Let me see if I can remember some of the evil patch ideas too.
* EM damage can blow up your launchers and not just your engines
* Missed data logs result in real penalties or corruption on your next level
* Programmers can use special hacks against you, such as blocking you from picking up or walking or removing parts
* Programmers can turn P2 against you temporarily
* A combat researcher should guard shell armor, who brings trackers if it can't scan you
* In 33% of games, a hermit crab should inhabit the shell armor
And a new one: Supermagnetic Reflector structures at strategic locations in -1/Command that reflect whatever you fire at them. For example, if you shoot a
at it, it's reflected back at you and you lose 1000 core.