Random Events
 

The number of random events seems to be caped at three regardless of provinces & order/luck settings. This makes luck non scalable. Has anyone seen more than three random events per turn?

Re: Random Events
 

Sometimes you get more than 3 events, but usually it's just that some were caused by enemy spells, or happened to an opponent's province and you then captured the province (I sometimes see more than 3 good events, but I think each time one happened in a province I had just captured - not 100% sure though).

Re: Random Events
 

So, in short, taking Turmoil in hopes of benefiting more from Luck is foolish ? Except for early game, perhaps ?

Re: Random Events
 

I don't know if you can receive more than 3 random events, but I think Luck is important, just so that you can avoid the Evil Ancient Force event or whatever it's called, which happened to my capital in a game. That event is so evil. Decimating a population from 30k to a mere 1k in one month. My income dropped about 60-70%.

Re: Random Events
 

Taking luck is not only to get the good events but also to avoid those bad ones

Re: Random Events
 

The arrival of the Ancient Presence is certainly one of the nastiest events; wherever it hits, the pop loss is severe enough to be essentially permanent. I've not seen it for a long time, but then I rarely take Misfortune dominion -- it would not surprise me if it was most likely with a combination of Magic and Misfortune.

Re: Random Events
 

I haven't seen it, but I usually play -3 magic, -3 luck, and it would follow that such a thing would happen in high magic/low luck scales. The worst event I've seen, aside from the constant witch's curses I get, is the local vampire lord showing up and sacking my home province with 50+ vampires. I was plagued by the Devourer of Heroes for a couple of turns, but I ended that by guarding my Niefel Jarls with 3 skinshifters apiece. The next round, one of my tougher jarls took the devourer out.

Re: Random Events
 

He will be back, won't he? HoH is not like one o these unique rituals which lasts until someone defeats the being who is in the heart of it?

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I get more than 3 events per turn, last turn for an example:

-astral gems
-death gems
-150 gold -30 unrest
-200 gold
-huge number of immigrating people

i think this are all genuine random events, and not caused by any spells. (im playing with luck 3)

Re: Random Events
 

I think that the size of the map and number of provinces you have can have alot to do with it also.

Death is so temporary...
 

Yes, he'll return. Doom Horrors are forever. :p

Re: Death is so temporary...
 

He might have some afflictions, though. Until he heals them, of course.

Re: Death is so temporary...
 

I know that it's not possible to use a doom horror after its captured because after the first battle it will disappear, however I have another idea.
Would it be possible to capture/charm/control one of these special doom horrors and then have it rest peacefully inside a castle thus keeping it from reappearing ??

Also if one of these special doom horrors are placed on the map in a province which cannot be reached... will that also prevent the creature from appearing ??

Re: Death is so temporary...
 

Placing it in a locked province might keep it from appearing. So someone could create a map for MP games that keeps it out. Of course you could also do something with a mod.

What might also be interesting is to make it the pretender of some AI nation. That might be a fun map/scenario to play against.

Re: Death is so temporary...
 

Some quick testing tells me that they're capable of leaving on their own, even when preplaced.

Edit: and even when owned by a player at the start.

Re: Death is so temporary...
 

You know, it could be used in a reverse compliment.

"You are sooo bad, you give a headache to the Doom Horror" http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: Death is so temporary...
 

If you'll manage to do it, I suggest putting it to sleep, than lock it in the deepest dungeon of your castle, sealed his cage, and put a sign - "MORTALS, WAKE HIM NOT". http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/mad.gif

Re: Death is so temporary...
 

That's too bad. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/fear.gif