Adding more pirate ship types?

[RadGH]

It looks like Starmade only has one type of pirate ship that attacks, the Isanth. Seems weird. I'd like to add more. I know you can add blueprints and they appear as pirates. I got a few from some threads that were "pirate-like" (screenshot). As in low mass and DPS

But the blueprint directory on this website doesn't have any tools to filter by DPS, mass, and so on. So it's pretty hard to find more. And as a noob, I don't really know if a ship is going to utterly destroy me or if it won't even work for a pirate AI.

As I understand, in order to give loot the ship has to be AI controllable and have some cargo storage of some kind. I don't know if the ships I downloaded would have either of those.

Are there any pirate ship blueprints, or better yet packs of multiple?

Also, what sort of verbiage should I be searching for to find more?

And maybe some pirate ship stations too? Would those require a new world?

Thanks

 

[Panpiper]

I don't really know if a ship is going to utterly destroy me...

I strongly recommend that you do NOT download any of mine. Maybe the Bandit will be small enough to be a pest without utterly wasting you.

 

[DrTarDIS]

Quantum Comet Shipyards

Your best bet is to download some ships, and fight them 1v1 in a ship you use. Test test test. Unless you want a bit of danger, then just look at the mass.

 

[terra mining corp.]

As others have stated be careful what you load and test out first,i gave the pirate faction a version of my 55 mass gnat drones thinking easy pickings-wrong answer! they just spawned wave after wave of 15-20 drones till the hud was a sea of red. They almost rekt my carrier and escort until the game crashed,sometimes the smallest isn't the best choice!

 

[kurosawa]

20 drones and then 55 mass does not seem like something that should crash the server?

was there mass collisions?

 

[Panpiper]

20 drones and then 55 mass does not seem like something that should crash the server?

What I understood was not that 20 drones crashed the game, but that they kept spawning wave after wave of 15-20 drones until the game crashed. It could well have been many hundreds of drones by that point.

 

[kurosawa]

indeed, sounds fun