Everyone dying?

[Cyrus]

Is there a part of this game that causes military leaders, advisors, and rulers to all start dying? I haven't found anywhere that mentions it, but in a matter of 2 years, I've had 2/3 advisors die, 2/3 admirals die, 4/5 generals die, and my ruler tragically died early? I have +2 to 3 stability at the time, and no influenza or plague.. I didn't buy them all at the same time. It just seems really wild, and at the worst times. Literally days before a huge battle my general leaves leaving my army without a leader as they're seconds from an attack.. I haven't seen this happen yet, and haven't seen any cause for it, just ♥♥♥♥ luck?

[Marquoz]

Just RNG. Sometimes you have bouts of bad luck, sometimes bouts of good. With many thousands of EU4 campaigns being played every day, someone somewhere is going to be on the extreme ends of the probability curve.

[aloup.saipuol]

Yeah. Sometimes RNG is just really bad.

I will forever remember that Khmer game when I crowned my 8th ruler since the start in 1500. Plus two comets during the initial disaster (the one where you need to stab up 5 times with +25% all power costs to get out of it.)

I have also had godlike rulers and generals live for 50 years and carry entire runs by themselves.

♥♥♥♥ happens, as they say.

[Yhvh10]

People keep saying this is RNG but ive restarted 3 games as Inca and each has my leader die within 2 years of starting.

I started a different game as a custom nation into persia and within 6 months I lost my heir, my spouse and then my ruler.

Also with a wildly inappropiate amount of advisors dying within a couple years of hiring.

Maybe its completely legit. But I personally think something is a bit wonky,

[罗曼尼亚球]

In this game, there are settings regarding lifespan and death. The older your advisors, generals, and rulers get, the higher the chance they will die.

Additionally, there are also elements of luck involved. For instance, during my playthrough as Yemen, three comet events occurred within five years.

You can circumvent such negative events by reloading saves.

However, your diplomat is immortal, which might be Paradox's sense of humor.

[edd]

The possibility of death is a monthly applied feature that positively correlated with age. Also generals have a higher chance of dying in battles and sieges. Also if you recruited a general and 5-10 years have passed away their probability to die increases. So if you recruited your generals at the same time period and their age are close to each they will probably die at the same time period. Also sometimes RNG happens. These are the links of death calculation

https://eu4.paradoxwikis.com/Ruler#Chance_of_death_and_life_expectancy

https://eu4.paradoxwikis.com/Military_leader#:~:text=The%20odds%20of%20a%20general,to%20their%20pips%20at%20times.

[Cyrus]

Originally posted by aloup.saipuol:

Yeah. Sometimes RNG is just really bad.

I will forever remember that Khmer game when I crowned my 8th ruler since the start in 1500. Plus two comets during the initial disaster (the one where you need to stab up 5 times with +25% all power costs to get out of it.)

I have also had godlike rulers and generals live for 50 years and carry entire runs by themselves.

♥♥♥♥ happens, as they say.

Does the AI have to deal with comets as well? I sweat I had a game with 3 early comets, and the rest of the world around me was somehow still stability 2 and developments above me somehow.

[Marquoz]

Originally posted by Cyrus:

Originally posted by aloup.saipuol:

Yeah. Sometimes RNG is just really bad.

I will forever remember that Khmer game when I crowned my 8th ruler since the start in 1500. Plus two comets during the initial disaster (the one where you need to stab up 5 times with +25% all power costs to get out of it.)

I have also had godlike rulers and generals live for 50 years and carry entire runs by themselves.

♥♥♥♥ happens, as they say.

Does the AI have to deal with comets as well?

Yup.

[grotaclas]

Originally posted by Cyrus:

Does the AI have to deal with comets as well? I sweat I had a game with 3 early comets, and the rest of the world around me was somehow still stability 2 and developments above me somehow.

Comet events are independently for each country. The AI has the same chance to get the comet event, but they don't have to get it at the same time as you get it