SJ,
Been able to work on some of my ideas for the pirate race. Finally got most of the stuff to take. Need to test them and can probably do it this coming weekend. I will try to post my ideas here tomorrow or wednsday. Would you take a look at them and comment? Also, have you decided if other facilities should be removed from the pirates, like the mining ones? That idea really allows the pirates to be customized.
A lot of my ideas seem very similiar to yours. One note though, there seems to be a limit on the number of components and techs you can add, so you can't go overboard adding pirate specific stuff. I had added a lot of items and had trouble getting them to show up.
You can e-mail me at
jward@matteicomp.com if you like.