The colonization period can be very frustrating when one of the WP in your home system is a heavy damager. It means that your empire is basically cut in two, with those few surviving colonists on the other side cut off from any dependable assistance from the homeworld.
Originally posted by Cyrien: Hrmm... another feature for SEV! I can see it now... the only game that allows you to make mods of mods! Maybe we should add in a third tier! Mods of mods of mods! WOO!
Check out Morrowind. Instead of mods, it uses "plugins", which are mods, but you can use as many at a time as you like. As long as they don't try to modify the exact same data (such as 2 plugins altering the longsword), it works out great.