You sure you got them turned on. , only joking.
Maybe it's just fate or it could be a bug. I get a few but like you said some people get a couple almost every game.

Someone said they happen more often if the game gets bogged down, Could it be your style?
Doesn't seem fair though, they are well worth having even if they can kill you overnight.

Thats surely the definition of ambivalence.
I so want a mega event, fook, why did you do that to me?
Hope you get it sorted soon, kryo is bound to be on soon, he's far the best person to help I think.

Hi!

In all my games I got "spies gone nutty" event once, and "speed limit 5" once. Oh, and a Jagged knife pretty early in the game, but I reloaded the autosave game, because I lost a planet that was 2 turns before finishing Terraformer "wonder".

BR, Iztok

Ive actually noticed that the mega events were tweaked from the beta(or the update, i cant remember which) Wherein they dont happen as often. Before I was getting the plague event a lot, which i kinda liked because id rush research it(throw all my resources into researching) and once ive got the tech before everyone else, id tech trade like crazy (except maybe the strongest/most evil race). Ive also gotten that darned Jagged Knife event at the very end of a game, right before I won a military victory(still won, just made it a little less glorious). I think Ive gotten the spy event a couple times, which is more annoying than anything. And the dread lords robot event or whatever it is once, which ripped my game apart. Id like some more though, perhaps some on the not so negative side.

I've stopped using the mega events. Although I like the concept, and even the events, they tend to happen to me not to shake up a game I'm winning, but to but me in an untenable position early in the game.

For instance:

Pirates event in the first two years. There were dozens of super powerful pirates at a time when no-one had more that a 2 attack small hull. It was many, many turns before the game could proceed.

The disease event in a game where I had been forced to fight continuously for about 5 game years (curse you Drath...) and my economy was on the ropes (my spending was at 30% for about 2/3rds of that game). After the event happened, my income was negative 500 per turn with zero spending and max tax rate I could sustain with 45% approval.

So, in conclusion, my experiance is that the mega events simply ruin the game.

I got the jagged knife event in the middle of a galatic war!!!! Me as the Alterians, The drath, and the Terrans as allies, against the Yor, the Korx, and the Dregin, with the Krynn just about destroyed. Everyone lost planets, and I lost 20 out of 70 planets. I was playing at challenging, large universe, abundent stars, common planets.

This made for a very interesting game, as I went for planets that my troops could reach, regardless of whom used to own them. And the AI did too! Sure redrew the map, and changed up the war. Ruined my economy too, until I took every planet I could reach. I had to trun OFF production for a couple of turns.

Made for a very interesting game.