Plasma Instibility Detected

[jeffel]

I don't know if it was bad luck, but I think the chances of this random event are a bit to high in the stock mod and in TDM.

I have had solo games where I lost 3 star systems to this random event. When I got the 3rd notice, I just quit as it was becoming very much not fun. (I could certainly have still won, but I didn't feel like bothering)

It just seems like in a cluster of 30 systems, having 3 of them go nova within 60 years is a bit excessive

[Slick]

1) If you set the frequency to high at game setup, obviously they happen more frequently.

2) In TDM, more than one of the AI's will destroy stars in the latter stages of the game. This is speeded up by giving the AI a high bonus as it also helps their research. I don't know off the top of my head who are the frequent offenders. So it may not be just random events. Check the movement file. Check the enemy designs file in case you may have battled one of the star destroyers so you know which ship designs to look for.

[bearclaw]

I've made a change to the way events happen in Dark Nova 4 mod that seems to work just fine. Each Catastrophic event is in the events.txt only once each. Each High event has 2 copies. Each Medium event has 5 copies. And each Low event has 10 copies.

When the game processes a turn and an event is triggered to happen, the game will pick a random entry in the events.txt file. It will only look for events that match the settings for the game (Low, Medium, High, or Catastrophic). So the end result is that even if set for Catastrophic, there is approximatly 10x the chance that any given event will be Low, 5x for Medium, 2x for High compared to Catastrophic .