ICS in AoW 3 and ways to avoid it in planetfall

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First of all I Wanted to say hello to everyone on the forum and the developers as this is my first post !

Hi, hope you'll have fun here!

Now that the introductions are done. I just have one question, will the ICS(insane City Spam) strategy will be discouraged in the planetfall in some way ? As in the AoW 3 there were no penalties for spamming cities and it turned out to be one of the most abused strategies both in single and multiplayer.

It's very much on our radar.

You can very easily put the city spam option to bed

I truly hated that Civ 5 happiness mechanic.

Agreed. Its very easy to fix.
Question is if the fix is fun and fits the game.​

The sectors will have huge influence for this

That's the big take-away here.
Given we have sectors now, there's some tricks we can pull to prevent ICS without doing so explicitly - a city cap - or via some gamified system - like Civ 5 happiness. That would be our preferred method. We'll still need to see if our tricks will work out though.