New faction : pirates MUST SEE

Does the attack and keep idea work something like this (?):

Oh boy, I used one of my capturing ships, and got me a herc!
Now, I can clone the herc and build some more!
Aw crud, some guy borrelly spammed me, killing all the hercs.
Now I can`t build anymore hercs, but if I capture some more, I can build them again!

Is that it?

On another note, why don`t we just rename this race Dark Marauders and make it available to those who did a uw (as it was originally intended)?

Perhps these priate should not be able to take planets . The only way they survive is with their special "Raid" attack which takes 1-5% of all credits and minerals from the defending empire on a sucessfull attack. Being they have no income -99% on all modifiers they start out with 5 million credits enough to buy 3 small fighter clss ships. Being the race is very unorganized and namadic in nature ever server refresh they lose 50% of credits and stocks; therefore, they must actively raid/play to survive

All ships require few or no minerals and upkeep is 4:1
Being they are raiders they will have all high range ships
atleast 3 over 9 range and 1 that has a higher range than the p thor.

special ability raid attack - gain 3-10% of all credits and resources after a successfull attack

artifact nullifyer- Decreases the sucess rate of artifacts used on a Pirate empire by 85%


Thought i help you out mate. you finish the ship mods and we have ourselves a race :)

Nah, it cannot go trough.. cut the crab

Trivia Question:

How big is the probability, that a new race is implemented at all, and that it is balanced and bug-free, under the side-constraint, that the leading programmer does not even care to fix known problems of existing races?

What is your bit?

how about the hunters
made by an unknow race to hunt down and destroy the gaurdians and avenge their masters who the collective killed
advantages and disadvantages

cant reward population

imune to collective and viral capture ship ability

ships take lots of reaserch

high mineral production

ships have high upkeep

maximum colenys 12

cant produce cgs

only playable by detonating a UW

their should be a race that has the best offensive ships in the game but cant hold more them ten craby colonies, oh wait thats a guardian, oh wait im already one
muwahahahahahaaaaaahhaaaahahah

sounds like a marauder except way harder. I say Marauder is the pirates of this game. plus Pirates in a space game sounds like that movie called treasure planet

i like the idea of new races but it wont happen to many complain about the races being unbalenced