Disable dread lords?

[SexyObesePikachu]

Is there a way to disable the dread lords from randomly appearing in a game? It keeps happening, and they just steamroll everyone in the game.

[TwoTonGamer]

Yes, there is! Thank God, huh?
There is an option when creating a new game to toggle "Mega Events" on or off. Turn that off. All of the Mega Events are very extreme and in my experience often game breaking. I don't like them at all.
On the other hand there is a slider on the right for "Likelihood of Random Events". These regular random events on this slider are far less extreme and I've found them very enjoyable to shake things up slightly every now and then. I usually have that slider at "Rare" so they happen only once or twice in a game.

For your current game with Mega Events enabled you would have to load a save prior to the Dread Lords appearing and hope that particular Mega Event doesn't happen again.

[SexyObesePikachu]

Thanks!, ive had them appear twice, and in the first they steam rolled everyone, but in the second, the ai invaded their planet as soon as the event happend. XD

[-=Maure=-]

Man, I wish I had them appear more often, I've only seen them show up once in hours upon hours of playing, it was fun as hell.

[Death Howl]

Nothing A troop rush cant handle and a few rangers

[Noctuary]

What about the ranger? Is getting one normal. Like, I mean some things are OP but the ranger is like something a 10 year old with cheats hacked in.

[-=Maure=-]

Originally posted by The Defiler:

What about the ranger? Is getting one normal. Like, I mean some things are OP but the ranger is like something a 10 year old with cheats hacked in.

I once had the Altarians get one, and I was like ok, that's nice, they're losing their war so they can now put up a fight. But then I got into war and they gave me some ships to help, among them the PreCursor Ranger, it felt so cheap to totally wreck the Arceans with one ship so I disbanded it after a few turns.