Quoting MayallCommunion, reply 7
Well I think the point is that, it sets you down the economy path(civilian trees) so theoretically you can go pure eco, spam comm towers around, and buy a crap ton of pirates. But I don't like the randomness of the ability.
With the money to call one group of pirates, you can build around 3 military labs. Much better just to get those for LRFS, Corvettes, Hoshikos and carriers than to use pirate ships. And really I think anything less than 4 military labs mid game is suicide as you won't have a titan.
Like I said it lets them go full eco. But I understand what you mean. I don't like the randomness to the ability:c
To address the OP, to fix this you'd need to make a new broadcast center entity that doesn't have the ability and put that as the TEC Loyalist's center, if anyone wants to do it themselves. Because the TEC do not have the research item required for the ability, they will never be able to use it, simple as that.
More than likely the devs will fix this themselves.
