Hive Queens would naturally have a strong self-preservation instinct, right? Howabout, when you attack a Hive Queen, EVERY Guardian, Assault, and Overseer in the system comes to its aid. That way, a mining group could have one person dedicated to distracting the Hive while the rest slip into bot-ridden space and mine a quick 150 Apicene.
-:sigma.SB

That seems to be a bit too exploitable, but I wouldnt mind seeing bigger swarms with the queens, the current ones you can take down by yourself if you are careful, and in my opinion, fighting a hive queen should just not be possible alone.

I think when they first introduced the hive queens there was a bug where around 4000 bots ended up in one sector. Guess how playable it was?

If all the bots go to the queen, whichever poor bastard is in the queen sector gets lagged out and swarmed. Intereseting idea but the game isn't really designed to handle *huge* swarms like that.

Well, then, incorporate flock-based client-shared AI and state checksum confirmation, and do some billboard optimizations for video card lag... Would not be easy to do, but it would be awesome. (/me considered these optimizations for TI2, you need them when you have 3000+ fighters launched at once in a sector)
-:sigma.SB