its worth saying that the events can give you extra resources. the drake attack is a pain but all those extra freeze glands kept me in eyscream for a good while. "you are being hunted"? try, "you get a bunch of pelts and trophies and meat". if the forest didn't move so much early on, i wouldn't have a chest full of eyes for portals and the aforemeantioned eyescream.

turning them off for the sake of building open towns or large bases after endgame would be a good idea tho