[1.00][Balance/Difficulty] - Spider queen quest occurs too early.

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Random events are cool but I just had a Deadly spider army (16 spiders in a single stack) appear from the Spider Queen event and immediately raze one of my 3 cities on turn 109.  I only had a single Weak stack of troops running around.   Even if I rushed troops from every city, there's no way I could have defended against that since the spiders spawned about 2 turns away.  

I could understand a few widows appearing this early and attacking a city but that was a bit much.  Either that or have something like this only have a possibility to occur later in the game.

Playing on normal world difficulty/challenging AI, more frequent random events (which I may set back to normal).

 

 

 

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

When this happened again, I revealed the fog of war and saw that the Deadly corpse spiders were only clustering around my cities.  There was a ravenous harridan army in the middle of nowwhere.  

I found the entry for this in CoreRandomEvents.xml, it looks like it's set to occur around turn 100, which, in my opinion, is way too early.  No AI had an army above Medium strength.

<TriggerType>TurnNumber</TriggerType>
<TriggerData>100</TriggerData>

I'm changing it to 900.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

I have had no luck getting this event, but it sounds particularly nasty. 

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