Nah, you don't suck. The Pirates are just unbalanced at the moment. The only options are to turn them off and wait for a patch or look for a mod that fixes them. I've switched them off and the games way better for it. The dev's are still releasing patches and hopefully they'll sort the problem out fairly soon.
Great, thank's for the reply. All the help is greatly appreceated. I've downloaded Blender and the Softimage mod tool and am currently deciding which I prefer.
Thanks for putting all this info up. I've got a fairly dumb question; is it better to use Blender or the free version of Autodesk Softimage for creating ships etc? Or am I getting confused and the two packages are used for completely different modding tasks?
This is a great game. But The latest patch has made the pirates far too powerfull I've had to turned them off. This combined with the last second bidding every few minuites means that the pirates are currently the strongest faction in any match. You have to spend an incredible amount of money to avoid massive assaults far greater than the main factions can muster. Obviously this wasn't ment to be. I assume the pirates are supposed to be a threat not easily dismissed, and it must be tr
