Should we have earthquakes in Los Santos?

[~TKP~]

I can't decide whether or not natural disasters would be a cool feature or not..

of course it would be. Don't hate options hate restrictions. The more in-game things the better. PPL can always choose not to play them things/events etc

 

 

It would be cool if they combined earthquakes with tsunamis. In free roam only, or a special set of event lobbies, for an event weekend or something. Every day in game at 11 am an earthquake hits, just a simple animation that sends NPCs into a panic and sets off car alarms, etc. Then at 2 pm in-game-time a tsunami rolls in and fairly quickly floods the low laying areas of the map, just enough to drown most cars, but you can still get around in lifted trucks. Then around 2 am the waters start to recede and everything is back to normal until 11 am, when it repeats.

This sounds like a plan.

Edited September 1, 2014 by TomKongPhooey

[Jonesizzle]

I think this would be a interesting feature on GTAO. Only if the bawsaq is open though and having one natural disaster every other month or so, and have it be at a random time. Stocks would rise and fall, and maybe 'hail damage' type car sells.

[Kaber]

Yes.

[LonerStoner97]

Id love that, but i doubt r* will add it

[Der Süden]

I think tornados and tsunamis would be more fun. But earthquakes is better than nothing.

[J's Bonds]

 

 

 

Could we f*cking not?

What? Why not?

Because they're not even a yearly occurrenceThere are over hundreds of registered earthquakes all up and down West Coast of the United States every year, maybe even more.

Never go full retard dude.

Yes, but only a handful are felt at surface level.

[Kaber]

 

 

 

 

Could we f*cking not?

What? Why not?

Because they're not even a yearly occurrence

There are over hundreds of registered earthquakes all up and down West Coast of the United States every year, maybe even more.

Never go full retard dude.

Yes, but only a handful are felt at surface level.

 

As a resident of SoCal I can attest to actually feeling 2-3 real earthquakes annually. This is normal.

 

Edit: This year I felt 4 so far, one was even while I was at Dinseyland and it was quite a shaker.

Edited September 1, 2014 by Kaber

[J's Bonds]

 

 

 

 

 

Could we f*cking not?

 

What? Why not?

Because they're not even a yearly occurrence

There are over hundreds of registered earthquakes all up and down West Coast of the United States every year, maybe even more.

Never go full retard dude.

Yes, but only a handful are felt at surface level.

 

As a resident of SoCal I can attest to actually feeling 2-3 real earthquakes annually. This is normal.

 

Edit: This year I felt 4 so far, one was even while I

was at Dinseyland and it was quite a shaker.

Precisely. Earthquakes would be such a rare occurrence in GTAO there would be no point in implementing them. Edited September 1, 2014 by J's Bonds

[Kaber]

 

 

 

 

 

 

Could we f*cking not?

What? Why not?

Because they're not even a yearly occurrence

There are over hundreds of registered earthquakes all up and down West Coast of the United States every year, maybe even more.

Never go full retard dude.

Yes, but only a handful are felt at surface level.As a resident of SoCal I can attest to actually feeling 2-3 real earthquakes annually. This is normal.

 

Edit: This year I felt 4 so far, one was even while I

was at Dinseyland and it was quite a shaker.

Precisely. Earthquakes would be such a rare occurrence in GTAO there would be no point in implementing them.

 

An in game day is only 48 minutes. An earthquake could occur every real 96 hours. 1 time in four days

Edited September 1, 2014 by Kaber

[kingcool52]

Torrential rain would be perfect but not tornadoes

[J's Bonds]

 

An in game day is only 48 minutes. An earthquake could occur every real 96 hours. 1 time in four days

 

But what's the point? For a little camera shake? Earthquakes in LA are not exactly in the same vain as the likes of the Haiti earthquake.

[brose_sfr]

no point.

 

screen shaking for 5 seconds & maybe some sh*t might fall off a book shelf?

 

pass.

 

I've lived in Northern California for nearly 40 years & I'm sure I've slept through more earthquakes than I've felt.

[Not A Nice Person]

Sigh, Can people have fun on this game. Every opinion thread I see everyone finds an excuse for R* not to implement, Its either too fake or too realistic, All people wanna do is troll and kill.

[J's Bonds]

Sigh, Can people have fun on this game. Every opinion thread I see everyone finds an excuse for R* not to implement, Its either too fake or too realistic, All people wanna do is troll and kill.

Whereas some make sense (i.e. An airfield for Paleto Bay), some are just silly.

 

If Rockstar implement everything that is brought up on these forums, the game would be downright unplayable.

How does having earthquakes in the game have any benefit?

It would quite possibly be a disadvantage, as soon as the modders turn lobbies into endless earthquake lobbies!

[MilezDawg]

The frame rate already goes to sh*t when there's massive chaos, like blowing up a bunch of cars, etc. Hell, didn't R* take out the lighting effects ? If the PS3/360 can't handle lighting, then surely earthquakes would cause problems.

But pre exsiting earthquake damage would be cool, kinda like sections of San Firreo in San Andreas.

[RSRocks]

Maybe no earthquake, but a tornado! Would be fun to fly around the GTA-map if you are not fast enough^^

[SpidersWeb]

 

I can't decide whether or not natural disasters would be a cool feature or not..

of course it would be. Don't hate options hate restrictions. The more in-game things the better. PPL can always choose not to play them things/events etc

 

 

 

I agree, but the problem comes by that Rockstar spend time developing this instead of features which might be more appealing to the average player, so it's important to make sure the average player actually wants this more than other feature.

 

Torrential rain would be perfect but not tornadoes

 

I actually like both of those ideas.

Edited September 1, 2014 by SpidersWeb

[Reemer]

Would be realistic seeing as the real life California has a lot of earthquakes.

 

 

Could we f*cking not?

What? Why not?

Because they're not even a yearly occurrence

 

lol, Someone doesn't do their research.

Southern Cali has tons of earthquakes every year, but barely any of them are actually felt.

 

OT: No thanks. I mean, what would be the point of it? Would easily be the most useless feature in the game.

[Buttrumpeteer]

How bout an alien invasion instead?

[SpidersWeb]

How bout an alien invasion instead?

Not sure about aliens.

 

I could handle zombies for halloween, but only a 24 hour thing. If a regular disaster thing was going to be added, weather related would be my pick.

Edited September 1, 2014 by SpidersWeb

[TheKidKid415]

Easy grab a tank and blow things up

[PoisoNinja140_48]

Would get old very quick... I mean sh!t, how often could it really happen and still be realistic lol

[TCMike]

That's why it should just be a silly event for a day or two, in it's own private lobbies. And combine it with a tsunami, since that would be a bit more fun, and not totally unrelated or unrealistic.

 

There was a mod made for a tsunami flood within a few months of the game coming out, there are many annoying youtuber vids for it, but I don't want to link any, so search for it if you want to see it. But anyway, if they could do that good of a job with it, I think R* could polish it up a lot better. I think it would be hilarious and break up the monotony.

[Mathew442]

I think it is worth some thought. Obviously buildings and whatnot aren't going to be dynamically damaged or destroyed in a GTA game, but smaller things can still happen. The ground shaking, people falling over, cars losing control and crashing, street lights and stuff like that (the kind of things that can already be knocked over by the player) coming lose. I don't care if it's not put in online, but I think it would be a nifty little addition to Single Player.

[Fennimoe]

Tsunami would allow boats in the city! Lol

[Zito]

 

Could we f*cking not?

What? Why not?

 

this isn't sim city

[ktek01]

I dont really see the point, but arguing that it wouldnt be realistic is just silly. Nobody seemed bothered by the snow, and seriously how much does rockstar think it rains in SoCal?

[FertileFuZZ]

So when your zooming down the road in your car and it sinks into the road, that's not a natural disaster happening then???? !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[The Khamelion]

I think it'd be f*cking insane if R* somehow managed to create a remake of 2012's destruction of Los Angeles scene. That'd be so sick if they even just did it once or they made some sort of game mode where there's a timer until it happens and then once everybody's dead it's over. You could use the whole map and you would just have to escape the ground falling out from under you

[CaptSpalding]

Or how about giant Hemorrhoids from outer space ? then the sh*t would really hit the fan.