What's the Best Random Event so far?

[Photi]

To mirror the other thread about worst RE's, what's your best RE so far?

i left a game right at the beginning of a war i was so excited, I think discussing civ is every bit as much fun as playing civ. anyway, i am playing a game right now as Gilgamesh, monarch, big and small, standard, normal. Catherine started pretty darn close to me and she just DoW'd (which is ok i have a stack of 7 Vultures, a level 3 longbow (feud sling+vass+barracks+protective) and 3 cats that were just about to head to moscow). One turn later, an RE pops up, turns out a heroic soldier of mine ran 26 miles to warn of the invasion. I am thinking ok this sounds good, and I go to accept it and it gave me a golden age! sweet! perfect lore for the heroic epic that still needs to be written. moscow here i come...

that's the first time ive had that event, so i started thinking there must be some more good ones out there.

 

[Jamesds]

When I read your thread title, I thought I'd tell of my random event which told of a soldier that ran many miles to warn of an invasion, which started a golden age in my nation - same as yours!

This is an excellent event, and it comes at a much needed time (war), so I'd say it is my favourite so far (and probably ever). Mine was made even better by the fact that I had the Mausoleum of Mausollos which increased my Golden Age to 12 turns. In total, I'd had 60 turns of golden age in that game. 3 from Great People, 1 from the said event, 1 from the Taj Mahal.

 

[Lord_Zath]

I think the best I've had gave buildings additional _.

For example, all harbors +1 commerce.

 

[Photi]

Mine was made even better by the fact that I had the Mausoleum of Mausollos which increased my Golden Age to 12 turns. In total, I'd had 60 turns of golden age in that game. 3 from Great People, 1 from the said event, 1 from the Taj Mahal.

i just got calender and was going to build the MoM as soon as the GLib finished. that's probably my favorite new wonder from BtS.

 

[mboettcher]

Yeah the random events can come along and timely give u quests to. I always thought the most fun in the game was going to war. Screw those peaceful victories. I play imp/char and am always at war (with dif opponents to keep down weariness). Anyway best events i like are those quests that come up very timely when u want to invade that want u to build 12 of watever kind of unit (i got sword, musketteer and rifle b4). IT gives either drill I to all melee or city raider I to all sword (of which u have a lot now). How sweet is this? U build a massive early army and the game rewards u by making it really damn strong. These events rock.

 

[RockTheCazbah87]

The swordsman quest is definitely worth it. On the other hand, the quest I recieved to build 34 Colosseums when I had 6 cities... that took the piss.

 

[Zebra 9]

34 Colosseums! I had to build 7 libraries on about turn 20 and I only had 4 cities on an archiplago map! That was a pain in the neck, and stupid me tried to do it too so I had seven cities, 1 in tundra and another 2 on an island with jungle. Neadless to say I failed with 1 library to go. Now for a best, I don't know. I realy havn't played as much as I want to so I have only gotten a few events, none of which where very spectacular.

 

[Leeksoup]

I got a quest in my current game that said:

"Your highest theologians have discovered the existence of a 'Holy Mountain' somewhere on this planet. Since it is clearly not inside your borders right now, you are tasked to expand and encompass it within your nation. Since you only know of its existence, there is no way to tell which mountain it is, so you'll just have to expand to all the Peaks you can find. Alternatively, if you build 25 religious buildings, your scholars think they can locate it for you, at which point you will still have to expand to it."


I'm gonna try, but this better have a DAMN good reward.

 

[Herex]

I got that event as well, in my current game.
Took me quite a while to finish, as I only had 6-7 cities, but I finally found the Peak, and sent a team to build a city.
Reward was +1 Happyness in each city.

Edit: I only had to build 14 buildings though - I guess it depends on mapsize etc.
I played normal speed, standard sized, Big and Small.

 

[Scramble]

I am quite the fan of the golden age one, but i recently got one where an artist was found making ice sculptures near some obscure tiny city.
It just so happened that that city was fighting a culture war with another empire, so the great artist super specialist helped immensly.

 

[The Navy Seal]

I'd say the theatre one where you can upgrade your theatre so it gives 6 culture.

 

[Zebra 9]

I am quite the fan of the golden age one, but i recently got one where an artist was found making ice sculptures near some obscure tiny city.
It just so happened that that city was fighting a culture war with another empire, so the great artist super specialist helped immensly.

Was the city in a spot where it could get hot? Because if it is I wouldn't trust that culture very long.

 

[Carnage04]

How many of those "Build X buildings" turn up with good rewards? The only one I have ever gotten is "Horse Whisper" build 7 stables. That should be easy enough but it always triggers really early....and I forget about it!

Honestly, probably the best one I got was playing Pericles and getting shock promotions for all of my Axes (Phalynx). Other than that I get "You found Parakeets", "You found a spice", "A natural disaster hit and didn't wipe out ALL of your buildings"

 

[Peng Qi]

I started on a crappy tundra peninsula one game that only had room for 2-3 cities on it at most, so I started building a settler ASAP and found the "least bad" place for my second city before spreading out off of the peninsula. It had a deer and some fish and pretty much nothing other than that, so I figured it would at least help get another settler out. The turn after I founded the city I got the event that adds deer to a forest tile. On top of that, I had just gotten a gold goody hut and so I could afford to spend the extra gold to get the free camp on it, so I ended up with a spectacular second city despite the marginality of the terrain other than that. Sure, it slowed down in the late game and became a pretty "meh" city, but it was a fantastic early game city and that's all I needed it for.

 

[rustydusty10]

I had one that said my scout found a black substance and if i want to examine it for any possible uses, so i said yes and all Oil was revealed on the map. I was still in the BC times so i had a good advantage as to where to place my cities early on to grab that precious Oil.

 

[ChaoticWanderer]

the first great one I had doesnt sound like it is suppsoe to be good but it worked so well to my advantage. i had just building the great wall on a big island with one other race on it. then suddenly i get the message of attila the hun appearing near my boarders and about 10 barbarian horse archers are there. So since they cant enter my land they turn on the other race on the island and within 20 tuns i see the message of the other race being wiped out. i then send troops to whipe out the barbarians and boom the island is all mine without any work.

and second i was at war with three races at ocne it was a tool on my output. suddenly within three turns i aided two of the races soldiers fed a starving city in the other and boom i had no more war just like that and one of the races was up to pleasent with me in 5 turns because of the food and a trade

 

[Moon Pine]

How about a warning about barbarian horde nearby, then a great stack of axeman created just at your bolder ^^

My best Romdom event was all Axemen got free "Shock" promotion. Then my poor neighbor.........

 

[Da_V_Man]

The Harbour quest was good for me, strength 1 to all naval units. The tin one is good, so is the archers get str.1, or pikemen get shock (well, if you use them, I didn't so meh)

 

[Brancaleone]

I got a 'build 2 carriers, 3 destroyers, 2 battleships' one, or something similar, and as a prize i got +5 commerce on all harbors! Late game, this bonus just rocked.

Also, i probably got the HARDEST quest of all! Own cities on at least 10 different landmasses - on a Terra map, that means taking every little island for myself, declaring war on everyone. Impossible, but still, i had to complete this quest before Industrialism, and i was already at Railroad. I saved the game, and i was going to the world builder to cheat and find out what the prize was, but i disabled the world builder so i coundnt cheat ... Anyone got this quest done already?

 

[CivDude86]

Get a great prophet (there's 2 more options but they're not great either).
Best mid-late game event IMO is the federal reserve one, -25% inflation saves a lot of money over the rest of the game.