Concept: Introduce semi-predictable and reoccurring “Pacific Storms” to each of the 5 Pacific regions. During the first update when a storm makes landfall, a random batch of nations are “devastated” by the storm.
Purpose: Make Pacific regions more vulnerable, within reason
Devastation: Devastation persists until a storm passes. While devastated, a nation’s endorsements do not count towards determining the regional WA Delegate.
Alert System: Pacific regional pages would have an extra area whenever a storm is forming and projected to hit them or is over them. It would allow them to track the storm.
Storm Behavior: Storms would grow in size and change course before making landfall. As the storm gets closer to hitting, projections of its destination and severity become more accurate. Storms last 1-2 weeks and vary in severity.
“Within reason”: How many nations are devastated by a storm would be partially determined by factors including:
a) The average and median number of endorsements in the region.
b) The amount of WA nations in the World
Other possible ideas:
- Regional officers could expend influence to “aid” devastated nations
- Storms could have names
- Storms could hurt certain nations’ influence levels, even after the storm passes