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DeI 1.3 Reduced pirates

Reduces the DeI pirate popups to the lowest likelihood. When they happen, their navies are half the size. Overall that makes them weak enough to not be a nuisance, but they are not turned off entirely. I don't mean to deride the work the DeI team did with this, but I could just never enjoy this feature. The pirates serve no positive gameplay purpose, and they psych out mechanics like diplomacy (carthage suddenly loves me for all those "common enemies" we have) or party traits that count how many factions you're at war with.
Some are turned off and some happen later.

I switched to the no pirates version because there were still too many of these popups for my taste. I'm not sure I'm doing this right.

This uses core files and may not be compatible much beyond DeI 1.3. I may not be around to update this and might take it down then. It should still work, but pirate popups will use the values from 1.3.
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