Marauders Option Broken

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Hopefully this hasn't been posted before. I searched for both "pirates" and "marauders" and didn't find it.

Anyway, the enable/disable marauders button when starting a new game doesn't work. Regardless of how it is set, you get marauders all over the place.

My apologies if this has been posted before.
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
when you disable the marauders, do you only see them around planets?
or literaly attacking your planets outright?
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
Marauders are large fleets actively attacking your planets, regular pirates orbit around all unexplored planets until you kill them
Star Control: Origins
Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
also, Marauders spawn at the star, if there are pirates spawning at your planets, then it's because someone else researched insurgency.
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
Oh, ok, yeah, they were the pirates that hang around planets. I didn't realize "marauders" referred specifically to the spawning ones. Thanks. An option to turn off the regular pirates in the full game would still be nice. They're not hard to deal with, they're just annoying.
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

Oh, ok, yeah, they were the pirates that hang around planets. I didn't realize "marauders" referred specifically to the spawning ones. Thanks. An option to turn off the regular pirates in the full game would still be nice. They're not hard to deal with, they're just annoying.


They're there to be speed bumps, they're supposed to be annoying
Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top
An option to turn off the regular pirates in the full game would still be nice. They're not hard to deal with, they're just annoying.


The devs have been discussing whether pirates should be there around all planets from the start of the game. We'll have to wait and see what the next build brings.
Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

An option to turn off the regular pirates in the full game would still be nice. They're not hard to deal with, they're just annoying.


The devs have been discussing whether pirates should be there around all planets from the start of the game. We'll have to wait and see what the next build brings.




A set of options like None/Rare/Occasional/Common/All would be reasonable. The could correspond to 0%/10%/33%/66%/100% of planets having them. Or just give the player the option to set a percentage directly.

This being an empire-building game, I'm very much in favor of a wide variety of options for universe creation.
Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top


The devs have been discussing whether pirates should be there around all planets from the start of the game. We'll have to wait and see what the next build brings.


When is this mythical "next build" due out?
Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top
end of summer i believe
Reply #10 from Sins Forums Top
I think having pirates guard planets initially is an important part of the colony rush. It requires some effort to expand
Reply #11 from Sins Forums Top
When is this mythical "next build" due out?

end of summer i believe


That's beta 3. The timing of the next beta 2 patch hasn't been announced yet.