So over time Null Sec has become fat with ISK, resources, equipment and territory. Basically signed a Non-aggression pact with neighbors, created dedicated intel channels to quickly overpower any small groups looking to carve out a piece of Null Sec pie. As such there’s more production than destruction happening in Null Sec and CCP isn’t getting the big headlines / free press they’re use to getting from the big wars that brought players in to the game.
However those Alliance members want to pew pew, some leave the game cuz it’s become stagnate, others can’t get small gang fights due to Cap blobs and leave the game, still others start ganking or War-Deck High Sec Industrial Corps, some of those Indy Corps join Alliance in Null Sec while others leave the game. Over time the game continues losing more players than what it brings in.
So to make headlines again and bring players back into the game, CCP decides to shake things up, create destruction and implement the Chaos Era with Invasions, CCP has Triglavians attack High Sec with Drifter’s attacking Null Sec. More players leave the game. Null Sec Alliance leaders get mad due to being subjected to non-consensual PvE and declare they’re going to burn down High Sec Corps. (which would cause more players to leave the game)
CCP then annouces Null Sec Local Blackout and say it’s a ‘Test’ for an undetermined amount of time. Alliance leaders say ok, no more talk of burning down High Sec Corps. CCP states they want to monitor the effects of it on the cluster and watch the numbers for player Log-in count, areas of player activity and amount of asset destruction. Some players come back to the game but more leave. CCP then states Null Sec Local Blackout was good to remove Bots.
However during that time CCP also runs the ‘Season Of Skills’ / ‘Skilling Spree’ event which temporarily boosts some of those numbers. Course when that event ends the downward trend of player log-in numbers is still happening. So now in order to stop the loss of players CCP removes the Null Sec Local Blackout.