Good God this thread is long. I started reading them, but there are too many, so forgive me if I restate something already said. Also some of these aren't really Mega Events, as they are pretty general and don't target the strongest civilization.

Galactic Expansion: Due to some unknown physical law, the fabric of space itself has rapidly expanded, pushing star systems and their planets apart. The speed of all ships is effectively halved.

Time warp: The most powerful civilization is trapped in a time warp, and they lose 10 weeks of time. Every other civilization still uses their 10 turns (if an AI civ is trapped, they would simply be motionless and get no income or manufacturing/research progress for ten weeks; if you are the most powerful civilization, you would click turn, but you would see the other civs take ten turns worth of progress, and the date would move ahead by ten weeks instead of one.)

Supernova: One star explodes, destroying it and all it's star systems.

Dreadlords: [some backstory. It was the beginning of the game, and in like 50 turns, I get a message saying the Dreadlords were going to take over the galaxy. I almost shat my pants. I was scrambling to rush build a military. Then I saw that they had one planet, and all they were doing was terraforming a red space. I just landed one troopship, and they died. PATHETIC!]
Anyways, instead of getting some crap planet, they should arrive with a small fleet and a few troop ships (say 3 of each) instead. They immediately take some planets and kick some ass. Much better.

Rebellion: Someone posted this idea earlier; I second. Some planets (say about 2-3 whole star systems that are relatively close) form a new civilization.

Minor Race Expansion: Again, someone already said this. Make a minor civ a major civ.

Paradise: The weakest civilization finds a Precursor world that was locked away in another dimension until recently. This world has a huge PQ (say 25), and is fully developed with an even spread of buildings (labs, factories, farms, banks, embassies, entertainment centers), all of the highest technological levels.

Military Coup: The general disapproves of your aggressive, preemptive invading of other civilizations and takes matters into his own hands. About one third of the ships of the strongest civilization are given to the weakest civilization.

Plague: A mysterious plague wipes out half the population on all worlds of the strongest civilization before it is cured.

Dreadlord Supership: The weakest civilization finds an ancient weapon that the Dreadlords were constructing before they vanished. This supership would have a special hull size above huge, and it would be virtually indestructible, with 100 or so attack and defense in all categories, it has the maximum sensor range, and its support range spans the whole galaxy, regardless of the civ's planets. The only downside is that it has little room for engines, meaning it can only move 5 spaces/week.

Wormhole: A stable wormhole appears (with two ends), allowing all civs to send ships back and forth through it (or on civ can claim it for themselves and defend the wormhole).

Robin Hood: The strongest civilization has its entire treasury stolen by an unknown organization, claiming to be "fighting for justice against the oppressor", which is divided amongst the other civs.

Economy leech: A new minor civilization colonizes a planet, but they are using funds leeched from the income of the strongest civilization to do this. The strongest civilization's income is halved until they find and eradicate this minor civ.

Corruption: The congressmen of your party are found to be involved in a scandal. Your party immediately loses control, and you have a massive approval penalty which gradually declines over the period of one year, meaning you have to raise approval if you want to be re-elected sooner rather than later.

Aesthetic Movement: There has been a popular trend amongst our citizens. People have expressed great desire for art, music, literature, and general cultural enrichment. The populations of each world has demanded that their planetary governors contribute a large portion of taxes towards concerts, museums, and carnivals. The maintenance cost of each colony has gone up by 10 bc.

"Revenge of the Hippies": The people have become increasingly wary of the development of our worlds, and they have begun to place more value on conservation of the environment. They have demanded that you set aside tracts of land for national parks and reserves. The PQ of each planet has effectively been reduced by 1 (or, if you didnt want this to be a permanent affect, you could have a special development called "natural reserve" or something that would auto build on each world, and you couldn't demolish it or discontinue construction of it, it would just take up space pretty much, then when this event ended after a year or so they would all self-demolish, freeing up the space again).

I just don't see why mega events have to only hurt the strongest civ. The effects should be ramndom and effect virtually everyone and not target the strongest.

-A random civilization is able to use Dread lord tech and all other civilizations declare war (if good) or slowly begin to steal Dread lord tech from them (if evil) or leave galaxy (if neautral).

United Planets Event. Red district planet, similar to the prison planet event in DA. Only I really don't know how that would improve or undermines your civs. Maybe positive economy but negative influence since your the galactic pimp now.

With the new updates and TA coming out, ARE there going to be new Mega Events? Will we know what they will be before hand?

I had one of those "idea" posts a while back like this. It pretty much said that you could see how your ALLIES would vote and you could use the trade screen to alter their choice. Figuring it would give you a reason to have allies when you arn't looking for a political victory.


Also, if you could be elected president of the UP you would get to choose what was to be voted on, out of a list of say 3 things. But the ones you dont choose will stay in that list for the next vote.

I wouldnt mind being able to turn on/off each event individually, maybe under gameplay options. If that were the case then go crazy add anything you want. lol

I have no idea if that would be hard or possible for stardock to do, but I personally LOVE the idea!

Ah, so you're a Drengin eh?!  

I like the comet idea. And the supernova looks cool, but pretty severe, I think the supernova should just affect the star system surrounding it, turning the surrounding planets into uninhabitable ones.

Amen to that. I quit a game recently because of that Mega event...

 

We shouldnt need to shy away from topics and ideas just because a few people want to be babies about it...

 

The last thing we should do is offer respect to the losers who are that sensitive to terrorism in a video game...

 

also the black hole idea is pretty lame... how to stars magically survive anyway? I think there is a massive misunderstanding of how a black hole works and because of that the average snot here comes up with a pretty lame scheme for thier use... leave them out as they are cliche enough as it is.

I like the idea of all of the minor races uniting together and becoming a new major race AI.  It seems natural they would do this considering it would be in their mutual self interest to unite or fall one by one as they usually do in every game.