Comments on: Random events

By: Absolutis

Absolutis — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:20:17 +0000

Close star passing.

Would drastically decrease population of all planets in both starsystems. In addition, would decrease max. population.
Effect would decrease with a building like “gravity stabilizer”
Would be “bad” event, of course

By: Yuckwitte

Yuckwitte — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:21:10 +0000

I mean from Star Trek Generations, the ribbon of destruction that destroys craft that comes in contact with it but takes people into a sort of timeless bliss. It goes around the universe affecting things

(NB this is just explaining not providing a new idea… So it might not be worth posting; ah well )

By: TSeeker

TSeeker — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 09:49:23 +0000

I don’t know what you mean by “The Nexus” (too many possible references + just woke up). However, generally speaking, something that is small-scale but happens everywhere might qualify as a large-scale event.

By: Yuckwitte

Yuckwitte — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 07:07:11 +0000

What about “The Nexus”? (if you forget the *ahem* copyright) Although it happens on a localised scale, it goes, like, around the universe; is that also “bad”?

By that I mean, are small scale things that happen everywhere, just at different times, thereby becoming *almost* largescale OK?

By: ju

ju — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:13:12 +0000

You have to keep in mind the “large” scale side of things. An alignment of moons would only affect one player, and it is “bad” because it would be unfair.

By: Yuckwitte

Yuckwitte — Wed, 07 May 2008 09:10:56 +0000

And this would mean some festival of being lazy and eating Chips… Damn I love religion

By: Yuckwitte

Yuckwitte — Wed, 07 May 2008 08:21:14 +0000

On that note… The such exceptional thingy could be an alignment of some moons or planets or something…

By: TSeeker

TSeeker — Wed, 07 May 2008 08:03:35 +0000

Oh, of course … I guess I shouldn’t read/reply to comments after a 4h “night”. The problem with it is that it’s really systematic, so a regular pilgrimage wouldn’t work; however, what could work as a “random” event is an exceptional such pilgrimage. Of course, the population wouldn’t really go away, it’d just stay there and be useless for some time.

By: Yuckwitte

Yuckwitte — Wed, 07 May 2008 07:58:54 +0000

Well, every year Muslims from all over the world go to mecca? (this is just an example…)

So why not aliens going to a homeworld or something, or a holy planet or something?

By: TSeeker

TSeeker — Wed, 07 May 2008 07:37:35 +0000

@Yuckwitte,
Obviously some species have a regular breeding cycle; however, the random event that was named thus referred to a very … productive … breeding cycle, one in which the amount of individuals born out of it was greater than what anyone could have anticipated or lasted longer (or both).

I don’t understand your Mecca suggestion. Please explain.