Slightly stupid random event

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Just had one where pirates took over about 30 planets in the system. Just out of the blue, no invasion, no way to stop it. A few thousand pirates are managing to overthrow millions of people on even the most battle hardened planets without even a fuss? And then on top of that, no-one else tries to reclaim the planets despite the pirates having next to no offense? Very annoying.

I like the idea, don't get me wrong, but if I and other races are gonna lose planets, I want it to happen through the actions of in-game AI, not a splash screen.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Pirate event is pretty irritating. The bigger the galaxy and more planets, it sucks more. I had this event once, a small map (or medium with only few stars) and i crushed 'em mercilessy in few turns.
I agree though that you just lose the planets... i mean if pirates got troop transports next to each planet they're going to take over, that way player'd chance to stop 'em.

Jagged Knife is also pretty frustrating...

I really hope the mega events would be moddable...
Stardock: Make 'em moddable for 2.0 please
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
What you have experienced is the "Jagged Knife" mega-event. The Pirates! spawn with swarms of overpowered ships, that can/will destroy all of your fleets and starbases, but pose no risk whatsoever to your planets.

Look at this event as an opportunity. The JK has taken any number of sweet planets from the other civs, and now you are free to take them for yourself without declaring war on any of the majors. If you play this right, you'll win the game.

Lemons into lemonade, brother.
Siege of Centauri
Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Also the pirate ships looks fantastic (like space pirates)
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
I faced one regular pirate and one jagged knife experience.

The first was kinda easy, I doom ray'd them all to death.

The second was just annoying, they killed all my small ships, I had to send tons of phenix m18's to destroy them.

Kinda sucked when they left. I had just dispatched about 5 destroyers to their locations and they abandoned me at my moment of trimpuh... !

What really surprised me was that they destroyed a couple of my pheonix m18's. No one has even stood up to me and these guys show up....

It was kinda funny, the pirates also had the yor ships after the yor collective died. Their were swarms of them. I just sat 10 phenonix m18's on top of each other and destroyed 50 yor ships. The real pirate ships were super huge, and took out a few phenix's...

I had no problem guarding my planets, as most have at least 2 pheonix m18's guarding them.

Some are guarded by destroyers... But the majority of my military is pheonix m11 and up.
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
the pirates also had the yor ships after the yor collective died
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Yes, when an evil race dies out, all of it's ships become pirate ships.
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
It's simple, really. Make a troop transport next to all of your planets and when and if it happens just take them back. The Pirates have no tech advantage nor soldiering IIRC.