0.40 Colony event "Disease" is badly worded,

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The description text for this event is "A strange fungus on this planet has begun infecting our colonists with a mysterious illness that appears to be impossible to vaccinate against. Although our doctors can treat the symptoms easily enough, they have no hope of finding a cure, and the risk of contagion is high. With this disease strickening us, our colony will never see its full growth potential. What are your orders?"

In the third sentence, perhaps the wording should be "With this disease sickening us, our ..."

 

Also, the "merciless bonus" text does not spell out an actual action, but simply the justification for the action. "Hard decisions always look easier after you make them. Our descendants will thank us for having the courage to do this. If it helps, get everyone drunk first."

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Drunk hey... :beer: give them a coolers light.

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Another alternative for that clause would be something along the lines of "stricken by this disease, ..."

If I'm not mistaken, stricken is a perfect passive participle of to strike and therefore is used either as an adjective (e.g. a stricken vessel) or as a passive verb (e.g. we are stricken by disease), which would make "strickening" an invalid form as that is a present active participial form rather than a perfect passive participial form. If you want to stay with the same verb, then "striking" would be a valid alternative. Other alternatives which do not change the clause significantly could include replacing "strickening" with "afflicting" or "sickening."

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting joeball123, reply 2

"stricken by this disease, ..."
End of joeball123's quote

I think this is the best alternative, strickening is not a word.