[Zotnam]

Fencing is a bit misunderstood these days. An alliance isn't going to stay away from a galaxy just because they have 1-3 members. The exception to that rule is if the galaxy contains a HC or otherwise influential person that can keep his alliance away.

Nearly every galaxy has 7 different alliances this round, the purpose of that isn't so much to avoid incoming, but a natural occurrence when you have this many competitive tags. You'll often start with 2-3 different alliances in the BP, and then when 8-10 other planets join you are bound to end up with a lot of different alliances in gal.

Certain galaxies will rise to the top, fort or fenced doesn't matter too much. The #1 main reason, above everything else for this. is the exile system. When you can consistently over 10 rounds get 10 people of your choosing in one galaxy, then it's not a level playing field.

In r50 I somehow stumbled into one of the few good random galaxies. It had a good BP and some legit randoms. This round (r52) we tried to recreate that galaxy with help from the exile system. And we succeeded getting 5 people in by pt 127. With the 2 late sign ups added later, we had handpicked 11 of the 14 people in galaxy. That's frankly insane and only an option for a few well connected galaxies. And it's these galaxies you will keep seeing at the top unless something changes