Now that we have planet events, how about we start getting ship events? With all the players out in the galaxy and all the legions battling with each other from time to time, and various stellar phenomena out there eventually you are going to run into something somewhere.

A few suggestions, your ship has encountered:
EVENT; EFFECT
Ion storm; reduces defense by xx% for 1 day
undiscovered nebula; gives 1 hour research production
distressed ship; grants 2 crew
active battle; damage equal to 25% hull (does not affect current traps) chance to battle rare NPC
ancient battlefield; battle crate, chance for 6 ranks point or trap doing 50% hull damage
asteroid collision; gives 1 hour mineral production
lost settlers ship; can be used as an artifact to increase planet production 5% for 1 week (option to choose resource)
derelict outpost; gives 1 hour artifact production
black hole; inhibits all ship action other then pulling and selling resources, for 30 minutes, activates on log in if not online

Please add any comments and/or suggestions thanks!

Those are some really cool ideas! I especially like the one that could possibly grant 6 rank points. hehehe. I would say submit this to Dan and see what he thinks!

I posted something about daily draws being more like exploration ages ago...
So instead of a "daily draw" button, you have a map where you can click on random sectors 1-3 times for an event.
Could be a special enemy to battle, a crate with a trap or reward, distressed ship etc..

(as an addition, after spending all of the clicks, the unselected sectors would show what they contained so that it lets you know what other sectors had to offer. Thus fixing the feeling that you are "unlucky with the draws")

+1 brilliant!

+1000

love this idea bro my mind is totally set on this now if dan doesn't do it i will be very disappointed