Randomish Events

[Fistalis]

Last update I added some semi Random events. That is to say they will always happen but I Tried various ways to make the results Vary.

So I'm going to list the events and I need basic feedback.
What volatility level did you play on?
What diplomatic difficulty?
what happened when it triggered? did war start?
Did you see it trigger every game? Did those 2 nations declare war every game?
Did you even notice it?
Any additional thoughts.

Note that none of these gives a news message but if you saw war break out between these nations it was likely due to this. If you remember what month/year the war started that would help as well.

• Event 1 - Souring of U.K and Argentinas relations.
  
• Event 2- Souring of relations between China and Japan
  
  
• Event 3- Pakistan India souring of relations (I may still have an event that Triggers war on this one though I'll have to double check)
  
  
• Event 4-Egypt/Israel souring of relations
  
  
  

I need to assess how effective they are in changing gameplay with each playthrough. I don't want them to be static events that always play out the same way so any feedback as to what people have noticed regarding these would be extremely helpful in adjusting these and knowing whether I should add more in the future.

As to why I need your feed back. These events are all given a LARGE window to trigger in, They could go off in the first 6 months or 6 or 7 years into the game.(if they are working properly) As such I dont have the time to play 20 or 30 10 year long games to see how they play out through different games.

Bonus questions:
How long does your average play through of the modern world last in game years?
How long was your longest play through in game years?

[mrplaya]

will for me
i always play on very high volatility
the diplomatic was medium
those events never happened in my many games if the latest updated

the first 2 are normal never saw war break out between them

egypt does not go to war in every game i play
so its 50 :50 every time i start a new game
as for india and pakistan
the always go to war in every game i start in the first 3 months

one odd thing i noticed yesterday is serbia declaring war on kosovo and other close countries
for the first time in any of my games
also north korea and south korea never go to war since the last update never saw them in a war

[cdiplayer]

I always play on medium volatility and with settings at easy or normal. I've seen Egypt go to war 2 or 3 times and the outcome has always been different. Last time Iran attacked Israel at the same time from Syria and Iran conquered Israel as Israel conquered Egypt. Israel moved their capital to Cairo and then retook Israel from Iran. India and Pakistan usually go to war within the first few years although in recent games I haven't seen hostilities break out. Never seen anything happen between Argentina and the UK. I think I saw Japan and China go to war once but generally Japan goes to war with Russia. One thing I would like to add, please rebalance the Somalian situation. I used to see both Al Shabaab and Somalia winning about 50 percent of the time. Now Al Shabaab wins every time unless I gift Somalia units. Also, as far as how long my playthrough lasts in years...eh usually 4 or so. The longest I've had so far has been with FARC. I'm in 2022 and I've been at war with the U.S. for 5 years.

[Fistalis]

May 13, 2013 1:07:14 GMT -6 cdiplayer said:

I always play on medium volatility and with settings at easy or normal. I've seen Egypt go to war 2 or 3 times and the outcome has always been different. Last time Iran attacked Israel at the same time from Syria and Iran conquered Israel as Israel conquered Egypt. Israel moved their capital to Cairo and then retook Israel from Iran. India and Pakistan usually go to war within the first few years although in recent games I haven't seen hostilities break out. Never seen anything happen between Argentina and the UK. I think I saw Japan and China go to war once but generally Japan goes to war with Russia. One thing I would like to add, please rebalance the Somalian situation. I used to see both Al Shabaab and Somalia winning about 50 percent of the time. Now Al Shabaab wins every time unless I gift Somalia units. Also, as far as how long my playthrough lasts in years...eh usually 4 or so. The longest I've had so far has been with FARC. I'm in 2022 and I've been at war with the U.S. for 5 years.

wow wall of text lol

So far I'm getting that the Israel/egypt and paki/india events are working as intended, but the japan/china and UK argentina are not. Part of this may be the fact that the AI is less likely to declare on people that aren't neighbors. I"ll wait to see if anyone else has feedback before I start messing with the events (since this post has only been up a day I'll give it another few days at least).