[JLS]

Originally posted by JLS:
Oleg, what are your thoughts on this, I believe PTF is on the mark here, I do not recall ever having an event; even Plague for example let alone a High or catastrophic event on a Home World with default one Planet se4 gold start.

This information is needed and is important, in other words should we worry about the Home World,for its Population and Facilities when and if we re-categorize the levels of any Events.

Originally posted by PsychoTechFreak:

JLS, I have seen this before your mail, but ... I am not sure any more, since Fyron obviously has seen high/catastrophic events on HPs.
This is what I recall:
PvK's proportions had a cultural trait "cursed" which should increase the chance for bad events. I performed some tests with this, and we observed that any minus or plus in the cultural settings about events have been effectles. The same has been done for the faith shrine and different good/bad settings - it was absolutely effectless. PvK has communicated the test results with Aaron, and a few weeks later we got a bugfix (which I can not find in the history at the moment, somewhen about gold patch 1 or 2). The findings on top have been side results of the tests, but it could be most likely that Aaron has changed more than just the event chance bug. So I think this should be tested again.
I have used a modded event file without real effects, just the severity popped up in the news window, so I was able to do my stats for every event severity. It could be possible that "events without real effects" also have a different behaviour than usual events, so it will not be an easy task which can be performed in a couple of minutes.

Originally posted by oleg:
I certainly remember that Fate Shrine' reduction of events chance has been asserted to be fixed in 1.84. It would also fix lucky/cursed trait, I think.

I can also confirm HW rebellion can happen - i observed it few times. Thanks God, to AI, not me . I also saw HW system destruction. But indeed, i never saw HW plague or planet destruction yet.

What I can say, it is understood from the players that with the average New game set up and with the past applicable events that the Home World for the Human Players is rarely scalded by a random event.

And that most - if not all Players, like the event occurrences as is. Regardless of a rare, if maybe possible and drastic event; that could and may occur on their Human Player Home World, that most have not seen as of yet.

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However, the AI may be another case, all together.

This is what I propose; we leave status quo on the Event Occurrences even tweak a few more in, thanks to Olegs fix.

I will see what I can do to tweak the AI, so it may shun some events.

[ September 05, 2003, 14:28: Message edited by: JLS ]