Its ranked.

No matter how big 1st gets his point difference with 2nd, and other places, does not change.

in other words if these two scenarios are the same for points:

1st: 20 territories
2nd: 3 territories
3rd: 2 territories
4th: 1 territory

1st: 9 territories
2nd: 8 territories
3rd: 7 territories
4th: 6 territory

not quite what I was getting at, I'll have to reformulate after some more games.

@ die_shogun:

You mean the strongest will everytime be left apart because he gets more dice than other players and therefore will mostly have opportunities to grow? Whereas other players will be in a situation of fighting for less and less place and therefore will need to build stacks? Or if you have a bad start your dominance will suffer a lot because you cant just expand but have to stack?

Die Shogun is pointing out that if you are in a situation where you must build to have a chance against a larger player you lose dominance even though you can do nothing else but stack. He stacks faster and does not have to spend the time you do to stack so he takes your weak territories round by round as you try to get 8 stacks and your dominance gets eaten up.

true, a find that a problem to.
Yesterday, I started a game with very bad luck and ended with two little stacks in the corner. I a way i managed to build up and take over the entire game, brown was thinking he had won allready and dident looked at my little stacks taking pice by piece some land of him. He was to busy with red. so at the end, I won the game

in like 50 rounds, 10 or so I had only two stacks, but for my win i only got 18 points because of dominance...