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After 3 or 4 hours I find the Pirates have been killed off - so they can't be used.
What is doing this? Power of the Advent ? ?
I miss the seeker vessels autoseeking mines to clear them.
Can Stardock reactivate autoseeking or is there something I am missing about setting seekers to auto find mines?
probably novaliths
They do for me.
Pirates could be losing their base(s) to culture--if they lose all bases, they stop spawning raids.
If you play against AI (and if it's a 3-4 hour game, that sounds likely) typically the AI will novalith the pirate base(s) first. Also, they might 'decide' the pirate base is a valuable strategic position and throw their entire fleet at it. (I've seen similar behavior targeting non-colonizable gravity wells with resource asteroids.)
You might want to count your blessings anyway: if the colonization stage is over and the game is still going, most games get deadlocked with heavily defended chokepoints, so a pirate raid can actually be quite helpful to the target. Pirate ships--which have no support abilities or strikecraft--are easy kills if they hit a fortified world, giving the target cheap cap ship or titan experience. (AI will also have salvage researched for easy resources, and some factions can steal ships.)
Actually pirates and militia do not lose allegiance and cannot be killed by culture.
This is almost certainly what happens.
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