Condensing blocks makes sense on paper, but I'd rather have some emptyish blocks for my alliance to group up on. At first we had a good home on block 76, but now we had to move to block 20; and then we had to move to 47 (where the cool alliance hang out), because apparently there was already an alliance that, in their words "claimed as their lobby", and they did not like us using area chat around them. (For context, we're a split alliance made up of two teams because we hit the member limit and needed an overflow alliance to fit our whole community. And yes, while Group chat is a thing, it's limited to friends only and I only keep friends on my friends list if they're not on either of our alliances.)