What do you do when you host a game and then you get the eco slot?  Start feeding people.  That's all fine and good, but wouldn't it make sense to at least colonize your asteroid and your moon and perhaps to slowly take some other planets while you build up your eco and feed?  Judiciously colonizing planets and building trade ports on them is not that huge of an impediment to feeding your team, certainly not when you're TEC.

In tonight's game, King of Kings started out in an eco slot and failed to colonize any planets at all (!!!)  Now, I can appreciate the value of early feed, but would it really be that tough to go colonize your moon and your asteroid?  Do you really want to allow a player on the opposing team to colonize your moon and culture bomb you without a fight?  (Yes, that really happened, his one planet was being overrun by enemy culture.)  When I saw that he only had his home terran I thought for sure we were desynced.  We weren't.  It's a shame because it could have been a good game if he had tried.