Strange Ranger Ship Luck

I've found two in the span of 10 turns but that was it, and the most in any game yet. Really, if anything, there should be more remains around, even dozens if not hundreds of ships, space stations, refridgerated foodstuffs.
Just think yourself lucky and destroy the enemy

In all the games I have played i have never gotten a ranger but I did notice that in the new release i have gotten goddie hut money for the first time up to a 1000bc. I never got money in GCI

I dont think they had money space encounters in gal civ one

Yea, I was playing one game and found three of them in the span of about 12 -15 turns.

Game was on beginner difficulty, me playing as the Terrans and in a small galaxy. I did pick lucky as one of my traits, but it sounds like this was a little TOO lucky

I encountered the same bug (assuming it is one). I was right next to a sprawling Arcean empire and straggling in Military, and as luck would have it I got a free Ranger with absurd stats compared to everything else in the game (something like 24/17 when everything else was max of 8/3). Then next turn, I got another. And another. And another...

I won that game by military

Well I've yet to find any ship at all. In galciv I'd always find a defender or something like that at the beggining.
Here, nothing (including the beta games I played).

But I did find somekind of alien artefacts worth 2500bc . That helped a lot.

The thing I don't like however are the too good events, like +14 to all planets in a 2 sector radius (which meants the whole galaxy since I was playing a small one. All the planets were suddenly habitable. It kinda killed the game. I think it would be nice if the scope of some events was tied to the galaxy size.

Hmmm, you know I'd forgotten that I'd chosen 'lucky' as an attribute. That could explain some of the frequency. I guess what caught me off-guard was that for the longest time I went without any events at all and then suddenly there was this bloom of ranger ships. I also was nearby the Ancaran (sp) empire and was lagging militarily. Funny story actually, I was also waaaay behind on tech because I'd gone to war on the Thalans (sp). So suddenly I learned that those chipmunk aliens had stolen all of the Ancaran tech and so I traded the chipmunks earth in exchange for technological equality (got all the techs). Earth was a high price but the next turn I conquored the Thalan homeworld and so that worked out ok.

so I traded the chipmunks earth in exchange for technological equality (got all the techs)

I find it rather disturbing that you were willing to trade Earth to a bunch of rabid alien-squirrels (not chipmunks, dammit )
Not from a gameplay perspective, but just from a moral standpoint... If i woke up tomorrow and found I had new squirrel-masters, I think I'd be a little bummed. I'd come looking for you.

Well, the way I (an evil ruler I am I am) look at it, the most fit and capable of Earth's population had already gone to the Thalan homeworld to fight for my glory. The only people left behind would have been the old, sick, etc. and what better food source be gifted to Earth's new overlords eh? The best and brightest of Earth get a new home and the best tech the galaxy has to offer - it's win-win!

I'm pretty sure the random events are much better the lower the difficulty level.
I noticed the amount of cash I got from random events dropped dramatically when I switched from beginner to normal.

Well, I set the game to 'normal' difficulty but then I do have the 'lucky' trait so that might play into it. The frequency still seems pretty off though - nothing for a long while then a flood and all.

Hm, this has come up in 3 games now so far.

I've got no idea what is a 'good' frequency for these things to come up, but I'm playing a lucky, universalist empire and I'm up to lucky ranger #5. I can't complain, really, since they really boost my military effectiveness (despite the fact that the ships are so slow - I mean, come on, who builds ships that can only move three spaces a turn?).

Yeah, in my game I have four of them, but I'm not complaining really, it can be nice to have a free death force show up, and I am the Universalists, hence luck. Also, I didn't have them all show up in like 10 turns, I had two show up withing about 100 turns of each other, then a long, long break, and then two more within relatively little time.

At this point, rather late in the game, I have all four in a fleet (since they're so slow they'd slow my other ships down) and if I see any fleets that need to be killed, I send in my "Ranger Danger" fleet.

They took out a Yor fleet with a combined 385 hitpoints while taking... 5 hp damage.