2022-01-13 FYI

[Zensras]

I've never thought that forcing players into certain action was the best way of recruiting and retaining them. (although I do agree that it is sometimes necessary) IMO choice paired with encouraging those actions was always the better option. I have found that even if start in the frontier its not that difficult to find the core empires. Once you have warp you explore along the axis's toward the galactic center and empires turn up sooner than you think. Once located you can build forward outposts and stage your assets there.

It's size has always been the beauty behind the "SoH verse". Just knowing that there are others out there that you can go and find if you want to is reason enough for many such as myself to pay the price of admission.

As to the notion that the SoH galaxy should be tailored to PvP'ers and that solo'ers should go elsewhere, I strongly disagree. It should be the galaxy with the most choices. Whereas some of the other galaxies could be tailored to more narrow choices. You could turn a galaxy into a large battleground with a lot of raid-like features for those who like lots of fast action or a peaceful one where conflict is suppressed by The Organians or something.

It's supposed to be a sandbox, lets keep it that way.

So couple of things:

1)  The size,  I can 100% agree with.  I understand people's complaints about the number of universes there are in SoH that it creates "foxholes" for people. 
*COUGH*DEAN*COUGH*
Now I enjoyed the size somewhat because it made some variety of systems.  The original size did as well....but hot damn traveling took forever.  

2)
We had this.   It was called Veil of Targoss.

And there were a majority of people who preferred the main galaxy because it was fun.    The very same people who said they were transferring to Veil actually had accounts on main they used the majority of the time.