Mega Events

Which are good/bad

After playing the last two beta versions, I love some mega events and think others need tweeking or eliminating.
-Good: recession (having both good and bad economic times makes for interesting game play and political/military opportunities), plague (research the cure and trade it), increased tourism (targeted and useful)
-So-so: things like increased ship speed or range, because they are universal, don't really affect gameplay that I noticed
-Bad: spy mega event (okay, let's kill this one. For a gigantic map mid-way through the game, the number of spies I have to create to nullify the 40 or so spies planted on my planets is prohibitively expensive. It takes years to clear them all.), political discontent (this one is okay for a while, but it happened early in the game and has not gone away. A time limit on this would make it better/more realistic.)
-I'm sure there are others I haven't seen yet.
Overall, shorter timelines on all events and a better mix of beneficial and harmful ones would really help shake things up and keep the game interesting.
I'm loving DA, even more addictive than CGII, if that's possible.

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Things like recession/economic boom, ultradrive, smart 50% bonus to research, wave of xenophobia, period of rapid pop. growths, etc.. are not mega events. They can happen w/o mega events enabled and also were in GC2.

Jagged Knife is example of mega event. Or the plague..

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Jagged Knife is example of mega event

Oh God no... not again

just be careful you dont park too many battleships in orbit and then get this event! Not nice to have to defeat your own ships to retake the planet!
Last time i got this event the new 'Minor' civ became the largest civ in the game. Pity it didnt pick up one of the majors AI's as this would have been a nice addition.

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Heh. I feel your pain. Although I dislike mentioning them there is a real level of pain in mega events not as bad as regular old events. I mean when recessions hit, I have a nice bank reserve can survive for a while on it. Jagged knife or the plague... its much more dire.

Fundamentalists look like amateurs to the JK.

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I would add that i LOVE the mega events

Makes the game more interesting as you never know what is round the corner!!

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