I guess it depends on the game parameters. I almost always play in Immense galaxies with 20 other factions. My games go a long time. Usually everybody is closer to the Precursor Ranger level (but not always); still, it showing up is not an automatic win. On the other hand, if you had Dread Lords on the map, you would be praying for the Ranger to show up. Bottom line is: it depends.

Same question/problem as the OP here. I'm on my third playthrough of this game and have received Precursor Rangers on the first and third playthrough. Both times, they were vastly superior to anything else around. The current one has attack ratings 112/78/72, defense 21/24/34, 117 HP. My opponents ships look something like 0/0/8, 4/0/1, 66 HP (my own are 10/0/0 0/0/10, 39 HP). The Precursor ship seems invicible or at least way overpowered in this context. (Nobody could touch it on the first playthrough.)

So I have two questions. First, do these ships appear to frequently (two out of three games in my case! Which granted may be a fluke)? And second, are they too powerful, at least in human hands (having searched the forum before posting, apparently the AI will sell them cheaply)?

You could just decommission it when you get it. Or if someone else gets it, buy it from them (they will usually sell absurdly cheap) and then decommission it.

I don't get them that often, and rarely at the tech level you seem to be getting them at. The biggest weakness is the laughable lack of speed, so I usually end up upgrading it anyway.

Just load in the last autosave and poof the evil ranger megaevent is gone and hours are not wasted.

Hi!

AFAIK you can turn off only mega events, which precursor ships aren't. Also AFAIK they "become available" only after 5 game-years have passed, and if game "decides" you're not doing well. If my memory serves me well I got them (actually it) in only one game of all I've played.

BR,  Iztok

Hi!

Umm, there must be something wrong with my eyes, because I can't see that Random Events Box neither in my DL nor in my DA game. Strange. Probably I'll have to see the oculist.

BR,  Iztok 

This topic already came up a couple of times I think.

As I understand it, there are actually 2 versions of the precursor ranger you can find.

One is simply a mid-level dreadnought similar to what you could build at this tech-level, i.e. not all that powerful.

That would be the "standard" random event.

And then there's the mega-event version, what is what you got.

This one is extremely powerful, similar to the ships you get late in the ToA campaign.

Early in the game, those mega-event rangers can be effectively game-braking, as there is not very much you can do about it.