I'm not a fan of being randomly attacked by a dragon every ten minutes or so when wandering the wilderness.

However, I don't want to never see a dragon ingame again.

I'm tempted to download one of the 'no random dragons spawn' mods, but i'm concerned that it might be overkill. Nor will any of the 'less' spawns work. Utimately I want to control when I meet and fight a dragon in advance of doing it.

So, I ask, does anyone know how many scripted dragon encounters there are in the game?

Obviously there is Alduin, those he ressurects in the MQ, and the undead one in Dawnguard. Do the ones that fight you before enterng Aetherius still spawn?

I'd appreciate some help. If there are still significant dragons around to 'trigger' then i'll remove the random ones.

It takes some time but after Alduin is destroyed the random dragon attacks begin to taper off ... after a while. I'm like you and was glad to see it happen. If you fast travel to Hearthfire homes or remote areas such as Rorikstead there is a good chance it will trigger a dragon attack. Dragon's respawn at the roosting sites as I call them, those places where you're sent to eliminate them. Traveling the road from Riften to Windhelm I saw one circling over Bone Strewn Pass and have gone back to other sites and found them there so no worries, there will always be dragons to kill.