Economic event frequency at higher difficulty levels

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Question: do the odds of getting economic events such as the "boom" and tourism & trade increases decline  as you go up in difficulty level?

Going from Challenging/Tough, where there seemed to be several of these events in the course of a game, to Painful/Crippling, where I have now played 4 complete games with just one in total (random events setting left unchanged at frequent).

I'm assuming it does decline, as it definately makes it harder!

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

I do not know the answer, but I seem to be seeing such events very rarely at Suicidal. 

Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

I don't think anyone knows.  If so, they haven't shared it with the community.  In my experience difficulty is not the issue. The matter is how you approach the game. When you need a boom, it happens. When you kick ass and take names, it doesn't.  I don't think its random, in the truest sense.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

I wonder if it applies to other events, as well.

For example, I have not had a visit by the DreadLords in any of my last dozen or so games at Suicidal.

Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Quoting LTjim, reply 3
I wonder if it applies to other events, as well.
End of LTjim's quote

Don't know LT.  I haven't seen DreadLords for like..forever.  Save out or waste a few turns takin' em out.

Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

I don't see the mega-events since I play with them off, but I usually get several of the regular events, influence, economy, pop growth, etc.  I play TA at obscene to suicidal on on large to huge maps with 4-7 races.  Games usually run around 4 years. 

As far as a specific event, I think that's randomized just like topics for UP meetings so an event is pulled out of a hat when one is triggered.  Based on what I've seen in the error log, a random event rolls every turn so my guess is there's a big number of "no-event" events in a pool with a small number of "action" events.  I often go several games without seeing one event or another.  I'd say that's just luck of the draw. 

There's one event I really like that almost never comes up.  That's the ultra-drive one that increases all ship speeds 50%.  I haven't seen that one since Dread Lords.  I thought they deleted it, but it's still there because I finally got it in a recent game.

As far as event frequency with respect to difficulty, I haven't played on a lower difficulty for a long time so I don't remember, but I think random events occur at the same frequency regardless.