Megaevent that wipes all abilities

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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.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Well it's good that it had a cure. In my last game I frist got the ultra warp event, where every ship travels 50% faster. Then about a year later I got the "there are starting to apear rifts in space, no ship may travel at more than 5 speed" red hot irony... I played on a large galaxy so I thought it was horrible. First I thought that perhaps they will find a solution, but even though the game lasted ~1 year more there didn't come one. The game came almost to a standstill, even though I had hyper warp the ships took about ~10 weeks to get from most of my colonies to the front. I was sooo close to just give up, but I sorely wanted the win so I resigned to have half a day of boring turn clicks.

Before the event UP had also passed the resolution that all ships would be transported to neutral ground at the out brake of war, so the game felt a bit strange since there was no possibility to out maneuver anything. Like WW1 in space

I do not want to think about getting that event on a gigantic or huge galaxy...

I love that the mega events can shake up the game so it becomes less predictable, but this one was just tedious.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yea i've heard about that one. I guess on a very big map you'd almost have to reload from your last save or take months to play out the game.

I don't seem to really get any of the Mega Mega events, just little ones like a temporary bump in everyone's economy and the new asteroid field, and stuff like that.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I agree with the tedious comment at post one. Mega events are good in principle in that they do provide variety etc, however common sense needs to apply. If they in effect destroy a long challenging game on (say) Huge or Gigantic, they pass into the relms of stupid. The speed one above is a good example, thats silly to give such a speed increase then claw it all back with a 5 restriction. I get the feeling many Mega events are not properly tested at Huge/Gigantic because the effects at those map sizes can be devestating, to the point I have added a new dent in the study wall, and stopped the game. If a mega event takes away enjoyment and inserts huge terminal frustration, I dont see the point of it.

In a way I guess its like anything new, you have to get used to it, adjust play style etc. In that sense the jury is still out for me on these mega "sledgehammer" events, but as much as I try, its getting very irritating and annoying. Many are just sledgehammers, nothing subtle about them. On some games I have turned off mega events they getting so annoying. The latter is a bit of a slippery slope to stop playing altogether, which would be a shame.

I hope V2 redresses the balance more with these mega events, I hate turning off game features, destroys the point of many parts of the game, but these sledgehammer events are starting to get a bit much.