Nope.

By the way, how do you know when an important leader pays you a visit if he does not get shot?

So, in a way, I guess you're right.
Everytime one visits they get shot, because the only time they visit is when that event happens.

So, the only way to kill off the wannabe assassins would be to kill off the event by modding it out of the xml file.

That would depend on if the events are truly (code-based, of course) random, or if they are generated by certain influences.



(only your hairdresser, (or in this case, Stardock) would know for sure.)

They love you, but not perhaps the Dregin ambassador.

I think these types of events are triggered more often when you have a race playing very passive. It's the best way to push them into the fighting ring and stop being a carebear.

AFAIK luck has no effect on minor or mega events, or what anomolies you find, or what tiles appear on a planet, or if you get a colonization/ethics event--i'm pretty sure the only thing it does is boost your weapons minimum roll value (so if you have a 50% luck bonus, your weapons will never* roll less than 5, and at 25% you'll never* roll below 2).

*note: you may still observe values of 0 if the ship you attack has good defenses.



what event or events do you have in mind? i'm not challenging you, i've just never observed a connection between espionage and events.



my sense is that it's a little of both. it'd be nice if the devs made some of this stuff a little more transperant, but i'm not about to stop playing over it.



when it happens, load your last auto-save... i think that's about all you can do.

There is an event that states something along the lines that you made a gesture that, if you had known more about the race, you wouldn't have made it and you pissed them off. I think it's that one that goes off if you don't have any level you of espionage.