CONTEST! Europa Universalis IV: Rewrite history - Create an in-game event!

[JimmyBackman]

Event: Elephants!

Trigger: Country Mughals, monarch military skill 4 or higher.

Event text:

Our divine emperor <monarch name> have always been impressed with these great beasts.
And is now devicing many grand plans for their further use in our grand realm.

Option A: Train them as war elephants and clad them in armor and put blades on their tusks!
effect: modifier "beast of war" military leaders gets +1 shock, +5 discipline until game end. Minus year income ducats

Option B: Use them as beasts of burden to carry our armies supplies!
effect: modifier "beast of burden" military leaders gets +1 manuever until game end. Minus half year income ducats

Option C: All this ivory would make for lovely decoration in my palace!
effect: modifier "ivory palace" + 1 prestige, +1 legitimacy until game end. Minus half year income ducats, random ivory province becomes other trade goods.

Event based on Akbars great interest in elephants.

 

[Schleisen]

Trigger:
The year is 1522 and the Papal States has less than 0 opinion of the player.

Event Text:
A crazy artista suggests that the world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. How could this nonsense be true?

Option A: "Could it be?"
%10 less tech and idea cost for 10 years.

Option B: "This is blasphemy!"
Gain 10 prestige
Gain 30 papal influence
Papal States' opinion of the player: +50

 

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Last days of feodal lords

Last days of feodal lords.

Trigger:
You're occupy a province, not owner.
Mean time to happen 18 mouths.

Event Text:
Exhausted by our occupation, the lord of <province event> want to surrender.

Option A: Welcome in our nation !
Lose one stability,
be owner of <province event>
cost 50 admin power.
---> only if positive stability.

Option B: You are free now, my lord.
<province event> owner by "nationalist" (releash state)
Gain 10 prestige.
cost 50 diplomatic power.
---> only if <province event> has a "nationalist" revolt type.

Option C: No way ! That's the goal of the war !
Add core on <province event>
Cost 20 diplomatic/military/administration power.
---> only if you don't had core on <province event>

Option D: Victory ! Looting time !
Gain 250 gold
<province event> lose 1 base tax.
cost 50 military power
--->if only <province event> base tax is not 1.

Option E: I don't talk with small lords, I wan't to see the king of this land !
Increase relation with <province event> owner +10
Increase legitimity by 5.


(Well, if that's will be possible, I think a province_flag or country_flag or anything to say that's land was more "feodal", and not "centralized" on "triggers list"... But I think that's need something like others governements types, or events, or blablabla. So, same for all, that's simpler.)

 

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Event Name:
The Abolition of Slavery

Trigger:
The year is at least 1700.
The country has at least one province producing "Slaves" as trade good

Event Text:
“I am a poor, ignorant man . . . but I have heard of the Declaration of Independence, and have read the Bible. The Declaration says all men are created equal, and the Bible says God has made us all of one blood. I think . . . we are entitled to good treatment, that it is wrong to hold men in slavery” - Arthur Tappen, 1833 in front of the New York Anti Slavery Society

Option A: Every slave shall be a free man
Lose 100 Administrative Power
+10% Global Trade Income for 5 Years
The Trade Good "Slaves" is changed to "Oranges" in every province

Option B: It's time to stock up on whips
Lose 100 Military Power
+5% Revolt Risk in every province producing "Slaves" for 5 Years
+5% Global Production Efficiency for 5 Years

 

[trojan1234]

Event name : Harsh Winter

Trigger : random province / Time : October for N hemisphere April for S hemisphere

Event text : The winter of (year) in (province) is extremely harsh. Canals and rivers are frozen. Crops fail and livestock can not be maintained through increasingly harsh winters. People are about to be dead due to starvation.

Option A : We should save the people! Evacuate them.
Reduce mili points by (province) base tax
(province) local production efficiency, tax efficiency, and local trade goods production greatly reduced for 5 years

Option B : Send the peasants to preserve the assets
Reduce adm points by (province) base tax
(province) local manpower greatly reduced and local revolt risk increased for 10 years

Option C : There is nothing we can do in front of the natural disaster.
(province) local production efficiency, tax efficiency, and local trade goods production greatly reduced for 5 years
local manpower greatly reduced and local revolt risk increased for 10 years


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This is an random event initially motivated by historical article that French armies could move over a frozen river and attack Netherlands due to extremely harsh winter. I was thinking increased attrition or lowered fort defense for options. But in that case, there would be only one option available. No fun. So I made an event of multiple options.

 

[Leon_The_Killer]

Trigger:
Target country is Scandinavian culture; country that is NOT Scandinavian culture has a colony in any province in Northern America region; Player does NOT have colonies in Northern America region; Is before the year 1700.

Event Text:
My <Leader Title>, <Foreign Colonizer> has made settlements in the farthest north of the American Continent, and has begun to explore the land more thoroughly. While this would normally be of no concern to us, a group of very influential people in our country are starting to loudly claim that the north of the American continent is the ancient Markland and Vinland chronicled in the Greenland saga and Saga of Erik the Red. The masses strongly agree with these men, and clamor to travel to the new world. While there are many who would contest this claim, it does make for a rather convenient excuse to launch our own expedition into the new continent ...

Option A: These are OUR ancestral claims!
Gain Claims on all colonies in Northern America region.
Gain "Colonial Ambitions" modifier for 10 years. ( +1 colonist, +30% Colony Growth, +30% Colonist Speed )
Gain +1 Stability and -6 revolt risk for 10 years.
Lose 100 Ducats. (( Colonies expensive yo ))
Lose 20 prestige. (( Claims are not popularly supported by other nations ))
Lose -150 relations with <Foreign Colonizer>.

Option B: Prepare a small effort, enough to please the Citizenry.
Gain "Colonial Attempts" modifier for 5 years. ( +1 colonist, +10% colony growth )
Gain +1 Stability and -3 Revolt Risk for 5 years.
Lose 5 prestige.
Lose 50 Ducats
Lose -50 relations with <Foreign Colonizer>. (( Even acknowledging it makes them pissed + new rival. ))

Option C: This is silly nonsense.
Gain +50 relations with <Foreign Colonizer>. (( Happy you told the people to shut up. ))
Lose -1 Stability and +5 revolt risk for 5 years.

 

[alexandertg]

Event Name: The Balkans revolt!

Trigger:
25% chance to trigger
The year is 1500
The Ottomans' ruler has less than 5 administrative skill.

Event Text:
Cultural and religious suppression has forced the Balkan people to unite against Turkish rule. Both nobles and peasants have risen to liberate their country. Liberty or death!

Event Picture: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...drianopolitan_Revolutionary_District_Seal.JPG (if you think that it's good/appropriate)
If Ottomans is a player:
Option A: We do not need these infidel lands.
All Nations in the Balkan region controlled by the Ottomans become independent.

Option B: These lands are rightfully ours!
15 regiments rise in every territory controlled by the Ottomans in the Balkan region.

If Ottomans is not a player: Option B should always trigger.

 

[gaius valerius]

Event Name: "Queen of the Adriatic"

Faction: Venice

Trigger: Venice owns Corfu (+is a core), time frame is 1500-1580, has fort level 3

Event Text: "Doge, officials have increasingly alerted us to the detrimental state of the fortifications at our stronghold on Corfu. Our maritime hegemony over the Adriatic is in danger. We need bring the old fortifications up to date with the latests standards of modern siege warfare or suffer the consequences of our ignorance!"

Option A: Corfu is the keystone of our maritime empire, spare no effort in fortifying it! (the modifier thus given is labeled "Queen of the Adriatic")

- lose 350 ducats
- Corfu gains +1 level fort (if the fort was lvl2 it gains a lvl 3, if it was lvl3 it gains a lvl 4 - 4 is the maximum, if it has 4 it does not gain any new level) Corfu gains +200% defensiveness
- -33% tax modifier, -x% production modifier (in Corfu it self, not your empire)
- galley combat effectiveness +10%
- -15% modifier upkeep galleys -5% upkeep big ships

Option B: Fix what needs fixing, but leave it at that!

- lose 150 ducats
- Corfu gains +100% defensiveness
- -33% tax modifier, -x% production modifier (in Corfu itself)
- galley combat effectiveness +10%

Option C: Corfu has never fallen before, it will hold!

- Corfu gains -200% defensiveness
- -15% tax modifier, Corfu gains -x% Production modifier (in Corfu itself)

Final remarks:

* The main gist of the modifier is to make the island a cornerstone in your maritime empire, the backdraw is that you ruin Corfu, Venice cared for the entrance to the Adriatic, not the inhabitants of Corfu.
* The modifier should be limited in time untill about 1600-1630. By this date the maritime hegemony of Venice was for all intents and purposes already over - historically speaking it ended in the 1530-1573 period, as galleys became obsolete (yet continued to be used by Venice and other aspirants for Mediterannean hegemony) and certainly the 1570-1573 war with Turkey dealt her a severe blow. The loss of her merchant navy did as such not cripple Venice for she remained one of the greatest ports and became one of the great industrial centres of the entire Mediterannean region. Her port continued to be filled with ships, only foreign ships, no longer her own galero de mercato.
* For gameplay purposes this modifier may either be limited in time as suggested above (in line with history) or perhaps be made recurrent (to signal the continuous effort of Venice throughout the game).



A little History: (disclaimer: not meant to be in-game, purely informative)
Corfu was very much the keystone to controlling the Adriatic, it's mountains provided ample shelter from the treacherous winds that were a menace all across the Adriatic. Many nations tried to control the entrance to the Adriatic, the Turks attempted to do so by building a fortress at the Gulf of Quatero (Cattaro), however this was not the true key. The true keypoint was Corfu, and since 1386 if had been in Venetian hands. Most of the shipping in the Adriatic concentrated itself along this islands, and thus entering the Adriatic generally meant passing Corfu. The Venetians did historically not spare any efforts in maintaining this keystone of their entire maritime empire (for it held the entrance to the Adriatic and made her the undisputed 'Queen' during her heyday). The Signoria realised the importance of the island to her naval empire and spared no expenses in fortifying it. In 1572 the fortress towering high above the Greek village held 700 pieces of artillery, said to reach as far as the Albanian coast. In 1553 no less than 200 000 ducats were spent on the island but little progress was being made. The fact of the matter is that it required the continuous effort of the Signoria to maintain, an effort they historically met, or at least attempted to.

The drawback was that Corfu was laid to waste many times by the Turks, appaling to many a visitor who could not understand how the enemy could lay to waste the entire island under the noses of the mighty fort. Though the fortress held, it defended just that: the fortress, and not the adjacent town and countryside. As a result the population of Corfu which numbered 40000 in 1538 had declined to 19000 by 1588. Throughout the 2nd half of the 16th century the Venetian officials wrote a near endless stream of complaints about the sorry state of Corfu outside the fortress walls, the Signoria from her side did not spare any effort in funding the works at Corfu - though as said despite the great sums involved, not always with great effectiveness. However by holding the fortress and the adjacent bay, she principally controlled the entrance to the Adriatic and it allowed her to rightfully call it 'her Gulf' and label herself 'Queen' of it. Venice truly reigned over the inland sea during these final days of her glory and enforced this privilege on her opponents - christian or muslim - whenever and wherever she could. (Braudel, "The Mediterranean...", vol1, p125-127)

 

[Tellurian]

Title: Angkor What?

Trigger:
Be western, eastern or ottoman tech group. Own and control the province Siem Reap. Can only occur once.

Event Text:
A monk has returned to us speaking of a massive city complex of remarkable architecture succumbing to decay. The monk makes particular note of an incredible walled temple, protected from the encroaching jungle by its surrounding moat.

Option A: Plunder everything you can and move on.
Owner gains half a year's income.
Local revolt risk increases by 3% for a year.

Option B: Renovate the site as the provincial capital.
Owner loses a year's income.
Province title becomes Angkor.
Base tax for Angkor increases by 3.
Owner gains a core on Angkor.

Option C: Re-purpose the temple in the name of our faith.
Owner loses a half of a year's income.
Gain a Temple in Siem Reap.
Siem Reap converts to the state religion.
Local revolt risk increases by 1% for five years.

 

[SoldierBobMcBob]

Trigger: Nation is a monarchy (with male ruler, not sure if the game keeps track of this)

Event text: The Queen demands more jewelry. She has decided that her current level of jewelry is far too low, and so demands a room filled to the brim with solid gold jewelry.

Option A: Buy her all the jewelry she desires
Lose 5 times yearly income

Option B: Deny her
Queen kills ruler

Option C: Kill her
Chance of heir reduced by 100% for 1 year

 

[scholar]

Perhaps an uninspiring event, but:

Trigger:
Female Ruler
No heir

Option One: Country enters into personal union under a prestigious ally.
Option Two: New heir, low legitimacy, of your dynasty.

AI will choose option one more often than not.

 

[ops1]

Sub-Saharian Event

Titel: The Witch Doctor's Influence

Trigger: The player has the Sub-Saharian technology-group

Event-Text: "The Witch Doctor fears the supremacy of the westernized nations and wants to foretell the future for the public good of our country. He needs a sacrifice!"

Option A: "We need to read our future. Sacrifice some people."
Penalty: loose 10 manpower for 20 years in your Capital province

Option B: "We need to read our future. Sacrifice some cattle."
Penalty: loose 80 gold

Option C: "No, the future is not ours to see."
Penalty: loose 1 Stability

Historical Context: The Witch doctors were and still are very important for african people and are highly respected. (Human) sacrifices are still conducted.

 

[aitaituo]

Event Name: The King's New Haircut

Triggers: Western or Eastern Tech Group; Christian state religion; monarchy government type; hasn't previously had this event

MTTH: 10000

Event Text:

Our glorious [monarch name & title] has begun to grow out his hair, unfortunately this has resulted in the formation of a plait on the left side of [his/her] head, a hardened and malodorous mass of hair, lice, and pus. This hairstyle is common among the peasants, who believe it can prevent illnesses by drawing it into the hair. Our [queen/king] is less than enthused by the aroma the royal bedroom and several courtiers and visiting nobles have been said to be laughing behind the [king/queen]'s back.

Option A:
"We must cut the royal hair!"
Lose 10 prestige
Gain 50 diplomatic power

Option B:
"Make the whole court grow plaits, we will be the envy of Europe!"
Gain 10 prestige
Lose 2 diplomatic reputation for 3 years

Option C:
"My hair is beautiful, no?"
Lose 1 stability

Option D: (Requires absolute monarchy)
"We are the state, seize the estates of everyone who dares mock us!"
Gain 1 years income
Lose 1 stability

 

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Event Name: The Royal Touch

Trigger: Country is Catholic AND country is monarchy AND ruler has legitimacy <50

Event Text: Tuberculosis was common in this era, and one of it's most disfiguring manifestations was scrofula, an unsightly swelling of lymph nodes in the neck. In past times, royalty, particularly in England and France, had instituted a tradition whereby they would touch the afflicted area to promote healing as proof of their divine grace and the noble character of their bloodlines. This naturally led to conflict with the Church, as they strongly denied the ability of monarchs to perform healing miracles without divine intercession. Our subjects whisper vile rumors about [king/queen]'s right to the throne, and perhaps we should reinstate this regal tradition to impress upon them the divine favor of [king/queen]'s rule. However, some of our scholars dare mock our [king/queen]'s regal powers and claim that this scrofula will go into remission naturally.

Option A: "The Royal Touch Shall Heal!"
Gain 30 Legitimacy
Gain 10 Prestige
+10% Administrative Technology cost

Option B: "Perhaps the Scholars are Right."
-10% Administrative Technology cost
Lose 30 Legitimacy

Option C: "Healing Power Flows Only Through Royal Blood!"
Gain 30 Legitimacy
Gain 10 Prestige
Lose 40 Papal Influence
-50 Relations with Papal State

 

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Event name: Expand the Alhambra.

Trigger:
Country IS Granada.
Granada owns Iberian region. Capital is Granada (province).
Year is 1650 or higher.

Event Text:
From the blink of extinction, Islam has thrived again in Iberia thanks to our nation's efforts. Crusades are over and we've united all of Al-Andalus and the peninsula under the rightful banner of the Nasrids. However, the old royal palace of the Alhambra pales in comparison to many capitals and even cities in our own realm. The grand vizir has elaborated a plan to extend the Alhambra and the capital to make it into the jewel of our kingdom once again, but hasn't decided on how to get funds.

Option A: "Let us use the resources of the old christian strongholds!"
Madrid loses 1 base tax.
Valencia loses 1 base tax.
Alicante loses 1 base tax.
Barcelona loses 1 base tax.
Lisboa loses 1 base tax.
Porto loses 1 base tax.
Granada gains 10 base tax.
Revolt risk +10 in Madrid, Valencia, Alicante, Barcelona, Lisboa and Porto for 20 years.

Option B: "Use the treasury to extend the capital."
Lose 3 times yearly income.

Granada gains 5 base tax.
Global tax modifier -20% for all provinces for 30years.
A 17 noble rebel stack spawns in random province.

 

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Event name: Science of Comets

Trigger: Year is after 1577 AND a comet event (the stability loss event) has recently happened (repeatable, 33% chance, occurs 1 month after the comet event happens)

Picture: Same one for the comet event

Event Text: The Danish noble and astronomer, Tycho Brahe, made detailed observations of the Great Comet of 1577 which allowed him to determine that the comet's path must have been beyond the orbit of the moon, an observation that would be widely accepted by astronomers and would be used by his assistant, Johannes Kepler, to help formulate his theories of planetary motion. Later scientists and mathematicians like Issac Newton in 1687 and Edmund Halley in 1705 would further the science of comets with their observations of the celestial bodies.

Option A: "Science!"
-10% to admin tech costs for 3 years.
+10 prestige

Option B: "Heresy!"
+2% to missionary chance for 3 years.
+5 Papal influence if Catholic

Option C: "So... all our rivals also saw this comet?"
-1 stability to all rivals.
1 random territory claim on an adjacent rival territory

 

[AndreasPhokas]

Name: The emperor's new groove.

A musician has been heard gallivanting around our empire and his music is becoming very popular with the peasants of the realm. However some of his songs are critical of the state.

Trigger: Has Atleast 20 cities

Option A:Kill the knave
-1 stability, gain 3 revolt risk in all provinces for 2 years gain 20 prestige

Option B:Fund the musician and promote his music
+1 Stability, - 10 prestige

 

[Lamahorse]

For Northern Europeans (Germans, Poles, Scandinavians, Irish and British culture groups).

Event name: A bet is a bet.

Trigger: Two monarchies/duchies that border each other. Countries need be in the Christian culture group and have neutral-ish relations (between -20 and +40).
Picture: The Picture of the nobles.

Event Text: This past weekend, local noblemen and their foreign counterparts gathered for their annual sampling of their respective local beverages. After a few flagons, a foreign nobleman pledged that he was willing to bet his estates to a noble of ours that his local county brew was the superior ale. Despite this, a beverage from our country won the contest with the most number of votes. Now your nobles are petitioning you to force the foreign nobleman to hold to his word.

Option A: Disregard the noble's petition. (Tooltip: "The nobleman clearly had too much to drink.")
-5 prestige.
+25 relations with all neighbouring countries. (Modifier on diplomatic tooltip; A Just Monarch +25)
+25 extra relation bonus with the neighbouring country involved in the event. (Modifier on diplomatic tooltip; Ruled in our favour +25)
+1 Noble Revolt Risk for 5 years.

Option B: Support the noblemen! (Tooltip :"It is our duty to enforce the rights of our nobles.")
-1 Revolt Risk for 3 years.
-25 relationship drop with all neighbouring countries. (Modifier on diplomatic tooltip; Dubious diplomatic policies -25)
-25 relationship hit with the neighbouring country. (Modifier on diplomatic tooltip; Target of illegitimate claims -25)
-5 legitimacy.
Gain a claim on a random neighbouring province which you share a land border.

Option C: Soothe, flatter and bribe the noblemen. "That is interesting... but I'm wondering where you got that ravishing new hat..."
Lose 100 ducats (not sure of the scalability of events that cost money but they are tied to how 'big you are')
+1 Stability

For Southern Europeans and generally Mediterranean cultures (Italians, French, Spanish, Portuguese etc).

Event name: Bets are bets!

Trigger: Two monarchies/duchies that border each other. Countries need be in the Christian culture group and have neutral-ish relations (between -20 and +40).
Picture: The Picture of the nobles.

Event Text: This past weekend, local noblemen and their foreign counterparts gathered for their annual sampling of their respective wine harvests. After some tasting of the grapes, a foreign nobleman pledged that he was willing to bet his estates to a noble of ours that his local grape was of a far superior quality to our grape. Despite this, a wine from our country won the contest with the most number of votes. Now your nobles are petitioning you to force the foreign nobleman to hold to his word.

Option A: Disregard the noble's petition. (Tooltip: "The nobleman clearly had too much to drink.")
-5 prestige.
+25 relations with all neighbouring countries. (Modifier on diplomatic tooltip; A Just Monarch +25)
+25 extra relation bonus with the neighbouring country involved in the event. (Modifier on diplomatic tooltip; Ruled in our favour +25)
+1 Noble Revolt Risk for 5 years.

Option B: Support the noblemen! (Tooltip :"It is our duty to enforce the rights of our nobles.")
-1 Revolt Risk for 3 years.
-25 relationship drop with all neighbouring countries. (Modifier on diplomatic tooltip; Dubious diplomatic policies -25)
-25 relationship hit with the neighbouring country. (Modifier on diplomatic tooltip; Target of illegitimate claims -25)
-5 legitimacy.
Gain a claim on a random neighbouring province which you share a land border.

Option C: Soothe, flatter and bribe the noblemen. "That is interesting... but I'm wondering where you got that ravishing new hat..."
Lose 100 ducats (not sure of the scalability of events that cost money but they are tied to how 'big you are')
+1 Stability

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The same event but just a slight variation on the locations.

 

[Worempie]

Name:
Through thick and thin

Trigger:
Country has an alliance with <other country> for more than 100 years

Event Text:
<other country> has supported us during good and bad times. Something you can't say of every nation.


Option A: We should preserve this friendship
Relation +50 for the next coming 40 years, +50 diplomatic points, +1 diplomat for 20 years

Option B: We are superior!
relation -50, +15 prestige, +1 stability

Option C: It was rather them that needed our help
+50 diplomatic points, +50 military points, +5 diplomatic reputation

<only available when monarch>
Option D: As long as they have pretty girls
Gain new (70% chance female) heir < 2/6/2> with strong claim, +15 prestige, -10 legitimacy

 

[pwe]

Trigger:
The country has a regency and is a Monarchy with an heir who has a strong claim.

Event Text: While on a trip through his land the heir was hit by a meteor and is currently awaiting his death. What should we do my regent?

Option A: The Lord works in mysterious ways...
Lose 2 stability
a local noble ascends the throne

Option B: This is our chance!
Country changes to Noble Republic
lose 3 stability

Option C: "awaiting his death" So he is not realy dead?
Lose 1 stability
Heir gets weak claim.