Yea, I think it continues to serve its purpose. Celetil has one free world, and looking around for good spots to claim it is pretty obvious that the new rule is improving things. Most builds I've looked at a few months ago have expanded, and there are a bunch of good spots to build. I do, however, think that giving some factions an extra world would be nice, however maybe this could be a sort of giveaway thing... idk