fortification event, bug or feature?

[Oranje]

The fortification event upgrades the fortification in your capital without pay.
It also upgrades to fortification levels you haven't even researched yet, however.
Seems strange, you could never build anything befor knowing how to, in my view.
Maybe it would be better to not restrict the event to capitals and limit it to fortification levels already researched?
Either that or skip it alltogether, after all, the 'no cost' aspect of it is unhistoric too?

greetings, Oranje

 

[Hartmann]

Hi Oranje,

though You´re right in theory I would like to keep that event. There are sooo many bad events (crazy monarch etc.) that I´m happy about having some nice ones, too.

Hartmann

 

[unmerged(28)]

I am not entirely of the same opinion as you here Oranje. But I fully understand your concern it is a topic that one need to get a plausible explanation for. Let me put it this way.

On the 'no cost' problem:

Could it no be so...?
that it is the grants from nobles for 'service done' by state officials (evading the proper channels for a decision of local importance for example) or funds raised by local noble men and burgers that wanted to protect their land's end as they had real capital to loose if it was conquered by an enemy?

On the Non-attained tech level:

Could it not be so...?
that the 'actually' production of technology is such that the real breakthrough might pop-up where you never had expected them? And thus that sometimes (as often as the event) the endeavours of a few good men actually resulted in a practical application before the technique become common knowledge?

It is just my humble opinion of course...

/Greven