Poll - How frequent do disasters occurr in your campaigns

[Teleklos Archelaou]

That's the question. How often have they occurred in **EB** while you are playing it? You can click as many different options as apply.

[Pharnakes]

Is it just me that can't see the poll?

[Teleklos Archelaou]

The board is weird like that. When you post a poll, the thread appears first, then while you make the poll, it isn't visible yet until you totally finish it (but the thread post is sitting there, visible.). Odd, but the way it works.

[Maeran]

While I'm waiting for the poll, I shall ask.

Do you mean disasters like the Seleukids breaking our alliance to wipe out my Roman army that was in fact campaigning against Carthage in Africa?


Or CTDs?

Edit- Ah, you mean natural disasters.

I've seen several plagues. No storms or floods though. If you're considering tweaking this, is there any way to make them more likely in winter?

[Dumbass]

I have had volcanoes in Southern Italy, but no message popped up, and no lava spewed forth, all I noticed was the sound of destruction, smoke coming out and a drained population.

[Pharnakes]

Yeah same here, though I never noticed the loss of population, though I didn't really look for it, but I've definatley had the screams and roaring nosises.

[Teleklos Archelaou]

The thing is, it seems we can make plagues and volcanic eruptions occur on specific years ("historical disasters"), but storms, random plagues, random volcanic eruptions, floods, and earthquakes are all very very very very rare to nonexistant, and we can't find a way to change that.

It seems like the file that controls that stuff does absolutely nothing - you can totally delete it and it does nothing.

Anyone interested in solving the problems can take a look at the discussion here: https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=77756

I'm going to submit a new disasters.tga file with the next build, then post this poll again a couple of months after the release, and see if it has changed at all from what we currently see in the results.

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edit: Yeah, the volcanoes will be fixed - I see that all that takes is repositioning etna's coordinates, and I tried it and it works now. That is a historical volcanic eruption though - one that we set the date for. I wish we could do it for storms and floods and earthquakes too though, but it only works for plagues and volcanoes that way.

[Warmaster Horus]

Yep, I had Dumbass' problem too.
Thing is, it also took away my great general Scipio Asina...
He had just come back from a great conquest of Sicily.
But, oh well.

[Centurio Nixalsverdrus]

Oops - I voted for Earthquake never, but now I recall I once had one. I got a message, and dead soldiers and citizens, but no animation.

[Teleklos Archelaou]

Yeah, we can't put coordinates in for that pontic earthquake or the gallic one or iberian one either. But the messages still pop up.

[The Celt]

None, zippo, nada. I think in one of my Arverni campaigns I had a plague but that was about two or three versions ago. So I've never seen any disasters in any of my 8.1v2 games. Its kinda boring really.....

[d'Arthez]

I have had floods, and I have had even three different occurances of a plague in a single campaign (non-spy induced). In order to prevent being slaughtered by the Seleukids, I sent out an army of pest-ridden rats .... spies.


But I have not had a single instance of the plague or floods when playing with the Romans.