I'm not usually one for conspiracy theories but ... (White Giant)

... has anyone else ever experienced this level of earthquake activity?

July 15 2543, a Light Earth Quake occurred in Hairy Hippy Land

January 10 2545, a Light Earth Quake occurred in Holy Hippy Land

June 15 2545, a Light Earth Quake occurred in Holiday Hippy Land

December 7 2545, a Large Earth Quake occurred in Army of Darkness. The Large Earth Quake was felt in Happy Hippy Land and Huggy Hippy Land as well.

May 25 2546, a Large Earth Quake occurred in Heavenly Hippy Land. The Large Earth Quake was felt in Hanky Panky Hippy Land and Hilly Hippy Land as well.

I have ten countries and eight of them experienced earthquake damage within nine RL days of each other. Seven of the eight are in a cluster, the other is over the other side of the planet.

I have always scorned conspiracy theories when it comes to earthquakes, but this does seem more than coincidence. Especially when I am only 20 DI points off level 6 and right on the edge for FI.

Please, someone tell me this has happened to them too ...

Hugs and respect

Jo

LOL Jo,
The game gods get nervous when one approaches too close...


Daconia

The earthquakes effect the nations next to the nation they actually hit as well. It kinda stinks to have your empire all bunched up. Look at it on the bright side.....you can send in tons of extra pop due to relief units. (Glass half full kinda guy)

T

About a month ago I had 4 or 5 countries struck with earthquakes within about a week or two and my empire is pretty well spread out. At the time I wasn't trying to level up so I also looked at it as a blessing.

MoP

Thanks MoP. Nice to know it *does happen and is not unique.

Congratulations on the #2 spot.

Hugs and respect

Jo

No problem

Thank you and congratulations on attaining your hard fought goal of #1.

Hopefully I'll be in your spot this time next month. (crossing my fingers)Wish me luck!

MoP

I should be out of the dungeon in July.

I do wish you luck MoP, but I have to favour Ron, who is my fedmate and who you recently deposed.

But I know that Ron is going for level 6 over the top spot, as I did, and that takes a long time. Eventually, as you get near, everything comes into balance and the score goes up, but it takes a lot of frustration, sitting in the top 5 for a long time while you balance it all out.

I know Ron will get there in the end through sheer hard work and persistence ... and reap the GCs that come with it

So good luck for next month MoP, and good luck Ron in getting to level 6 and #1 ... soon

Hugs and respect

Jo

I was hit three times in a row on Little Upsilon....

Damn un-licenced BUILDING CONTRACTORS Jo...

Bastards,
Didnt put enough rebar in your building foundations, and ignored all codes set up by your governments...

And then we went to fiji and windsurfed.

I will personally go door to door in the lower income areas of your nations and offer my construction services to rebuild the slums, crack houses, nude bars, and brothels. We can't have the local entertainment venues effected by these quakes remain damaged. The little people need their fun too.

T

So what you're saying is you'll be visiting every prostitute and giving them money? I can only wonder what they do in return :P

You have to wonder? Wow, you don't know me at all.

Maybe you were on to something there Jo.

I wasn't struck quite as hard. However in the past week PN and PN 7 had earthquakes. They are on separate continents. If I get hit with any more I will really have to wonder if it isn't just a coincidence.

And to top it off. Has anyone noticed that they reduced the max disaster teams from 1200 - 200 WTF!!!

Now disasters aren't good for anything unless you want to sit there waiting for them to ship out and unpack them and start the whole process over again. A little too tedious for my taste

P.S. Actually scratch that I just tried to send a second wave and now the max is 100 this game just gets better by the second!!!

What is truly upsetting me more often these days are the "Unannounced" tweaks they are installing. If M.O.P.'s accusation is correct, then they made yet another change without announcing it in the forum or game news. All changes should be announced and preferably with some sort of warning that it will take place soon. Tom, this is only fair. This gentleman was caught with his pants down around his ankles by this game change while dealing with multiple earthquakes and trying to send relief supplies and units to cope with the damage. I think a better effort to notify all of us of game changes is in order if this change has truly occurred. I know for a fact that the limit used to be much, much higher on the number of units set up in relief reserves. Why the change, and why the change without an announcement?

Coincidence.

Honestly, one cannot expect the Gamemaster to just sit on a chair, look at one screen reading messages and looking at another, just distributing earthquakes like who gives rain.

Not talking about the earthquakes Laguna, I'm talking about the relief unit limits being lowered unannounced.

That post was for all those who think earthquakes intentionally hit someone.

Regarding the limits on relief units... Apply the same reason as for why the flights of Relief Units became restricted and we could arrange the reason why there's a lower limit on stocking up Relief Units. This is more of a possibility than fact, however.

Personally, I'm for the removal of Natural Disasters. They're benefit to the game ranges almost nothing.

Guess what. I just had another one in PN 5 Wooow whoooo!!! Who new coincidences could be sooooo much fun

Have it your way. ~

The next time I see I see an earthquake hitting China, I'll just think God hates them.

Laguna can you recover from an empire wide disaster using the 200 relief team limit?

Actually its only 100 whenever I try now!

If I can?... You people make with every question!

If you can't login in time to your nation to setup Relief Units to help you recover, get help!

The limit is only on the amount of Relief Units you can steup. It isn't limited in both time and amount. It isn't a limit regarding foreign help.

The only benefit that comes from Natural Disasters is their excuse to interact with others, but like that works...

Instead of attacking the hit of earthquakes and the limits regarding relief, go right to the root of the problem and request the removal of Natural Disasters from the game. Do I have to give that push or...

^I just started an exclusive poll to that effect.

The one that really got me was the following message, when trying to recover from one of the earthquakes mentioned above...

"You have 100 Building Teams in stock. The maximum is 100."

"120.5 Building Teams needed once."

For me, not a problem as I was able to build and send teams in from other countries in my empire (despite the fact that most of them were suffering from earthquakes of their own). But what about the little guy with only one country?

It seems ridiculous that you cannot build as many disaster relief supplies as you need to recover.

Hugs and respect

Jo