My friends and I had a 3 player game this weekend and it was seriously super fun. It ended up being the first thing I ever added to Mission Control. Its called Trade Wars if you want to look it up.

Basically we had a space station in the middle and the object is to pick up cargo and deliver it to your own deployment zone, the player with the most cargo at the end of 10 rounds is the winner.

The balancing effect was really that people were less concerned with the threats on the board and more concerned with how to either stop someone who got cargo and is leaving for his deployment zone or how to get cargo themselves. It got crowded, the game was extremely close and it came down to the last round.

It was really fun.

They have a mission in IG-2000 ship which does just that.

Yup, i flagged it up last week in a thread about the 'official' three player game.

I was in a huge 300 vs. 300 vs. 300 match. It was actually really balanced, Scum had to have a split deployment on either side of the table it kept them from steam rolling any one faction. I believe they didn't come into the battle until the end of the second round, it made them strategize a bit about what they would deploy and where. It also kept their undamaged ships from steam rolling any one faction too hard.

We just did this over the weekend. Didn't do a scenario but we determined the winner by adding points killed to points remaining (with damaged survivors getting half their points toward the total).

It was a ton of fun but I don't know how balanced it was. I wish I had seen this thread beforehand!

Id like to try it!