Event Idea Thread

[laserytuna]

I've seen a bunch of threads all with an individual Idea for a event or 2. So I figured that we can just put ideas here all in one place for convenience.

To get things started Ill give an idea.

Refugees/Last of their Kind.
I saw District 9 the other day again and I though it would be neat if we have an event where the last group of a species was sent into space before the civilization presumably died. So you can find the ship carrying the survivors through space or it could show up at one of your colonies, and from this ship you get a single pop of an alien species that you could help regrow or just shoot them if your feeling Xenophobic.

 

[TomBombadil]

I had an idea for a District 9 themed event too.

Basically there's a hidden resource called "catfood", which only exists on one planet. It's initially invisible to the species controlling that planet, but each time another species encounters that species, there's a chance an event fires announcing this wonderous food source. That species then develops an unhealthy obsession with catfood.

The species that wants the catfood will suffer penalties to happiness if they don't acquire this resource, and a happiness bonus if they do. But catfood has no value to the species the resource is native to. So the catfood producer can trade the catfood resource for a load of energy/minerals, or keep it just to hurt the catfood consumer.

The catfood consumer, faced with the happiness malus, can try invading to seize it or try really hard to befriend the producer for it. Either way, the AI should go slightly nuts about this.