It makes it so that no side of you faces no threat at all. Or that if you spawn in the corner and don't manage to kill your northern neighbors you can always go into a different direction, everyone has equal amount of space next to them when the game starts. It makes it fair.

There are plenty of other ways to adjust the balance. Like making the systems farther out have smaller bonuses or less building space. Or less planets in a system.

The idea of making everything the same for everyone passing as balance is lame. Go play checkers.

You would think with the race options and customization that they would try and follow that trend, and stick with what makes the game interesting.

And it's not like their current set up doesn't already give some families more advantageous start positions than others.

I don't see any excuse for doing something as silly wrap around for a non-spherical map.

Lame.

maybe the space wizards allow it to happen