Board Thread:Fiction Universe Discussion/@comment-3332586-20140816132650/@comment-4242472-20140816135624

While I join the consensus that we have enough galaxies, I do think we need to make them look more open. All but one galaxy is open for establishment by new users yes, but all the others aside from the Milky Way give off the image that one has to go through their respective "owners" in order to set up shop. This idea of "galaxy owners" increases factionalism because it means that the only people allowed in an owned galaxy are those on the owner's good side.

Personally I'm not that concerned on who's in Andromeda since it makes the galaxy feel more alive and there is a lot more going on than what the core users do. For instance the Haldirivan Conflict between the Troodontid Empire and the Naajikan Coalition; I don't think any Andromeda admins had any say in the events and I discovered it by stumbling onto edits but I am far from annoyed because Spreraptor and Dromlexer are helping to keep the galaxy moving. I like how this happened.

From a personal perspective, I've tried to make Andromeda more open by preferring notification over permission (although I did slip up on that, sorry MM). The galaxy becomes more varied, there's less red tape and administrators still have a handle on who's in "their" galaxy.