I think your calculations are a bit off. The events are never scheduled 2800 hours in the future.

if you give us the time stamp and exactly what the logfile said we will do the math for you.

if this is vv2 i have been playing 867 hours and have only had 6 island events

but i leave my game paused over night...

in my log file it dosent say anything to do with a next island event

help me out lol...

i've got to go now to check on me grandmas new pup i'll be back soon to check

If you frequently leave your game paused, it will affect the frequency of Island Events. The game log is erased every time you start the game, so you will only find events in the game log if you check it immediately after you've had an event.

I don't like the idea of being virtually penalised for pausing, but I have to admit, I can't think of a way (logical, not programming) around including the time paused in the real-time calculation, so I guess we have to live with it. More frequent events might help offset it though

I have always thought that island events happen far too infrequently but I have never said anything. I agree with bajantara 110%.

It is too late for VV2, but perhaps in VV3, instead of 5 min after game starts and then every 24 hours of game play, perhaps:
after first 5 minutes, then wait 10 minutes, then wait 20 minutes, then wait 40 minutes, then wait 1 hour, then wait 2 hours, then every 4 hours thereafter. only run the timer for island events when the game is actually running. it is annoying to start a game and have an island event in my face. perhaps add a 10% randomness to the time interval.

I think all island events should have a right answer and a wrong answer if there is a possibility of losing significant numbers of villagers, food, or tech points. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. In other words, the first time the event comes along and I pick the wrong choice and all my crops die - that's fine. But a good skillful player would write it down and not pick the wrong choice the second time. Making it all random, it does not matter if you take the time to write things down or not, you will be slammed half the time. (granted, some of the current island events do have right and wrong answers i believe. i think they all should.)