You can collide an invincible planet, have been able to for years.

The "invincible ferrengal" actually only applies to internal Ferrengi. I should clarify that in the setting since that's ambiguous.

Gold alien homeworlds can never be destroyed by CBY (at least that's the intended behavior).

There is no test of invincibility for collisions. Gold alien homeworlds are not counted toward planets to determine if a collision occurs, and they are excluded from the list of planets that can be destroyed if a collision occurs. So if Gold alien planets are being destroyed in collisions, that's a bug. And if it is a bug, the question is, should it become standard behavior or should it be fixed?

only IF the NON Gold alien planets form an overload by themselves.
MAxplanet = 3
4 regular planet + 2 gold alien planets
Game sees the 4 and processes the overload based on 4 planets
Collisions are processed using ALL planets in sector.

That would be consistent with my observations as well.

Just a question. So your in a game that has 9 alien planets and you cap them all you would allow all 9 to be in the sector with no risk of being collided? Even though the game setup says 3? I don't think that sounds right but whatever is decided is fine, game settings are there and set for a reason. You place 9 in a sector you assume the risk of a collision. 2 cents

Just a question. So your in a game that has 9 alien planets and you cap them all you would allow all 9 to be in the sector with no risk of being collided? Even though the game setup says 3? I don't think that sounds right but whatever is decided is fine, game settings are there and set for a reason. You place 9 in a sector you assume the risk of a collision. 2 cents

Couple things...

1. Yes if you accidentally overload your own sector you
deserve what you get. In my case it was a new player
that was moving cols around and forgot to move stuff
back, combined with my inattention to a finished game,
that lead to my particular outcome. Que sara.

2. I'm 99% sure I've also collided an enemy ferg too,
using the old photon in, pop planets, xport out method.
It's remarkably easy to do. You don't need 9 alien planets
to do this. I don't think I've ever been in a game with 9
alien planets before.

3. I don't have a problem with ferg being treated as a
planet for collisions. It is, after all, a planet... so why
should it be immune to collisions? I think for the AI's
sake, while the planet is still owned by aliens, it prolly
shouldn't collide. But once owned by a player, fair game.

Yea I can agree with those, Alien Retribution has either 7 or 9 I forget But I had to use a number and 9 was just random choice.