I'm proposing the following idea:

Create a "Resources Tech".

It's value would affect the chances of "an oil boom occurred" or the food thingie happening. It also could reduce the amount of food droughts or fires in the oilfield.

In order to stabilise things for other strats other then farmer/oiler, you could introduce stuff like:
- The IC's met more then their quotas and produced more units!
- Your people donated to help the war effort.

Above modification would als mean there would be something like:
- The IC's produced less units due to a lack of metal
- Your people couldn't pay all of their taxes

hmm i suppose that could be interesting;

11 techs is already a bit though;

but nonetheless i like the idea of being able to modify that, interesting idea

I have never paid much attention to these factors since they are out of my control. How much do they affect production?

+/-30ish % to production. i get those quite often (and earthquakes too).

if farmer/oiler gets those very often then it gives nice boost to production.

I think the current (un)lucky system is not having much of an impact and is too much concentrated on oil and food. Thats why I thought of the above system.

no due those are rare but still if farmer gets food boost 5 times a week and produces hundreds of ks of bushels per turn it gives some benefit.

the bonuses are 3x and the negatives are 1/3; so if you get equal bonuses as negatives (which you should, they're the same probability) you come out very much ahead...

Alright, well if I knew their frequency I could make a suggestion on how tech could enhance this. I suppose it would be another netting tech for people to buy whereas most techs now are for war. (well, netters have use for many of them as well)

income boost while cashing from 1.8b to 1.9b would be bad.

No it wouldn't, you would just not get a bit of money. They understand how to use proper variables here.

yea player wouldn't go 0 like at old game but still he/she would lose some cash.

Yeah, but that is why you don't cash a fluffload of turns at a time. Pretty sure that, unlike exploring, there's no benefit to cashign in large batches.

Speaking of which, is there a reason the "Batch Explore" hasn't been written out of the game yet?

Because they tried to reproduce Earth 2025 as closely as possible

why batch explore should be written off?