Privateer Issue

I have never lost actual trade routes due to freighters being attacked.

But, sometimes my freighters are attacked even though I have built the Privateer.

I've had this before, it seems some of my freighters were attacked but some weren't.

Not sure about 1.2 issues with it, haven't played too many games on it, but the privateer doesn't prevent your freighters from being destroyed. What it does is prevent you from losing your trade routes when a freighter IS destroyed. Thats all.

Someimes there is a vote in the UP that adds policemen/skymarshalls or whatever they are called to the freighters. When you try to attack a freighter you get a message that it's not possible, because they are protected.

I think the privateer should work like that - only constantly and not restricted like the UP law ( 3 years or whatever it is..)!

I lost trade routes to attack in my last game. I had built the privateer. The only thing was that another race had also built the privateer. But yeah, I still lost it, so I don't know what that was about...

I had built the privateer. The only thing was that another race had also built the privateer.

Isn't the privateer a galactic achievement that only one race can build?

Yes, it is.

There is another GA that improves trade skill, and that may be the one that was actually built, not the Privateer. It sounds like it if the freighters could still be destroyed and another race had the Privateer.

Not sure about 1.2 issues with it, haven't played too many games on it, but the privateer doesn't prevent your freighters from being destroyed. What it does is prevent you from losing your trade routes when a freighter IS destroyed. Thats all.

I don't think that's correct, because I've tried to attack enemy freighters when another empire has the privateer, and it gives me a message like "This freighter is protected by the Galactic Privateer", and it won't let me attack it at all. I think the way it works is that the Privateer only protects freighters on trade routes originating from the planet that the Privateer is built on. So it's not very useful, especially on larger maps.

So it's not very useful, especially on larger maps.

Unless you send all your freighters out from the same planet (or at least your most productive ones). That way your highest earning freighters are protected.