In all fairness, two things. One it, at least in DA, and I was under the impression it was the same for TA, that it affects ALL races, not just non-evil. Two, I've had the JE event SAVE me from my destruction. It's all in the eye of the beholder my friends. Look it at this way, now with the JE, all the other AI are basically screwed, and you, the intelligent, enduring, and enterprising Player, can now invade all the worlds that were previously held by your glorious neighbors without even a single diplomatic raising his hand in protest. Quite wonderful really.
Well said, I've had the same experience.
Also, as a final word on it, there are certain triggers for the Mega Events....turtling in a corner (metaphorically) seems to bring about the Jagged Knife more often than not; just like a lot of happy go-lucky races seems to spore the Dread Lords event, and lots of money and no spies brings about the Spy Event. Be Prepared.
Is there a reasonably authoritative list of mega-event triggers anywhere? I've worked some out (in the case of the JK, simply through having them apepar in every game until I stopped turtling), but have no idea what causes plague, for example, and have had little luck trying to get peacekeepers to appear in any of my games. Also, my games of TA seem to have fewer mega-events than my games of DA, but that might just be my imagination.
Finally, and I know it's flogging a dead horse, but I would still love to be able to spy on the JK. With their insane soldiering rating (TA game with reasonably advanced Drengin and Yor = a lot of combined soldiering bonuses on top of reguler techs) I wouldn't mind being able to get a little intel before sacrificing several billion former pacifists.
