Martinus
Emperor
Uhm, I'm not sure - are you arguing that 911 happened in history or that destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah by a rain of fire happened in history? Because the latter is a myth.
Potential random events ideas
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bonafide11
Worker
Perhaps Barbarians could spawn out of City Ruins in the late game! This will fix two birds with one stone: the uselessness of the City Ruins and the lack of Barbs in the late game. But for this, they'd have to make City Ruins have some value too or else people would destroy them immediately.
Perfxion
Warlord
I think have Barbs have modern art of terrorist. The best idea for art is the old Gorilla units from civ3. They could spawn from any lands unclaimed or from cities that were freshly overthrown.
As for events like 9-11, yes they did happened. But they happened like 6 years ago. Fresh wounds would cause a backlash that they just don't need. If you want terrorism in the game without offended half of America, how about something like this:
"A terrorist cell has just destroyed barracks in (city X):
a: find out who is funding these groups and start a war on terror(-400 from treasury, no war wariness for 20 turns, +2 happiness in all cities)
b: rebuild barracks as soon a possible(-75 from treasury or 20 hammers)
c: Do nothing...(-3 happiness in all cities)
As for events like 9-11, yes they did happened. But they happened like 6 years ago. Fresh wounds would cause a backlash that they just don't need. If you want terrorism in the game without offended half of America, how about something like this:
"A terrorist cell has just destroyed barracks in (city X):
a: find out who is funding these groups and start a war on terror(-400 from treasury, no war wariness for 20 turns, +2 happiness in all cities)
b: rebuild barracks as soon a possible(-75 from treasury or 20 hammers)
c: Do nothing...(-3 happiness in all cities)
They were guerillas, note the spelling. Unless, you want modern day animals to break loose from the zoo and cause a problem. 
That would actually be a funny event: well, some guerillas broke loose from the zoo, and tied up traffic, reducing your income in this city by a couple gold this turn from the lost workhours.
That would actually be a funny event: well, some guerillas broke loose from the zoo, and tied up traffic, reducing your income in this city by a couple gold this turn from the lost workhours.
MangleMeElmo
Proud War Criminal
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Large meteor strikes the Earth: everyone loses the game.
Grishnash
Mad Scientist
I had some ideas about random events.... The post died but here they are.
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=228151
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=228151
chef pablo
Warlord
for those who say 9-11 or terrorism is disrespectfully and shouldn't be in the game,I got 12 1/2 ft of water in my house from Katrina ,I lost my house ,friends,my career,my city ,my way of life, but I'm not going to say hurricanes don't belong in the game .This is a random event even more so than any terrorist attack.
terrorism is cause and effect ,letting corporations invest in foreign markets has an inherent risk ,governments involving themselves in foreign policy of an independent country is also risky.I'm not saying we got what we received or that it was justified ,but we cant say we cant expect a foreign country to take it lying down.This is like getting someone hooked on heroin and then increasing the price or in the case of japan not letting them procure their own poppy fields.
terrorism does belong in the game ,but the trigger should be corporations investing in foreign markets.
terrorism is cause and effect ,letting corporations invest in foreign markets has an inherent risk ,governments involving themselves in foreign policy of an independent country is also risky.I'm not saying we got what we received or that it was justified ,but we cant say we cant expect a foreign country to take it lying down.This is like getting someone hooked on heroin and then increasing the price or in the case of japan not letting them procure their own poppy fields.
terrorism does belong in the game ,but the trigger should be corporations investing in foreign markets.
Rex rgis of Ter
Me I'm a Creator
1. Usually bad events only come to the point you can use them without polital correct ramifications is decades after. With all the attempted bombings in UK, and Taliban gaining strength, it is still a very touchy subject, and pretty much off limts
2. I think that events concerning citizen needs will be more prevelant than natural disasters. A sacndal involving government members could cause increased war weariness (we don't trust the government), unhappiness (We don't trust the government) would be intresting. As well as court cases reguiring your attention.
2. I think that events concerning citizen needs will be more prevelant than natural disasters. A sacndal involving government members could cause increased war weariness (we don't trust the government), unhappiness (We don't trust the government) would be intresting. As well as court cases reguiring your attention.
rickb
Warlord
Large meteor strikes the Earth: everyone loses the game.
You should play Sword of the Stars. Great game, but christ, I turned off random events after having my homeworld and only planet completely destroyed by asteroids or those mother#@!$#@ completely unstoppable Spectres around turn 10 for about 10 straight games in a row. Or having the System Killer show up at exactly turn 100 and I haven't researched Dreadnoughts yet. Worst implementation of random events I have ever seen in a game, I think they forgot games were supposed to be *fun* as well as challenging. Either that or all their devs are masochists.
Make sure to build up that 100 ship fleet around every planet by turn 10 if you've got random events on.I know this is getting off topic, but BARIS is that way too. Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space, for those without the pleasure of its cruelty. Something random would happen every turn. And 90% of the time it was bad. Playing this game makes you wonder how the Soviets and Americans ever made it into space...I ended up trying to get to the moon by launching two Geminis, docking in orbit, and then blasting to the Moon with a minature lander for one person because my Apollo capsules and Saturn Vs kept exploding or never worked right, and they were way too expensive.
