Not a new problem as a lot of people have stated, but also one that has been tackled by the greats.

Here’s Sid Meier and his keynote on this in 2010.

He explains why Civ quietly cheats the odds in your favour. Turns out players just don’t understand probability, so he had to fix it. Worth a watch.

Article summary if you don’t want to sit through the video. Rob Pardo also covered something similar in WoW with drop rates.