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jdrou

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I'm with Kurblius, great advisor bonus is one of the best ways to get a stability boost. Invest as many magistrates as possible into "paint portrait" to keep your cultural tradition between 85% and 95%, then every advisor you buy will be 5 or 6 stars. I find that I get the great advisor random event most frequently when I have the advisor that gives a legitimacy boost (can't remember what they're called) but hiring a 5-star artist is probably the best idea, because even without the +2 stability from great advisor, you get +15 monthly investment in stability.
 

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No, I never changed form of government.

My 150 years of bad luck seems to be over now, though. I have played an additional 80 or so years now and it's been a completely different game. Are there scripts in the game that give bad popups more often during certain time periods? I have that impression now, because my first 50 years were also fine.
 

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There is something suspicious about this topic. Yesterday I read this thread for the first time and since then I have been given 4 negative stab events (ex. madness of king, comet...) in 7 years. Man, you gotta be cursed! :p