Random events what's the worst so far

[DrewBledsoe]

I seem to recall that you always lose one population, whatever you do.

No not if you select the "do nothing option".

 

[meatwad4289]

depends on what event it is and what the situation was.. my current game i when I had settled my second city, I tried to boost production by building mines on the hills, my mines got destroyed by random events the turn after they were built, even had it where it was destroyed and a forest grew over it because my worker wasnt there lol.

Another bad event.. I was hit by Monsoon and my granary was destroyed, then I was hit with other bad weather and my farms and pastures were destroyed. Then, I got the Vermin in the food stores. my capital starved making tthe pyramids lol.

Few other bad ones are the raging barbarians that show up at your door step when your about to goto war. I rush to the Great wall so barbs dont bother me unless Im at war early i nthe game and my units are crossing thru the fog. but that slaughtered half my units, so I had to stop heal, and bring more.. but the Greeks showed up before reinforcements.

Another bad time was I had the raging Barb one again, and I decided I'm gonna wait it out, then I seen the message again, Mansa Musa got them.. There were two Stacks of barbs now between my territory and Mansa's and.. well he got a few cities taken a way and i used that to my advantage. and claimed them.

Few other bad ones are when your egging someone on to fight so u can pul lthe defensive pacts in rather than recruit during war, then a random event says they were nice, so It increases relations decreasing the chance of war lol

 

[Peng Qi]

depends on what event it is and what the situation was.. my current game i when I had settled my second city, I tried to boost production by building mines on the hills, my mines got destroyed by random events the turn after they were built, even had it where it was destroyed and a forest grew over it because my worker wasnt there lol.

That sounds more like a positive event to me! Free forest to chop!

 

[phlucas]

My worst event was a tornado that hit my high-food, low hammer capital. It destroyed my Granary and my Forge when I was only 5 turns from finishing the Colossus. Luckily, I was still able to get the wonder.

Did you whip the forge in the very next turn? I could swear that when a Tornado destroyed the library in a city building the Great Library, the GL build was cancelled after the following turn.

 

[Öjevind Lång]

No not if you select the "do nothing option".

In that case, it's just stupid - you get a reward for sitting on your arse doing nothing.

 

[50_dollar_bag]

In that case, it's just stupid - you get a reward for sitting on your arse doing nothing.

I'm almost 100% sure that clicking do nothing actually does do nothing. If you look closel you'll see that your city will still add hammers to whatever you're building and commerce to the empire. I'm sure this will be addressed in the new patch.

Regarding the tornado knocking out buildings or population, I think it has something to do with buildings in a city, I had a size 3 city yesterday with 3 turns to a granary and no other improvements, the tornado hits and the only option was the loss of population obviously. My guess is that having a building destroyed always happens with buildings present.

 

[Lord_Zath]

I got owned by 4 barbarian horse archers. best unit available to me was an archer.