Pirate clans

[DUNGEON MASTER]

Instead of regular pirates in multiplayer i get spammed by pirate clans. And they behave as if they were regular empires but are always hostile. I always have piracy risk 0% and then, randomly, it jumps to 100%, even if i have secure borders and dont expand. Is it supposed to be like this? :D

[Arcos]

That's not real Pirats. They can be talked with, and payed to atack your enemies. Marouder Empires was the name i think. You can turn them to 0 at the gamesttings before starting. This way you wont have to deal with them, and the Event Great Kahn can't happen midgame.

[DUNGEON MASTER]

Thats the point. The pirates i reffer to are not marauders. They are called "Pirate clan". Or do you mean they spawn because of existing marauder empires?

[Meewec]

the only thing i can think of is you're talking about marauders. unless you've got a mod that adds in something

[wolkenwand]

It might be a regular empire with "assembly of clan" government type? They have some chance to get ai personality "democratic crusader" which is always hostile to authoritarian empire.