Bermuda Triangle?

[thecaesar]

I have honestly never run into this event. What does it do...? Just curious.

 

[The7Sins]

I have honestly never run into this event. What does it do...? Just curious.

It becomes available @ flight. It destroys all ships in a chosen ocean tile. It really sucks when your stack of dooms are in a bunch of transports on that tile trying to race to prevent someone getting culture victory.

 

[GGracchus]

*cough cough* turn off random events *cough cough*

 

[thecaesar]

I always have Random Events on, ever since the time I started next to a hill, built a mine on it, got the "tin" random event (+2 hammers) on it, and then found Iron on that hill! The best part, although no one who can see my sig/avatar/title will be suprised, is that I was Rome, so I got a massive Praetorian rush! Plus, I never get those Barb events until I have enough of an army to survive, so that helps my opinion of them. And I just like discovering new ones, because I still haven't seen them all, the original post being an example.

 

[Tycho]

I always have Random Events on, ever since the time I started next to a hill, built a mine on it, got the "tin" random event (+2 hammers) on it, and then found Iron on that hill! The best part, although no one who can see my sig/avatar/title will be suprised, is that I was Rome, so I got a massive Praetorian rush! Plus, I never get those Barb events until I have enough of an army to survive, so that helps my opinion of them. And I just like discovering new ones, because I still haven't seen them all, the original post being an example.

Much the same as me, found the tin event and iron on a hill as Rome, and never get large barbarian attacks against me. Never even seen Bermuda Triangle random event.

 

[elmurcis]

I have had that once in game... but that was somewhere other side map if me sure... so it didn't hurt me anyhow..
I keep events on after I got +3 population for 31 spent gold far from capital in city where I wanted to build Forbid later... so it boosted my game so much that I finished it some turns 20-30 faster than I could before..
Also I love these <ancient writings?> or whatever found somewhere in desert or monastery.... than I think - how its possible that they knew anything about plastics or astronomy and no more exist?
Hope to see that Bermud also someday to impact me... Just to get some new game experience....

 

[Cristoval]

*cough cough* turn off random events *cough cough*

But, that represents how some civs get lucky breaks.

Like how, Japan survived Mongol invasion due to major storms destroying the majority of the fleet.

 

[thecaesar]

But, that represents how some civs get lucky breaks.

Like how, Japan survived Mongol invasion due to major storms destroying the majority of the fleet.

Yeah, and how some get unlucky, like Rome and the Barbarian Invasion. (Ahem ahem Aryans/other mass barb spawns)

 

[dilettante]

What does Bermuda Triangle do?

It ruins a perfectly good Omaha spearhead of a D-day invasion, that's what the Bermuda Triangle does.

I had 3 destroyers, a carrier, and a battleship and about 6 transports loaded to the gills with marines and paras. just had to park 'em for 3 or 4 turns near the coast until I can DOW and bringing my other guys for beachhead reinforcements. Then all of a sudden....

On a bright clear day, all of the ships and airplanes in the area disappeared without a trace. (or whatever text accompanied the event)



Perfectly good war plan ruined. Needless to say I settled for not invading that continent to win victory. It's like God (or Gamblor) was telling me something.

 

[GGracchus]

It's all opinionated, I guess. I don't like them because they can give civs advantages they don't deserve and can negate good gameplay or require players to play in a non-optimal way in order to avoid them(i.e to counteract bermuda triangle, you seperate your naval stack, allowing enemies to pick you off or requiring more escorts than necessary).

EDIT: To the above, a good example of how gamebreaking these events can be. This is even worse if the city you're attacking is 3 turns away from legendary and the last legendary city the AI needs for culture.

 

[thecaesar]

Perfectly good war plan ruined. Needless to say I settled for not invading that continent to win victory. It's like God (or Gamblor) was telling me something.

That would be the RNG Gods...

They are the ones to blame for all of your woes, don't take it out on random events in general...

 

[TheMeInTeam]

That would be the RNG Gods...

They are the ones to blame for all of your woes, don't take it out on random events in general...

Random events are a powerful weapon for RNG gods to wield...

 

[thecaesar]

That's why they're Gods!

 

[MeatUnit2]

I had never heard of the Bermuda Triangle random event until it hit me and took out 3 boomers loaded with 12 tactical nukes.

I had always played with random events turned on until that game.

I had suffered the volcanoes, the storms, the barbarian hoards, the volcanoes, did I mention the volcanoes?

It had gotten so that I wouldn't build a city within a tile of a mountain.

I don't, in principle, dislike the idea of random events, but certain of the random events are potentially catastrophic and game ending.

Destroying all units in one tile, and making it an ocean tile, but only after flight is discovered, means destroying a fleet or a convoy. Battle ships, aircraft carriers and planes, transports full of troops, or, in my case, subs full of nukes.

 

[thecaesar]

If they aren't game-changing, why put them in? IMO, most of the "OMG, you got +1 COMMERCE in a tile that's 5 SPACES AWAY FROM THE NEAREST CITY and is only there because of your cultural borders!!!!!" events are pretty pointless, so I guess it's a balance between too pointless and too game-changing...

 

[Ataxerxes]

In addition to the rule about Hitler coming into any discussion about Civ leaders, I have a second rule. Any comment about any event or game set-up will become pro vs. con random events come up quickly in the discussion. Oh, well, it shows we care.

 

[dilettante]

For the record, I always play... err.. played with random events (stupid adult responsibilities like work and paying bills cut down on my playing time).

I like random events and I've always played with them since Civ4 vanilla. Just gives a little twist to the game now and then even if Gamblor is massively screwing you over.

And second: No Simpsons fans? Season 5 gold FTW? anyone?

Lisa (costume-dressed as Floreda):
I'm not a state ... I'm a monster! (sobbing)

Homer:
No, Lisa, the only monster here is the gambling monster that has enslaved your mother. I call him “Gamblor,” and it’s time to snatch your mother from his neon claws!

 

[capnvonbaron]

Nothing makes me giggle like a schoolgirl quite like getting the "Tower shields" event when going for a conquest victory, or the massive inflation cutting event for space race or late-game victories I'll take those over the occasional volcano exploding or fire ant hordes... although the partisan resistance even can get rather old...

 

[thecaesar]

Nothing makes me giggle like a schoolgirl quite like getting the "Tower shields" event when going for a conquest victory...

Ooh, what is that event?

 

[eazyseeker]

Ooh, what is that event?

Extra dmg vs cities (?)