I should also mention that those times that I mentioned are for games running at 2X speed.

Even if the event is scheduled for when the game is paused, you need to actually "play" that game to trigger the event and have the next event scheduled.

So if you have game 1 on pause and never look at it (say for a week) you'll only have one event appear.

nope... the times I'm talking about occurred when the pauses were normally no more than 8-10 hours tops, and quite often not more than 2-4 hours.... and I was most assuredly playing