I agree, it is rather stupid when they are too difficult to beat, they are actually stronger than the normal pirates that sometimes appear, at least I think they are.

Yes, I agree. Do they even behave like pirates? That is, staying away from ships under the control of major powers and going for starbases, freighters, miners, and constructors?

Want my opinion? Replace the pirates with the Dread Lords. That is, change the name 'pirates' to 'Dread Lords', and make the pirate ships look like Dread Lord ships. Then, give them the planet Amalda, and let them keep their fleet. That would really bring 'woe to all' like it says.

Then, they should make the pirates like the Jagged Knife. You can negiotiate with them. They can gain BC from starbases, asteroids, trade routes, freighters, constructors, space miners, and other cargo-hull ships. But they should be coded to stay away from direct confrontation.

And they can use the BC to buy improvements or ships at their planet (s).

ROFL

I tend to agree that the event should be kept but renamed. The Dread Lords are a good fit and need a psychotically huge buff, this would do it. A new pirate event, more "piratey," could be included too. Something like a rash of small, lightly armed, very fast ships that play on trading lanes and other vulnerable targets.

good news! there is a dread lord one. Both Mega-Events appeared in my gigantic galaxy map. One half of the map is now owned by the dread lords, and the pirates are eating up all the ships that dare leave the orbit of their planets

Not really. If you are fast, all you have to do is rush a transport, warp it out to the location of Amalda, and conquer it. And if you don't, the AI will do it for you. Many people have complained that the Dread Lords start with no fleet. But they have every technology, so you have less then ten turns to wipe them out before they make ships. If the pirate fleet was converted into Dread Lord ships, they'd span with a warfleet and start bringing death and destruction to the galaxy.

Just like it was in the campaign. In the third mission of the Dread Lord campaign, some Drengin guy activates a temple, and summons the Precursor army back. But their army had about 100 Dread Lord starships.

Turning Mega Events off if your not good at the game = Teh Win

Seriously, the pirate event is so easy to get around. Research better ships, or go for faster transports and let them take out your enemy's defenders while you take their planets. Easy.

And thats why I like to play Battle of the Gods. Oooooh kay lets start pumping out Apollo Cruiser, ThunderChilde Battle ships and a couple of Genocide Class Dreadnaughts. Admittedly you got to have your industrial capacity Way up and not to be afraid of putting everything into military spending. But the sooner you get out from under the thumb of the pirates the faster you will recover from the other races.

I hate the spy Mega event. And I have learned sometimes it cheaper to destoy a colony than than keep pumping spys into it.

Duh

"Thats what you think Monkeyboy"
Doctor Lizardo

an obvious idea!

especially for all of us who were once upon a time playing galciv1 and first heard the term "dread lords" which then inspired all kinds of daydreams of some super enemy to come into our game and finally test those magnificant excaliburs!!

Never could i have guessed what a 'flop' the dreadlords would turn out to be.

And did you make Pirate Dust?