Tidal waves wreck base.

[Soyweiser]

Well. This is a new one.

No idea that was possible.

It did not only wipe out a base, it also wiped out a lot of terraforming, and a dozen of terraformers in an unlucky spot. [intercourse]...

The event created a large river and a few new sea spots.

[Mart]

Was it global warming?
Global warming is part of the game, which you can also influence with council - there are 2 such votings.

[Soyweiser]

Nope, it was a random event. I have turned down global warming in the alphax.txt.

Also, I had no ecodamage on most of my bases. And only 2 or 3 on a few. Had not had any global warming warnings.

I didn't have any tidal harnesses or mining bases in the seas. Perhaps the event does something else when it cannot find bases to destroy.

[Yitzi]

New sea spots and a river as a result of a random event?  That doesn't seem to be on the list...do you have a save from shortly beforehand, and if so, if you load the game and do the same things does it happen again?

[Soyweiser]

I don't have a recent save. But will try and see if it happens again if I replay up to that year. (Just quickly ending turns up to the point it happened did not work).

I do have some before and after shots.


Tidal wave!


So it seems it also swept away the crawlers and a lot of population on the affected bases.

(Hole of aspiration and the great collective dropped from 6 and 5 population to 2 and 1).

[Yitzi]

I wonder if it's somehow related to the volcano random event, but changed somehow due to the high base density...

[gwillybj]

Those results (rivers, water, lost crawlers and formers, lost population) are normal for a global warming result, even if you have no ecodamage. Some of the other factions may be creating ecodamage and triggering sea rises.

[Soyweiser]

I reduced global warming by 1000. So for some reason it seems unlikely I was dealing with ecodamage. But perhaps the high amount of bases I had with the some ecodamage (looking around I had a few bases with 3-4 ecodamage) caused it. Feels unlikely to me. But not really up to date on how easy it is to hit those thresholds.

From my alphax.txt:
1, 1000     ; Numerator/Denominator for frequency of global warming (1,2 would be "half" normal warming). {0 to 32767, 1 to 32767}

[Yitzi]

I reduced global warming by 1000. So for some reason it seems unlikely I was dealing with ecodamage.

You know, if you want to eliminate global warming entirely, setting it to 0,1 should do that.

[gwillybj]

I usually play with 7,4. Imagine the mess that makes.

[Yitzi]

I usually play with 7,4. Imagine the mess that makes.

And what ecodamage values?

[gwillybj]

I usually play with 7,4. Imagine the mess that makes.

And what ecodamage values?

Default. I hesitate to mess with those: after seeing what the 7,4 global warming does, and not understanding the ecodamage stuff very well. Definitely a project for another game, though.