Tales of Random Events

[Kataphraktoi]

The swordsman quest is fun, build 12 and all swords now and in the future have shock promotions! (25% versus melee)

Also that colleseum event is insane, i got a free golden age, and i had the musuem of mausolos too

[Solver]

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The Apolyton thread for more events:

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=168754

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[Kataphraktoi]

Thanks for the [shameless] plug.

AGCEEP for Civ4?

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
What's the prize?

I can answer that myself, now. The Overwhelm Doctrine rewards are:

Combat I for all BBs, DDs, CVs, Fighters, and Jet Fighters or

Harbors produce 5 gold or

[if you built the Manhattan Project] No nuclear weapons.

[Arrian]

I turned events back on for my last game, after having it off the game before that. I had had a very irritating run of terrible luck (bad event after bad event that ruined a game completely early on) and I was through.

So lady luck swings by and grants me a string of great luck.

First I got great hut luck: 3 techs (mysticism, agriculure and... compass!), exp for a unit that boosted him to 10XP so I could build the HE very early (the unit was already a woodyII when he popped the hut), and some gold.

Then 5 positive events as against 1 negative:

1 - +1 commerce for a tile
2 - a bonus to research (no choice, just here is 50 beakers). This was timely, as I was researching CoL for the CS slingshot.
3 - tin discovered in a mine, +2 hammers
4 - Dynasty dies out, pick a successor! A choice of a free settled great prophet, merchant or scientist (?) in my capital. That was pretty sweet. It was also funny, since a struggle for succession would probably not be positive for one's empire...
5 - a "heroic deed" by one of my soldiers in a war gives me a shot at peace with Japan (no thanks!)

The one negative was a slave revolt.

So all in all, that's a pretty sick run of good luck. I'm probably screwed in my next game.

-Arrian

[Asmodeous]

Originally posted by Kataphraktoi
Thanks for the [shameless] plug.

AGCEEP for Civ4?

Did they ever make one of those for EU3? I'm still looking for a decent AGCEEP-style EU3 mod. :/



Me.

[Indalecio]

Originally posted by Kataphraktoi
The swordsman quest is fun, build 12 and all swords now and in the future have shock promotions! (25% versus melee)

Also that colleseum event is insane, i got a free golden age, and i had the musuem of mausolos too

I got Swordmans Quest in one of my games. I built 10, giving each the City Raider promotion, and won the quest. The result of it? Each of my Swordsman got the City Raider promotion.

[Kuciwalker]

Yeah, when they give every unit the first of a sequence of promotions, they should give a higher promotion if the unit already has it (e.g. giving those Swordsmen CR).

[acheron]

Got one where I needed to build X stables... when I finished it I got a choice of several horse archers immediately, or all mounted units gain the sentry promotion, or all stables get +1 food.

[Lord Avalon]

If someone else beats you to a quest goal, do they get the benefits?

Like building x chariots. I got that in a game - and NO horses in sight! (And for you wiseguys out there, I had researched AH.) By the time I found horses on a distant island and settled there, the quest was gone.

[marvinkosh]

It'll tell you in the quest description whether you can fail if another Civ beats you to building teh requisite number of buildings or units.

I got a quest to colonise no less than 13 landmasses (even islands would do) to demonstrate my Civ's mastery of the seas. All but one of the rewards were pretty lame.

[Lord Avalon]

Originally posted by marvinkosh
It'll tell you in the quest description whether you can fail if another Civ beats you to building teh requisite number of buildings or units.

I know that - I was wondering if another civ would get the same quest. Or do they just "happen" to build what you need to, and you lose out.

[marvinkosh]

Originally posted by Lord Avalon
I know that - I was wondering if another civ would get the same quest. Or do they just "happen" to build what you need to, and you lose out.

I don't know, I suppose it's quite possible for more than one Civ to have a given quest. I think you'll know for sure if two human-controlled Civs are playing at once.

[Yosho]

I had the best luck in one game. I was playing as the romans, and was heading towards a swords rush with their unique unit. So first, I get the "cover" promotion, giving all my meele +25% against archers. Then, I got the "build 9 swords" quest. Like that was difficult for me! So I ended up with a big army of pratorieons that started out with cover and city raider and whatever I gave them from the barreks (usually city raider II). Those poor, poor Russians next door...

[Arrian]

Yikes. That's pretty crazy.

Let's see... recently I've gotten:

- conversion of some cities to my religion (I paid to spread it to 4 foreign cities, which i was about to attack & capture).

- another instance of "barbarian horde" which really hurt me. 4 spearmen appeared directly on my border, marched straight in and captured a city. I was lucky, however, that my "core" region was safe, and this occurred out the boonies (in other words, occupied China). It took me some time to get a couple of axemen together and re-take the city.

- library quest (+1 free great scientist in capital or +2 beakers/library)

- all axemen magically get shock promo (lovely, I had no axemen).

-Arrian