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Recently I was playing vanilla sins and I in one of my systems I had built a whole bunch of culture structures however the one planet in the system I didn't have (the pirate base) they had no effect on does culture have no effect on pirates or do you just have to wait a long time?
Try building about 20 carrier cruisers (14 for Advent, since their's cost more) and stocking them all with bombers. Clears pirate bases so easily, and your capital ships level up like mad. Or, with entrenchment, just distract them while you build a starbase.
Never tried mines before to take down the pirate base, but it should actually work quite well. The only catch is that you'd have to distract the pirates, as even one flak frigate near the minefield deployment site would clear them out completely.
Try the Distant Stars mod. The pirates have caps - woo hoo! Vicious little buggers too.
I just love a little pirate hunt 
I tried to abuse the ruiner to clear terran/desert plants early in the game by tanking the enemy with my cap while the ruiner makes a minefield some distance away. The results were very good, but it takes too much valuable time to get the ruiner going for this to be a viable strategy (labs, research et al), plus it's a bit too pricey.
It is not hard to set up a sizeable minefield before pirate flaks even get close. With every ruiner you can easily throw two clouds of mines before they come to wipe them. Then you just run the pirates through the minefield, voila.
You just have to
- make sure the enemy frigs are facing the opposite direction to where the ruiner is laying mines (lure them with your cap/fleet)
- the distance needs to be a little greater than the radius of a typical gravwell
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