Help with Playing as Pirates.

[Ed Kolis]

Have you used the Chop Shops? 99% return on scrapped ships... Pirates are supposed to be hard, though...

Also try to capture colony ships and use Pirate's Intel Centers; then you can build colonies and steal resources through bribery

[El_Phil]

Wasn't the advice 'Use every gamey trick. You'll need to!'

What sort of fleet size have you got? More than half a dozen and you have to be damn lucky/good.

Or of course just play as a Pirate and Nomad. Less of a challenge, but those maintence reduction bonuses of the Nomad make life so much easier... Some may consider it not quiet in the spirit of the mod though.