[Norfleet]

Originally posted by SelfishGene:
And after being burned by Rain in my Home Province in my first email game, i just don't like the risk.

Heavy rains happens just as much, if not more, with Luck. Luck has absolutely no effect on preventing it.

I believe that bad events are triggered by other scales as well. Even with Luck 2 i would get several especially annoying bad events, because another scale was set to -3. Its like there are thresholds for bad events.

This tends to be true for "good" events as well: In order to reap the benefits of Luck, you need good scales in other areas as well, particularly a strong magic scale. This is why Ermor works well with luck: All of their "good" events are channelled towards gems, and the "bad" good events, like heavy rains, plagues, and whatnot, just kill more of your 0 population.

For me the 'freebie' scale is either Sloth or Hot/Cold; well, ill take a peg of cold if i just have to have 40 points, but ill take Sloth 2 or 3 if something has to give, over Misfortune.

A peg of hot or cold generally has only half the effect that the numbers say it will, and, in fact, especially if you're a Heat/Cold-2 nation, like Jot/Machaka, taking an extra peg helps more than it hurts, as you will be at your preferred temperature MORE often than not.

Sloth, of course, greatly cuts into your ability to produce troops. If this isn't a great concern to you, it's definitely worth it: I certainly do it....but it's not enough! You need more points!

Sloth also has a slight income malus, but not a strong one: its primary effect is on resources.