That's like that Advent ability that causes that disruptive bubble around the ships. Who the hell thought it would help to make it so you can't see through the damned thing? Alas, that has been taken care of. Still annoying to know no one checked that before rolling it out.

I know right?  Sometimes games amaze me with some of the stuff they get released with.  A classic example that will never die is the old Double Dragon II game that said in the intro story part about "Bimmy and Jimmy" going on their quest.  How did they miss a typo like that?!

As far as the sounds go, the ones for Malice and Resurrection are horrible too but they don't get spammed so they aren't as noticeable.

Heh, I uploaded a recording of a video I did with this mod running to Youtube, it got blocked by Sony Entertainment.

Your video, Sins of a Solar Empire Distant Stars - Pirate Attack, may have content that is owned or licensed by Sony Music Entertainment.

Probably because of the Band of Brothers theme music.  If it wasn't playing in the background of your recording, tell them to go suck a fat one and to unblock your video.

Also, another bug. On a certain planet in a map that Im playing right now, it seems bugged because when you zoom in it doesnt show your ships. Something like that, Ill post more with details/screenshot.

Here is the evidence. I forget which map its on, something version 2, last option for the "huge" level maps. Has 99 planets, 11 stars. 

So here Im starting zoomed out:

Im zooming in closer...

Closer....

And here you go.

Cant remember the name of the planet. Stupid me. 

Did you try to jump the ships out? Sometimes the game (the core game not the mod) will make the ships go away out into physical space and never jump. Try ordering them back to the planet or scuttling them and rebuild. (yeah the second option sucks but we need to see if its the planet which looks terran and has never had an issue or its the core bug).

In my experience, if the game makes ships just drive to another planet rather then jump they will be listed in the previous gravity well until they actually touch the next one.  The simple solution that has never failed for me is just select them and click the next gravity well.  They will stop and make the jump.  I've been trying for a long time to find a way to force this mode of travel because seriously, how awesome would carrier spam be if you jumped into a gravity well and drove them half way across the map, and let their fighters and bombers have infinite runs at the enemy?  Let your defensive ships drive out to meet me while I bring in a second fleet and it's impossible for you to get back in time...  Good stuff.

Ok so the map im playing is Kingdom of Heaven v2.0, the planet thats having the problem is Yasuda.

I have no ships in the gravwell, since its so far into my empire that i dont bother having a fleet there, only a few defenses.

I remember an online game where I did that to someone hehehehehe.....

On that map b/c there are so many planets and stars close together it will sometimes make crap disapper. Nothing I could of done short of making the map huge would of fixed it.

And I've been trying to figure out a reliable method ever since to get you back for that. 

Who had the idea to give the pirate starbases self destruct??????

After pounding on one of them for 10 minutes I found they had self destruct the hard way, my entire fleet was destroyed and the pirates werent even afected by it, the pirates star bases are tough enough on their own, with self destruct on them they become virtually unstopable, With that experience I dont consider the pirates beatable ,  unless you go to extremes.

hahaha. those were great times.

I suppose it may be a tad late in the reply.  But, hooahguy, note the red and blue skybox changes as you were zooming in?  Most likely that planet is in two 'star systems', or sometimes on the edge of two.  It's a problem that's existed for as long as I can remember, though I don't know why, it just doesn't come up often.  But whenever the skybox for two stars overlaps, anything in that overlap tends to have that problem.  The stuff IS really there (they show up in your empire tree after all), and they will fight if able, they'll even go where you tell them to, it's just not rendered properly.  If it's a galaxyforge map, I might suggest loading it up and shifting the stars so they aren't as close together.  If not.. then sadly you just kinda have to deal with it and hope it doesn't become anywhere important.

You think that's bad, you should play with Ryat's insanely tough pirates where after they start to tech up, their ships and structures have uber weapons and hulls.  Check out this starbase.

Now that's good stuff.

armor 43? is that possible? and with that hull? Geez, I would hope they explode cause that last 10% alone would wipe out many more fleets.

ROFL

The dread Pirate Lord of DS strikes again.

muhahahahahahahahahah

But yeah, recommend Orgovs. Lots and Lots.

Have a other problem with these map... on the center blue star, these with the six pirates bass around, some abilities are dissabled... by example, it is impossible to build starbase ( but possible to lay mines )... it is great since it make very difficult to keep the center of the map...

Unfortunaly, one of the AI player have the same with his own blue sun... these called "Rigil kentaurus"... the AI there is not able to fortify his sun and it become my primary target... having very fast two zone make it easy to beat the remaining AI... not sure that it was wished...

Anyway, it is a very good insane map... so much long jump line that sometime, i loose one planet due to a strong culture at the other side of the universe... and for Vasari, almost impossible to keep the center of the map ( the pirate base ) due to strong culture there from everywhere and Vasari not being able to build one single civilian structure ( more easy for TEC with the right research )... don't complain about it, difficulty is good and fun... just complain about the weakened AI due to his sun...

By the way, good work from Carbon on these map... first one that i see who is really 3D and not flat...

@ hooahguy, for your planet with problem... rotate your map for see it from the side and zoom... in some case, with the top view, because one solar system is partially up the other, it happen the thing that you describe... partial side view resolve it... not a map issue but a engine issue...

Question: do gunships, or w/e they are called, target bombers? In the description it says that they are good against strike craft, but are they also good against bombers?

They are smaller versions of flak frigates but in superior numbers they can do okay against bombers. Still recommend fighters for bombers though. They work better when paired with bombers as they take down fighters quick and let the bombers do their job better.

Ok, I was asking because I have to deal with an Advent fleet that has like 50 squadrons of fighters and bombers each. 100 squadrons. Yikes. 

Apologies if this is a stupid question. Has anyone noticed light blue wedges on each planet? Is this a bug or does this mod usually show this on planets? If so does it indicate anything?

The light blue wedges are size indicators. The more they have the bigger the planet.

Yeah, recommend a fighter/gunship mix. The fighters can concentrate on the bombers will the gunships watch their backs, then help with the bombers when they have that under control

indeed they where

Thats planet size indicators from the Celestial Bodies Mod. I did not like them much so I removed them in what I am working on and just made the planet icons slightly larger or smaller and added the description. High grav -bonus for giants and low grav bonus for dwarfs.