Luck3 gold boni

[Borg]

Cainehill,
I've played for over 40 turns now under Turmoil3/luck3 scales
and I have had NO (repeat "NO") really bad events happening to me.
The worst stuff that has happened so far is a "group of rebellions (or such) taking up residence in a province and increasing unrest". (big deal , he ?
I have had no library burn downs, temple destructions , hurricanes or storms of any kind hit my provinces, nothing of the really bad stuff, nothing that made me shout "sh!t" ........ and that is AFTER 40+ turns, which leads me to believe that luck3 eliminates the "worst events" from among the possible events.

I'm just guessing here ........ maybe all events simple fall into a certain Category, like Luck3 , luck2 .. all the way down to BadLuck3.
Maybe the worst you can get under luck3 scales is a "BadLuck1" event ....... so no Badluck2 and BadLuck3 events there (just guessing though, but it certainly points that way, from my perspective anyway)

[Karacan]

It would be fine if that was so. I once had my temple and lab burn down on me in turn 5 and turn 6, consecutively. That was with Order 2, Luck 3.
The gods (me) be praised that it was only a singleplayer.

I usually take both, Order and Luck.

[The_Tauren13]

not long ago i had turmoil 3 and luck 3 and got my capitol hit with -25% pop on about turn 5

[Pickles]

Pah I had turmoil 2 luck 3 & a Jade Empeoror (mitigates bad luck) & I got -25% pop on my first turn (of my first ever MP game)

Pickles

[deccan]

Heh, Boron and I both had luck 3 in our MP game, and both of us had our lab burn down before turn 5.

[Graeme Dice]

Pickles said:
Pah I had turmoil 2 luck 3 & a Jade Empeoror (mitigates bad luck) & I got -25% pop on my first turn (of my first ever MP game)

The Jade emperor does not prevent unlucky events. The jade emperor has a 10% chance per turn of causing a good event.

[Cainehill]

Borg said:
Cainehill,
I've played for over 40 turns now under Turmoil3/luck3 scales and I have had NO (repeat "NO") really bad events happening to me.

This may count as a bad play on words, but ... You were really lucky.

I used to play turmoil3/luck3 a _lot_, back in March / April. I also played Turmoil-1/luck-3, turmoil-2/luck-3, etc : Zen once mocked me by saying, "Yes, and I remember when you used to like turmoil 3 / luck 3".

Luck 3 definately doesn't protect against the really bad things. With Luck-3, I had 40% of my capital's population wiped out in a single event prior to turn 5 (This was a mosehansen game where I played Abysia with a pathetic VQ - my only VQ ever in MP). Of course - 2 turns later, I got 1500 gold, a magic item, and some gems. But the luck didn't do anything to protect against the worst events - burned temple and burned lab early suck, but 40% population loss is the worst whammy event I've come across so far.

Also with Luck-3, I had labs burn, temples burn, floods killing population, barbarian attacks, knight attacks, etc. Nope - luck-3 doesn't protect against the worst events, it might be worthwhile if it did. I believe that Luck-3 _is_ however necessary for some of the best events, like the 1500 gold and a magic item (also requires Magic-1 or 2 minimum).