What can I expect from saving the yaki?

[grapedog]

Yaki order a lot of ships from my shipyards.

[raUlo]

Saving the Yaki got my a galaxy with a lot of Yaki pirates, and none of which bother me. So i am happy with it. It creates business opportunities.

Their shipyard was destroyed by the time I had gotten to them, but i managed to nab a station build mission from them, so i built them a decently defensible wharf on top of the station they requested.

As long as they keep pirating other races, and leave my ships alone, im fine with that.

So the game is either bugged, or you are the luckiest man alive. How on Earth did you get a station building mission from the Yaki? I'm getting nothing from the Pirate Base and I've walked the entire station (literally "walked") numerous times trying to find NPCs offering missions ... And the only thing I've got were Satellite placement missions, data leak repairs or scanning a terran station ... And also there's always only 1 single NPC offering missions, but most of the time there's none

[grapedog]

Saving the Yaki got my a galaxy with a lot of Yaki pirates, and none of which bother me. So i am happy with it. It creates business opportunities.

Their shipyard was destroyed by the time I had gotten to them, but i managed to nab a station build mission from them, so i built them a decently defensible wharf on top of the station they requested.

As long as they keep pirating other races, and leave my ships alone, im fine with that.

So the game is either bugged, or you are the luckiest man alive. How on Earth did you get a station building mission from the Yaki? I'm getting nothing from the Pirate Base and I've walked the entire station (literally "walked") numerous times trying to find NPCs offering missions ... And the only thing I've got were Satellite placement missions, data leak repairs or scanning a terran station ... And also there's always only 1 single NPC offering missions, but most of the time there's none

My station build mission from them was just one of those random fly-by yellow icon missions. Saw it and snagged it.

[dtpsprt]

So to update the op, I saved them and immediately claimed tharkas because I wanted to stop ZYA from taking it, which is what I assumed was going to happen. Very quickly ANT started building a station in savage spur II (they already owned I). Once that flipped they immediately started building in matrix. I quickly took matrix too because im not sure what I want to do with them. Perhaps i'll get rid of my stations and let ANT take all of matrix and tharkas to strengthen them for the coming war with the terrans... but i dont want to spread them too thin, so not sure. Are ANT even at war with ZYA?
As for the yaki... I havent had a single mission pop up for them, no station building missions, nothing. They didnt attempt to take savage spur II when i saved them either which I had hoped they would do... couldnt they build an admin module at least? :/ They started trading with ant and arg about an hour after I saved them, and have a couple of ships flying around and have the odd captured ship go to their station, but seem very much stagnant.

ANT are not at war with ZYA. If you remember the ZYA gamestart (Spur of the Patriarch) gave -21 for ARG and -15 for ANT, And yes, the Yaki, being the Pirates that they are, do not claim sectors. I suppose even if you get a build mission from them (very rare) and put an Admin Centre "on top" still they will not claim the sector (built a full Defence Station for SCA in a previous game but they did not take Silent Witness XII).

To top this, they are just the "marauding" type of pirates (like FAF) so they do not build almost anything (unlike SCA)

[grapedog]

Yes, the yaki cannot claim a sector. I gave em a wharf, destroyed 4 other defemse stations in that sector, and it went neutral.

[Maebius]

Yaki order a lot of ships from my shipyards.

Do they buy anything other than Kuorakamis and Moreyas?

[grapedog]

Yaki order a lot of ships from my shipyards.

Do they buy anything other than Kuorakamis and Moreyas?

Nope, buy they buy a lot of em.

Though that shipyard is in 2Grand... and it is probably the most heavily traveled sector in that save. The yaki don't last very long. More money for me i guess since they so often have to replace losses.