[bwtmc]

One of the problems with small galaxies is that inactives can easily take them over. You only need about five players in a galaxy making some kind of effort for it to be useful. But you really do need those few. Even if there's 10 dead accounts sitting in the galaxy, so long as you've got those people there, any new players that come along have something to be part of.

It seems logical to me to put the better players closer together, so new players actually have something to join and be part of. Isolating them in worthless galaxies for the sake of being fair doesn't really achieve anything.