Newbie questions What race are the pirates?

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HI,
I made a few moddifications to some of the TEC ships such as speed. But the pirates seem to be using the same ships.
How do I stop the pirates from stealing my ship mods? Can I change their default race?

thanks
modding
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
Are you sure you're not confusing pirates with militia and/or insurgents? Pirates have their own ships, defined in the FrigatePirate*.entity files.
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
MAybe, I'm talking about the grey colored ships, that seem to use the same tech as the TEC.

Is there anyway to change that or stop them from using the mods?

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
You're talking about the neutral ships in gravity wells right? Those are the local militia. They do use TEC ships, justified because this is TEC space being taken over by two other races, so those planets already have human colonies not yet under the direct control of a commander for the TEC.

Changing them to not be identical to your own ships will be a little complicated...
1st, make copies of TEC ship .entities, then rename them to use a new race name, "FrigateMilitiaLight.entity" for example

2nd, open your GalaxyScenarioDef.GalaxyScanarioDef and look for a long section that contains something like this:
PlanetItemType
..........designName "Tech:Frigate:Light"
..........entityDefName "FrigateTechLight"
and replace all the entityDefName to the copied ship .entity you want it to use.

3rd, now you can edit the militia ships to your hearts content and it will have no effect on any of the other races.