I'm not playing with the 'all dark events are permanent' option on, yet about 70% (if not more, of all I only recall 2 that were not permanent) of the dark events I encounter so far have been adding permanent affects.

On top of this, the dark event missions only ever show up with less then 2 days to go (frequently I get no mission to counter, or the mission is less than a day. Yet to see any duration that doesn't result in mid 30s very heavy encounter.

Just finding this aspect of long war to be not very fun. For example, I've been trying to get more fire based stuff, not all advent are permanently immune to it. How do I scale it down, or make them possible to be countered?