I have to agree that events in their current form just decrease the quality of the game. (After downloading vox populi I was actually wondering for a while whether something is bugged, because I was getting the same events every game at basically the same turn times...) It also raises questions about the balance: should shrines be balanced with the inevitable +1faith/shrine event, or without it? As it seems that most of us are now playing without events, but it's still on by default, this creates a strange situation