I'm too lazy to test is out correctly, is why I'm saying possible.

But I have a reliable player on my server who tells me this, and I have confirmed sectors with over 8~10 planets.

There is players on my server who actually created perl scripts to login and "help" play the game. I noticed this user and otheres had more planets in sectors than allowed. I asked the users how he did this. They request the create planet really fast multiple times(use script or just click like crazy, slowing down the server), and I think a RACE condition happens due to poor database locking as the selects return the current number of planets in the sector before the updates creating the planets have finished. A simple solution would be to lock the table before the selects and unlock the table after the updates.

Anyways thanks for a great game.

I'm looking forward to the 0.3 source release.