Bloody pirates

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I don't like that pirates event!

I was playing a medium map in TA last night when they arrived. Nearly all my ships, stations and trade routes gone after a few turns. My best ships had virtualy no effect against them, and I was the most powerfull civ, so Iguess everyone else got a real kicking as well.

It was lucky that I still got a diplomatic victory a few turns later, still it almost made me cry to see it all destroyed so quickly. I guess next time I'll have to invest in military tech a bit more next time even if I'm going for a non-military victory.

I just hope that one doesn't happen too often. I don't want to switch the events off.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yes, they can be a bit of a shock the first time you see them. But they can also be your knight in shining armor. If your game is going badly, the Pirates! event is one of the best possible things that can happen. Yes, they will clean you out, but they will also clean out all of the other civs.

The AI doesn't deal with them very well. It will keep building ship after ship, and sending them to their doom. You don't have to do this. Just sit back and research you *ss off. Then, when you get towards the end of the tech tree, build a single Uber-ship, and wipe the Pirates! off the map. You'll be so far ahead in tech, that you can then wipe the other civs off the map as well.

See? They are not necessarily bad. You can go from certain defeat to a crushing victory, all thanks to your new peg-legged friends. :)

The Peacekeepers can be handled in much the same way, and the Jagged Knife offers up a whole slew of juicy planets that you can take without worrying about going to war with any of the major civs.

The megas are what you make of them. You can pull your hair out, or see them for the opportunity that they are.