After talking to some friends about their experiences with ES2 I found that prefer different galaxy generations so I was curious what the community at-large prefers.

For me, the more I play ES2, the more I find myself liking smaller galaxies with 4-5 empires in general with a random shape and only a few constellations. I think this is because I enjoy expansionist and supremacy style of gameplay and the smaller galaxy makes these more accessible and less of a grind. I also like that it feels a little more intimate in the sense of if someone is going to win you can actually feasibly stop them instead of having to travel 15 turns to get to them. It feels almost like a board game in a way.

Let me know what you all prefer, I'm super curious!

xoxo,

Doodle

Huge Galaxy, Dense Systems, Minimum Connections.

Makes expansion very slow, but minimizes how punishing a "bad" system can be, because with so many planets in a system you usually have something useful within in.