The Event that broke the camel's back...

[TheMeInTeam]

I've lost quite a few games to events outright, but more typically they're just annoying as all get out.

If there were balanced on an individual game basis, they'd be more acceptable. Causing even more streaky luck situations than what the RNG already does with land is a bit much.

Events are a textbook case of artificial difficulty.

 

[Tristan_C]

I know it's a

...but there could have been ways to set these things up to challenge the player better. Even civ 1, where every random event was negative, had a more livable situation because each event could be prevented: granaries prevented famine, aqueducts prevented fires, walls prevented floods, barracks prevented pirates, and so on.

The funny one was that Temples prevented volcano eruptions. Just throw a lithe young girl in there and *presto* —the mantle would calm down.

 

[vhhawk]

...but there could have been ways to set these things up to challenge the player better. Even civ 1, where every random event was negative, had a more livable situation because each event could be prevented: granaries prevented famine, aqueducts prevented fires, walls prevented floods, barracks prevented pirates, and so on.

That's a good point. I had forgotten about that about Civ 1. I have to say, like events for the spice they bring to the game, but they seem to play to my advantage more often than not. I was just in a war with Rome and got the event where a dude runs a marathon and triggers a golden age. Talk about overpowered. I've lost a sub loaded with tactical nukes just as my finger was on the button, and I've had my capital sacked by the horde. Somehow these don't sting as much as they were out of my control.

 

[capnvonbaron]

I'm one of the players who likes "spice" with my game, and so REs stay on. Do they occasionally cause me to want to throw my computer across the room? Yes. Do they also sometimes cause me to pump my fist because of their awesomeness? Also yes. Examples of my memorable events include:

- Getting the marathon GA event just as I was about to crush the second-to-last civ on the map that mattered for an epic domination victory with Zara. The GA totally allowed me to pad the score and switch civics free, pump out a zillion more units, and crush the last civ in record time for an earlier victory
- Having four forest fires in my capital's BFC burn in the BCs, including the same one twice (first time I payed to have it replaced... second I was broke and let it burn)
- Being three turns from completion on the Colossus (was Willem and had a ton of good coastal cities to use it), forge burnt down. I started rebuilding the forge, whipped it to completion after two turns, resumed the Colossus, and another civ built it with two turns left for me
- Got the cover event for Ragnar and the "beyond the sword event" with Caesar once. Tore it up good those games
- Was next to Churchill and was going to opportunistically swipe a couple of his cities he settled too close to me when he got the "war bows" event. Things were made worse when he upgraded all his spikey LBs to even spikier Redcoats. I never did accomplish that invasion
- Guns not Butter + Great Person golden age + Taj Mahal * MoM = epic middle-age GA

 

[Malchar]

It's just annoying when you miss out on a free great person or something because you're a couple gold short. I have plenty of commerce, I just don't feel like arbitrarily keeping 1000 gold on hand at all times.