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Old March 26th, 2007, 09:37 PM

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Default Re: Question for Luck Experts

Its possible that the luck statistics break down on larger maps. But I personally would not consider Order and Luck to be a good investment of design points.
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Old March 26th, 2007, 10:24 PM

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Default Re: Question for Luck Experts

I too have noticed (I think) that Luck and Order interact. Fewer events overall, but even a smaller proportion of the events are bad than with luck/turmoil.

Come to think of it -- might it be that there are certain *kinds* of bad event, namely unrest/revolt events and maybe big barbarian hordes -- that order prevents?
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Default Re: Question for Luck Experts

That was certainly true in Dominions 2. Many of the more extreme events had a scale requirement - so the largest barbarian hordes *required* turmoil.

I have noticed that -
death/misfortune seems to get more plagues,
growth/luck seems to get more pop growth events,
productivity/luck seems to get more free improvements (temples, forts, defense rating, resource production, etc.).

I'm not sure if it's just that some events require scales (as seemed to be the case in dom 2) or if your other scales bias which events you get. It requires more testing.
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Good feature though, making events depend on more than just luck percentages.
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