Ok, based on that discussion in #mafia I am voting Wendy. The crux of the discussion was Primo went pretty hard trying to protect Wendy.

Happy birthday, enjoy your suprise butt sex

We were 12 million, you guys were 20 million. We had 800 planets your guys had about 1500. And you mention nothing of the fact that we were fighting to other families (which is part of why our nw was up a little, because we had to have fleets for the fighting we were involved in). There is no honour to be won beating down a family that never stood a chance.

Happy 35th birthday Emo (or 25th if you are genuinely adverse to that grave)

Well the fairest method is the one suggested by Arsy, that makes it convenient (or more so) for nearly all time zones. As for the other galaxy only catering to Australia/New Zealand with the original idea, there are shift workers in this world Nove. I know I'm one!

Convenience

Arsy, that was the first idea I suggested in #mod when I started talking about this and it was not well recieved, but I agree that would be the most elegeant solution!

I appreciate your input twosidedeath.

You will still have people with different levels of activity and that are on at different times, people will still play with other people they get along with, but rather than some suffering all the time the suffering can be shared. In answer to your specific points:

A) "your saparating people by area, most people have freinds from afar they like to play with and there will most likely be an empty galaxy as people like to all pile in one galaxy."

This seems to be two points in the one. In answer to people having friends from afar, this is very true. I have plenty of friends from afar. It would be nice, however, if I could share the suffering of key important points that happen, for example playing turn and turn about in galaxies with them (Playing in early gal round 1, late round 2, early round 3, etc). I can't say whether it will result in an empty galaxy, I hope not

B) "your providing a large window of time for your family to be vulnerable to little resistance, as everyone would be on at the same time, they will be off at the same time. the beautiful part about having freinds from afar is you can actually have a co-owner style family and have the family running 24/7. you are now taking that away(probably not as no one will actually play this way icon39)"

As with any galaxy there will be people who are active at different times. Even if the early start suits them, it may be the end of the day for some and the start of the day for others, so there will still be varied times when people are on. I don't think that aspect will be taken away too much.

Hope I have answered your points

Nice to see Primo has been silently editing, I was sure it said he was gay

Wrong, Render if you dont want to play in the early gal you can play in the late gal. There will be people from europe who want to play in the other gal, shift workers etc. And believe it or not the world is not divided up into Europe and America, there is a whole other side of the world!