Moinex said:
Oh yeah ?
Didn't know.
I thought the only factors regarding diplomats were prestige and status (GP or not)
Yes, the ideological thought inventions do change a lot of things, including your diplomatic efficiency, but they're the only events in the game that do so.
And back to the stock crashes:
I've read these things occasionally--people having the same terrible event, be it stock market crash, political assassination, factory destruction, whatever--dozens of times in a row. Well, I've experienced that, too, once. In myfirst ever atempt to play the Ottomans, I watched with horror as
every single one of my original factories was destroyed by events. I'm sure it would have kept going, too, if I hadn't run out of factories.
Now, there's obviously a randomness to these events, and those of you who've had massive numbers of these fire must also recognize that you don't get the same number in every game. In other words, sometimes they'll popup a dozen times a year, and other times they'll never appear at all. My expeience tends to skew strongly towards the latter--I usually few or none of these events, and the anomaly is when I see a dozen.
Well, it's all part of the way probability works. Sometimes you won't have any factories destroyed, sometimes they'll all be destroyed. If you play dozens of games, it just becomes the luck of the draw. Sometimes you just have to count your blessings and move on. In my Ottoman game, for example, I trudged onward top become second ranked behind UK in everything. Other times, though, you just have to accept that it's the luck of the draw that you stock market keep crashing, accept it, and be thankful this isn't real life.
