Hyperactive pirates-help please

**D.B. Cooper** · May 30, 2009, 02:25 PM

Pirates are really a nuisance in IN. In vanilla they came and they went, but now every month a new band of pirates pops up blockading my colonies. I have two navies going all over the place but literally every time I defeat one a new fleet appears somewhere else on the other side of the Atlantic. It's so annoying and it's killing my income.

What should I do? Just make more navies? I'm barely breaking even right about now in the game.

edit: if it matters, I am Portugal, with some colonies in Brazil and all the Atlantic islands.

**Ishoss** · May 30, 2009, 03:22 PM

You build Galleys and make them patrol your waters. After a galley has patrolled one province pirates won't appear for 24 days (iirc). You can set them to auto-patrol.

**D.B. Cooper** · May 30, 2009, 03:46 PM

Would you say I should have one or two large fleets or many tinier fleets?

**Gwyn ap Nud** · May 30, 2009, 04:18 PM

Many tinier fleets of 1 galley, maybe 2, just for the patrols, and larger fleets just in case something does pop up.

**D.B. Cooper** · May 30, 2009, 04:30 PM

I see, okay then thanks.

**Cougar109** · May 30, 2009, 05:03 PM

Just stick a boat on every body of water that has a port of yours on it and they'll never spawn at all, problem solved. Just be careful if you goto war with a naval power as those ships won't last all that long.

**Musthavename** · June 02, 2009, 10:12 AM

I just disabled them. Way I see it, considering tariff efficiency is related to the number of big/small ships, that effectivly simulates piracy anyway (i.e. the smaller your navy is, the more of your trade gets raided by pirates, and if you have a big enough navy the pirates would target someone else), pirates were just a redundant micromanagement annoyance.

If you want to avoid disabling it though, patrolling galleys are your best bet. It's just hugely annoying if say, you own Mexico, and pirates appear in the Pacific...

**D.B. Cooper** · June 07, 2009, 03:36 PM

Originally Posted by Musthavename

If you want to avoid disabling it though, patrolling galleys are your best bet. It's just hugely annoying if say, you own Mexico, and pirates appear in the Pacific...

That's exactly what happened after I overran the Zapotec/Aztecs/Mayans, a bunch of pirates spawned in the Pacific and I just shook my head in frustration.

**Spart** · June 09, 2009, 04:30 AM

The pirate feature still "broken"? Haven't tried the most recent versions myself. Someone might get used to the massive annoyance of micromanaging patrols in all your coasts, upgrading them and managing those patrols in times of war, but the AI simply can't handle these pirates, leaving them with zero tariff income..

Anyway, to disable those

s just go to history\countries folder , locate the PIR - Pirates file and change tech group to new_world.