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Alright, I think I went a little over-board with the sewage holes, but I hope you pick up what I'm puttin' down. ;D I also added a brick(?) wall for extra defense.

(Keep in mind I drew this in under 5 minutes, just a rough, rough, rough draft of what's going on in my head)

Plagues and stuff. :P

Could just be like the sewer grates along the roads

@Drawing Hm, I was kinda thinking that the sewer grates would be among the city, because we'd have floods instead of tsunamis. :P
Among the city, they'd lower the maximum height of the flood, so there'd be less speed, force, etc. So less damage. Sorry if I'm being confusing.

For depicting the plagues, the newspaper update idea is good, but we could also have small green clouds floating among the ground of the city?

Okay I'll be working on the defense upgrades. If you ever think of some, try to post it in this format:
1st item > upgraded > upgraded > etc.

Ok, the upgrade trees weren't so good. But anyway, each defense system would have its own tree. For example:

As you can see, we have the Sewer tree. It branches off into two different upgradeable lines. The first would be more grates, for faster draining. Each time you upgrade, you'd unlock the next upgrade for more grates, etc. The same with the cistern depth.

Sorry for triple post.
You can just copy the link into your browser: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/819/upgradet.png/

Oh, duh, it could be as easy as a little notification that pops up on your screen. Silly me. Also, wouldn't the green clouds indicate acid? Oh, maybe plagues and whatnot could be a result of acid rain :O That fits together so well. Maybe there could be different types of acid rain, mostly by color: maybe green, orange, and blue. One has more effect on buildings and deterioration, one could get into water and make people sick, and the other... Iduno. Maybe both. It would be better to have sickness as a result of acid rain, because I don't think random sickness is quite as... Iduno, good. Not in a bad way, but more unnecessary.

Oh, okay. so you can only pick one path, or can you do both? Also, make sure you copy the direct link instead of the link itself.

Hmm... How about vents that would suck up the ash? They'd just suck it into big jars/vats/whatever to be disposed of.

Well, how about we have devices on the top of buildings that would suck in the surrounding air and filter it? That might work.

I'm scared this is going to be a super long post... so. Whatever.

Each section is split into a day, and at the beginning or end of the day (whichever), a newspaper is published.

I was just thinking flood from all the rain and lightning.

you get a rocket launcher

So, each branch would have a different purpose!

Oh, maybe plagues and whatnot could be a result of acid rain

Maybe there could be different types of acid rain, mostly by color: maybe green, orange, and blue.

What do people do to prevent volcanoes?

you also have to buy food for them.

like guard towers alerting of their attack.

Okay, to take a slight break from all this chatting, I drew some pictures and decided to upload them.

Woops, for some reason that last image didn't show up.
If this doesn't work, you can just right click the little question mark and open in new tab to see it.

*hope it works*

Confusing, but doable. I've never really been good putting those things together, so I'll see.

I was thinking maybe putting a cork in it, lol!

like guard towers alerting of their attack.

I just realized: Dump ice into it!!

Like you can upgrade the first thing, get it, and then upgrade certain things about it from there. Or you could just upgrade it itself. Do we want a very upgrade-minded game?

I was just thinking of how the whole system will deliver. I'm thinking like you roll your mouse over something like a building, click on it, and you can repair it, upgrade it, or destroy it, and how much health it has. There would be a bar at the bottom talking of overall health, your money and maybe supplies, and something else that I forget. I'll post if I remember.

Maybe you could name it yourself instead, sort of like 'this is your town, day __' if you saved it. Which should be possible. Hint hint.

there could also be snipers in the towers that would fire at the wolves! They'd have upgrades for accuracy and damage.

I'm thinking like you roll your mouse over something like a building, click on it, and you can repair it, upgrade it, or destroy it, and how much health it has. There would be a bar at the bottom talking of overall health, your money and maybe supplies

Also, for a place where we'd buy the defenses, we could have something like a lumber yard, or a Home Depot or something like that?

Guys, your ideas are getting a little bit out of hand, please try to keep it simple...

Well first, you know I wouldn't be able to actually use Home Depot, because there would be terrible copyright problems, you know. But I like the idea.