Disasters NOT disabled!

[PlasmaJedi]

So I just recently added the disaster DLC, it asks me if I want random disasters, I say "No", because I'd rather get the feel of the game for a while (I bought it on the free weekend). I check in the menu, random disasters are OFF.

Ok, a few hours into my pay session, a TORNADO RAVAGES the OLDEST PART OF MY CITY!!! All the homes! All the heritage! Little Beaver Cleaver is crying at the rubble of his former house!!! OH THE HUMANITY!!!!

To the game's credit, it was very cool and the disaster response teams are awesome to watch work. A while later all the rubble was cleared, houses were rebuilt, and the city was up and running again!


OK, so WHY did that even HAPPEN?? They are supposed to be OFF!!! This is NOT a good feature, having the "enable" button broken! Not really mad, just annoyed. The damage could have been way worse, depending on a lot.

[kristofburger]

I can think of two possibilities:
1. You have an outdated mod that's messing with it
2. You're playing a scripted scenario that doesn't care about the setting

[PlasmaJedi]

Originally posted by ristosal:

I can think of two possibilities:
1. You have an outdated mod that's messing with it
2. You're playing a scripted scenario that doesn't care about the setting

I have no mods.
I am playing a freeform city. No scenario.

I can check to make sure its a plain city, but I never start my experience with a game by playing a scenario.

[PlasmaJedi]

Bump cuz no answer. Anyone else have anything to say?

[Four Elements]

You might have clicked on disasters tab by mistake while playing the game

[Admiral Obvious]

Originally posted by Four Elements:

You might have clicked on disasters tab by mistake while playing the game

Opening the disasters tab shouldn't automatically tell the game "it's ok to ruin everything now".

I'm pretty sure OP somehow accidentally left disasters on in the settings, since it resets for some reason.

Make sure random disasters is off, and for safe measure, move the randomness slider all the way to the left so it's set as 0.

[Four Elements]

Originally posted by Admiral Obvious:

Originally posted by Four Elements:

You might have clicked on disasters tab by mistake while playing the game

Opening the disasters tab shouldn't automatically tell the game "it's ok to ruin everything now".

I'm pretty sure OP somehow accidentally left disasters on in the settings, since it resets for some reason.

Make sure random disasters is off, and for safe measure, move the randomness slider all the way to the left so it's set as 0.

Sure, unless you click on a disaster by mistake. Even if disasters are disabled when you click on a specific disaster in-game you automatically activate the disaster you just have clicked on. The bar has nothing to do with activation. It's only to set the magnitude of a specific disaster.

[PlasmaJedi]

AFAIK, I didn't click anything to trigger the disaster. BUT, I also don't know yet where the buttons to do that are. So! Where IS the "mad scientist kill the world control panel"? 😈

[Emperor_Peter]

Turning off the "random disasters" radial button isnt enough for some reason. You have to go to the gameplay options and pull the "random disaster frequency" slider all the way to the left.

And for the mad scientist in all of us, the disasters "control" (you can't really control them lol) tab is found under the landscaping tools, once you get the population required to unlock them

[PlasmaJedi]

Well thats stupid. Why even HAVE that button? Yeah, my slider is in the middle, where it has been since I got the disaster pack.

[Admiral Obvious]

Originally posted by PlasmaJedi:

Well thats stupid. Why even HAVE that button? Yeah, my slider is in the middle, where it has been since I got the disaster pack.

Pull that slider all the way to the left, and you should be fine.

[PlasmaJedi]

Originally posted by Admiral Obvious:

Originally posted by PlasmaJedi:

Well thats stupid. Why even HAVE that button? Yeah, my slider is in the middle, where it has been since I got the disaster pack.

Pull that slider all the way to the left, and you should be fine.

Cool. Ty!

[kristofburger]

I don't know what's up with your copies but I don't have to do that, turning off from the radio button is enough.

[PlasmaJedi]

Originally posted by ristosal:

I don't know what's up with your copies but I don't have to do that, turning off from the radio button is enough.

Maybe I need to "turn it off and on again"?

[Cornelius]

So glad this is STILL a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ problem in 2023, just lost like an hour of progress and thousands of dollars in damages because this setting doesn't work properly, super cool.

[A TRUE BLUE WICKIE]

came back to this game because skylines 2 negative hype got my in a city building mood

three hours down the drain when a tornado went directly through the middle of my starter city

so much for easing back in - for ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

still a great game though, gonna try looking for that disaster frequency slider