water level a bit and ruin some simulated people's day :-)

[rctshack 182]

all real ones... not monsters... sorry, but they should not happen as frequently or as disastrous as previous city games. Here in california we have earthquakes more often than people think, but they don't level our cities, some major ones do, but most cause some slight damage like a broken window or a crack in a road. If you look a cities timeline, disastors of a mojor scale only hit every few hundred years, some more frequently in certain areas of the world, but it was disaster after disaster in some of the sim city games... it was every few years. I wondered how many people actually wanted to live in a city that in 10 years has a major flood, 2 earthquakes, and 5 plane crashes. Fires should be the only semi-frequent disastor and even those should not be major unless it's a skyscraper or something. It should be something that happens in the background and if there is a fire department... then it shouldn't even be an issue for the mayor/dictator... whatever.

My overall point was that disasters are real events that should be implemented, but should rarely see anything major. It should be a major chapter in your cities history if one of these big disasters happen and the city should react like any city in the world would. If a major hurricane hits, I should be able to see the damage and the gaverment should offer to help out, citizens may use civic buildings as refuge spots, and many months should be spent cleaning up and repairing. Many options should be given to the us as the player to go different directions with how the city rebuilds and transforms. Ordinances should reflect preparing and dealing with disastors since many real life ordinances do.

The length of disasters should also be realistic and go hand in hand with the weather. Hurricans can last for days, Fires for hours, Floods can last days also. The game should reflect that. Transportation networks should react to this also, maybe a highway or train tracks are covered by a flash flood? Maybe a bridge has to be shutdown for a day because of high winds. A Blizzard has put a stand still on your city. This should all be taken into account.

[ILL Tonkso 1,237]

Rioting too

Traqin Crashes were supposed to be included in SC4, but deadlines.

[SODATWIN 7]

the monster disaster, ever since i first laid eyes on sim city 2000, was always corny to me

[DeiBellum 0]

RIOTS!!!

[rctshack 182]

What? We're rioting???

*Throws computer at wall*

[elle_driver 2]

PROPER Independence Day style alien attacks! Tidal waves could be interesting to see. Also a zombie disaster would be cool a la 28 Days Later! I've always liked the earthquake disaster but it would be good to see it made a lot more realistic.

[Kevin 101]

Originally posted by: elle_driverAlso a zombie disaster would be cool a la 28 Days Later! quote>

Excellent idea! Imagine having to quarantine parts of your cities.

[Sap59 3]

i would rather have natural disasters only myself.

[kamidan 0]

Can't vote in the poll since there are many options I'd like to see for OPTIONAL disasters. They would all have to be natural realistic disasters, not godzillas roaming the streets or giant robots. Give me floods, fires, tornados, sunamis etc.

[Cornish terrorist 1]

I would like to see Blizzards in the winter months. I think a tsunami or Asteroid would also be good if you wanted to level your entire city at once.

[830point35 8]

I'd like to see shady city advisors. If your streets are falling apart, and you're spending tons of cash on them, maybe you need to fire your street advisor. Keeping around a crook like that for too long should get you fired as mayor. Or maybe goofball scandals like the San Francisco fajita gate.

[Ace_F15 16]

I'm going to keep this simple and say I want some of the real world diasters we face, from hurricanes to tornado's to landslides. Anything works fine. Nothing unrealistic though. Maybe a nuclear winter but that would be hard considering this isn't like a civ 4 game.

[Cob92 360]

9/11 sized terrorist attacks. I want be able to see a jumbo jet blow apart a skyscraper, or the highway bridge that is the lifeblood of the city is blown up. Things like that can make good disasters.

[AngKH1982 1]

No offense meant but I think the 9/11 terrorist attacks should not be in the game. We need to be sensitive to the feelings of those who lost their beloved ones in that attack.

[Simcitytrainer 3]

I agree with AngKH1982.

[silentsly123094 0]

i think that there should be diffrent seasons and for each season there should be certain disasters ie: Winter: Blizzards, Spring Sever thunderstorms or tornados, Summer droughts, fall dont know? Of course theres earthequakes airplane crashes hurricanes all that stuff. I like that zombie attack and i think there should be a alien invasin.

[rctshack 182]

Originally posted by: Cobhris96 9/11 sized terrorist attacks. I want be able to see a jumbo jet blow apart a skyscraper, or the highway bridge that is the lifeblood of the city is blown up. Things like that can make good disasters.quote>

 

Ok, while that was a disaster... it was a one time event. I would say MAYBE some sort of terrorist event could happen is implemented tastefully into the game... but no planes hitting buildings. I would not be entertained if a building in my city was hit by a plane (because of terrorists). MAYBE... maybe, another more common terrorist event could happen like a bomb going off somewhere because of really bad police coverage... but even that seems wrong.

[autoVino 26]

although I don't play the game much, I would like to see floods.  You can currently make a flood in the game due to a glitch in some of the terrain tools, but because of s3d structure it doesn't always look convincing.

[Nevets13 27]

Here is my post on the subject from another forum:

Since Monte Cristo is looking at disasters, what type would you like to see?

I have broken it up into 3 categories, I wouldn't mind seeing options to toggle on/off all three independely.

Small Scale:

-traffic accidents

-small fire

-small riot

-oil spill

Large scale:

-hurricane

-flood

-earthquake

-volcano

-firestorm

-large riot

-tornado

-meteor

-If mountains are in, an avalanche

-Plague: Trying to quarantine off parts of your city as disease makes its way through.

Unrealistic:

Now this one, I'm not really sure if I would want this to be in this game, since I want it to be realistic, but still think it would be fun to have the option to unleash them on your city just to see what happens.

- UFO invasion

-Giant monster

-Nuke

-Zombie attack (now this one I think would be the most fun, watching as it spreads from citizen to citizen)quote>

[e350tb 0]

Well, that depends. Let's say you put your city in a place like Siberia. Blizzards could be more common then fires. Cities in a Ring of Fire area could be blasted more by volcanoes, earthquakes and tsunamis then by avalances. Cities in Scotland should have to deal with the Thatcher disaster (OK, not really).

[Joetropian1 1]

One may wonder what would happened when a few disasters hit a Simcity at once. Like a realistic set of disasters: An ancient volcano begins to be active... vents cause sinkholes, fires, explosions... the eruption blows of areas of the mountain onto an unsuspecting city... lava flows, of course... poisoned air causes plague in area near volcano. And maybe traffic jams running way from the city. If one simple volcano erupted, the example above would be more reasonable, not say a small hill blow up with some trapped lava and maybe a few ruined buildings

[BurroDiablo 222]

Meltdown!!! fun...

A war would be fun... hella hard to script, but watching helplessly as your skyscrapers are taken down by Soviet Scuds would make you feel all warm and fuzzy...

[flame1396 9]

That last choice. Closest to: "Why bother with disasters? If you want carnage buy a FPS - rather than waste time developing eye-candy that gets annoying after an hour"

[defcon pilot 0]

Originally posted by: Cobhris96 9/11 sized terrorist attacks. I want be able to see a jumbo jet blow apart a skyscraper, or the highway bridge that is the lifeblood of the city is blown up. Things like that can make good disasters.quote>

Terrorism is more of a Civ thing.

[BurroDiablo 222]

... actually, Terrorism is more of a Real Life thing... unfortunately for the game players and the developers, such a Disaster would be too controvertial to include... the game would end up with an 18/M certificate or something, lol.

[Cleaner475 150]

I would love all the diasters from SC3K and SC4 included if they evcer included diasters in the game (which i hope they will) but yeah El Burro is right it would be too controversial to include terrorism.

Richard

[Ded 30]

Definitely a realistic flood. Useful as a terraforming tool, as well.

[KingTitan 6]

Ummm Nevets13??? NUKE is very much a real thing......have you wtached the news????

[Cockatoo 2,256]

Realistic Volcanos. Something that looks like Mt. St Helans (Not like the ones in SC4 with strange looking red stuff coming out of a small hill)