Pirate Waves Feature

[Beld]

Has anyone managed to get the new pirate wave feature to work?

I have been finding that despite having 10 unique waves set up to provide a scaling difficulty, whether I use a 2000 block fighter or a 300k ship to attack a pirate station, the wave system will send the highest level pirate wave.

This is a really exciting feature that I think will bring a lot to the game, but so far I can't seem to get it to work.

 

[StormWing0]

It's broken along with a lot of things lately. >_>

 

[Beld]

An answer I got from someone in chat is that the system doesn't have a difficulty measurement system in place to use, so i guess we'll just have to wait for that then this feature will be great.

 

[kiraen]

Actually, I think is is that the difficult measurement (ship scoring) is broken, not that it doesn't have one.

 

[Beld]

I manage the pirates for the server I am on, I really hope this is a feature that starts working as intended because it opens up so many possibilities for pirate content that caters to the diverse levels of experience players have.

 

[StormWing0]

What'd be nice is if we could select a group of possible ships rather than definite ones, than put in a range of from number to number how many might shop up. This way waves could be a tad more random and also having the game by default if no waves are specified or even if they are a dynamically generated wave is used that tries the game's best guess what to throw at you.