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Plentiful Pesky Pirates
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Type: Mod
Mod category: NPC, Other
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Apr 24, 2020 @ 9:11pm
Feb 5, 2022 @ 12:44pm
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Plentiful Pesky Pirates

Description
Normal Space Engineers only allows for the pirates (any NPC faction) to have 50k PCU available. This leads to slow / low / no spawns. Pirate PCU also doesn't respect game settings. So if you change your PCU to unlimited, the pirates are still stuck at 50k. Unfortunately, the only way to boost the pirates PCU limit is to edit the sandbox directly.

Enter this mod.

The only thing it does is boost the pirate PCU limit.

The rules are simple. If you have a PCU limit set, the Pirates will inherit 3x that limit. So, if you have your game set to 100k, the pirates will have 300k available. If you have your PCU set to unlimited, the pirates will get 1M PCU to play with.

**** NOTE ****
This may not work on servers, but should work perfectly fine in Single Player and in Multiplayer.

I didn't setup a DS to test myself. So, if someone can confirm if it works or not, that would be great :D


Credit to Meridius_IX for the name!

05 Feb 2022 Update:
Changed the logic so that if Player PCU = 0 or PCU is disabled, Pirates get 1M PCU available (3x player PCU otherwise).

36 Comments
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Thraxus  [author] Feb 6 @ 12:40pm 
Keen did add new settings in this case. PiratePCU is still necessary, but there is another setting I should probably add as well (I had to do this with EEM also). I'll push an update for it this week.
Arachnade Jan 29 @ 11:10pm 
Stuff like this usually does. It simply changes variables in the sandbox files that havent been altered in years.
Hometown Oct 31, 2024 @ 10:22am 
does this mod still work...
BlitzStream Oct 24, 2024 @ 7:23pm 
Does this mod apply to Unknown (UNKN) and Factorum?
Mepo12 Oct 17, 2024 @ 12:27pm 
Can u make a setting to change the limit to equal or limit it to 200k pcu cause not everyone will be able to go as high as what u have set
Willchill Jun 14, 2024 @ 8:40pm 
drones mm yes
mhwyoshi Jun 14, 2024 @ 8:16pm 
Does this work with the normal Space pirate drones included in the game?
Thraxus  [author] Nov 1, 2023 @ 11:58pm 
Still works fine, and yep, creative shouldn't affect anything.
ONSOMESHIT Nov 1, 2023 @ 10:29am 
HELLO! Is the mod still working? If I run creative mode, without mods, will it work?:LN2TheEye:
Thraxus  [author] Mar 10, 2023 @ 10:03pm 
Well, in reality, if you're not using a content mod such as MES or EEM, then there isn't a ton this mod can do for you. The vanilla game doesn't spawn random things on planets, and has a very strict set of spawn rules for space that really won't push the vanilla pirate pcu limits as is.

In general though, hopping in my Discord is the best way to diagnose things (https://discord.gg/PNtpMyw) . Steam comments are pretty trash for things like this.