Tec Loyalists have the pirate calling ability

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The tec loyalist comm towers have the ability to call raiders too the planet. The ability is however disabled, which is good. However the ability itself should not be there. Just letting the world know.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

what kind of ability is that? "HEY PIRATES! COME KILL ME! IT WILL BE SO MUCH FUN, TRUST ME!" ... -_-  

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Who will call pirates to his own Planet?o_O

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

The TEC rebels can ally with pirates and call them in as reinforcements using the comm center. The ability being displayed for the loyalists is a good find and should be fixed.

@ 1st, 2nd reply: Did you people actually play the beta or are you just here to troll?

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

I would call the pirates a great way to level up cap ships!

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Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

Guys its the pirate mercenaries ability. For some reason its on all comm towers instead of being researched to go there.

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

Really its a bad ability now, it costs about the same as Returning Armada but the pirate ships are not as good. Its nice that they don't spam all of your fleet supply, but is it that hard to make it a "global" ability, where any broadcast center could use the ability but it would reset the timer on all of them? That way the pirates could stay free, which is what made the pirates unique in the first place.

Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting GoaFan77, reply 6
Really its a bad ability now, it costs about the same as Returning Armada but the pirate ships are not as good. Its nice that they don't spam all of your fleet supply, but is it that hard to make it a "global" ability, where any broadcast center could use the ability but it would reset the timer on all of them? That way the pirates could stay free, which is what made the pirates unique in the first place.
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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.

Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top

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.
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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.

Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top

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.

Reply #10 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting GoaFan77, reply 8

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.
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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

 

Quoting Lavo_2, reply 9
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.
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More than likely the devs will fix this themselves.

Reply #11 from Sins Forums Top

My issues is more with the fact that pirates cost anything at all to call in. From my experience, by the time I have the ability to call-in pirates, their ships really aren't effective in combat other than raids so forcing the player to spend resources on them just doesn't seem cost effective.