Rezca
The Greatest Jaggi
IIRC Piracy is intended to be a age of sail thing but get extended to more modern Ships for realism purpose (there are some WW2 examples). With this, digital and future age tech (scanning, registration, satellites etc) applying hide nationality like piracy to a modern warship would be silly.
But I agree that it would be appropriate on at least the early subs.
I actually do hope to loose the piracy promotion when upgrading a pirate ship to the no-pirate ships age level.
I 'unno, there seems to be plenty of cases of piracy in space-age fiction like Mass Effect, Halo, etc so I wouldn't rule that out entirely...
The 'Hidden Nationality' thing just means they can't be traced back to the people who hired them. For all intents and purposes, they're separate factions - insurrectionists, actual pirates, whatever - that either own or stole the hardware they're using and are utilizing it against others. Sure you scan or register the people on board, but that's just confirming what you already know: They're hostile to you
Sails or fusion engines, there's gonna be someone out there that doesn't answer to your (or any) government and is hostile to anyone who does, or are just mercenaries selling their services to whoever pays the most. So I don't see the point in having them simply phase out magically just because you're not using a sailing boat anymore. If the IDs and scanning and etc is going to be the reason for Hidden Nationality ships disappearing, then the Loyalty promotion for Spies should obsolete as well. (At 'Thought Scanning' maybe?)
On a different topic, can anyone confirm if removing a religion from a city - any city in the world - via the WorldBuilder makes that religion's Holy City disappear as well in standard BTS? Whenever I do so in AND, that particular religion's Holy City gets "demoted" and is no longer a HC. Like Judaism - My second city was the Holy City, and I used the WB to plant it in two of Charlemagne's cities, and as a quick test removed Judaism from the second city of his I put it in. Right as I did so, the Holy City icon in my city vanished.
In this scenario, it's not too hard to just put it back - but there's been times on larger maps with more cities, late in the game, where I forget or simply never knew what city that religion's HC originally landed in, and putting it back in its proper place after the WB nuked it isn't possible.
So, kind of asking if this was something that AND somehow introduced, or if it was a problem with the WB since BTS days I just never noticed?