Does it seem to anyone else that the random events are simply too uncommon? Maybe it's just me but I was hoping that I would have to constantly be battling problems with rebels and would find new resources and such so I'd have to constantly adapt my game play. Out of probably between 600 and 800 turns of BTS I've played (Over several different games trying out different things), I've gotten 4 random events. 1 was a quest, and 3 were bad. Now, it's probably better to have bad events then good ones (requires more strategy to handle), but does anyone else feel that it is perhaps just a little too rare?
Random events - too uncommon?
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Rince
King
Don't have the game yet but it would be cool to have an option similar to the barbarian setting.
Did you check the xml's to see if there is a parameter to change by hand?
Did you check the xml's to see if there is a parameter to change by hand?
Besides the 100% random ones, there's also events caused by triggers. Like modern era triggers plane crashes, war triggers the event of a friend coming for aid, mountains trigger volcanoes, coast triggers floods/hurricanes, coliseum triggers gladiator event, starving triggers the food aid event and the list goes on. But what's great about events is alot of them are relationship modifiers so now civs have more reasons to go to war.
wow.. Surprising, in my game i've gotten tons. I was starting to wonder if they were too frequent
Hmmm... Do they come much more common in late game than early game? Or were you playing Marathon, I didn't play Marathon with it yet so it may be more frequent with Marathon.
As for the options, there is a "No Random Events" option, but there's no raging random events option. It's simply on or off.
They seemed to pick up more later in the game since there is more going on, more buildings to trigger them etc.
Here's a few more events i've noticed:
- Mines losing productivity (temporary?)
- Things selling well on the market
- Research penalty because of a slowdown in research (for whatever reason)
- forest fires
- mine accidents
- Tornadoes
- Rats eating food
- Religious miracles
- War aid
- Hunger relief
That might be the reason then. Since I was constantly starting over trying out new things I never really got to the late game.
I've seen tornados and floods to other civilizations
To me I've had:
Forge destoryed
Citizens angry over slavery
Quest to build 11 stables (I was playing Mongolia then so I guess really Gers)
And I forgot the last one.
I've seen tornados and floods to other civilizations
To me I've had:
Forge destoryed
Citizens angry over slavery
Quest to build 11 stables (I was playing Mongolia then so I guess really Gers)
And I forgot the last one.
CTH
Prince
I have played monarch normal speed and I have got pretty decent with random events, I would prefer to have some more but it is still pretty decent.
I also noticed that in some events you can not choose all the options until you have invented a certain tech. like i did get some about a ice sculpture, if I had have the mass media tech I could have choosen a option that woudl have given all my cities + 150 culture.
You seem to only have had bad events, I have almost only have had good
I also noticed that in some events you can not choose all the options until you have invented a certain tech. like i did get some about a ice sculpture, if I had have the mass media tech I could have choosen a option that woudl have given all my cities + 150 culture.
You seem to only have had bad events, I have almost only have had good
xfactor99
Warlord
Has anyone completed a quest yet? I'm curious to know what the rewards are, especially so if you build the wonder that they usually tell you gives an additional bonus.
I mean, you expect me to build 9 triremes and the Great Lighthouse when I have one coastal city?
I mean, you expect me to build 9 triremes and the Great Lighthouse when I have one coastal city?
sneaky
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xfactor99
Warlord
- slave revolts
- "joyous marriages in the Buddhist tradition has forged new bonds between the Maya and the Dutch peoples, who both adore the new couples and are pleased with the behavior of the inlaws from the other nation."....yeah
- miracles being performed that attract religious pilgrims to that city
- monsoon flooding
- markets becoming worldwide centers of global currency, bolstering profits
- bandits wrecking havoc on farmlands
- authorities from one civ catching a fugitive from justice from another
- tragic mining accidents claiming lives of miners
- conversely, gold miners "have struck the mother lode
Those are the ones I've seen in my event log
- "joyous marriages in the Buddhist tradition has forged new bonds between the Maya and the Dutch peoples, who both adore the new couples and are pleased with the behavior of the inlaws from the other nation."....yeah
- miracles being performed that attract religious pilgrims to that city
- monsoon flooding
- markets becoming worldwide centers of global currency, bolstering profits
- bandits wrecking havoc on farmlands
- authorities from one civ catching a fugitive from justice from another
- tragic mining accidents claiming lives of miners
- conversely, gold miners "have struck the mother lode
Those are the ones I've seen in my event log
Mr.Pizza
Pizza Inc.
Golden Age
xfactor99
Warlord
Ok, with some tinkering with a game and WorldBuilder, I managed to get a "Stable quest" completed. Here's what it gave me:
- 9 Horse Archers OR
- All Mounted Units are promoted to Sentry OR
- Stable: +1 food
Pretty nice, I'd say.
fake EDIT: My bad, +1 food
- 9 Horse Archers OR
- All Mounted Units are promoted to Sentry OR
- Stable: +1 food
Pretty nice, I'd say.
fake EDIT: My bad, +1 food
sneaky
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What kind of +1? Experience?
xfactor99
Warlord
Oops, my mistake. It's +1 food.
Gaius Octavius
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PUT THOSE EVENTS IN SPOILERS! There are those of us who'd like to be surprised.
At any rate, think about this...
There are supposed to be 150 events in the game. If you get ~4 per game, that means statistically you will have to play 38 games before you get a repeat (assuming you went through every single event). For a replayable game like Civ, that's actually not that many games. If you got 10 events per game... I think you see my point.
At any rate, think about this...
There are supposed to be 150 events in the game. If you get ~4 per game, that means statistically you will have to play 38 games before you get a repeat (assuming you went through every single event). For a replayable game like Civ, that's actually not that many games. If you got 10 events per game... I think you see my point.
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