Only 1 L-Gate Size 800 Galaxy

[TheAzureLiger]

So I'm playing on a size 800 I think, second to highest size, with 18 empires. I opened up the 1 L-Gate I found, Gray Tempest comes out and I get excited thinking this would re-shape the galaxy. I beat my spawn and wait for the changes. Nothing seems to be happening. I search "Black Hole", "Vortex", and "Maw" to look for all the black holes in the galaxy and I can't seem to find any other L-Gates? I thought singular L-Gates only occured in the smallest galaxy size?

What determines L-Gate amount. Did I put too many empires in?

So now do I just slowly build enough fleet power to invade the L-Cluster? I sent in a science ship and it seems like all those fleets are just waiting on the other side, none of them are moving.

 

[HandicapdHippo]

Don't know why there is only one gate, are you sure those aren't just the guardian fleets for the cluster? The Tempest doesn't go to the gate that is initially activated, there is some text in the event that says they are locked out or something, so yeah they are just going to sit there if its the only one.

 

[TheAzureLiger]

Don't know why there is only one gate, are you sure those aren't just the guardian fleets for the cluster? The Tempest doesn't go to the gate that is initially activated, there is some text in the event that says they are locked out or something, so yeah they are just going to sit there if its the only one.

Well I waited 1 year and a half and I've fought off 3 fleets already in my L-Gate. Nothing else seems to be happening in the galaxy so I've invaded the L-Cluster now. They're not supposed to go through the L-Gate I activated?

 

[RandomZach]

Only 1 gate is guaranteed. Beyond that it's just random luck. They cannot spawn in the area directly around a standard empire (roughly 2-3 jumps from capital), so more empires reduces the odds significantly.