Thanks for the PM Teleklos. I've done a lot of work on this disaster file in RTW & BI, and now MTW2....literally until it drove me mad. I tried modifying all files such as event titles, event strings, descr_event images none have any effect:(

In RTW1.5 & BI1.6 disasters are bugged as below:

storms - no longer work
floods - yes
earthquakes - yes
volcanoes - yes
plagues - yes
fires - 1/2 work - triggers smoke but has no negative effect
famines - do not work
hordes - do not work
locusts - never implemented
dustbowl - never implemented
brigands - does not work from here

I would suggest not using climates (you'll never see them due to the map size, and don't look for your disasters with toggle_fow, you'll never see them. Minimum event time is 2, 1 does not work. Can work in both seasons. Warning does not work. The descr_disaters txt file in the data folder is redundant and does not work. The disasters.tga file, is redundant and has no bearing.

In MTW 2 Storms work again, very well:thumbsup2

Floods - works either by region name, climate or strat coords. Min scale is better at 5, max scale should never be more than 10 (10 is a 2 region size flood). Does not work in descr_events file. It takes a while, but it is better to name by region. Don't forget the Nile Delta and swampy areas. Does not look good on islands (alaria, sardinia, crete etc)

Volcanoes-works either by region name, climate or strat coords or descr_events file. Works better and is more dynamic set to an odd number for some reason....19 works really well. I found by actually naming the regions (Campania and Sicilia_Romanus) it is better. By setting at 19 years, sometimes it puffs away with smoke and does not kill or destroy, and sometimes you have a large eruption. Minimum should be 5 and maximum should be 10.

Earthquakes - works either by region name, climate or strat coords or descr_events file. I actually created a file and never released which drew from earthquake websites based on historical accounts and modern accounts and straart coorded prime earthquake zones (gave up it was a huge job). I did this for the Arthurian Total War mod though. Minimum event here should be 2 for a tremor and 10 maximum. Realistically think of this as the Rictor scale, 1 for small and 10 for huge. Every two years is good, that means if your mod is 400 years, and depending on your region amount (198) each region will have this event twice.

B]Plagues[/B]- works either by region name, climate or strat coords or descr_events file. I cannot stress underusing this. Set it to 2 years, but make the minimum 2 and the maximum 10. Works without summer or winter tags.

I hope this helps, if I remember anything else I'll let you know. Also please please correct me if I have got something wrong.

Also if there is a mod out there that needs a hand let me know!

cheers
BR