So I've played a a few Dark avatar games to the point where the plauge comes into play. I love the mega events, and I've always put all hands on deck to remedy the plauge ASAP. It occured to me the last time I played that it was a galacitc event, so I went to the foreign relations screen, thinking some of thes races 'might' want it. In short I was able to trade the cure for almost every technology, an economic, and research treaty and usually at least a couple hundred duckets from EACH race. I'm playing at challenging, but from looking at my timeline this is a done deal. I was dead even with 3 other races prior to the trades. I wouldn't even know where to start thinking about how to address an exploit like this. Anyway, thanks to the developers,
y'all rule.