I agree with the cyat food, the main problem with the idea is that pirates NEED ordinary phase lanes to be able to raid, they can not raid through wormholes.

harpo

you could give the pirate base one of those vasari phase tunnelers with the other one being at the star.

read my last post.

PIRATES NEED ordinary phase lanes to raid.

they can NOT raid through wormholes OR phasegates.

if you do not accept my advice, make a mod with the ideas others are suggesting and test them.

I had tried some of these ideas, but being a beginner modder could not get any to work.

harpo

same here, I tried many a trick to make the pirates unapproachable

so says the Pirate Lord of DS

nope a planet is either colonizable or not

get a minidump when making a noncolonizable planet colonized

Perhaps making a 'one-way' phase lane would solve the problem?  Have the base attached to a planet and give that planet a super version of the phase jump inhibitor.  Something like 10000%  

I'm not sure what that would do to pirates returning from a raid, but they don't -have- to return, do they?

Also, keep whatever they are attached to out of the way from the rest of the map somehow, so it doesn't interfere with the gameplay too much.   

Can you give space junk abilities?  If so, make a custom space junk called Pirate Trap or something like that. 

Well, you could always make the planet JUST before the pirates be like a black hole in Distant Stars, and then give the pirates the tech to resist the black holes... that would only work if you used the editor to place planets EXACTLY where you want them though... The other option is to make the Pirate Homeworld have the same ability (meaning anything that jumps in will be instantly destroyed)

CRAP.  My idea would stop the pirates from leaving their trap, unless you made them all immune, like the scout research. 

Put a modified phase inhibitor near the pirate side of the well?  Hmm, my idea isn't as great as I though it was. :C

Added a little more thought.  Give the pirates a phase jump inhibitor, that way it wont do anything to them, set it fr super high % and make it invulnerable. Then put it in the PIRATE DEATH TRAP spot, just before their base.