Is it just me or rates has improved? I don't think points are back to what it was but at least today I see much more crap around.

With production being cut, pirates rates lowered and fact that much bigger fleet takes literally no losses in combat all newer players are now piñatas. In my humble opinion this is just another deliberate step to make people go on their own and avoid problem with shuting down game while people have paid premiums.

Please tell me what we are supposed to do below 1-2M points to boost economy? Building mines does not pay off in years with CRP+depletion, OPS are totally out of reach before gravity weapon and getting a moon, even if not destroyed straight away would cost few years of production on max planets. Lexx without Celestial shadow 10 is so slow that with such a sparse universe it barely makes more than planet production. Pirates were literraly the only way.

Ok, let me be perfectly clear. There are pirates around but almost nothing above 1k points. It used to be swarming with them and you could choose ones with currently less aggression. Now it's just garbage around not worth fuel cost.

The user on whose account the problem was detected:
kotek

Coordinates:
whole galaxy

Date or time of the incident (according to server time):
Around 2nd April

Description:
Since there is no information about in forum or webpage I decide to report as a bug. Amount of pirates spawned in the galaxy dropped significantly. There is barely anything wherever I look.

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