There is one thing I found whilst playing. Whilst en route to a pirate planet to siege it to make my star system look pretty in only my colours. I landed to find about.. 500 pirate ships all casually sitting around the planet. Needless to say my fleet didn't make it out at all. With the current pirates buff, in this situation, it is nigh impossible to kill them without being anhialated.

I don't know if this was the pirates forgetting where they were going when given a mission or the spawners going mental but it sure as hell made the planet impossible to take. Im unsure if this is diplomacy or the mod but I thought I would report it anyway.

I tried enabling this mod a few times, and each time it mini-dumped! What do I do? 

Yeah, for whatever reason, we can't download the 2.0 version, which we'd then patch to 2.1, jozmar. Too bad text can't describe my <EPIC FRUSTRATED FACE>.

Even that wouldn't take it out, The increased armour and damage on pirate ships coupled with the numbers makes it very difficult for a fleet to survive. Bare in mind this was late game, the average from a pirate ship was 65 damage with an armour of around 30 which compared to even my capital ships were strong. I had to use a modified version of the Phase missile swarm to remove the ships because 1. it was bad for the games performance and 2. I wanted to have atleast a chance of sieging the planet.

The powerful pirates mod in Distant stars increases the numbers at the planet, gives them capital ships, gives them a starbase and some more defensive weaponary. The pirate mod in this gives them a lot higher armour, increased damage capability, 24 Gauss platforms with the ability to spawn ships with immense health and damage (70 damage, 50 armour, 12k health), and 5 planetary shield arrays.

The other pirate planet I sieged had nothing compared to the one with 500 ships. The ships were in 3 distinct groups so im going to guess they were pirates called in for a mission and forgot were they were going.

Well until Aplos fixes link or unless he wants me to take it down, here's a megaupload link to 2.0

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=IA1FUA3T

the 2.01 update works fine so I won't link that for now.

thx for the DL!

i like this mod, very professional. But it's very unstable for me. The Game always closes after some time, no error, i just lands on the desktop. any ideas on that?

Hey the download link is dead.

yeah, but it works, except for this mod, and there is no minidump message, the game just closes.

i play Distance Stars with highest Settings and have no problems.

download is still dead, can anyone plz upload?

Cheers!

Uhh ... Filefront so pranked Stars...     

Gratitude to Banthracis for fellowship (for new download link).

Soon there will be huge update (2.1)  that introduces more levels for planet upgrade stages, full Sun System (approximately), powerful guardians (Space Station,... ) will apear only in Mod Maps, standard maps won't be touched anymore, I'll upload this one.

And will reply questiones.

Sincerely yours!

Yeah, I'm glad

Well, mod doesn't has any adjustments of pirates, besides of their base (in 2.1 instead of frigates, they'll use appropriate droids, much weaker then frigates), as concerning raid capacity, it's the same as diplomacy 1.0 version (in Stars 2.1 it'll be insignificantly lesser). In my practice, basically pirates made appreciable damage to star base, but couldn,t destroy it, sometimes they also could kill the majority of planet population. Thus I'm trying to find such value of pirate raids, that were irritating, but couldn't totaly break defence, so player should always monitor raid inclination, and in multiplayer games it becomes primary investment of credit surplus   for some period... i don't want to loose such fun.

Numbers are (Gameplay file (in 2.1)), as I understand:

Fleet supply size:

        minSupply 1
        maxSupply 300
        strengthPerOwnedPlanet .10
        strengthPerCargoShip .0025
        strengthPerBounty .00004

Frigate composition:

        pirateRaidComposition:0
            requiredShipCount 0
            randomShipCount 5
            randomShip
                type "FrigatePirateScout"
                weight 4
            randomShip
                type "FrigatePirateMedium"
                weight 2
            randomShip
                type "FrigatePirateHeavy"
                weight 1
            randomShip
                type "FrigatePirateAntiFighter"
                weight 3
            randomShip
                type "FrigatePirateSiege"
                weight 2
        pirateRaidComposition:1
            requiredShipCount 0
            randomShipCount 5
            randomShip
                type "FrigatePirateScout"
                weight 2
            randomShip
                type "FrigatePirateMedium"
                weight 4
            randomShip
                type "FrigatePirateHeavy"
                weight 2
            randomShip
                type "FrigatePirateAntiFighter"
                weight 3
            randomShip
                type "FrigatePirateSiege"
                weight 2
        pirateRaidComposition:2
            requiredShipCount 0
            randomShipCount 5
            randomShip
                type "FrigatePirateScout"
                weight 4
            randomShip
                type "FrigatePirateMedium"
                weight 3
            randomShip
                type "FrigatePirateHeavy"
                weight 3
            randomShip
                type "FrigatePirateAntiFighter"
                weight 3
            randomShip
                type "FrigatePirateSiege"
                weight 3
        pirateRaidComposition:3
            requiredShipCount 0
            randomShipCount 5
            randomShip
                type "FrigatePirateScout"
                weight 6
            randomShip
                type "FrigatePirateMedium"
                weight 5
            randomShip
                type "FrigatePirateHeavy"
                weight 4
            randomShip
                type "FrigatePirateAntiFighter"
                weight 5
            randomShip
                type "FrigatePirateSiege"
                weight 6                
        pirateRaidComposition:4
            requiredShipCount 0
            randomShipCount 5
            randomShip
                type "FrigatePirateScout"
                weight 12
            randomShip
                type "FrigatePirateMedium"
                weight 8
            randomShip
                type "FrigatePirateHeavy"
                weight 8
            randomShip
                type "FrigatePirateAntiFighter"
                weight 10
            randomShip
                type "FrigatePirateSiege"
                weight 6

What will you recomend  ?

Thaks for detecting. In 2.1 droids will have squad sounds. (S_Frigate_PhaDeployed_#  - are Remnants droid's files titles, where you may just now change sounds, previously converting them to TXT format, using "harpo sins utilities" exempli gratia)