We have the best, we have the worst, but it just wouldnt be realistic if there whernt events that make you say "Why are you even bothering a great emporer like myself with this?"
To me these are:
Road Washed away. I can see the potential danger but I always have workers build tonnes of roads once their important work is done, never hurt me yet
One Time culture bonus. Its only happened in already developed citys and the max bonus I've seen is +450, even when I play for cultural vicotry this saves 0-1 turns.
+1 to anything with less than 100 turns left. 5 turns left, your library now produces +1 Science, Yay!

Hi

My most "meh" event was -I forget the reason why- getting plus 2 commercre on a plain empty desert square.

Kaytie

LOL, Thats terrible!

Quest to build 7 triemes on a Pangea map :crazyeye:
why couldnt i get build 7 axe men :goodjob:

I don't see how anyone could get something worse than KaytieKat. Still, I think that I once had a forest burn down in the 1700s, and I had to pay 10 gold to replant it. Woop-de-doo, my GDP was over 3000.

Holy Mountain.

it was so deep in the Eternal Ice (tm) that not even an AI settled there.
It was surrounded by ice.
Not a single workable tile.

built a city right next to it to get it into borders, than gifted it to someone else (grats on maintenance).

The mines near my capital city are always collapsing...there are like more than 30 or so mined tiles in my civ but only the mines near my capital city suffer from collapse...:confused: :crazyeye:

Also having slave revolts in your capital (is it capital only? seems to me) when youhave, in fact, never slaved there.

Holy Mountain.
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built a city right next to it to get it into borders, than gifted it to someone else (grats on maintenance).

i wondered about that, if you'd keep the reward for completing the quest even if you lost the actual HolyMountainVille City. my first BtS game (still not finished yet) i got that quest and the mountain was waaaay far away, but i did it, had to see what i'd get! i suppose you kept the bonus even without the city? good to know! and good idea to gift it away ;).

poor KaytieKat!

i've never had a slave revolt, and i was in slavery a long time, still going back to it at times. i'm not exactly what they do, but i can tell they're bad things, so i don't mind not having them!

kaytiekat's post does remind me of one annoying thing about civ IV. LOL

This is the version of the game with the MOST useless tiles. Deserts give you nothing, mountains give you nothing and you can't move over them or build cities on them . . . bloody annyoing.

As for the most blah events . . . anything that gives me a "bonus" to a square outside ALL my city Radius is . . . useless.

One of the most meh random events is the quest of the Holy Sea or whatever, you know the one where you need to settle cities on X landmasses to get some sort of useless reward. Every time I get that I go "Oh really? You want me to settle cities on 12 landmasses? That's cool, but you know, I rather just like WIN THE BLOODY GAME!" :lol:

EDIT: I mean the quest of the Blessed Sea.

Hi

My most "meh" event was -I forget the reason why- getting plus 2 commercre on a plain empty desert square.

Kaytie

A teammate in a multiplayer game got +2 commerce on a peak tile. I asked him whether he was able to work it but can't remember the answer :(

oh another! i haven't tried OCC yet in BtS, but i've heard that the events/quests triggered don't vary at all. so you get quests to build X number of theatres and you literally have no way of doing that, must be frustrating and meh!

A miracle was performed in my city walls and I chose the +1:gold: option but they were already obsolete so I got nothing.

Not sure if this counts but how about all the darn plane crashes that happen after flight and airports are built.

Seems like every year one of my passenger liners crashes into an AI territory and they either give me access for + to my relations or refuse for a - to my relations. I don't get any options to improve airline safety or fire pilots or something else :p. It was literally happening all the time in one of my games.

Chariot Combat I promotion just before economical crackdown and STRIKE. I know, shouldn't happen, but some events (bot vassalization wars) made me make a whole 800-years war, which i, eh, lost.

Anyways, all chariots lost.

Hi

My most "meh" event was -I forget the reason why- getting plus 2 commercre on a plain empty desert square.

Kaytie

When I get that plus 2 commerce, it always seems to be outside any city I have, on a spot which simply can't be exploited unless I build a city at a very unsuitable lcoation.

oh another! i haven't tried OCC yet in BtS, but i've heard that the events/quests triggered don't vary at all. so you get quests to build X number of theatres and you literally have no way of doing that, must be frustrating and meh!

Corrects. In my latest OCC, I had to build several harbours, not easy with just the one city. :D
I can understand them not bothering to rewrite all events to accomodate every single possibility though.

When I get that plus 2 commerce, it always seems to be outside any city I have, on a spot which simply can't be exploited unless I build a city at a very unsuitable lcoation.

Well, it's not always bad. A few games ago, I got it on an oasis square in my capital city radius before I'd even built my third city. How many other random events give you a +14% boost to your empire's tech rate? ;)

My slave revolts almost always happen in my camptial no matter where I slaved too, but to me at least its one of the worst effects and is kind of balancing to the slavery advantage. -1 Pop and 1 turn of Rev in what is usualy both my most productive and most scientific city (because it happens early game)
Mining disasters can be meh but they seem to happen dispropotiately much on precious recourse tiles.
Plus 2 commerce on a PEAK? WTF? At least in desert there is a chance of oil later... True about so many unharvestable tiles, Pheonix AZ is all desert and they have no problem improving the terran...
Cant airline crashes give you scientific advances if your primitive and EP's if your sneaky? Oddly enough I havent goten that event.
Bonuses to tiles you will never have a city near would suck, Thankfully ive never had the quest for the holy mountain, sounds like a dead end. Any undoable quest would be extremely irritating esp if your about to age advance or on OCC.
That reminds me, any Hostile Takeover quest has been frustrating for me, not because you have to go to war to get them but because when you take the city its radius goes to 0 and the neibour always gets it first even though I took the city and my city wil, expand to get the resource, I wind up doing it for my opponent.

Chariot Combat I promotion just before economical crackdown and STRIKE. I know, shouldn't happen, but some events (bot vassalization wars) made me make a whole 800-years war, which i, eh, lost.

I got the Chariot Combat one, myself. However, when I train units, I instinctively promote them with something (usually Combat I). So... all those chariots there really didn't get much of a bonus. Not the most meh, but pretty irritating.

'Air line crashes in your neighbour's territory' is mostly pointless. and So are things like sale of computers and stain glass objects in your capital cities. They only add a small amount of gold in your treasury...mostly not worth it.

The gold mine event is so boring. "Cash in! We're rich rich rich!". Yeah. 100 gold at most?
That won't even pay for a Warrior thank you very much. Just add it to the pile I guess.

Mining disasters can be meh but they seem to happen dispropotiately much on precious recourse tiles.

In a recent game, I had only one silver mine, and there were three disasters destroying it. Since I had very few other happiness resources, it was indeed fortunate that I now always make a point of having some ready cash in case something happens.

I now refer to these as the Random Event Tax, as it seems that every 20 or so turns something breaks (revolt, road, mine collapse) that means I have to fork out from the treasury.

A minor inconvenience, but the idea is good. I'm just hoping someone will bring out a REAL random events patch that can actually influence the game.

The really good ones can influence the game, look at the best random event thread (Free Golden Age, Free Great Person), the really bad ones can even kind of hurt, look at the worst ones. But for a lot of them your turm RET fits perfectly.

the slave revolt one is nice if you are at war with the person who is having the slave revolt. It knocks their culture to zero for a turn. As far as lame, I wuild second the road being washed away.

I've had two extra food on a sea tile that was not workable by the nearest coastal cities.

Utter bollocks.

I've had two extra food on a sea tile that was not workable by the nearest coastal cities.

Utter bollocks.

I've had junk like that too, like extra parrots in a jungle square. Er, it's jungle, I'm chopping it and putting a real improvement there. But some can be nice, like investigating a depression with glass beads around it; it was an expensive event, but it gave me a uranium resource and mine, in addition to the forest previously there. Great tile.

The parrot bonus lasts even after you clear the jungle, Its nice.

Just got a forest growing on a wheat field. As you'll see from the image, my workers were busy building a fort there when it happened.

The "build X buildings" quests always seem to come after all the land is taken, and have requirements that are JUST out of reach (I never have enough cities).

I got the master blacksmith event when I finally built a forge in my capital at about 1850 +1 gold, meh. Later on though it sold heaps of plows for 104 gold also pretty meh.
Otherwise I think the library quest, unless you have the Great Library it pretty useless, don't you have to spend ~100 gold to get 1 beaker per turn?

One time I got Free Drill III for all Carriers and Range I for all fighters, within a few turns of each others. Woohoo! Right?

Well, my army was already on to building Bombers and Destroyers, making Aircraft Carriers obsolete, not that they weren't to begin with. :rolleyes:

One time I got Free Drill III for all Carriers and Range I for all fighters, within a few turns of each others. Woohoo! Right?

Well, my army was already on to building Bombers and Destroyers, making Aircraft Carriers obsolete, not that they weren't to begin with. :rolleyes:

Hey don't knock the carrier I've made use for them in a least one of my 100+ games.
In BTS the AI uses them pretty well as I found out, Mehmed had 5 carrier groups with 3 destroyers 1 carrier and 3 fighters in each. It was a sight to behold.

Build X buldings can be awsome, esp if its forge or library, just because I usually have enough to get the bonus for doing nothin.

How on earth can you support all those cities without suffering a huge economic crash?

Once I lost my Library and my Rathaus (was playin HRE) is the same city in 1 turn. Didnt really matter since it was a runaway game experimenting with REX expansion with the HRE.

I've gotten the build 12 Chariots event on a continent with no horses.

I wonder if you can get the Blessed Sea on a Pangaea map?

I wonder if you can get the Blessed Sea on a Pangaea map?

No.
Check this link for a list of all events and requirements Ori's events list (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=236727)

The "build X buildings" quests always seem to come after all the land is taken, and have requirements that are JUST out of reach (I never have enough cities).

In a recent game, I had a random event I hadn't encountered before. I was told to build 9 harbours before I discovered some technology or other. The only problem was that only 4 of my 9 cities were coastal, and there was no way I could expand. Anyway, I discovered the technology that nullified the quest not long afterwards and was informed that I had "failed the Harbourmasters' Quest". Meh indeed.

Ive gotten the miracle on the city wall one before at a time when walls were obsolete. I've also gotten a horse whisperer quest.. lol

Ive gotten the miracle on the city wall one before at a time when walls were obsolete. I've also gotten a horse whisperer quest.. lol

If you get the horse whisperer quest at the right time, with a horse resource, it can be very good for your civ indeed. And there are multiple chocies when it comes to the reward. Unles I have a small army and menacing neighbours, I go for the alternative that gives stables + 1 food.

If you get the horse whisperer quest at the right time, with a horse resource, it can be very good for your civ indeed. And there are multiple chocies when it comes to the reward. Unles I have a small army and menacing neighbours, I go for the alternative that gives stables + 1 food.
Ah, I never got to finish it because it required 11 cities and I was playing a very crammed duel map lol

i got bard's tale, rewards are:
1.City gains 100 culture points
2.you pay 25 gold AND city gains 450 culture points
3.IF you have RADIO you pay 10*number of cities in gold and all cities gain 250 culture points

i was rich and had quite a few new cities. #3 would have been really sweet, but i was far from radio waaaaaah. of course it showed me that option, greyed out, gloating at me. so mean!

in the "OMG that's a great one but uh oh it has kinda bad implications" category, my still-in-progress game i got the event where all my axemen get a free shock promotion. never had that type before so i made a new one and checked, sure enough all the axemen i made from then on got it too, which was fabulous since i'd made like 3 so far *giggle*.

well, this is on an archi map where i want optics and astro. i'm not the type that can conquer early in the axe-rush/galley stage even if it's all coastal-reachable, trust me on that one. but i already knew civil service. so when i learned machinery i'd lose my freebie promotion which i really wanted to get and then upgrade to maces. but mach is a prereq that blocks so many techs i wanted, way to make me indecisive! i was teching faster than them so shock would be handy, i wasn't exactly going to be facing riflemen as long as i didn't put it off too long. so i pumped out an axe per turn just about in HE city, and other cities made some, pretending to be a warmonger. then i did a trade mission with my GM for upgrade cash, and finally bit the bullet and got machinery, obsoletely my lovely shockers.

i also got harbormaster, which is awesome on archi. and i'm the dutch, with +2 strength galleon UU! i picked +1 movement. and already had circumnavigation bonus. so once i went mech i kept teching and learned astro. it's not over yet but i'm doing really well. you'd almost think i know how to wage a war or something! actually, maybe i'm putting that one in the wrong thread. but trust me, it was kind of meh since i'm really indecisive and couldn't figure out how long to put off machinery.