It would be weird for some civilization to have completely different gameplay mechanics, especially at this early stage of the game. Still they have a lot of uniqueness, like inability to build or buy settlers is already really big.
Mongolia?
Mongolia has even less scale of uniqueness, because they could still produce settlers. Both Mongolia and PR have unique methods to progress one of the LP, so in that part they are equal.
Mongolia has a unique LP. What is the unique LP for Republic of Pirates?
I guess you could always found a religion and name it "Pirates Life" and try to spread that to other civs.
Enemy of All Nations
They have the Raiding Party action on the Buccaneer and that aspect of the game might be changing in general according to the October update:
I would argue Port Royal, at least for most of the Caribbean it was the largest and most prosperous. Of course, it was destroyed in an earthquake in 1692, which was before the official "Pirate Republic" happened, which maybe that's the reason why?
That's not a unique path. That's just a bonus to compete on an established path. Especially considering their wonder just produces treasure fleets, and you gain military points by settling on distant lands, I am not seeing unique gameplay comparable to what Mongolia has.
This is just a tool to create treasure. Pirates steal treasure.
It's actually stealing treasure, because you go to foreign settlement and generate this treasure fleet instead of them.
It doesn't indicate that it's a foreign settlement. And it's not stealing, because it doesn't seem to prevent a foreign settlement from generating treasure.
Mongolia doesn’t really have a “reworked” or “unique” path, though - just an additional source of the points. They can do the traditional path just fine, in fact it remains more efficient per settlement compared to their civ ability (assuming they invest into religion).
But this is what I mean -- they have a unique way to accrue military points which change your priorities. Instead of colonizing the new world to gain points, you focus on conquest.
You could use it on your own settlement and that's quite piraty behavior, but using on foreign is more effective, see below.
It's not stated well, but as I understand, it generates treasure fleet for you instead of the settlement owner, so treasure fleet generation counter is reset for the owner.
I'm only guessing here but I wonder if this part "this does not reset until another Treasure Convoy is available." in addition to the statement for treasure convoys generation changing means that a player has to choose when the convoy generates going forward. Maybe it goes up in value the longer you wait but in the period of having it available and it setting sail there is a chance for a Pirates player to snatch it?
