For what its worth I once submitted a post about honor and attacking. It was about the very strong attacking players 1/3 their development. OGame has a deterrence for that behavior built into their code that is not replicated here. Best I can tell our developers don't feel a need for that part of the original game model. I am not a programmer and would not have a clue what it would take to replicate even if they were up for implementing. To your specific concern. There are strategic and tactical reasons for expanding an empire into galaxies not originally given at the start of the game. Exploiting inactive planets while expanding into galaxies far from original is just one of the benefits. I do think that having multiple players and alliances sharing the same galaxy will open up lots of different play styles. It also will help form better stronger alliances.