[Zotnam]

Originally Posted by Kaiba

It more liekly that the extended downtime and short notice round start meant that not as many bp's signed up and therefore there was lots of randoms and not many BPs

This is incorrect, there are about the same amount of people in BP's as last round(240-ish). But due to the BP size increase, we've dropped from 60 BP's to 46 BP's and that has in turn increased the amount of people shoved into every galaxy.

I'm not sure I share the doom and gloom predicted for smaller galaxies, if anything it means that the top galaxies will have more incoming. If you look at the stats from the last 5 rounds, it's pretty clear that top galaxies receive far more incoming than average ones. With fewer targets to hit, the likelihood of top galaxies being put up also goes up, perhaps only half the planets most of the time due to naps and politics, but still an uptick in total incoming.