Pirates should act like pirates

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One of the things that I love about this game is the Bounty system. It encourages me to attack certain empires and encourages pirates to do the same. The thing that struck me as odd is that the pirates almost function as just another AI.

Think about it for a second. Imagine yourself as a pirate. Would you attack a highly defended planet losing most of your ships in order to get a bounty, or would you look for ships that are isolated. If I was a pirate, I would look for an area where there's only a few scattered ships, attack, collect the bounties, and leave at the first sign of back up arriving.

In short, short the pirates need to execute guerilla tactics and increase the frequency of their attacks. So, what do you all think about this?
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
Everyone agrees that something needs to be done about pirates. This is another good idea worth investigating. However, it may be hard to implement in this game. The way the game is structured, you will almost always have ships either in orbit around your systems or enemy systems. If they only attack lightly defended systems, then you just build up enough defenses there to fend them off and forget about them completely from then on. If they just attack trade and refinery ships, then you have to manually escort the ships around or just accept that you can never protect your trade lines.
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
i like the idea of making the pirates smarter. i imagine that its somthing the devs are already working on. giving them more gorilla tactics is a good step. i read some were that there was eventually gonna be a "pirate base." i dont know how that is going to be implemented but as the pirates get more structure i imagine the pirate AI will get more sophisticated. i look forwerd to what the devs have planed with great anticipation.
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
There is no doubt the pirates are under a massive revision. However, given most of the reports said that pirate behavior was annoying we are leaning away from making them more frequent and more likely to retreat even though these would make them more realistic.
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
Well, if the pirates are bothering you, just make it more worth their time to attack someone else. I would simply start upping the bounty on one of my oppenents.
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

In short, short the pirates need to execute guerilla tactics and increase the frequency of their attacks. So, what do you all think about this?

thats exactly what i think too, but also if they succeed with a raid, they should be able to build more ships or better