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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins<br/>
- idle automated AI fleets and troop transports will now unload troops at colonies that have pirate facilities but insufficient troops to clear them
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Nice. Would be good to know some more details about this such ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Skyjack<br/>
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I'm just coming out of the noob stage and entering novice. <br/>
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My advice: don't automate. Go full manual. After a few restarts you'll know so much more than if you try to "wade in" using auto everything. <br/>
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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: tjhkkr<br/>
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I am guessing though that no one else is having the same problem I am... based on the responses I am getting...
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No, I am experiencing exactly the same thing. I have burned through all my agents simply ...

Unfortunately I don't know how many troops were theirs. I was in first but it is possible their group was larger. All my troops seem to disappear afterwards as well, about 800k worth of them.

<r> You may be right the speed is dependent on GDP/development/pop of the planet concerned. I don't remember which ones had those 20s build times, wasn't watching that closely. It's also a lot later than the save you've got, things have moved on since (although i still haven't found the blighter's ...

<t> I've been beating up some local Slukens with my long term ally. I have invaded a Sluken planet and my ally has apparently jumped in to join the party with a few troops of their own. When the battle was won, my ally got the planet not me. WTF?<br/>
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Anyway, what are the game rules about ...

Or in the wrong place so it didn't get read. Do you have a debug mode or a verbose log file setting available in the mod tools? That might help track it down.

<t> I've done some further investigation about this and it turns out that the rate at which the same pirate faction builds hideouts is extremely variable.<br/>
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I play on 2x speed, which equates to ~3 game months per real time minute. I sampled once per game month for about 2 game years. I ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Mortimer14<br/>
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I recommend keeping 5 or 6 troops on garrison in each of your outer colonies .. at least until you get giant ion cannons and planetary shields up. I've never seen a pirate base appear once those were built.<br/>
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Also have a defense ...

<t> I set the game up on very hard but yes, it shows up as extreme - I've heard this is a display bug.<br/>
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I do have outpost bases but they keep getting destroyed - I could make them stronger I suppose. I wish i could find the pirate bases - I have looked for them extensively using ...

<r> On the spaceport insta-build I have gone back to the incident and I must apologize for an error: what actually happened was that I had built a strong star base on the planet myself to protect the zentabia fluid mining station and I had forgot about it. When the Borcaran's coloniseed it they took ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: feygan<br/>
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2.An empire has colonised a mining location outside of your boarders, you do not have any sovereign claim on this planet nor do they but they are staking a claim and investing in it and you are just mining it. You can try to do either action ...

yeah I know. I've looked for the bases everywhere using exploration ships with whacking great scanners on them, but I can't find them. No, no mods.

<t> Normally at 2x game speed a pirate hideout takes, i don't know, 3,4 maybe 5 minutes to build during which time it is greyed out like your own improvements whilst they are getting built. My MO is to check colony list regularly and order garrison of two units to squash any hideouts in progress ...

very hard/unstable - one down from max.

<r> I've run into a pirate faction (which I seem to recall might be a "legendary" one) that seems to have the ability to insta-build a fully operational full strength pirate hideout any of my colonies even if i have a garrison there. Aside from my dislike of blatant AI cheats, this a spectacularly ...

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<t> Thanks. By the use of pen and paper recording i have been able to observe the effects of the stuff. Bizarrely my freighters seem to deliver it to colonies in reverse order of strategic value so it will be eons until I actually see some real benefit on the balance sheet.<br/>
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The question ...

<t> Thanks for the reply. Yes, one keeps forgetting that your own AI is making it's own mind up about who to like, who to attack etc all the time, probably because it's not easy to keep track of and impossible to examine it's reasoning. This is one of the, I wouldn't say flaw exactly, but close to ...