I saw this to not sure what is going on atm

I'm not sure either. I've had max fleet supply, only weak available. I've had maxedfleet supply with zero available. Weak. I've trieno only basic supply with 100k cash onhand. Still weak pirate. 

Someone please clue us in!

I have put more than 60k of credits on a player and then go to offer a mission (pirate level being severe) and I still cannot change it, even though I have 100k still.  Its hard to believe. Like I said any help will be great as this is a definite issue, because TaeC rebels highly rely on the pirates, for distractions or main assaults.

Max available raid strength depends on the current pirate raid level. So you can't send a raid larger than what would randomly be deployed.

Yarlen, I hate to disagree with a dev.

However, I sent a 50k pirate raid at my son.  The pirate's fleet strength took up the entire bar on the planetary enemy status bar.

Yet I can still only send a "weak" fleet after that of less than 25 ships.

And this was three hours into the game.

Really, Yarlen?  How long must the game go on before one can send a severe raid?  Days?

Yah, but they phase space the new ones in.  Also, it just seems like you can't change the level of the pirate mission.  Not a raid, but a mission to the pirates.  I know how to put more bounty on someones head, but that raid is random, I use the mission to be more specific and then follow them in, but I just can't seem to figure out how to get past the 'weak' pirate mission level.

Thanks!  Looking forward to the full release!

Bump.  It did not get fixed in Beta 3 release.  Still can't change the raid strength for a pirate mission.

Just want to make sure this wasn't forgotten.

Thank you Yarlen I thought that I was the only one having this problem. Because I really love using Pirates as a tool in my war against all who appose me in this game.