@tomprime that is the beauty the privateers and crystal need to steal big ships to take strong planets and bases tell me how many pirate ships it takes to beat a max starbase? So they can’t just clog the whole ship building queue up. Plus the pirates don’t have a web field time out so they would need to tow the ships around.
The last major thing your forgetting on the PLS is privateers need packs of ships, the clogging of the queue will make up for them not to be able to make lots of cheap ships...hence @martinr what privateer gives a rats ass if they have all t10 meteors. Give me 5 instead.