Thoughts on this ?

LOL, well i say if people slay slavery is unfair, so lets get rid of slavery and add the max colony system taht has been proposed . Or we can forget about this and ask stepehn lol

terrans and aminers would be able to defend themselves against each other while hoarding easier. kill your enemies before they can hit you. means you put them out of the game, enslaving them so they can`t hit you. just seems slightly unfair that a hoarding viral wouldn`t be able to have the same chances of defending himself by enslaving, so on so forth. you`d get people crying out that because they`re guardian they`re not able to have the same chances of playing fair, blah blah blah. so on so forth.

does make sense that - if you can`t get planets from the attack (enslave) - that max colonies shouldn`t be an issue. I agree 100% and i don`t normally do that with anything.

Joker cant u attack without wining anything? for the fun of it, come on pple lol

I guess there is a reason why it is called Max =p... Over riding that limitation probable makes the game more similar to UC =p where there isn`t a max amount of planets you can win

there is no need to change anything of this sort.. that is why you have Clusters.. time to stop plundering and time to start hoarding

while we are at it why not give the guards some more colony slots too lol, how you think we feel with 1/4 less slots roughly

would only let terrans and aminers to be able to attack each other with max borders. would be an issue say, aminer with 2 c3`s , max borders can sit there and enslave any aminer/terran that tries to take it out. otherwise wouldn`t affect maru/guard/virals.

Terrans have so many colonies there should be no problem plundering....

would increase the number of enslavers, that`s for certain. It would also make it harder for attackers of UWs, conceivably. A defender, who already has borders, instead enslaves you, then punishes you the maximum amount, after which he frees you, then does it again when you continue to try to fight. All this while, having enough borders so that if he gets hit in return, he can immediately continue fighting, whereas if he had to plunder three planets to be able to attack, if you hit him back, and take colonies, he may need to stop and explore new borders if he doesn`t have any more, or risk losing his precious planets.

I`m not sure how big an effect that would have, but at the very least, it would save attackers up to 15 turns, and make it more of a pain for those trying to build up.

I don`t know, I feel that not being able to do any sort of attack when over max colonies is a part of the game and how it should stay.