- The "minimum 3 colonies required" condition for spawning pirates is removed. This is done to prevent intentionally avoiding pirates by sticking to just 2 colonies.

- The root cause behind incorrect pirate fleet power calculation for vanilla events has been identified and fixed for good this time.

A couple bugfixes related to vanilla issues this time:

- Fixed an error in fleet creation logic for certain vanilla pirate-spawning events. Previously, they would spawn increasing numbers of fleets (scaling with years passed) and merge them into one instead of spawning just a single fleet. This often resulted in unfairly strong pirate fleets being summoned.

- Apparently, mining stations sometimes do not have an owner empire assigned to them. Several mod condition checks are adjusted to prevent errors in such cases.

- The pirate countries are no longer restricted from spawning inside empires with high naval coverage as the previous hotfix addressed the issue of their frequency.
- The empires raided by pirates now gain birth_of_piracy and pirate_encountered internal flags (same as when they spawn offshoot pirate) for compatibility with vanilla events.

- Hotfix: Fixed incorrect pirate spawn chance modifiers from naval coverage

- The formula for calculating pirate power-up intervals is improved further.