Has any one ever seen a "Points - Change" event work?

Ok thats good to hear. Do you know what triggers them? I just would like to see one for myself. And how come they happen so infrequently?

Thank you for replying with a decent response. However I had already known all of that. I had already edited the settings file and tested it the events file with only one event loaded. But after your message I deiced to try it again. It still does not work. I tested each time with a new game and so far no luck. Some games I tried for 20- 80 turns the event still did not happen.

Look guys I know my stuff. Its not working. I have come to the conclusion that there are 2 possible reasons it is not working. 1) It does not work and no one ever noticed before. Or 2) the event requires a special circumstance is not being met and thus the event does not occur.

Out of these 2 possibility's it may be possible that the event needs another triggering requirement that is not available for the event to occur. For example in order for the ship damaged event to occur you need a ship. In order for a research damaged event to occur you need to be researching (By the way I not tested to see if research events occur yet). Here are some examples of my statements, and I know this is only mock code by the way.

IF (ship damaged) Event triggered AND (player has ship) THEN Event

IF (research damaged) Event triggered AND (player Researching) THEN Event

So this is what I want to know what is the mystery trigger for:

IF (Points - Change) Event triggered AND (----mystery trigger----) THEN Event

Also I want to know why they aren't working and if any one can get them to work and how. SO lets have a little experiment shall we. Who can make this stock SE4 event work:

Type := Points - Change
Severity := Medium
Effect Amount := -3000
Message To := Owner
Num Messages := 1
Message Title 1 := Space Rust
Message 1 := Space Rust has infected much of our resource stores. We have lost [%ActualAmount] resources.
Picture := FacilityDestroyed
Time Till Completion := 0
Num Start Messages := 0

You must explain exactly what you did to make it work and if possible include a picture. The only prize is my gratitude. Oh and don't just reply asking if i had tried to build resource silos because I did.

So no one up for my challenge then? No one wants to prove me wrong? Am I correct in stating that it does not work? I want a response from some one here! Any kind would be nice. It would sent me into great elation to know that am wrong.

I'm going to sweeten the deal. If some one can prove me wrong I will give the community a few new images from my mod as well as some screen shots of all the stuff I have done to the game so far. Its a lot and its going to be really cool. If I knew that it worked I would work harder to get my mod done.
If no one can prove me wrong, and I found out that something that the rest of the SE4 community didn't know forever then I am going to proclaim myself as grand emperor god of all SE4 and demand that everyone call me as such. In fact I will call my self the Omnipotent Grandmaster Emperor God Modder of all Space Empires of now and forever. When ever I am on any message board I will proclaim myself such and all must cow before me and be subservient to my wishes. If any one complains I will point to this thread and say see they were unable to disprove my greatness and thus it is true. The only way that you can deny me this title, and your horrible future in the SE boards, is if you can prove me wrong.

Yeah I have noticed. Where do you propose I go that has a higher concentration of SE4 users? I just want to get my question answered.