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I´ve been playing a GC as Portugal, I am in 1580´s and I am the only nation with trade and colonial interests in India... Pirates pop up regularly around the coast...and guess who brings boats all across the ocean, in voyages that take years, without any port to resupply, just to protect my comercial interests?
Spain, France and England...and I suppose the Dutch will pop up to when they get the chance :)
Now if that isn´t a helping hand :)...

bottom line: It is good that the colonial powers wage active anti piracy war...but they should only do it to protect their trading interests, if they are not losing money they shouldn´t waste precious resources...


BTW: whoever is out there reading this and hasn´t bought the game...you can dream and read about it, I know I did :), but there is nothing like the real thing...by the way in this game you don´t want to play just the next turn, there is no next turn, you just fall asleep on the keyboard thinking 'I should have saved and gone to bedddd......'
 
Hi henrique:
how do you deal with those scurvyy pirates?
you just leave the ships in the area where pirates are said to be and wait what happens (suffering attrition and all)?
do pirates got stronger if no measures are taken?
once they are defeated, does it takes long to reaapear? (in your experience)
do they discriminate among fleets or every 'legal' ship attacks the pirate in the same sea area?

obrigado :)
alzate
 
Originally posted by Alzate:
Hi henrique:
how do you deal with those scurvyy pirates?
you just leave the ships in the area where pirates are said to be and wait what happens (suffering attrition and all)?
do pirates got stronger if no measures are taken?
once they are defeated, does it takes long to reaapear? (in your experience)
do they discriminate among fleets or every 'legal' ship attacks the pirate in the same sea area?

obrigado :)
alzate


Pirates pop up on a coastal sea zone and reduce trade income of neighbouring provinces, the more pirate ships the less the trade generated...to take care of them you have to assemble a fleet and send it to pirates location, when the fleet arrives it engages the pirates...
I suppose that pirates don´t suffer attrition, on the contrary, their numbers seem to raise as you leave them unchecked (I am not sure)

The richer the trade generated in the area so more frequent are the appearences of pirates...
For example: in my game I control all Inda´s trade and Indonesia´s trade - a favorite spot for piracy is the straights of Malaca as that seazone neighbours several trade rich provinces, and there they pop up as much as two or three times a year...
It seems that any legal fleet that crosses the pirates path is imidiatly attacked... no prisioners...

de nada hermano :)