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Hey, I just observed that the AI does not research the plague cure as an answer to the mega event galactic plague. Poor guys... I suppose I have to give it to them. Anybody made similar observation?
Which version are you running as this was supposed to have been fixed in the latest update?
Not had it for a long time now so i cannot say for certain that this was the case but i do remember reading it someplace.
I have noticed this, and they will often wait for a long time before starting to research cures.
Yes that's it. When I wrote the post, I had already waited for quite some time. The truth is that the AI will start researching the cure at some point (in my case when already half of their population was gone). Long story short, they don't give the cure a very high preference. As a consequence they would also not be willing to pay / trade particularly much when I offered it to them....
It probably gets put in the research que right after the current project finishes. I have had this event a couple of times and just watched as the AI gets weaker until then. I just give them the tech if trading is on and let the game go on. Otherwise they will never colonize or fill a troop transport with the population they have left. Their tax base takes a beating too!!!
I had the plague event where all abilities were set to zero a while ago on DA. The AI would never have gotten the cure without me. I was lucky enough to get it in like 3 turns even with my abilities gone.
It may be that the AI places in some sort of queue as Xrati said. BUt if the AI actually has a few techs in their list it may take a long time before the cure comes up. The AI doesn't change mid-tech.
There are two plague (mega-)events? I've had mega-events turned off while I finish getting used to the TA context, but I played lots of DA with them enabled and never had one strip my abilities. Sounds, um, "interesting..."
I found the post I ummmm posted way back when I first got this event. It was very interesting, more so than I remembered. I guess I didnt give it to the AI after all. How evil of me.
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I know some people like to post to complian about the harshness of some megaevents. I'm writting just to share one that i havent seen before. I wonder if anyone else has gotten this one.
Its a disease, BUT it doesnt kill your population like the usual event does, this one leaves your population useless, it takes away all of your racial abilities and i believe all those from starbase mines. It was pretty cool, my income was like -3000, my moral was 1% (not a typo) on almost all of my planets, all of my higher end ships where gone from the starbase list (as if they forgot some of the tech needed to build them). Luckily my research ability was high enough to get the cure in one week.
It was very late game and i controlled about 99% of the galaxy with only the Korath remaining. I checked and it was going to take them 51 weeks to get the cure (still good that they were researching it in the first place, smart AI). So they were all but useless. The best part was when my transports got to their planets; their soldiering was about 0. And their moral was around 30%. So using information warfare, for free with the eveil improvemnet builing i had, i actually ended the invasion with more people that i had on the transposts. It was good clean fun. Surrender came soon after.
Anyway that was my megaevent experiance. wonder how it would have work3ed earlier in the game. OR if planets would have flipped to me if i didnt have the MCC.
Then either it's a TA-only event, or you've gotten darn lucky over the years. The zero-abilities plague really puts a hault to any wars in progress.
Neat. This one sounds definitely "mega" to me, and I think I'm about ready to turn them on again.
I'm not too sympathetic to complaints about mega-events because you can disable them and also back out pretty easily with a reload. I used to play on a very shaky system, so I got in the habit of CTRL+S before pressing ENTER. When a mega-event that vexes me happens, I just decide whether now's the time I want to try working through that or if "it was all a bad dream." I used to always shun the speed limit, but a while ago I finished a gigantic map with it active and didn't go mad doing it.
Well if you think about what the pirates and peace keepers do to your game, consider this event to be the opposite. If it happens early in the game when you can't get the cure in 1 week it won't be so fun;unless you consider a negative economy and 1% approval to be fun. 
BTW it happened some time ago while paying Dark Avatar. TA wasn't even in Beta then.
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