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why is HE banned

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Is it because of ccmaster's monster HE?

A prior game of SAS we allowed HE with the restrictions that its growth rate be lower than 10(20) and that its factories cannot be worse than the default. That rule was to prevent ccmaster's factoryless HE race from being used.

But even with this rule, we found that with such low planets per player, HE could go tri immune or 2 immune and have an advantage over the others. Rolf won a game with a pretty fast 2 immune HE that had good factories too. I played a tri immune 6% growth HE in that game and did well too. After this experience I decided to just ban HE for SAS games.