Where do all the pirates with PSG's and IC's hang out?

[SunFire]

Where can i find some?....i saw 1 or 2 pirates with psgs but im prety sure it was random where i found them, and ive only ever seen a baracuda with ions...

[Acidic]

I have never seen a pirate vessel with a PSG or Ion Disruptor before in all my travels.

[sylocke73]

when they spawn i believe there is a random chance of their weapon and cargo loadout as well as ship upgrades camping a pirate base and repeatedly taking out the spawned ships I have run in to a few of these mean versions of pirate.

i would say ion and psg spawning pirates is on the rare side of the random generator

[wolf359]

After killing 700 pirates and capturing 150 or so i did yesturday capture my first with a ion laser. I trasfered it to my centurian to sell in a equipment dock later on.
I think that there weapons are random. i have done nearly all my killing in preist pity and only one or two have had any decent weapons

[sylocke73]

Im surprised you went for the capture I usually toy with pirates till they eject but soon as I see they are sporting psg's or ion's I give them the full brunt of my heavy weapons killing them fast before i end up with a heavy hull repair bill far outweighing the "prize" of a psg or ion.

[3iff]

I recently had a battle with 2 pirate ships having ion disruptors. I wondered what the blue beam was they were using...and had the message about 'shields critical'. It scared the **** out of me!

In an earlier game, I bumped into a slow pirate who had a PSG so I killed him quickly...just before he killed me.

Fortunately most don't have these nasty weapons, but some do. I now make sure I do a freight scan on them before attacking.

[LV]

If it was up to me every pirate ship would have max loadouts

[3iff]

I like the variation. A ship I came across had 6Mw of shields (1+5) instead of 10 (5+5).

I've recently captured one with a docking computer and another had a jumpdrive...although perhaps most ships have one but they don't survive my attempts to make them surrender.

Perhaps if the loadouts depended on the difficulty...?

[pjknibbs]

I've encountered maybe three or four PSG or IC equipped pirates, and my kill totals for them are well into the hundreds--not to mention the dozens I've captured! I did once SEE a Bayamon with four ICs attacking a ship, but that was in the early game when I didn't have a ship capable of taking on a Mandalay, much less a fully loaded Bayamon.

[cuco]

I encountered my first Pirate with PSG's in Home of Light, early in the game. I only had a Nova and never before had seen a PSG in action.

It almost cost my life and plenty of credits to repair my hull. After that, I bought a freight scanner and made a habit of scan-before-capturing.

Now that I have the money, I bought a Paranid Nemesis and really enjoy blasting 'em away with my GAMMA PSG.

[Eater1]

I doubt it depends on the difficulty - playing on Easy (yes, I confess...), I've encountered about 10 pirates with PSG's (once had three in one sector at once) and 2 with ions (one was a Beyamon with 4 of em), and I've killed about 80 and captured 50 something.

Eater.

[KiwiNZ]

1 Pirate Ship and 1 Bayamon so far, I think

[Logan321]

I got into a dogfight with pirates where two Novas joined, one with 2 ion cannons and the other with PSGs... I was like WHAT THE HELL!! I'm getting smoked by the Argies. Needless to say I killed them both quick... then reloaded.

[ClaumaniC]

Never seen a pirate with psg or ic.But captured ---10+++ and destroyed much more with THE TELADI BUZZARD!!!My favorite pray is the PIRATE SHIP,but i like Baya to