[quote=So Boerd]
Trust does not factor. I do not believe people are powergaming when they forget a possible famine, they just don't think about it. Random events make the story more relatable as nobody's plans go off without a hitch.
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If you're talking about plans of conquest, you can achieve this by simply collaborating with someone for whatever war you have in mind, with the execution and outcome of said skirmish being entirely in the hands of those RPers involved in it. Since this thing isn't running on pure RNG goodness, your brilliant military maneuvers and high-powered soldiers mean relatively little in the grand scheme of things. 

If you play things out realistically, this RE nonsense isn't required.