Possible Glitch/bug?

Corvette Event!

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Not sure if this is a bug or not, but I recently had a random 'precursor corvette' event. Happy, because this was early in the game, and even the usual three or four ships would be a big help as I had just gotten in a war with a race with the same approximate military strength as me.

So I use tab to get to my ships to find this...

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Has anyone else experenced this? If so is it a known issue/bug?
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Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I saw this happen before as well.
Only, I didn't receive the ships... I had to fight them !
Coincidence(sp?) or not, it was the Yor that received those fleets.

I was in luck though, I had 2 squadrons of medium hulled ships with 9 beam damage and 4 shields in the vicinity.
Although those precursor tiny hulls are dangerous when combined, they only have 2 mass driver per ship.
Even my non-optimal defences absorbed most of the little damage, and 9 beam dam kills undefended tiny's with 1 or 2 shots.
After rampaging through those fleets, my medium ships were almost invincible, with easily +100hp each.

But now you have to use those things yourself...
Find them enemies without defences. They can swarm all-offence ships.
Or better, use them in range of military starbases. They're pretty useless otherwise.

I don't think the huge quantity is a bug since they're very weak.
( unless maybe early game when the tech hasn't progressed much. )
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I had exactly the same situation. I don't think it is a bug though...
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Not a bug, it's an event. I had that happen to the Torians one game and I had to fight all those ships. Luckily I was already at war with them and had ships in the area or I would have been in trouble. I took heavy losses as it was.
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Is not a bug is an event, you get all those many ships, only once I had the event happen to me, but always to the Torians and other races.
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I know it's an event, i've just never seen that many hulls generated by it (usually i tend to get 3-6 ships) -- nor had my economy based on the balance on the screenshot

What i ended up doing was selling all but two full fleets and upgrading them with more modern technology -- ended up being able to stick 9 move worth of engines and two psychic beams onto the designs