2 earthquakes which destroy ~600 buildings total inside 10 turns after 1st rebuild isn't nice and bit against normal luck.

call the second one an aftershock then :p

+ infinity.. best answer i ever heard... and u responded to him in language he can understand and would have spoke if it had not happened to him

i have gotten enuf earthquakes past few days to demolish 1k buildings.

I've got 16% luck and had two earthquakes within 20 turns that destroyed 279 buildings. Apparently the 16% luck can be "bad" luck?

investing luck you get more positive booms and less neg booms and more land on explores etc, it doesn't prevent all neg happenings (unless gets it to 100% but that's not possible outside test server).

I've noticed one thing about this game, if you have a building rate higher than 65 BPT, you get an increased number of earthquakes, what is your BPT?

I'm a dict with 35 bpt and if 16% luck means less neg happenings, and 2 earthquakes = these less happenings, then how many earthquakes should i get with 0 luck? 5? 6?

i got 100 bpt and ~15 bpt and even those with ~15 bpt have gotten earthquakes lately (small 1s due not that much buildings).

I had 2 in 166 turns of batch exploring lol

Speak about bad luck :(

Earthquakes late game can be terrible. There's times it's not even worth rebuilding, you can lose thousands...

I posted this a few days ago on the page 5 of the Primary Talk thread for the current set, which ends in about 8 days:

http://www.earthempires.com/...359-thread-32194/5#595434



The powers-that-be should take a look at that page. There's a lot of players there in contention for top ranks, getting hit by earthquakes multiple times with huge, expensive losses..
Now you might say it's fair, because everyone has the same risk. But if you think about it, it's not. Random does not necessarily equal fair. And if it happens to you, it's really demoralizing.

You have skilled players that have worked hard at competing for a good final rank for nearly two months and it doesn't make sense that the final standings will depend on who suffers the least amount of earthquakes during the endgame. In a past era, prior to escalating building costs, quakes were nowhere near as harmful in the late game as they are now.

Please, if you insist on keeping quakes part of the game (I don't know why) could you at least deactivate them in the second half of a set?

I'm not going to repeat myself, so I'll just link to what I posted before about earthquakes.

http://www.earthempires.com/forum/post/385379/perm (in 2012)
http://www.earthempires.com/forum/post/483813/perm (in 2013)

I pucker up these days when running turns cause I don't want an earthquake to occur.

Perhaps EE is responsible for the Napa quakes...

,,l,, (-_-)

i got today few eqs in ffa, no biggies total only ~3-400 buildings but still got bit angry since i needed to calc what's half of x when y has been reducted and then how much building a needs to be built more that both a and b have same amount (as a casher, farmer and techer have easier since only 2 type of buildings to be built unless quake hits on cs's too).

if you are going to stop EQ's from happening the second half of the set, you also need to disable the booms as well

heck, since we're hating on the RNG, might as well cease missile generation the second half of the reset

trife, it's not just that it's random, it's that earthquakes are just a random negative (with no positive offset) which cost 1m networth each late set on big countries. it's a stupid "feature" that adds nothing of value. there is no reason for earthquakes to exist in this game period

beautiful little strawman, but seriously, don't do it again.

Another problem is that it doesn't affect everyone vying for a top spot equally and it compounds. For example in the past few days in primary blid's lost 3000 bldgs. to EQ's, I've only lost 800. That's a pretty huge difference in the last 2 weeks of a reset given how tight top 10's NW's are to each other.

Booms/Unbooms affect 1 turn whereas after an EQ you have to either rebuild it and lose out on X # of turns cashing/teching or leave them unbuilt which affects EVERY turn until the end of the reset.

things are getting pretty real on the ground here and it's only so long until tensions boil over

the people are going to rise up and rebel.

HEADS WILL ROLL

More like buildings will roll.

correction: blid's buildings will roll. :P

Three quakes within about 30 turns with 8 days left on the team server

I hope the game devs don't change a thing. I really enjoy spending my time meticulously employing various strategies over three fourths of a set trying to gain an edge on the competition, and then having completely meaningless random events negate my efforts. It's a nice break from driving railroad spikes into my sinuses.





what?

Yeah!!! YEAH!!! Grab the pitchforks!