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ChaserZ
Virtual storm chasing on a living 3D map of Britain. Real lightning, rain, wind, snow and sun fill the catchers you deploy. Chase the sky, then come back and collect.
- 0 strikes / 10 min
- 8 storm cells
- 2 chasers with catchers
- 0 on the board now
1 / 4Deploy a catcher
A Lightning Rod for strikes, a gauge for rain, a turbine for wind, a solar farm for sun. Anywhere on the map, in your own colour.
2 / 4Real weather fills it
Every Met Office strike in range, every millimetre the radar sees, every windy hour. A full catcher stops earning until you collect.
3 / 4Drive to the storm
Moving is a road trip in your own vehicle at real road speed. Buy a faster one with Hailstones, up to the Chaser that ignores traffic.
4 / 4Everyone shares the same sky
A strike's bounty is split between every rod in range, the top chasers wear the crown, and the board shows who is out tonight.
On the board
Be the first one on the boardBoards
collected since midnightNobody has collected anything today yet. Every collection before midnight counts here.
What each region caught this week. A catcher belongs to the region it stands in, and every credit remembers where it landed.
Four-week seasons. The three who collect the most take the crown - a badge and the series crown skin.
Series 1 · 21 days left · the top three take the crown
BigDave3 collections9 
Zed2 collections4 Contracts
a fresh set every Monday
Drawn up from the outlook and last week's weather. Meet one and it pays a badge and a skin - never stones.
Rivalries
6 hours, Lightning Rod against Lightning RodClick another member's Lightning Rod on the board and take it on. Whichever Lightning Rod catches more strikes before the clock runs out wins - nothing is staked but the bragging.
No rivalries running. Click another member's Lightning Rod and take it on: whichever Lightning Rod catches more strikes in the next 6 hours wins the bragging.
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How to play
- A full catcher stops earning until you collect it. At most 400 collected a day.
- Extreme weather pays. A strike is a whole stone and a centimetre of snow 1.5 a centimetre; rain, wind and sun trickle until they turn extreme - a downpour, storm force, a blazing sky - and then pay a multiple. The pips on the Deploy menu say which is which.
- Slots come from your level (2 at L1, 3 at L3, 4 at L6, 5 at L10, 6 at L15). Levels, overcharges and vehicles cost Hailstones.
- Your board is 14 players: you, the top 3 by Hailstones and the 10 whose Hailstones are nearest your own, so a busy night stays readable; the top player wears a crown. The Other chasers slider in Layers trims that down, the top players staying longest, to as few as just you. Everyone shares the same sky, and a strike is still split between every Lightning Rod in range, on your board or not.
- The board: drag to pan, right-drag (or Shift-drag, or twist two fingers) to turn and tilt, scroll or pinch to zoom, arrow keys and +/- too; the Layers menu switches the roads, the rain, the radar loop (the last two hours; paused, the board shows the latest frame), the cells, the lightning, the satellite (Meteosat cloud tops), the wind, the players' names and the city names (the biggest cities at the fit, more as you come in). Every switch, the loop and the speaker are remembered on your account, so the board looks the same on your phone and your laptop. The crosshair rides along with your vehicle; thunder, chimes and (in the app) haptics are on from the start, and the speaker mutes them.
- Contracts arrive every Monday from the outlook; collections are for life; the series crowns the top three collectors every four weeks. All of them pay badges and skins, never stones.
- The workshop sells skins for Hailstones (two are Premium-catalogue: the tier sells taste, not stones). A rivalry is your Lightning Rod against another member's for 6 hours. A verified hail report within 15 km of a catcher pays a bonus; frost traps and snow gauges come out from November.
- Hailstones are earned only: never sold, never cashed out, and Premium buys none of this.