Geographical Events?

[Eh up me duck]

Obviously paradox have done away with railroaded historical events, but one thing that irked me is the lack of geographical events. By this I mean earthquakes, volcanoes etc, that happen on a specific date.
Will these be included in EU IV?
If not, why?

 

[tvremote84]

I would imagine it has something to do with the fact that they simply aren't fun. No one wants their hard work go down the drain simply because the RNG decided there would be an earthquake in your capital. Realism generally gives way to fun, or at least gives way to not arbitrary punishment.

Edit: My reply was on the assumption you meant random geographical events, which a rereading revealed was not the case. You are referring to historical geographic events. I would still say they wouldn't be included, but for the reason of foresight. A player playing as Spain would obviously wait to invade England until after the giant storm which would wreck his armada, and a player playing the English, knowing the storm was coming, would prepare a counter attack. Simply gamey.

 

[Chamboozer]

It would have to be stuff that doesn't affect combat. The 1755 Lisbon earthquake, for instance.

 

[WeissRaben]

I would imagine it has something to do with the fact that they simply aren't fun. No one wants their hard work go down the drain simply because the RNG decided there would be an earthquake in your capital. Realism generally gives way to fun, or at least gives way to not arbitrary punishment.

Edit: My reply was on the assumption you meant random geographical events, which a rereading revealed was not the case. You are referring to historical geographic events. I would still say they wouldn't be included, but for the reason of foresight. A player playing as Spain would obviously wait to invade England until after the giant storm which would wreck his armada, and a player playing the English, knowing the storm was coming, would prepare a counter attack. Simply gamey.

Actually, human intervention COULD change enough to butterfly away meteorological events. Only geological ones would be ABSOLUTELY unaffected. Storm affected, 1755 earthquake unaffected. This is, though, a matter of mods, because it CLEARLY isn't appreciated by the majority of the users - not by a long shot. Putting back the possibility of fixed date events would be good and would help this.

 

[Ashantai]

I for one have missed natural disasters in EU3, and I think they would be an interesting addition to EU4. My only idea though would be to make them random and very rare, so as not to make them expected. Earthquakes for areas which get them, floods, bad harvests and fires for other areas.

If they are made rare yet damaging to a couple of provinces it would add an element of uncertainty.

 

[Don_Quigleone]

I for one have missed natural disasters in EU3, and I think they would be an interesting addition to EU4. My only idea though would be to make them random and very rare, so as not to make them expected. Earthquakes for areas which get them, floods, bad harvests and fires for other areas.

If they are made rare yet damaging to a couple of provinces it would add an element of uncertainty.

Indeed. Weren't the Ming partially brought down by famines? In fact, haven't a lot of Chinese dynasties...

 

[Eh up me duck]

I don't mean storms...that would just be silly.
But an earthquake that gave a province -50% tax revenue for a few years wouldn't be so bad. In the grand scheme of things it's smaller than existing event modifiers.