Natural Disasters

[MasterNuke]

How cool would it be if there were occassional natural disasters? Like pouring rain that causes the water level to rise... or a tornado that sucks people in and flings them... or an earthquake that makes people get knocked to their feet when they stand or walk!

Edit: Also it would keep house owners in line with their maintainance... normally when a tornado rolls over your house...

[Limelight Panda]

That would rule, not only that, but they could damage the houses, and would actually make people think where to put their houses. *Imagines a big Tsunami* Sweet..... And it hurts people in battle mode, and peaceful.

What about a sandstorm?


and offtopic:

Will there ever be other islands? (Not kingdom) like... where one might have a huge desert, and the other a archapelago?

[Dehitay]

Dehitay fears natural disasters
How about rare occurances of something like a new kind of monster appearing in a random place
maybe one of those faeries or goblins that Ogma is good at slaying

[MasterNuke]

Rare occurances would be the EM's job >:O

[Myomoto]

heh, that would be awesome, but we need normal weather too like rain ;O

[Satrek2000]

It's a nice idea - I remember the earthquake on classic, well, years ago. I don't know whether it would be possible, but it certainly was a nice feature - maybe when a night/day-system and a weather-system is added when the software is fit for it. If there's rain, there can be floods, if there is snow, there can be avalanches, and if there's weather in general, there can be wind and storm. Also, if there is night, there could be monsters roaming the lands during the dark hours, and if there's day, there could be the occasional eclipse that might have some special effects... The list of possible additions is long... I personally love the idea of a werewolf-disease, if a moon cycle was added

[Myomoto]

becoming a were-wolf would be awesome :P

[Monkeyboy_McGee]

Heh, i really like the idea, it'd be fun. And hurting houses would be good, too, except that it wouldn't be allowed to destroy houses, and someone would have to put a warning on the forums that there'd been a disaster. Otherwise the disaster could bring a house down to 5, and the guy might not check his house (because he was unaware of the disaster) and so it falls down

Also, what happened to sylvesters? We moved to a new island (supposedly @ whoever designed main ), not a new planet. As far as i can figure out, there are still two suns orbitting the graalian world? o_O

[DraxxTeazok]

Originally Posted by Monkeyboy_McGee

Heh, i really like the idea, it'd be fun. And hurting houses would be good

This is avery bad idea. Nothing in this world is reliable enough to do this. I remember when my computer crashed and i had to leave it in the repair shop for a little while, my houses fell down. Things are bad enough as it is without natural distasters destroying everything you have ever worked for. People invest too much in their houses to have them crushed under tornado's, everyone would just quit when everything they had was deleted and not only lose stefan money but would wreck the game.

I do like the ideas of natural distasters though, as long as they don't have an effect one houses. It would also be cool if a tornado out at sea could catch a boat and spin it in circles, or a hurricane could pick it up and drop it somewhere random.

I also think we could use a few more non-kingdom islands, but it would take a lot of time and work. I don't think there is anyone willing to put that much into it.

[Monkeyboy_McGee]

Originally Posted by DraxxTeazok

This is avery bad idea. Nothing in this world is reliable enough to do this. I remember when my computer crashed and i had to leave it in the repair shop for a little while, my houses fell down. Things are bad enough as it is without natural distasters destroying everything you have ever worked for. People invest too much in their houses to have them crushed under tornado's, everyone would just quit when everything they had was deleted and not only lose stefan money but would wreck the game.

I do like the ideas of natural distasters though, as long as they don't have an effect one houses. It would also be cool if a tornado out at sea could catch a boat and spin it in circles, or a hurricane could pick it up and drop it somewhere random.

"Bob struggled against the gale, trying to gather up all his livestock before the storm arrived. He was just pushing the final cow into its shed, when all of a sudden, the shed was destroyed along with the cows inside. Bob poked the destroyer of his shed, as it stood there dripping. A rather bewildered sailor peeked his head out from over the side, and then fainted. Bob fainted too."

[GoZelda]

Originally Posted by Monkeyboy_McGee

"Bob struggled against the gale, trying to gather up all his livestock before the storm arrived. He was just pushing the final cow into its shed, when all of a sudden, the shed was destroyed along with the cows inside. Bob poked the destroyer of his shed, as it stood there dripping. A rather bewildered sailor peeked his head out from over the side, and then fainted. Bob fainted too."

Poor cow...

[Satrek2000]

Two suns? Why would that be? Apart from the fact that whatever stelar bodies there may be near the Archipelagos, they are on a rather geostationary orbit

[Monkeyboy_McGee]

Originally Posted by Satrek2000

Two suns? Why would that be? Apart from the fact that whatever stelar bodies there may be near the Archipelagos, they are on a rather geostationary orbit

See, the story on 2k1 was that when the bomy moon came, and crashed into the graalian earth, it brought its own sun with it or some crap like that. So now we have our own sun, and the bomy moon's sun orbiting earth, or some crap like that.

[Dehitay]

When one sun sets, the other rises
Constant day and constant hell for the vampire race

[Dach]

Meh, it's only a cool idea when you aren't doing anything and one occurs. If you are in the middle of something important, and a tornado runs across your level or an earthquake hits, it sucks. Granted you can have it affect the monsters so they are also affected, thus releving some of the problematic situations, but not all of them. Overall, it'd be fine if there is some kind of forewarning like a storm, tornadoes and floods don't appear out of nowhere. Earthquakes do, but they don't last very long. Point being, do it right if it is done at all.