Natural and Player Caused disasters Options

[Phoenix]

I think it would be a good idea to have a few disasters that are controled by a admin or say a random player incident say 1 or 2 times a month?

Eg. a group of players are mining in a cave,it collapes trapping every1 but a few players, those players who are outside run to a town and tell the head of the town, a player notice comes up for every1 in the town gets a message saying that a group of miners are trapped in the miners cave, any helpful player goes to help those trapped in the cave by digging through the collasped entrance,then have a time limit before the miners die or the cave collapses killing the miners so the rescuers need to work fast as a team, after those who who were trapped are free all the people that helped will get a reward and a some reputation points for that town for saving the "lives" of the trapped miners.

if a player helps other players alot and takes part in the disasters they will earn another type of "Fame" ingame for there good deeds to other players.

What do you think?

[Honis]

Sounds like a Live Content type of thing.

Only thing I see that could be wring is that for this particular example, PC characters will be annoyed by trapped an unable to do anything for x amount of time. (NPCs could easily be subbed in.)

Having a PC in charge of desasters sounds like a bad thing. From personal experience, when someone is given temp. power over something (espestially a possible distructive thing) it goes insane. (By personal exp. I mean I'm one of the insane people looking for ways to screw other people for no reason :twisted: ).

An algorithym for random natural disasters would be neat. (Smaller scale stuff, nothing like a hurricanes or 7 R. earthquakes :shudders:).

[xardy]

i would use npc's, think that the people who need to be rescued will get verry anoyed or use gm controlled miners or something else i think you would find an empty mine becaus the player just logd out .

[Phoenix]

npc would be better now i think bout it.

i thought up another 1: theres a storm and a ferry boat is sinkin out to sea on the coast, u need to get a boat and rescue the people before they drown same reward as before