Re: What Are the Drawbacks of High Misfortune?
The drawback to misfortune is that, on average it costs you a big pile of money and gems.
- You *don't* get a number of beneficial events (trade routes, so-and-so found a pile of gems, etc), which costs you money and gems.
- If you also take Drain, you get a lot of events where you lose gems.
- If you also take Death, you get a lot of events where you lose piles of population (as has been mentioned.)
- Regardless of what you take, you get a lot of events that raise unrest - hurricanes, that star that curses people, etc. These events can cause 40 unrest or more, which is (at least for a turn) a bigger income hit that 3 levels of Order.
Most of the effects of Misfortune are not, it is true, game-breakers.
However, as an income scale, in the short turn, Fortune is a better deal than Growth.
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