Volcano out of nowhere

[stachnie]

In my two recent games I had an irritating event: a volcano appeared out of nowhere and kept destroying improvements on surrounding tiles. It is irritating especially if one of this tiles has my only instance of some important resource. I tried to remove the volcano using WB but it appears next turn or a few turns later.

Does anybody know how to disable this event?

S.

 

[Hydromancerx]

Yes. Throw a virgin into the volcano.

 

[Dancing Hoskuld]

In my two recent games I had an irritating event: a volcano appeared out of nowhere and kept destroying improvements on surrounding tiles. It is irritating especially if one of this tiles has my only instance of some important resource. I tried to remove the volcano using WB but it appears next turn or a few turns later.

Does anybody know how to disable this event?

S.

Set the probability to zero in the event. See the Modiki for which tag needs changing.

 

[stachnie]

Thanks

S.

 

[n47]

How lucky I'm not a virgin.

@stachnie, life isn't bed of of roses. I don't think, people of Pompeii had a possibility to disable the eruption of Vesuvius.

 

[Taxman66]

My issue is not that it happens, but rather that you often get a continual spawn of the event. In my current game I've lost tract of how many times it has happened... Well over 2 dozen and in a state of eruption for nearly 400 turns out of 1,500 played.

 

[stachnie]

@stachnie, life isn't bed of of roses. I don't think, people of Pompeii had a possibility to disable the eruption of Vesuvius.

Well, IIRC they had settled near an existing volcano, so they took the risk. And it erupted once. I was angry, because it appeared on a normal plot and it followed pattern: eruption - repair improvements - eruption - repair improvements ...


S.

 

[n47]

"Since the eruption of 79 AD, Vesuvius has erupted around three dozen times."
And he is far away from the leadership. -- Am not sure, but it may be Etna with her 200+ counted eruptions. -- And yes, a volcano can grow out of nowhere. Look Parícutin.

 

[Taxman66]

36 erruptions does not equal 25% of the existence of humanity.

 

[Thunderbrd]

Yes. Throw a virgin into the volcano.

Seriously funny! I'm sure we've all felt frustrated by this but yeah, it's just one of those bad deals a player can experience. Like some real civs in Earth's history have. Build more workers to be able to compensate the round it happens.

 

[Taxman66]

That's nice for the tiles around the volcano. My problem is that the volcano was originally a hill and had a resource on it. Thus while it appears as a volcano (erupting, or smoldering) it can't be mined. Additionally whenever it reverts to a hill it erupts all over again before the workers can rebuild the mine (i.e. it reverts back to a volcano almost immediately), presuming the resource is still there (which isn't always the case).

I remember cases in prior versions of the volcano appearing on the cities tile itself. Was that resolved?

 

[stachnie]

"Since the eruption of 79 AD, Vesuvius has erupted around three dozen times."
And he is far away from the leadership.

O.K., a point for you. But I guess most of these eruptions were minor ones.

It seems if the game decides to put a volcano at some plot, it will do. I tried to do some corrections with WB - e.g. remove volcano, put a resource, change terrain etc. - but it worked for a while only. Volcano kept appearing even if I turned the tile to water. And I would prefer not to modify game files.

Fortunately, some time after I have given up it stopped its activity for a long time. So perhaps the best solution will be to live with this and to pray that a volcano will not appear next to a tile with some vital resource (and maybe to keep some virgins in reserve)....

S.