What?! I love those events! They're the only real challenge!

There were two such events. One was a regular random event, which provided some small bonuses every other turn to some of the receiving race's abilities. The other was a Mega Event, which provided a bonus to all of the receiving race's abilities each turn.

In any case, I didn't had any issues with those events either. The receiving race was almost always the weakest one in the game, which meant, that the bonuses were too little, too late. That race usually got conquered soon after the event happened. Either by me, or one of the others.

Yep, what Gaunathor said!

I kinda liked the Mega Events, if only because it changed things up a bit.

I'm hopeful we can create our own custom Mega Events. Some of the criteria for the Mega Events are pretty specific though, so I'm not sure how the logic behind them will be handled via the XML?

I just looked to see if there is a toggle and I can't find it! I know mine is happening, and it never really was an issue for me either for the reasons others have stated in their games, but I wanted to see this toggle as I didn't remember it. So, where is it located in the options? Or is this one of those things that you need to edit a file? Thanks.

I agree with OP - would be nice to have a way of tuning that event - more options for configuring the game is never a bad thing

Galactic Civilizations III. 64bits. Tons of RAM. Huuuuuuuuuge map with tons and tons of planets. Jagged Alliance hits in the late game. Cry in a corner.

I don't think it matters if its a mega event, or near end game only, yada.  The post originator is merely asking for a way, when setting up a game, to have >> some options << about their appearance (or not) in that game.  If a player doesn't want to exercise any of those options, cool as well.  In principal, I strongly endorse game makers implementing as much user customization as possible.