I don't really care about the UP, so therefore i always see it in my games.
However i can never get much in the way of interesting galactic events and mega events, even set on abundant. That's my problem with this game right now.
I bought the new mega events DLC - set on abundant or frequent or whatever is the highest setting, and i am on turn 250 in a gigantic map, i have gotten exactly SQUAT this whole time, gave up playing.
(I might have gotten a few unremarkable ones, and hence don't remember getting them)
Advice to star dock..... I would like a maximum high setting to actually work, and work to the point where players will start to think "geesh, i better turn that down a bit".