Economic boom event continues endlessly

I'm playing TA and have noticed this oddity. Early in the game, I got the event where all civs get a major economic boost and tax revenues go through the roof. I know that this is supposed to be a temporary situation, but in my current game, it has been going on endlessly for a huge number of turns, how many I don't know, but it has been much longer than I think it should. I've been running my economy at 100% with an 80% approval rating and an income of more than 2000 bc all the way through both the initial and the late colony rush and through the development of all of my planets and the formation of my starbase network and my star fleet. And the boom continues. This doesn't seem right. Anyone else have this happen?

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It's random - can last one turn or a few years. I've had one last for over 6 years in DA (giving me a surplus income of over 1,200,000bc per week in the end), and don't imagine it will be any different in TA.

Every turn, the possibility of a random event is evaluated - and if positive it can either be the reversal of an existing condition (i.e. the boom) or a completely different new event (i.e. influence event). Just be thankful it wasn't the economic recession you got for years

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Yeah, it's random. If you want to cheat and have an endless boom, you can just quicksave every few turns turn and reload whenever it ends.

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I just had one that lasted for 2 hours of playing time... just when I thought the mechanic might be broken... it ended. I have noticed alot of the "random" elements are different in ToA. Some actually happen, like actually getting a creative tech early... while those that used to happen happen differently. Some seem to repeat alot now, like the influence events. It IS different each game though, which IMHO is a good thing. Except for the leader assassination one. That happens EVERY game... Just a question of who gets whacked by whom.

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