monday they will release the patch

lol i was just going to suggest this. because seriously when u have a fleet of 40-50 pirates coming after u every few min, half of which are in Kodiak heavy cruisers y do u even need other players on the field

Great, can't wait! Those pirates are really becoming a force stronger than all AI's together lol.

The pirates can easily be dealt with by spamming planetary defenses, and keeping small garrisons behind (preferably with a cap ship) to deal with the siege frigs. I usually build 3 hangers (with bombers since fighters are useless right now) 1 repair platform (next to the hangers and shield gen), 1 shield generator, and the rest i max the slots out with all guns. Research crisis recovery then you can shrug off those pirate planet killer attacks. Least till the patch arrives. I do this only on planets i cant afford to lose. Like crystal worlds, and my capitol.

Another note.. dont put phase disruptors on every planet you own. Sometimes the pirates are just passing through to get to someone else. Let them go. There should be an option to toggle on or off the phase disruptors included in a future patch.

I put them down so that the pirates will get trapped, its a great way to power level your cap ships. wonder if that could be considered an exploit...

That's what I do too - power levelling rocks!

heh... same here...

I do it that way as well I dont think power leveling at the pirates expense would go over too well in a multiplayer game though. So yea in MP that probably would be considered an exploit. However you could always play "No Yarr" MP games

I like to build all the hangers I can, then it is easy to take out the pillagers first saving the cost of upgrading your planet again.

Cheers.

Bonus: in the new patch, your defenses automatically target pillagers with higher priority

where can i get the patch? i thought the patch was suppose to be out today? as in the 9th of this month or was that the 9th of this month for beta2 ending?

It'll be out tomorrow. I wasn't able to get it out today.

No prob.