Endgame Crisis bug?

[Cassalien]

Hey guys, I am somewhat new to multiplayer as in I have not locked in more than 200 hours in multiplayer.

My issue is that in my last 5 play throughs, I have encountered only the unbidden. Additionally, the unbidden always spawn in my territory (I was the host in each of those games) and they are always at the same strength. I had different multipliers for the crisis in each run and it didnt matter whether it was 2x or 5x). Has anyone encountered this issue before? If so please help! My friends are somewhat new to stellaris and they need to learn to fear the crisis as in I always kill the crisis asap when it spawns asap...

On another note, the unbidden also spawn simultaneously with the info screen for the galactic power surge.

Thanks in advance

 

[MordridBlack]

this means that either an ai empire or one of your friends is researching jump drives (or psi jump drives if they've gone that psionic route)
unless you are the one researching it

but that doesn't guarantee only that crisis spawning
scourge has 0 requirements
contingency needs synths/sentient ai
unbidden needs jump drives or psi jump drives

and then there's Ragnarok which requires someone to be stupid while in the Shroud

 

[Cassalien]

this means that either an ai empire or one of your friends is researching jump drives (or psi jump drives if they've gone that psionic route)
unless you are the one researching it

but that doesn't guarantee only that crisis spawning
scourge has 0 requirements
contingency needs synths/sentient ai
unbidden needs jump drives or psi jump drives

and then there's Ragnarok which requires someone to be stupid while in the Shroud

Well yes, I am always researching jump drive cuz its a very convenient way of moving around in addition to gateways, though I dont use it all too often. However, my main issue is that the crisis strength seems to be broken. I'd really love for the crisis to be challenging and not just a million or two fleet power flying around. Do you have any experience with the crisis not being scaled properly to the multiplier that was set at the start of the game?

Edit: I was using a machine empire for most of those games so I have the sentient ai in my fleet as well.

 

[MordridBlack]

Well yes, I am always researching jump drive cuz its a very convenient way of moving around in addition to gateways, though I dont use it all too often. However, my main issue is that the crisis strength seems to be broken. I'd really love for the crisis to be challenging and not just a million or two fleet power flying around. Do you have any experience with the crisis not being scaled properly to the multiplier that was set at the start of the game?

Edit: I was using a machine empire for most of those games so I have the sentient ai in my fleet as well.

i know that crisis strength is directly tied to that slider bar, so unless you have it set to something crazy, the fleets shouldn't be that powerful

the only way they'd start getting into the range is if you are taking too long to defeat them (or are specifically targeting portal fleets)