Minor's spawn ship should belong to them not the Pirate

Agreed. 

Agree too

Damn right! It annoys the Hell out of me when I keep a minor faction at 100 reputation nearby to leech resources only to have to deal with hostile pirates every other turn as a result, and turning pirates off just seems like a cop-out :P

Pirates themselves should be re-worked.

Let the ships that spawn belong to the minor faction, pirates should spawn in low happiness or un-colonized places and primarily go after trade routes.

What if The Minor factions instead use mercinaries but when they become allied with a major civ they can no longer disassociate their actions and create ships under their own name that can be assimilated to your forces. This might put a bit more competition for minor factions and allow players to create fleets across the map. Using these faction owned ships for prolong periods of time will ruin relations.

Pirates do a good job of preventing the player from sending out unescorted colonist ships; why not run with that idea? Perhaps pirates operating far from civilization could be replaced with Tentacled Horrors- after all, sci-fi is filled with tales of horrible alien monsters lurking beyond the stars, waiting to devour the unwary... 

This was the first thing in the game where I had to sit back and say "well that's not right."  Pirates should just be spawned at random spots, or maybe uninhabited systems (like those bonus systems).  If you build a relationship with a Minor, it makes no sense they spawn those ships that go attack you.  Evidenced by the fact that once you similate them, the pirates go away.

The only reason I assimilate minor civs is to get rid of the pirates.  Bad gameplay.

Agreed, I like the idea of keeping pirates only spawning from mutany in unhappy planets or from uninhabited planets at a random. This actually makes exploring later into the game dangerous and makes you wanna defend your ships for colonization. They would also serve as better speed bumps that way, blocking systems for moving forces or trade routes. Make them into true pirates, as it's a good mechanic, it's just wrong that they always and only appear from minor civilizations.

Hasn't this been implemented already?

JaquierKhader wrote:

Hasn't this been implemented already?

Yes. The current Statecraft patch implemented it.

Thank you, Dagart for the annoucement, the team, and everyone for making it happen.