[Alneyan]

Originally posted by JLS:

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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
This is where the facilities and traits come into play: they can make it more or less likely that an object in a given system will be chosen for the event to hit it. But, the event has already been generated, and will hit something regardless of the facility/trait modifiers (if they add up to 100% event reduction and are in all systems, the event will still occur anyways).

Let narrow this down to this paragraph, if we could please.

You are telling us here that the event will hit anyway, even as you say there is a 99% or better reduction in an event to occur in that system, and that a Colonized planet will get hit in that system no matter what?

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Fyron means that, when an event has been generated (say, there is a 50% chance in settings.txt, an event should be generated every two turns), it *will* happen no matter what. Let's say there are only two systems in the system. In the first one, -99% chances to have an event, in the second one, no special facilities.

The event will almost always hit the second system with such an event, but if there were a facility giving -99% chances for an event in this system as well, then the odds would be roughly equal. However, what happens if an event cannot occur in a given system is still unknown. (If it is a Star Destroyed event where there are no stars in thsi system for instance)

Either the system is chosen before the event type (and then, when the event isn't comptabible, the program chooses another event or cancel the event) , or the event type is chosen before the targeted system, meaning a system without ships cannot suffer from a "Ship Moved" event. The second would seem the most likely and the easier to use, but who knows?