Due to the way multiplayer RTS games are designed these days, attempting to create units or extra resources will just desync the game and cause the hacker to disconnect.  A "map-hack" to reveal the entire galaxy would certainly be possible, and I'm sure there are ways to intentionally crash the game, but that's about all that a hacker could achieve.

Its only cheating because the vast majority of the community considers it distasteful. That is a far cry from spawning additional units or something.

Very low. I'll agree to that.

We should be thankful that ya can't play ICO wit the dev.exe, right?

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You can't play ICO with the dev.exe, right?

Right?!

No you can't play with the dev.exe against other players using the normal exe.

Most online games created by experienced players have pirates disabled. Seems all the new players haven't quite gotten that memo yet. Usually its your neighbors you have to worry about rushing you.

Ah, but your pirate cousins are always misbehaving Ryat. When you're putting all your effort on preventing an enemy Sova or Starbase on your homeworld, the last thing people need is to divert their attention with a pirate raid. They're nice for roleplaying, but that's about it.

i think pirates just need to wait longer for their first raid, i mean had the raid gone on someone else i could have been more capable of defeating them. Im just suprised that the enemy didnt take advantage of them

Well, i have made a special random very huge multistar map who use your mod... 10 solar system, 10 player ( one in each system ), 2 pirates base by system ( usualy the only way for reach the system sun )... have take me, 5 hours for destroy the pirates base in my system... none of the AI was able to clean the pirate base from their own system...

For single player, pirates add something to the challange... in multiplayer, they are a annoyance who make game longer to play...