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[Brend]

I want to propose an update to the Piracy Patrol rules. Changes have been marked in green and red.

Piracy Patrol

Available in all levels of activity

Piracy patrol keeps the pirates at bay by flexing your military muscle.

• Reduces Piracy in the sector that the fleet is in and all the zones next to it any or all sectors next to it (the selection of neighbouring zones must be declared in the turn report)
• Keeps the patrolled sectors free of Piracy for the next turn
• The upkeep of the fleet is increased by +150 per while executing the operation

This means that it is possible to do a piracy patrol without sending your patrols into every neighbouring zone. This gives players some flexibility as to where they place their military fleets. For example, in the current piracy patrol discussion, the fact that the Praetorian Empire will send ships into sovereign territory is cited as a possible issue. However, due to the workings of the Piracy Patrol action, they have already been doing so for the past turns (see the image).

The solution is to give a little more control to the player in that they can limit the sectors that are scanned. This won't make scanning any cheaper, but it does make it easier to deploy.

[Chriz]

Please call it sectors, not zones. This is very confusing.

[Brend]

Arf, I fail! You are correct! Fixing it immediately (it was wrong on the wiki as well -- Remco put it there like that).

[Brend]

If there's no objections, I will update the rules in the weekend of 2-3 august.