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well i was in the middle of a game and i notcied that even when my bounty was 0 the pirates would still stick around around attacking my planet and i started to think this doesn't make any sense. pirates wouldn't stick around if there was no bounty they would just retreat back to there base so i was wondering if there was a mod to make the pirates more realistic? or maybe this would be a good idea for a patch? whatever it just didn't make much sense to me so i thought i would put it out there.
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
This is an ok place, Whttgr525, but when the next patch post comes out(1.04), you should not this as a possiable bug, or problem in the game.
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
This is how it currently works.

Once a bounty is placed on a player (whoever has the highest bounty when the timer expires and the red bar in the pirate menu stops flashing) a pirate fleet will be sent until there are no more structures left in the gravity well and return to the pirate base with whatever ships are left and add to the "pirate defense fleet" at the pirate base. They will also stop bombing your planet if all structures are gone but the planet is still owned by someone, though i don't know if they will leave if the planet is bombed to neutral as i don't recall ever losing a planet to pirates.

Even if all bounty expires they will continue attacking. They will not attack someone else if they where not set as the target of the current pirate raid even if someone else has a higher bounty.

They do not attack ships unless it crosses their path (they fire at but do not move to engage) on their way to a target planet.

They will still target a planet even if you took over the planet from the person who is the target of the pirates, leaving you to deal with the pirates as if you where the target.

Non siege pirate ships will first target trade ships, then trade ports and ship yards (i find it's 50/50). Use trade ports and ship yards as bait placed in your defenses.

The pirates will target any of your front line planets. I have not seen them bypass a planet you own to reach one behind it though i've heard people mention this (i do not know if they are right). As of v1.03 they will not target only the closest planet but any front line planet.
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
ZzZ_Guy, that can happen when the pirates have already selected their target and have started moving toward it and then the player builds a new front-line base that just seems to be on their path.

I agree with the suggestion that pirates should go for bounty and overall behave more intelligently. It doesn't make sense that in a recent big furball, I got distracted by a two-pronged assault on my chokepoints by Red and Green enemies and lost a Pirate bidding war against Red. By the time the pirates got to my base, Green had collected all of Red's posted bounty against me, but the pirates breezed right past a retreating Red fleet even though there was a high bounty still sitting on Red. So they came to my base and got wiped for zero bounty.

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