I have noticed a great deal of concern with the effects of Natural Disasters. I believe I may have discovered a better way to avoid disasters than cheating. I have noticed that disasters, in my games, always occur eventually on planets with a maxed out energy usage. If you leave at least a single energy square open on a planet, it almost never has a natural disaster. I have also noticed that natural disasters occur much more commonly on planets with a large number of mines. Perhaps this is to represent over-mining? I have used this in literally hundreds of runthroughs, and although it is not 100% accurate, I would say it is at least 80 to 90%. Using this strategy, I have also never had Coruscant be hit with a natural disaster. I hope this helps you guys out - I've seen some wonderful work come out of this site, and I know how annoying it is to have something fail because of hard coded scripted events - I've spent too much time trying to fix the same kinds of problems in Original War not to.
