[OmikronWarrior]

Random events are actually dependent on more scales then just order/turmoil and luck/misfortune. For example, having death means getting plague events which will absolutely wreck your population. I was actually just in a game where somebody had two such events in their capitol within the first 12 turns. On the flipside, growth allows the "ancient presence" event, which reduces even the most populous populations to a couple hundred people and causes an attack. Luckily its pretty rare.

I usually go Order-3, Misfortune-2, and at least Growth-1. There is no comprehensive list of random events and whats required to precurse them, though. So, I recommend you play several SP games at different setting to get a feel of the differences. I do know some events seem to be worse at different levels of misfortune, such as barbarian attacks having more barbarians.