Odd Peacekeeper Occurrence (Probable bug)

Playing TOA V 2.0 (I know 2.01 is now out there) and had the Peacekeeper event.  As usual, the Peacekeepers were numerous and operated relatively heavily-armed battleships.  Then a strange thing happened.  First, I noticed a fleet of Peacekeepers that were not battleships, but instead were small hulled ships.  I thought nothing of it at the time because I figured that perhaps the Drath (they had Drath ship appearance) had sold the Peacekeepers some small ships.  Several turns later I experienced a crash preceded by the "flickering screen of death" in which all icons on the galactic map (ships., planets, asteroids etc.) began flickering and the game froze.  Upon restart of the autosave, all of the Peackeeper ships had become the same small class of ships I had previously ran into.  These were ships that were within my scanning range so it appears that the battleships were transformed somehow.  In fact, since the autosave was at least two turns back, so it had to be some kind of transformation.  What were previously four ship battleship fleets were now 10-12 ship small ship fleets while two ship battleship fleets had become 2-4 small ship fleets.  I've never seen anything like this before.  Anyone else seen this?

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No, I can't say that I have. Sounds like a file got corrupted and the games is using the wrong ships. Did the save game play past the point that you previously got to or did it crash too?

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Oh yeah, I was able to play on after I reloaded the game.  Ultimately however, I did not finish the game.  This was quite an odd event, but I agree that it appears some part of the file became corrupted for some reason or another.   Another interesting aspect was that the small Peacekeeper ships continued to have the same number of hit points as battleship sized hulls, but were armed oly with a single laser. 

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Did you put or place anything in the mod folders or turn on the mod settings? I can only think that the game started using a different set of "gfx" files fot the PK's, but kept the "stats" on the ship the same.

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I am using some mild mods, but I'm not sure that would be the cause given the change in armament for the ships.

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Does 2.02 still have the Peacekeeper mega-event? I'm sure it does, and I do have mega-events always turned on. But in every single game I have played to date, peacekeepers never show up! Dread Lords have in 2 of these games, but I really want the Peacekeepers to come and screw the universe to hell. The chance for this event happening must be very low or something.

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I'm not sure I've had the Peacekeepers since 2.02 either so I can't answer your question.  I can say that the Peackeeper event always was less common than some of the others in my experience.  I see the Jagged Knife and the Dread Lords quite a bit more often than the Peacekeepers or the Mega-Pirate Event, which is somewhat similar.

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Mega Events have certain triggers that will up the percentage of them happening.

I *believe* the Peacekeepers come when there tends to be a lot of warfare/ships flying around.  Dread Lords when the galaxy is relatively static.  Jagged Knife tends to come at the end of colonizing in a relatively static environment.