Kenny

Is there a way of finding out what %age of current players (or the ones that start at PT0) that started in BPs?

And one way of handling the influx of new players to the game is to set up cluster 100. When you sign up (post shuffle), you join not a random gal, but cluster 100 - which automatically distributes planets into gals of 8, 9 or 10 (depending how far into the round it is) every -x- ticks.

This system couldn't really be abused because if you're going to try to create a fully private gal, you can bet your ass there'd be a lot of people trying to do the same, so you'd end up randomly mixed in with other people who were also trying to abuse the system, thus negating any need for trying. And plus, if it only applied to people who sign up AFTER the shuffle, there'd be few people willing to miss that many ticks at the start of the round.

The very most important thing to remember is that we can not let gals grow to any size larger than 10. Yes, it may be 'convenient' to keep dumping new planets into existing gals, but it's making the game suck.

Stop doing it.