Balance: Some thoughts on Events and Scales

[Agrajag]

johan osterman said:
Not sure that I am reading you right but some of you sounds like do not believe the probability of a nation recieving events is based number of provinces. It is. I do not remember the exact mechanic but there is a chance for each province to generate an event, just that the maximum event number is capped at 3.

tinkthank said:
- Make events occur on a per-province, not per-nation basis. If a nation has 200 provinces, 100 events per turn would not be unthinkable under a Turmoil scale.

This is the part of his message causing all the conflict, no one said it isnt based on provinces (or atleast not outright, you could consider the original message to say that even though it doesnt directly say it.)

[sushiboat]

Raising the cap a little would be Ok with me. Suppose the cap became the square root of the number of provinces owned. 9 provinces would get up to 3 random events, 100 provinces would get up to 10 random events, and 400 provinces would get up to 20 random events.

[Endoperez]

sushiboat said:
Raising the cap a little would be Ok with me. Suppose the cap became the square root of the number of provinces owned. 9 provinces would get up to 3 random events, 100 provinces would get up to 10 random events, and 400 provinces would get up to 20 random events.

Always atleast one.
4 provinces for maximum of 2 events.
9 provinces for maximum of 3 events.
16 provinces for maximum of 4 events.
25 provinces for maximum of 5 events.
36 provinces for maximum of 6 events.
49 provinces for maximum of 7 events.
64 provinces for maximum of 8 events.
81 provinces for maximum of 9 events.
100 provinces for maximum of 10 events.

With this system, you might have more than 3 events by turn 15 (?) or so. However, you won't get more than six events before 36 provinces, and the number of maximum events grows ever more slowly after that. I don't know if this would be balanced, but I like this idea!