Pirates

Arrrrrrrrrrgh

Ok, so what's the deal with the Pirate mega-event? It's come up in the last three games I've played. Every time, it wipes all the starbases, ships and unprotected freighters off the map-- and then they sit around spawn camping me for the next several years.

Now, I'm a peaceful kinda guy, so this is usually massively in my favor, but it feels pretty stupid for these pirates to have vastly superior numbers and technology. It's basically a really strong cue to focus on a diplomatic or science victory.

I like the mega-events, I do-- but this one seems off the scale. Would it be possible to make it less frequent, and add a mega event that just destroys all ships and starbases, without hanging around for the next two game years or so?

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With good focus on your offense/defense techs you can pick off the pirate's from the mega event. The minor event pirates are nothing in comparison to the crushing power the mega pirate event is. Peace keepers are just as bad IMHO.

I personally love to take out the pirates in my territory, then leave my opponents have to deal with their's as they all give me tribute since my navy shadows theirs

Even if it's just that I clear out a sector or 2 and the other pirates don't notice my fleet hiding in the corner.

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Really? Because I could only clear them out with Massive, fully miniaturized ships that had 200 defense against their attacks and were firing weapons they weren't set to defend against. Maybe I need to go over the combat engine again.
Either way, trying to save my starbases was a pretty futile, frantic gesture ("Quick! I'm buying constructors on all my planets. BUILD DEFENSES!") Drives me batty. I wonder, at about how many defensive modules can they actually protect themselves from the pirates?

It isn't actually HURTING me too badly, but it does kinda guarantee me about a hundred turns of peaceful research. I guess that's OK-- mega events are supposed to be big, game-defining deals-- but it feels like it comes up far too often for its level of impact relative to, say, the Plague.

Hmm. Are there any new Megas in TA?

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WIllythemailboy

Join Date 03/2006

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Basically, there is no defenses for starbases that can take that kind of beating. Don't throw your money away trying to fortify, just accept the loss and move on.

So far, no word on new mega events for TA.

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