Random Events list

Hello there. I've been playing civ for a bit of time and ever since i got beyond the sword i loved it even more . I love the random events and what i want to know is how can i increase the frequency or unlock all of them as i have read some and there were many i did not see andi thought i saw them all since i saw some of them 10-20 times now. Can anyone help? thanx

The vital files you want to look at are the GlobalDefines XML and the EventTriggerInfos XML.

In GlobalDefines, you need to find some variable that says EVENT_PROBABILITY_ROLL_SIDES, and it is by default at 100. If you decrease this number, more random events will occur in your game. However, this doesn't affect which events occur--to figure that out, you need to look in each trigger info (one per event). There are two values you should look at: iPercentGamesActive and iWeight.

iPercentGamesActive will tell you how many games on average where this event will be active (as in, it can happen). At the beginning of a new game, each event gets an up or down vote based on this percentage. If this number is low, then it simply won't appear in most games, whereas 100 will ensure this event will always have the chance of happening in the game.

When the game decides that a random event occurs, it figures out the probability of each event occuring by looking at the iWeight values. It basically checks to see if the event can happen in the game (already decided above), and then checks to see if that event meets the triggering conditions (all the other stuff in the trigger info). If the event is in the game and it meets the triggering conditions, it goes into the pot of stuff that could happen this turn.

After it looks at each event, it picks a random number and decides which event occurs based on that number. Events with high weights are more likely to be picked, so an event with a weight of 200 has twice the chance of being selected as an event with a weight of 100, so long as both events are active in the game and all triggering conditions have been met.

@ ori

Do you know if this quest:
had the prereqs and the rewards changed? See here

from a quick glance at the current (BtS 3.19) files I don't think it requires any state religion (not sure if that was ever the case - if I find time I'll correct that).
the required and obsolete techs are the same.
the first option is available without hereditary rule and is the same and the second option requires HR and is the same.

Thanks

I just thought I would add a thanks for this. It has been instrumental in my events editing(mostly rewording many old events) so as to prevent me from having to read the XML in order to understand crudely what every events does. I am sure I am not the only one who has benefited.

Many of the events editing guides tell you how the XML and even the python works, but none other list the events as they are. Saved a lot of time for me, it's a must for any events editor.

I'm sorry if this has already been mentioned, but the "Classic Literature" quest spoiler seems to have a mistake. It expires with the Renaissance era, so logically it wouldn't give an Ancient era tech as a bonus, right?

this code

CvRandomEventsInterface.py said:

def applyClassicLiteratureDone2(argsList):
iEvent = argsList[0]
kTriggeredData = argsList[1]
player = gc.getPlayer(kTriggeredData.ePlayer)

iEraAncient = CvUtil.findInfoTypeNum(gc.getEraInfo, gc.getNumEraInfos(), 'ERA_ANCIENT')

listTechs = []
for iTech in range(gc.getNumTechInfos()):
if gc.getTechInfo(iTech).getEra() == iEraAncient and player.canResearch(iTech, false):
listTechs.append(iTech)

if len(listTechs) > 0:
iTech = listTechs[gc.getGame().getSorenRandNum(len(listTechs), "Classic Literature Event Tech selection")]
gc.getTeam(player.getTeam()).setHasTech(iTech, true, kTriggeredData.ePlayer, true, true)

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seems to require any tech you can choose to be an ancient era tech

This sucks, since you generally have all of them by the time you complete the quest.
As it stands, this quest is only worth it if you have the Great Library.

I was wandering what calculates the # of units needed to be built or cities required? For example build 7 Colosseum's in your various cities. I'd like to lower the requirements on events,thanks.

you need to change the respective values in the python file covering events - I forget the exact name of it, but its the only events file in the entry points subfolder IIRC.

Those military events which upgrade your existing and future troops and are triggered by technologies like Mining, Bronze Working... do you need to be first who research tech? cause in most recent games i had two of events in single (out of 8 or so) game where I rushed military technologies.

Alexej said:

Those military events which upgrade your existing and future troops and are triggered by technologies like Mining, Bronze Working... do you need to be first who research tech? cause in most recent games i had two of events in single (out of 8 or so) game where I rushed military technologies.

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No, you just have to have that technology for the game to be eligible for that event. Researching the tech first gives you an advantage because if that event fires and nobody else has that tech, you are the only person who can receive the event. If two civilizations meet the prerequisite techs, etc. then it's a coin flip who gets it when the event fires.

I hope somebody knows.

Some things are still unclear to me in the mechanics of random events.

So when a new game is generated it is decieded based on the "active" value whether a certain event will be included in this game. It's clear

There is a chance of 1%/2%/4%/4%/6%/8%/10% per turn for any event to occur (era specific Ancient/Classical/Medieval/Renaissance/Industrial/Modern/Future).
Does an event occur for a certain player? If so, it' clear how the chance for a specific era determined. It's also clear what active events are chosen to be pooled for a wehight defined dice roll. Obviously these are events for which this certain player has all the prereqs in hands.

However there's another opinion

Antilogic said:

No, you just have to have that technology for the game to be eligible for that event. Researching the tech first gives you an advantage because if that event fires and nobody else has that tech, you are the only person who can receive the event. If two civilizations meet the prerequisite techs, etc. then it's a coin flip who gets it when the event fires.

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The event occurs unbound to any player and then the random number generator decides which of the qualifing players gets the event. Then how the era and the chance for an event to occur defined? And how is it decided which of the acitve events meet the requirements to be pooled in the lottery cylinder? Obviously the set of qualifying events will be specific for every player.

Another thing that I'm curious about is how the chances are calculated when a player has several qualifying objects.

For example you have 10 forests in the fat cross. Do their weights add for a forest fire?



Or you have 3 city ruins under control



Or 3 cities with a forge


Will this event be added to the lottery box three times or just once

I'm interested because of an idea of busting negative events by adding multiple positive events to the weight lottery. Namely these two events requiring building walls.



They both have weights above average and if multiplied by the number of cities in walls can make other events including negative ones less probable.

For example you are a protective civ whith stone. org religion and forges. Building walls in every of 10 cities will add 7000 of wheigt assuming the both events are active and their weights are multiplied by the number of qualifying cities (buildings).

Wow, so many events! Thanx for posting these here, many of them I remember, some of them I think I never saw.

Oops, didn't actually intend to post in this thread, but was directed from another thread. If a mod sees this, they can delete it if they deem the thread should be put back to rest.

The Impeachment event has an unnecessary prerequisite (having a capital). That only has an effect if Require Complete Kills is set and they have units but not cities, in which case they can only capture cities or explore.

What does Holy Ritual do if you have less than 20 gold?

A couple of questions - can the same event happen multiple times over a game? If so, to the same player, or only to different players?

If a scout unit is in a caravel, on an ocean square with Oil, will the Man called Jeb event trigger ?

Thanks.

For the first question: it depends - there is a flag which allows it to only be triggered once ever per game. in which case it cannot be triggered again by any player - most quests are set up like this - also it is possible to trigger an event that is barred from ever happening again and then later erase the memory of it having been triggered - the dustbowl event is working like this - you can only trigger the first dustbowl event once but when the event chain ends it erases the memory of the first one being triggered so that it can occur again.

For the second: I am not perfectly sure how units in cargo are dealt with but I don't really remember anything that would prevent Jed from finding oil under water.

cool, thanks Ori.