Pirates are no problem except......

For their damage vs planets.

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I had a pretty high bounty on me, and I ended up with a HUGE pirate fleet around one planet. At least 60 ships. I had a bunch of my own ships around that planet, plus it was fully fortified with about 8 hangar's. I was holding my own, it was going to be rough but I knew I could take them. This was a Terran class planet, fully upgraded in population/planet health. Suddenly all the pillagers broke from combat and went for the planet. There were about 15 of them. Once I realised what was happening I sent all my bomber squadrons after them and broke some of the main fleet to attack them, but it was too late. They wiped the planet out in under two minutes.

I would have had no problem if the pillagers had kept fighting my fleet, and I don't mind pirates being able to destroy a planet, but that fast when I still had a large fleet defending? It happened again to an asteroid, they wiped it out in under 30 seconds or so. The pirates damage to planets (and only that) needs to be nerfed big time. They can do damage, just not so much so fast.
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
Wow! That is brutal. It is as momma always said when I was a child "dont play with pirates they will abuse you".

The real threat in the game now is not the AI players but the pirate!

Hmmmm...

They are a plague on the universe and must be terminated for the benefit of everyone ... - geezs! OMG!!! No way, now I sound like the MPAA and the RIAA!!! Quick somebody just shoot me! I cant believe my mind is in the same place as those crooks! It is not possible I must be on drugs, the horror of it all!!!
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
*Shoots 1Spartan*

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
lol dude you need the that sucker thing from mine 2 wow im random
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
pirates will be toned down in the next patch, at least that is what I read, but yeah that is quite extreme, but normal pirates that you find around planets / asteroids need to be toned up, they were just a bit on the easy side, and should provide a bit more of a challenge. but the marauding pirates are sometimes a pain, especially once you have a large bounty on your head
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
I'm wondering, how many siege frigates did the Pirates have?  I mean, if they sent 20 at your planet, it would be toast in no time (if it was 5, then that's overkill).
Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top
Why are Pirates so mean?... Because they YARR!

Your mostly right about the orbiting pirates at uncolonized planets being pushovers. with the exceptions of desert, and terran worlds all i have to do is send in my flagship, and thats all she wrote for them. However a solo kol cant stand up to 5 corsairs, 8 rogues, and 4 Pillagers as i found out the hard way trying to take a terran world

Ive pretty much dismissed the normal AI, and i just play to fight the pirates now
Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top
Simply put pirates are not the problem - they are the solution!
Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top
YARR!
Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top
Yarlen - it was about 18 pillagers, total ships on the asteroid incident were like 80 plus. I would have had them no prob if they had stood and faught my fleet, but the cowardly dastardly pirates went straight for the asteroid - jerks!
Reply #10 from Sins Forums Top
Yea, the siege frigs have a nasty habit of breaking formation and going straight for bombing runs. Both the AI's, and yours if you let them. Try to research planetary shields asap and use them. It wont stop all the damage but planets will last longer vs that kind of bombardment.
Reply #11 from Sins Forums Top
did you have a planetary shield up?
Reply #12 from Sins Forums Top
did you have a planetary shield up?


No, from now on with pirates on I'll always planetary shield any actual planets, but you shouldn't have to have shields on every dang rock, that's just silly.
Reply #13 from Sins Forums Top
I got to the point of putting 2 shields on everything then in the last game I played the bounties were 200k+ on all surviving factions.
Reply #14 from Sins Forums Top
If you turn marauders off everything becomes fun again.
Reply #15 from Sins Forums Top

If you turn marauders off everything becomes fun again.


sooo true... but after the marauder attacks of the last few games, it almost seems too easy with them turned off now...
Reply #16 from Sins Forums Top
I fall asleep waiting for the AI to attack with marauders off, but once insurgency is researched against me its party time again