As an evil race, researching beyond mortality going for a tech victory. Had fundamentalist event, lost 3 out of my 5 planet empire (very rare everything), had to retake those 3 planets well fending off all the other races which took turns declaring war on me. Lengthened the game by 250+ turns. Had good fun tho and was a memorable game.

The leader of foo has been assasinated and foo have declared war on us.

I just got jammed up good by that one... I think that's probably my least favorite. Haven't run into "they get stronger all the time" yet but the way my games end up going it probably wouldn't matter to me anyway (since the difference would likely not even be noticed by the time I'm messing with people, everything is already all but 1-shotting Huge hulls at that point unless I pile on the defenses and hope my computer forgets it hates me).

"Here, have a war with the biggest baddest empire out there," though... can't you just turn over whoever did it (this time it was my ambassador insulting an empress at dinner. Whatever happened to the Altarians being a "good" race! "Good" races would try to annihilate another culture over bad dinner conversation... though I've noticed that in my games the Altarians seem to be the biggest jerks/warmongers around...) for a nice public execution and everyone's happy?

The best was when it also decided to spawn several hundred tiny-size ships *all* over the place... buh-bye everything without an attack value...

For me, it was a strange fungus ripping through a few of my colonies. I think it was in an event pack, but that doesn't reduce its strength. 4 out of 9 of my colonies were rendered nearly useless Dead Worlds, with a planetary class of 4 or less after the "Explode-a-ma-jig Fungus Outbreak of Turn 124".

I hate that Assassination event too. I had one game where it happened to me twice, first the Terrans and then the Altarians. I was strong enough and had enough allies that it proved to be fatal for both of them, but it was more annoying than fun. The game after that, I think it was, it happened to the Arceans. In that case, we were militarily evenly matched, and on opposite sides of the galaxy so that we had trouble even reaching each other. Or we would have, if the Arceans had not gotten nearly a hundred free ships, many in my territory. I was going to abandon that game, but the next time I loaded, the Arceans were suddenly willing to negotiate, which they never had been before I saved and stopped playing.

Personally, the only time that reversal of alignment event has been a problem was, ironically, one time the Drengin were turned good. A really good Altarian-Torian vs Drengin-Yor war was shaping up, and then the Drengin flipped. The Good aligned races were so dominant that I was seriously worried someone would get a Tech Victory. It was also a little boring once the Evil races were eliminated.

I hate that Assassination event too.

It's not always bad though. One game when I was Yor and going for a technological victory, the Altarians kept attacking me. Then the Arcean President was assasinated visiting an Altarian planet. The Arceans started beating the crap out of the Altarians and I was left alone researching technological victory.

I haven't had any event that has been really bad for me, yet. At least not that I remember.

The (insert already powerful civilization name here) has discovered several (20 or so) ships on (planet name here)and our scientists have classified them as Rangers (gulp)

==2 turns later==

On a diplomatic mission to (above civilizations homeworld) our ambassador accidentally insulted the emperors wife, and as a result they have declared war on us.

==2 turns later==
There seems to be a galactic recession in progress, economic rates are down (-126bc) on previous averages.

==1 turn later==
(every other race in the galaxy) has honored their alliance with (above civilization name) and has declared war on you.


Now THAT is harsh

True story

Do u ever get the feeling everyone is out to get u?

A little bit.