@srs008 yeah but if you are an amin you can delete pirates and play in godmode!
true, personally i do play with the pirates ships available as none, effectively turning them off.
i should have expanded on that, not everyone knows how to turn them off, but we should assume everyone wants customization, and sometimes we want to go out and attack a small fleet, test our ship/s... you can't do that with pirates off. (me and my brother play offline, due to limited internet...)
far easier if a off switch is incorporated for this feature...
at least then, we won't have to worry about getting swamped by every pirate within 10 sectors...
no loss, no gain. plus, we all know there are people who are going to scream how unfair it is that their mega-rich faction and it's mega capital ships are constantly attacked by pirates...
(i mean, average players playing normally will probably have issues with the pirates picking on them)
easier to beat the problem down. then server ops can hold a "vote"... to have it left on.
let's face it, this will mostly hammer the richest players. bringing them back within reach of other players... the elitests on the server...
if your server has a whopping two people however... in the same faction... where do you think they'll go?
i'm not the only person to play single-player, or small server host.
in those circumstances, we need a easy off.