Seriously guys? 
You've effectively reduced pirate resources by 1/4  to 1/5 of what they were. 

Who ever is pulling the strings on this stuff, you seriously suck ******** ****** ****** many many swear words and would be willing to bet it's for personal gain in game. Trolls

If you want to change the game style and get more combats, I have no problem with the pirat spread rate.
But of course you should reduce all research and building cost minimum 50 %.
BUT MOST    I M P O R T A N T
I would attack much more user, If I could afford the vespene.
We can not attack more with that high fuel usage: !
 
It is just not possible.
Same with pirats to far away.


 
 
 

Yes when they pull stuff like this after spending HC to play a certain way only to have them change it without warning.... seriously makes me want to call fraud and just have 100% refund + if enough people did that payment methods would get pulled from their page.

Is that fair to the devs? no, but neither are their actions fair to their community who keeps them getting paid.

more pirates is more hours playing more hours playing is more vespene needed and also more hc so admins will get more money good for them and good for us 

zipo, 

They seemed to have failed economics.

this game should leave Vasja or we

Can an explanation please be given for the reduced pirate spawn rate, as this change has not been customer driven, I have heard not seen complaints of too many pirates on the forum, this change has been introduced for some other reason. Perhaps an explanation would enlighten us ?  

It is just a bad dream. Tomorrow you wake up and all is fine again :D

stein, hope that it was true man stein but sadly man it is the reality we have to face stein

OMG!! Pirate fleet switched on me in middle of flight to an attack...nearly three times the size of what Galaxy view showed when I sent my fleet to attack! Almost Triple! And then it was not even the same owner of the fleet before it...Lame! This led wasting of over a dozen battleships...what the heck is with this pirate spawn cylce? My fleet I sent was met with a fleet of 766 points instead of 281!! I sent a fleet expecting a battle won, only to be handed a slaughter of my fleet.