Random Events Aren't

[EricLarsen]

I've been playing with the random events turned on and all I can say is it's the last time I use random events. Random events just aren't random!:mad:

I didn't mind when my stock market crashed and I lost over 10,000 credits. I didn't mind when I lost 20% of my population on all my worlds to plague. But when the cruiser I had carrying the planet killer weapon had it's crew rebel just after leaving sol on a pirate mission I had had enough of stinking random events.

A random event is an event that can happen at any time under any condition. Unfortunately in SUDG random means balancing and it just ruins the game. When I've got a nice cushy lead and I'm near end game and all I'm really after is seeing the last of the new techs and then play with them a bit I don't want to always be getting whacked by some stupid random event. When I'm playing ok and I'm not leading or losing big I should still be able to have some random events happen and yet I never, ever see them when I'm in the middle of the pack as it were.

What I want to see are truly random events, good things or bad things could happen at any time to me or to my AI alien counterparts. Until then random events stink and I won't bother with them.
Eric Larsen

[Digital Age]

I must confess I turn off random events for the same reasons. I really don't care much for a system which penalizes playing fullbore under the guise of "fairness". All REs do is make it a test of trying to keep up with the leaders, but staying just a bit behind, until growing big enough to weather whatever event might pop up when you shift into high gear. Hard to pull off, and a challenge it its own right, but not what I'm looking for in the game.

Although having a "treasure ark" full of WAs switching sides would have been funny...

D.

[EricLarsen]

Digital Age,
Last night was my last excercise in masochism with the random events. I was having to save and restore constantly because the only random event that would want to play was the ship rebels one. I guess I should have let it go at stealing one of my gunboats, but I figured the next RE I'd see would be the world rebels one and I didn't want my nice singularity age worlds going to the enemy. I finally made a booboo when I saved after seeing a message that I thought was just another ship goes into combat but it was another dreaded ship rebels message.

When random events become just that I'll gladly give them a try. But right now random events are nothing but punishment for playing well and are not worth using.
Eric Larsen