never seen that one! sounds kinda scary.

you cant really pick a fight with the pirates, they just appear due to a random event, and pick a fight with you!

I've heard of this on Galciv1. If you don't destroy the colony, the planet defects and a bunch on powerful ships and transports come in and wip out any planet they can get to.

Thats what happened in Galciv1 if you got that. It might be different in Galciv2 I never have been good in Galciv2 so I've never had the event personally.

I got a event where the Dread Lords appereared once. Next turn the Arceans crushed them(got the defeat message that Arceans have invaded the last planet of the Dread Lords)

Was yours something like that?

blow up the colony now and hope its not too late. espcially if your not already the ultimate power. In the first one when that happened I paid them off to leave me alone. thats a lot of money. as far as pirates i've only seen that when they break out of the galatic prison. THe reason you might not see it alot is because during the betas the pirates were invicible and destoryed everyone.

Wow, I never have played as the ALt-terrans, NOW I think I will !!!!!!!!

That Altarian thing sounds interesting.


& no, those are convicts who escaped from prison with a bunch of ships, but sometimes you'll receive a message about how galactic commerce improves, pirates may raid ships and such. I've never seen it follow up on that. The prisons breakout I've seen though, but I had a pretty strong military since I was at war with the Terrans, so I moped up those dang fugitives. But doesn't it seem like certain events only target a specific race, for instance I always see teh Torians go in "jihad" form and start waging war against all the weaker nations; but I've never see any other race do that.

My two cents on pirates, copied from another post...

I'm running 1.2, so this might not be applicable to everyone.

I just wrapped up a long term game that had lots of pirates. I noticed two significant differences. First off, the pirates spawned by the "prison escape" event were small fleets (4-6 ships) with moderate weaponry & defenses. Nothing that I couldn't handle. This is a far cry from 1.1 where a "prison break" fleet would spawn in my core system and began ripping everything apart with insane gun weaponry and defenses that let them laugh at my ships despite multiple military bases and resources boosting their stats.

Second, are the pirate fleets spawned by "captains turned to life of crime" event. In 1.1 I didn't see a single ship from this event. In 1.2 they make themselves known, quickly. By the end of the game last night there were 4 separate fleets from this event. The SMALLEST fleet utilized 180 logistics. The biggest was between 210-230. This is not a result of their stacking, this is how they spawned. Their fleet defensive and offensive ratings were so high that all that displayed on the fleet stat window was "..." Now, just what the hell are you supposed to do about this? I (after saving) went after one fleet whose lowest defense was missle defense and strongest attack was beam. I had maxed my tech tree and spent about 30 minutes figuring the best offensive and defensive fleet mix (no frills, just weapons and defenses) and took out one, repeat, one fighter for my trouble. Tried it four more times with similar results.

So what's the deal, Stardock? I understand the desire to make pirates a credible threat but making them so powerful they can (and did) run rampant smashing anything a player can build is going a bit far.