I am on my umpteenth (okay, probably about sixth) tribe attempt now. The first two, I hadn't quite figured out how to keep them sustained with food, so everybody was on the way to dying and I started over. I expected that to happen, after VV1. (The first was very early, the second I didn't figure out the scarecrow until too late.) But now... every single time, I get some random event that takes away *huge* amounts of stuff. Several times in a row I got hit with huge food decreases when I hadn't yet opened up farming and was subsisting on my last few coconuts, this time I haven't yet gotten the first farming upgrade and I just got hit with a 3000 decrease in tech points.

I don't want to cheat and have a list of what responses to use or anything, that's not how I want to play the game. I would like to know, however, if this is just me somehow managing to get the worst possible chance cards... or if this is something others have encountered? I'm starting to suspect these aren't balanced very well considering how precarious the situation is at the beginning of the game.