I agree. In recent memory (basically since buying it) I haven't played on anything higher than ensign and rarely does the devastation become an issue. Honestly it seems to be an issue more on smaller maps because they pass over your territory way more often. That said the one thing about them I find extremely irritating is when I am planning what I'm building and it creates a planetary feature that goes against the current specialization.I actually kind of enjoy them, at least in weak levels.
there is a slider now to control this, and they MASSIVELY reduced the default spawn rates and chilled them outI played with storms for the first time after 4.0 launched.
Default settings
My empire occupied around 1/5 of the galaxy and at one point had 4 storms in its territory.
The AI (keep in mind this is a 1000 star galaxy) had none. What a coincidence
Default settings
I edited the save file to turn them off and will be playing without them
yes, you can, but there's still RNG involvedbut if you take the perk, can you make storms that can sometimes make deposits on celestial bodies?