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I don't mind if my city has disasters such as fire because my city has fire stations nearby. But I have no way to handle other disasters and these disasters happen too often. Is there any way to disable disasters? It would be great if I could disable specific disasters instead of all of them.
Update
The disasters happen much less often now. An earthquake happens once after I updated to 1.3 and 18 hours of gameplay in cheetah speed in contrast to 2 hours in 1.0.
In the launcher, there is a button in the lower left corner. This allows you to change server.
This is a known issue with the current version of the game that the developers have acknowledged. In a recent blog, Simcity lead designer Stone Librande acknowledged the following concerning traffic and agents:
"we are seeing the emergence of many cities that test our systems in unique ways."
"We are currently testing a patch internally and hope to have it out to you soon,"
So in other words, don't demolish your city just yet. Wait for the traffic patch and see if the improved logic helps your issue.
EDIT : This patch is now out, labeled patch 1.7
Best Answer
Only way you can disable disasters if you are playing in Sandbox Mode. Sandbox Mode is dependent on the region. The person creating the region has the option to make it Sandbox Mode.
This allows:
Note: Sandbox cities are ineligible for achievements, challenges, or leaderboards.
Here is a picture showing you how you can do it.