Something that I've noticed since coming back to the game from a 3-4 year hiatus, is that E-phase seems to go for SO long now.... to be honest I think I like it more how it used to be with faster E-phases and more of the round devoted to fighting for position/wars etc.

However, the general size of the galaxy is quite nice in terms of spacing...

Has anyone considered lowering the amount of planets per system to something like 12, in order to lower E-phase time?

Edit: Talking about MW by the way, not sure what it's like in PW.