[Zurai]

Originally posted by atul:
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.

So in other words, luck costs twice as many creation points as any other scale (at least), but misfortune doesn't give back twice as many.

Luck needs to be stronger *independant* on other scales. It's cool that some events are based on your scales, but it's not cool that good luck vs bad luck is so unbalanced. A positive luck nation should never be put into the position where they're looking at those 40 points and saying "I wish my magic was higher instead of having luck +1". They should be able to point at it and see a tangible benefit. Right now having a small, erratic extra gem income - which is what positive luck has amounted to for me so far - is nowhere even close to being a match for 9 population loss events.

EDIT: To further clarify my point, every other scale has a quantifiable effect that you can count on game after game. Order raises your income 7%, Growth raises supply and income and population growth rate, etc. The only quantifiable for Luck is that you get more events total - but there's no guarantee that the events will be good or bad, and there's no gaurantee whether the events will be major or minor. Obviously the nature of the beast defies *some* quantification, but there should be some kind of definable effect. Maybe luck could influence something else about the nation? Decreased unrest, for instance - people are happy when they feel lucky.

PS. Yes Caelum was in my game, but the hurricane was on a pretty early turn. I'm fairly confident it wasn't a spell from them.

[ February 16, 2004, 02:57: Message edited by: Zurai ]