(12-12-2019, 02:34 AM)martianant Wrote: I'd like to suggest a slight change:
Whole asteroid -> world destroyed
large chunk -> world transformed into lava world
small chunk -> city/life wipe
Inspired by real life, a simulation of a 500km asteroid hitting earth.
But as stated in the video you linked. This has possibly happened to the Earth 6 times, and Earth isn't a "lava world".
Sure right after the impact the Earth was likely a firey hellscape for a while, but it didn't stay like that.
And some asteroid impacts might instead result in an impact winter, but that would also be temporary.
I agree that it would be cool if the world was uninhabitable for a while after an impact, with nice visual effects and such, but it should be temporary. It could require you to use buildings with harsh environment protection on the world while the effect is active. Could even make it so that the smaller impacts only destroy buildings that don't have adequate harsh environment protection. Then when the effect wears off, maybe after a week or two, the world returns to normal but with new/changed animal and plant life.