We usually end up tearing up the earlier tunnels to make room. Im Usually the OL so I dont mind missing a spawn spot to keep the table less cluttered.

That's one thing I dislike about this game. The board is actually not so big, in that there are not many hexes. Using all those silly plastic pieces just makes the game look bigger and grander. There is no reason for this game to take so much space.

True, but I played the second edition with chits instead of the plastic bits and in my opinion it's not the same experience.

I like a good dose of eye candy to go with the games I play, too bad that sometimes that implies I can't actually play them that often because I don't have the space.

Space is finite; it's just bigger than your table.

My friends and I are better off playing this on the floor anyway. We only ever get around to playing it at 10:00pm after going through all the typical inside jokes and attempts to set it up. It's hard to doze when sitting at the table.

If with 6 players it isn't big enough, try 8 players.

lol

I played a game with 8 players once. We built a galaxy with two main 4-player galaxies connected by wormholes and 2 smaller galaxies with some juicy planets. It was a blast!!!!!!!

The tables at the gaming club I play are big enough, that's not the problem. My problem is transport. A friendly police agent informed me that it is illegal to transport this game by bicycle (sticks to far out).

Interesting. I wonder if we have similar bicycle transportation laws here?

However, with TI3, though, if you get a decent tackle box, you can fit the pieces in a much smaller volume than the big box would indicate; you'd need a separate place for the rules and the race cards, but those could probably fit in a backpack.

I vote friend.

When I play with my brothers, they sometimes try to do this just because they know it irritates me, not because it's more tactically relevant to do so.