Event issue- is it a bug?

[Theben]

I had an event today- good ol' Hurricane hits x city (new york) and I have a 'choice' lose buildings or lose people. Well from past experience when I lose buildings from a hurricane they're the good ones, and my people were breeding faster than wilderbeest in heat so I chose people. Or at least I tried to. The game wouldn't let me pick people!! After clicking on it about a dozen times I reluctantly chose buildings, and wouldn't you know, I lose my forge AND my aqueduct- which REALLY sucked b/c New York is going to be my Great Engineer city and I was trying to build the Gardens. So I had to start all over w/ the forge and aqueduct & right now I don't know if I'll get it. So is that a bug? It isn't the 1st time I've been forced to choose a result I didn't want. The city had 5 or 7 population.. does that factor into the matter?

[Quillan]

I've seen the same thing every time I get that event. It has NEVER let me choose the "People are killed" option, even with a city that has a 20+ population. Strangely, I've had a hurricane hit a city that was on the southern shore of the continent within a couple of squares of the polar ice cap.

[Fleme]

The only time it has let me kill people is when the city has no improvements. I've had it happen to a city I've just conquered and then it let me kill one of the citizens. Perhaps the game expects you to value the lives of your lemmin.. eh, citizens more than your buildings.

[DirtyMartini]

Originally posted by Quillan
I've seen the same thing every time I get that event. It has NEVER let me choose the "People are killed" option,

Me too, I had assumed it was a bug. More likely it's as Fleme says -- can only pick citizens if no buildings exist.

[Scooby_Doo]

But then why have the option? It would presumably make more sense to have the event state which one of the two inevitable results has actually happened, rather than pretending that there is a choice.

[johnmcd]

And, it's always good buildings.

[DirtyMartini]

Originally posted by Scooby_Doo
But then why have the option? It would presumably make more sense to have the event state which one of the two inevitable results has actually happened, rather than pretending that there is a choice.

Seems like that's just the default for events -- you can always see all the options even if you can't choose them (no statue of zeus for the colliseum thing, not enough money for one of them, etc.) The events without a choice have only one possible outcome (mine destroyed, pasture destroyed, volcano kills several towns, etc.)