Scrapping iniitial ships

[Waterd]

I like the idea of playing with only Armed ships, which means scrapping initial ships. i like that because abusing AI fear to no weapon ships is horrible to me.
I just worry that it may reduce to drastically the winrate of players in impossible. I would like to know other people experience with this rule.
I wonder if maybe we can just scrap the initial two scouts, and make an exception for the initial colony ship

[Waterd]

I tried today my first game with scrapping ships with mshrans, and i went to win the game comfortably, using that initial cash to boost your main planet economy makes it so its not much of a hindrance.
But btw i did try the base limit and it didnt make a difference, once you get up the planetary shields, the AI doesnt build ships capable of penetrating and, you are super safe very fast.

[Waterd]

Maybe I spoke to soon, ugh, I just lost a game with bulrathi, where by the time i had 5 colonies, Sakras had 18, by 2401, they had majority of the galaxy.
Eventually they had no more room to breath, and they did breath on my colonies. Game over man, game over.