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Originally posted by Zurai:
3 "adventursome populace" (-20% pop) bad events
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Nine of the fifteen bad events (60% even) carried huge population loss penalties. Only four of them (26.7%) were what I would call "minor" bad events (witch's curse, -50 gold, -100 gold).

If I remember correctly, one of the devs in some previous thread hinted that the 'population just leaving' -bad event would become common bad event (being normally rare) when your turmoil is 2 or more. Or was it barbarian invasion?

Anyway, what I'm getting at, is that I keep having this feeling about a deeper synergy between luck scale and other scales than meets the eye. That is, with positive other scales luck brings more goodies than with negative other scales. I've had some SP's with a zero-cost pretender and all scales about +2, and local landlords just line up to give me free provincial defenders, mines and fortified cities. All the yummy stuff. But that's nothing sure, just a feeling I've got.

Been thinking trying sometime a nation that prefers heat/cold 3, taking a minimum cost (viable) pretender and maxing the scales. Don't know where to start, though. Caelum with earth3/4 Natajara, maybe?

Originally posted by Demosthenes:

But doesn't the game first determine which province is having an event and then check the Luck scale of THAT province in order to choose which event?

I'd think so also. Makes invading all those order/misfortune nations a very interesting chore if you're with turmoil/luck. In one SP I was playing S&A theme of T'ien Ch'i and invading deep into misfortune-Ermor's territory. Thought I'd be safe with two provinces to retreat, but what do you know. The same turn undead horde forced my army to flee, both retreat provinces suffered a bad luck event. One was barbarian horde, other invading knights. There goes my army...