[HoneyBadger]

I think their are a handful of events that take directly from your gold, rather than affecting your income.

That doesn't bother me as much as that there are perfectly good-but cheesy-counters, the most obvious of which is to purchase more troops than your resources can handle and then halting the production on the next turn.

I mind the events less than I do the micromanagement and the jarring of immersion.