Disco's future

[Anaximander]

well there's no fun spending weeks developing an Outcast character for Gallia when there's no traders to rob and no locals to make ties to. Or rather they are there, one lonely trader 4 systems away from you and one lonely Brigand doing missions 6 systems away.

It's not just Gallia, its all over the map, even in vanilla house core systems.

Because it is so big people are forced to either go together as a group and say "hey lets hold hands and play together" (which really isnt ideal at all) or create characters from a select handful of ID's because of their ZOI (or lack of) ensures other players present to interact with.

If the map was smaller, a wider variety of ID's/players would be able to interact, as well as allow for less travel-intensive player encounters. Some of that joy and fun from Conn would be infused into the game when you can undock and interact with players in your immediate vicinity, making it less tedious and chore-like to achieve anything.