Greek olympic event is really boring.

[el caballerion]

When you play as a Greek ruler, you get hit with a recurring event every few years that allows you to select two people to go to the Olympics. My candidates have NEVER won, and the event is super tedious.

1) How do you win at the Olympics?
2) What's the point of this event, besides allowing you to temporarily get rid of a disloyal person?

It needs to be reworked bc an Olympic event would be a really cool event in the game, if done with more creativity and far less redundancy.

 

[Chehabian]

It feels like a random luck of the draw thing.
One time I won and I was genuinely shocked.

Most times? I ignore...

 

[Nostalgium]

From what I've garnered, based on the success of the people I've sent, it seems to be at least partially stat-based. My winners have all had high Martial and/or Finesse, but this might just be confirmation bias. The point of the event seems mostly to be flavour though, plus the quite significant stab boost if you win.

 

[BarbarianHunter]

I have had too many confirmations for it to be bias.
I'm 100% certain it's STAT based. Not a sliver of a doubt.

 

[saegoto]

I won 2 times in last ~30 games

Does anyone have any idea how to make the Olympics more fun and interesting to play?

 

[olivenkranz]

I won in a game 4 times, 3 times with the same character. If you have miraculously won, remember the name, and send him again. It also chnages the text a little bit...

 

[Herennius]

My ingame experience is that the character with the highest sum of all 4 prim stats participating wins. Sometimes prisoners get selected as possible participants and you can "recruit" them for your own character pool, when they retun.

But yes - this event could need some more love and attention.

 

[Napoleon1971]

I'm not sure its a straight "highest stats automatically wins". But, I'll concur that I've had a guy with splendid stats be a multi-winner so I don't believe its super random either, perhaps stats + d10 roll or something like that.

I probably should do a greek polis WC run and see how it goes if I have a high stat person and can guess who the only 1 or 2 remaining hellenistic polis remaining would send. I'll have to make sure I don't conquer Olympus too, which invariably I'll forget to do.

I agree it could use some improvement. It just seems weird as set up. It may mess with your government but otherwise its much ado about nothing.

 

[Iosue Yu]

Well the way to increase winning chance of the Olympics is to actually read the character's descriptions instead of just use the Martial points.

1. If it says something like a second coming of some hero, like Heracles, Adonis or Odysseus, then you know he's the right candidate.
2. If it says "a stout fella", or a "brute" it's better than nothing.
3. If it says just "an eager competitor", then you know this guy is average.
4. If it says even bad descriptions like "decrepit old fool", you know he's not going to win anything at all.

If you win, you get some popularity, a permenant trait for the winner, and then +50 (or +60) opinions to all other Greek countries. That's it.

 

[olivenkranz]

Well the way to increase winning chance of the Olympics is to actually read the character's descriptions instead of just use the Martial points.

1. If it says something like a second coming of some hero, like Heracles, Adonis or Odysseus, then you know he's the right candidate.
2. If it says "a stout fella", or a "brute" it's better than nothing.
3. If it says just "an eager competitor", then you know this guy is average.
4. If it says even bad descriptions like "decrepit old fool", you know he's not going to win anything at all.

If you win, you get some popularity, a permenant trait for the winner, and then +50 (or +60) opinions to all other Greek countries. That's it.

you also get 6 Stab

 

[Torugu]

@Herennius "in game experience" is correct. The winner is determined based on the sum of all stats.

I just checked the event files, and what the game does is create an ordered list based on combined_stats_olympics_svalue. The first character in that list is set as the winner of the Olympics.

order_by = combined_stats_olympics_svalue
                position = 0
                check_range_bounds = no
                var:olympic_attendee = {
                    save_scope_as = victor_origin_country
                }
                save_scope_as = victorious_competitor

And combined_stats_olympics_svalue is simply the sum of all the characters attributes:

combined_stats_olympics_svalue = {
    value = 0
    add = martial
    add = finesse
    add = charisma
    add = zeal

 

[Pirarucu]

I remember in a game as Syracuse I've managed to win a few consecutive times by sending Archimedes to compete

 

[Dayvit78]

I also seem to remember that if you own the site where the Olympics are held, you never need to worry about the event. Because I guess it assumes all your candidates go (and don't have to leave the country).

 

[Will Steel]

I also seem to remember that if you own the site where the Olympics are held, you never need to worry about the event. Because I guess it assumes all your candidates go (and don't have to leave the country).

I seem to remember that it still prompts you every four years, but this time you can control whether to even hold the Olympic games at all. Or have they changed that?

 

[Emre Yigit]

Sometimes the Olympics can be scandalous:

 

[Herennius]

I seem to remember that it still prompts you every four years, but this time you can control whether to even hold the Olympic games at all. Or have they changed that?

If you own Olympia, you still have to only decide about whether there will be games or not every four years.

 

[Todie]

How to win:

Conquer all helenic countries. Leave olympus as a vassal.

Be the sole conpetitior every time...

#winning.


Seriously though, yeah, olympics-events are repetitive and flat. There’s quite some stuff in their event chains to build on though i think, given how it makes characters move around and whatnot.

... like, after the inclusion of espionage, if I were host of olympics in a multiplayer game, I’d be wary of spies coming in at the same time.

 

[Jiben]

While it's not anything major i quite like it. It's a small amount of flavour for greeks.

 

[Torugu]

How to win:

Conquer all helenic countries. Leave olympus as a vassal.

Be the sole conpetitior every time...

#winning.


Seriously though, yeah, olympics-events are repetitive and flat. There’s quite some stuff in their event chains to build on though i think, given how it makes characters move around and whatnot.

... like, after the inclusion of espionage, if I were host of olympics in a multiplayer game, I’d be wary of spies coming in at the same time.

And then be rewarded by receiving a small popularity penalty every 4 years instead.

The Olympics require at least 3 competitors, otherwise they get canceled and everyone lose a bit of popularity.

 

[Emre Yigit]

And then be rewarded by receiving a small popularity penalty every 4 years instead.

The Olympics require at least 3 competitors, otherwise they get canceled and everyone lose a bit of popularity.

Unless you own the site yourself, when you can happily organise games every four years, just for yourself and that lone city-state that is your slavish vassal.