I have read that suggestion before roguelazer, and its interesting. I haven't heard John's thoughts on it, though, and he's the one that makes design decisions:)

On the subject of the Hive invading populated areas, it is supposed to be rather conservative. If any of its advances are rebuffed, it simply retreats. It has no thought of vengeance, because it has no thoughts. Perhaps at some point we will add rules to deal with a situation in which it has expanded into all easily occupied territory, and starts getting more aggressive, but I hope we'll make it fun and desirable enough to keep it in check that such a situation would be very rare.

yea i guess you have a point

Me, I'm all for once or twice a month the Hive as a whole, goes though some growth phase and there are extra bots all trying to find new asteroid fields to inhabit, in which the whole of the server would have to stop everything and defend station zones and border systems and wormholes to make sure they did not take over known space, as a sort of server event. Not some something that a guide would start or that everyone is expecting, but at a random time and would call for everyone to work to gether, serco, itani, and UIT alike, and you pirates too. That would be fun!!!