That's awesome news!  The fact that they want to revamp pirates is particularly great news, since I was always disappointed with the Diplomacy changes, and it also means they'll probably go a little more in-depth into some of the other issues as well.

Perhaps we should start a topic collecting much of the discussion that's occurred over the past several months?

We actually discussed this back in July and tested our ideas in a mod.  I think we actually found the sweet spot with this change:

---Duration changed from 120s to 60s
---Cooldown changed from 35s to 24s
---Antimatter cost changed from 50 to 45/50/55

By reducing the duration, large swarms can't build up anymore, and by compensating with a decreased cooldown the ability remains viable.

yes there is that issue, but if you hurry and finish now, it will mean less work later

w00t!

good to know that they are still there.  Figures Elemental took all their time away from space....