Disasters

[Chicken5084 0]

Allthough all until now mentioned disasters physically affect the city (except for plagues) I think a financial crisis would be really cool, the Industries would all be abondoned and the citizens would become unemployed.You would have to do something (Fund the Industries and Commercial branches and banks and possibly lower the taxes) or else the people go on a riot or do a demonstration.

It would be a challenge to master the situation and maybee the city goes bankrupt.

Conserning the other disasters I think most off the already mentioned disasters are cool but I'd deffinately like to have the option that no disasters occur at all.

[The Bluejay 40]

I would quite like to see crime play a larger role. In SC4, you plop down a police station every now and then, and voila. I think that if police coverage is lacking, or funding is bad, especially in large cities, you should see much poorer districts springing up, gangs, even organized crime in particularly bad cases. It would also give you something to do when you reach that point when the city is huge and functioning near perfectly, as you could reasonably easily reach in SC4.

Plus, bigger consequences for things like pollution would be welcome.

[sim-fan192 4]

I want disasters to have side effects like the famous San Fransico earthquake that happened in the early 20th century. The earthquake leveled buildings but also broke gas lines which caused major fires. Unfortunately, the quake had broken the water mains as well, so the firefighters had nothing to stop the blaze. A period of lawlessness follows major distasters like hurricanes and large earthquakes (shoplifting, stealing jewelry from the dead, etc) because most of the police either have evacuated (hurricane) or are trying to help the survivers. 

     I also want some lasting side effects like the great 1900 storm which leveled Galveston,TX. It killed a large number of people and the city's water line was moved the city blocks inland at some places. Afterwards the citizen rose parts of the island by 30ft and elevated the buildings where they wanted to do it (don't ask me how). Anyway the storm destroyed all the bridges to Galveston Island so they couldn't leave. The cities extensive port industry never returned but instead moved to Houston,TX where it is today.

     Also a SciFi type disaster like, I don't know, an alien starfleet bombarding your cities from space leaving no survivers.

[ktxus05 0]

I think the main realistic disasters (tornadoes, hurricanes, tsunamis, floods, earthquakes, meteors, etc.) should definately be included. I think some rare or unrealistic ones (alien invasion, zombies, nuclear attack, etc.) would also be cool. Also I think that you should be able to turn each disaster off individually, and maybe even set the frequency of individual disasters (for example, if you're making a city based on Dallas, you would want lots of tornadoes and no earthquakes or tsunamis). Of course small-scale disasters such as fires and riots should be included as well.

[toxicpiano 125]

As long as I can turn them off, I don't mind what disasters are included.

[Sandvich 0]

Zombie Invasion (Wayy to mean, no city deserves that)

How about a 30 Story Giant Llama that spits acid on buildings and stomps on cars and stuff? (But thats SC4's mascot, maybe a moose?)

[Krumbles 0]

hey id like to see a rabbit invason like in the game bunny invasion in newgrounds thated be awsome seing ppl fighting the evil little furrballs thated make me feal co0l

[The Nickferd 1]

how 'bout godzilla invades?

and then we scream "It's Godzilla!"

then we could call in the military and watch them take down this monstorous beast.

this would be fun and exciting to watch because your people would scream and run around like little girls.

how awesome would that be?

[AeonProjects 20]

godzilla would be pretty cool

[LironTheChick 20]

As of now, all I want is realistic disasters.

1. Hurricane/Typhoon/Cyclone (Whatever you call it)

2. Flood

3. Tornado

4. Rain

5. Volcano

6. Earthquake

7. Tsunami

8. Heatwave and Drought

9. Sand storm

10. Blizzard

11. Hail storm

and any natural disasters you can think of.

[arbayer2 0]

Alien invasion, Zombie Infestation (preferably with new props such as roadblocks a la Left 4 Dead), air and train crashes, terrorist attacks, blackouts, burst water mains, floods, and less corny monster attacks, but if you just add Domo-kun walking around and flattening the city that'd be fine for monster attacks. These are my ideas. Any comments?

[lukazoid 0]

ok.. i have a good idea as wat way you could set out disasters.. have all of them.. but have it in a toggle thing.. like you click in options and click on disatsors.. you can toggle on or off to the disasters.

there would be 3 catagorys,

1.small realistic

small riot

small fire

traffic accident

oilspill

small earthquake(windows broken.. small cracks in road.. just the small stuff..)

2.big realistic

hurricane/tornado... both quite the same.. (for all those in souhtern hemisphere, cyclones/typhoons)

large flood

volcano (preset when terraforming your map you can have a volcano, you can make these volcanoes go on..)

earthquake

large riot

meteorite

tsunami

avalanche (terraform mountain... can also work with volcanoes with mud slides... flash flooding (when a glacier melts) and lava rivers...)

plague(quarinteen would be a big role..)

3.unrealistic

ufo attack

giant monster

nuke(possible)

zombie attack (fun to see it spread through your cities and seeing it go everywhere... also fun 2 see zombies running in circles)

it would be really good .. you can have the default as just the realistic ones.. and for the tutorial (which im sure they'll make) you can have one of the last things abouit disastors... lol. it would be really cool

what do you think??

[futurama2506sim 7]

A bit of a horrible thing to say, but I'd like to see a 747 plummet into my downtown and remove several skyscrapers.

[BurroDiablo 222]

Originally posted by: futurama2506sim

A bit of a horrible thing to say, but I'd like to see a 747 plummet into my downtown and remove several skyscrapers.quote>

I'm sure a few of us wish that, but I can imagine MC don't want a bunch of paranoid imbeciles saying it "Trains Terrorists" or some crap like that.

Riots though, I would love to see Riots. It could start out as a peaceful demonstration that gathers in strength until it starts to disrupt day to day business. The effectivness of the Riot-Teams should depend on the Funding of your Police force (Too much funding and your Police become over-zealous making the crowd violent but easy to contain. Too little funding will see your Police force being overwhelmed by Rioters, the crowd won't be quite so angry, but will be hard to contain) and your Education levels (Highly educated populace is more likely to demonstrate, but less likely to resort of violence. A Poorly Educated populace is less likely to demonstrate but more likely to resort to violence), the outcome is going to be purely up to how you've run your city.

I'd also like to see the Mayor pick up the repair Bill after disasters. In SC4 they gave you the amount of damage caused but you never had to pay it out. I think if this was to be realistic, after a disaster you should be able to pay the bill and the repairations should get under way, restoring the wrecked part of town to its former glory. If you choose NOT to pay the bill, the wrecked part of town will stay wrecked untill you start to manually demolish and rebuild, but this will cause the citizens in the area to move out of the city.

[eb 1]

The red news chopper crash like SC2K is fun !!

[Terring 6,473]

Black holes!

Scrin-like alien attacks!

Sea monsters!

whirlpool!

Locusts!

Acid rain!

[NzDoug17 0]

Id like to see some big disease out break, like whats kinda happening now. And maybe stock crash? Could be said to be a Disaster

[top_dog 9]

I've always liked the idea of the city flooding. But I voted hurricane, because then you can have the city flood as well =P Riots would be great as would virus/zombie outbreak

[earwax_man 18]

I'd love a tsunami or a tornado that shows debris being picked up

[NzDoug17 0]

id like all those, but have the choice of doing disaster by yourself, or checking so the disasters happen unexpectedly, like real life.

[earwax_man 18]

Yeah! Random disasters would be brilliant!

[Fraghawk444 3]

I want a REALISITC nuke, like this:

Or space laser attack.

[funkychicn 1]

I want to see a giant squid attack my cities. Of course the city would have to be near water to make it realistic (slightly), so why no have a giant flying squid? It could fly in from Japan or something (hopefully that diddn't offend anyone who's in Japan). Or maybe an evil scientist reconstructs Hitler (that would be pretty bad, I'm not sure I'd want to see that). Or possibly a giant earthworm that eats it's way through the water mains and sucks unsuspecting ped's into drain covers. That would trigger a mass man hunt for (what police thought was a) serial killer. That would lead to mass panic and crowd stampedes whenever a minor incident occured (such as someone being stung by a bee). I'd want to see those. Get with it Maxis! In the next game maybe.

[Sypr54 0]

I say air crash/train crash. That would be fun, two trains collide in a beautiful city. Fire, explosions what so ever. And if you don't react quikely enough, your city is gone.

[chris0101 8]

Seeing that we're talking about a planetary scale, lets try this:

- Split every region up into nations

- Have nations be able to go to war with one another maybe (tanks and other vehicles, completely controlled by AI)

- Nuclear war is a possibility

- Not quite a disaster, but things like economic embargos are certainly possible (it will be an economic disaster - lol)

[Tonywolf7 0]

SimCity needs weather, I think we should see some huricanes! Plus they can lead to almost all those other disasters listed!

[syed1994 0]

I think that standard, normal disasters should be included but they should allow people to make disaster modifications. That way, everyone can be happy.

[TrKyleH 0]

I think that should include every type of "realistic" disasters. Just hopefully they have more disasters in Cities XL than they had in Sim City 4!

[Dirktator 2,320]

Well, I've always thought disasters were pretty pointless, but no doubt there's a certain destructive appeal to destroying your city, if only to just reload it afterwards.

It's going to be an exciting few weeks as we delve into the beta. Junebug is a CODEWORD. Let's hope Monte Cristo server's don't crap out! Cheers!

[jeje71 6]

as for now, it's completely out of business