Natural Disasters in EB

**TWFanatic** · 09-22-2007, 22:04

Does EB have any volcanic eruptions, plagues, locusts, storms (sea or land), earthquakes, etc.? I ask because I have yet to see any, other than a single instance of Ethna erupting. I checked the descr_disasters file and it appears as if they do happen...I can't figure out why I never seem to get any.

**NightStar** · 09-22-2007, 22:09

Well somtimes I hear them, the volcanoes smoke a bit and there comes some screaming afterwards, and I have to retrain the garrison but other than that?

**The Celtic Viking** · 09-22-2007, 22:41

EB does have plagues. Got it once when I was playing as Pahlava. It was my first time... ever.

**Teleklos Archelaou** · 09-22-2007, 23:19

We previewed a couple of months ago what our new disasters were going to be like. Nothing really new, but we've optimized disasters (earthquakes, volcanoes, plagues) and made them more realistic as we see it. In the current public release they are rare to nonexistant though.

**raenor** · 09-22-2007, 23:25

I've had one plague! Hehe, I almost cried when it happened tho. Cos it was in Athens and two family members died. Athens is usually my "school" for young ones.

**Bellum** · 09-23-2007, 02:23

In the current public release they are rare to nonexistant though.

I thought they were only for the next release.

**Teleklos Archelaou** · 09-23-2007, 04:56

Well, in the current release natural disasters are either rare (e.g., plagues) or nonexistant (volcanoes/earthquakes apparently). As I said, they will be more accurate in the next release.

**burn_again** · 09-23-2007, 05:02

Well, I've had at least two plagues in every campaign, sometimes a lot more, and I've lost several valuable family members due to volcanos in my Romani campaigns. So I'd say natural disasters definitely work, but plagues are by far the most common.

**abou** · 09-23-2007, 05:14

Just remember these two words when you keep getting plagues and earthquakes: Blame Teleklos.

**Reno Melitensis** · 09-23-2007, 08:53

Not for the two volcanoes on the Italian peninsula. Mount Vesuvius has frequent eruptions, but to damage is ever been done. So it was for Mount Etna too, but recently in my campaign its eruption caused damages in Messana and Syrakusai, and almost destroyed a free men army, or rebels, what ever.

Cheers.

**I of the Storm** · 09-23-2007, 14:39

The volcanos are definitely active enough. You just don't get a message. You only notice that it has been active when you have to retrain the Capua garrison for no apparent reason. Plagues are ok, I sometimes have them. Floods don't happen (which is ok, since their bugged anyway), as do earthquakes and storms. They could be reimplemented imo.

**Teleklos Archelaou** · 09-23-2007, 15:29

Floods are included also, but turned off, as they damage the province's roads usually and we've not had clear evidence that the damage can be undone. Just look back at the map preview we had a couple of months ago and you'll find lots of discussion and description about it all. With lots of maps to show where the volcanoes and plagues and earthquakes (and floods if you turn them back on) will happen, as well as how frequently they will happen too.

July Map Preview
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=88708