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I suspect they simply reversed the polarity of their deflector dish. I mean, that's all it took for the Enterprise to do the impossible.

magic is sometning only us space ponies use..

Me thinks you might have found a flaw in the programing.. but then again, you never know where those yahoos hide.. and it could all be writen off as, "we were hiding, agh"

I've experienced the same thing as Astralrunner. There I am, having decimated the pirate defenses,, blasted everything in sight, when lo and behold here comes a full-fledged pirate attack. Of course, it could be fictionally suspected that this fleet was off partying and getting laid at some nearby brothel planet and were suddenly called back. If that's the case they should get an attack bonus for being ticked off and interrupted. That's how pirates are.

But then again, considering the frequency of attacks, it would be nice if they played by the same rules as the rest of us. How come we can't be pirates? I've already got the hat, the eye-patch, and uh, the spacegrog.

PS. taking a sip of spacegrog for every ship I destroy seems to make the game play deeper, the graphics more spectacular,and in the later stages of the game (if you last that long) allows other civilizations to broadcast messages directly into your brain. (on single player only)

PPS. I may be drunk but I spell-checked.

I had this happen but once the pirate base was wiped it stopped completely. I do agree though that it should maybe be changed in a future patch. Kinda ruins the mystique of the game IMO.

Yep, pirates are still cool and add a nice strategic element fairly unique to this game--at least I haven't seen anything comparable in other RTSs. Pirates definately aren't a game breaker, maybe they are even a game MAKER. Use them to your advantage... be the perpetrator, not the victim.

Maybe, though, after you've destroyed their base we could stop with the little raids... I think that would be a sensible change.

The way the pirates work is simple. the ships that you see in the gravity well are not the ships that attack you, they are the ships that survived there previous attacks and the original ships at the beginning.

When a pirate raid starts the ships warp in from a different star system and then go there target and what ever ships survive and retreat STAY in the pirate base.

the back drop for the pirates is that its isn't some small band or a couple random bases. its massive interstellar organization of wide spread influence and power, to simple assume they don't have the tech to jump between stars would be the more unrealistic option

While on the topic of pirates, what would happen if you had say.... 10 pirates bases in a solar system? Would each of them produce a fleet?

Pirates are not a "player". They are a game mechanic. The rules are different for them because, well, they *are* one of the rules.

If you destroy the base itself, they will no longer spawn there. Simply killing the ships and cannons around it won't cut it.

When I killed the pirate bases the attacks stopped. But they did succeed in launching an attack before they were defeated. I don't split hairs with silly things like this.

P.S. -- Attacking pirate base = good way to level up your capital ships.'

P.S.S -- I'd be thrilled if you could start collecting bounty from other players once you've overtaken a pirate base. Kind of like you set up your own pseudo pirate facade

Yeah I discovered that a few weeks ago and asked for a change in the 1.03 thread, so I hope they change it somehow.

Thanks for that Kryo - I'm all for pirates but perhaps in a later update there could be an option box for 'realistic' pirates which means destroy their base = no more pirates.

Of course I can see the reason for a Pirate *base* to re-appear someplace - that makes sense and in my opinion would work better with this new option.

It is just frustrating, that as a strategy gamer I cannot plan logically for dealing with pirates: e.g. Locate the base, deal a crippling blow etc.

It is a rule that seems to be at odds with the great realism feel of the game, in my opinion.

you *always* collect bounty, regardless of whether or not you own a pirate base. you just have to kill things to earn it (mouse over the planet of an enemy with a bounty on him, it'll give you a value for what killing this planet is worth)
great way to make money at some times, especially if the enemy has 25k+ in bounty on him (then the instant after you win the pirate war send in a taskforce to kill a few of his planets for nearly free, its a LOT of money you can earn). <-particularly amazing strategy for multiple team or FFA games.