Hi,
in general replacing a source of player income and money faucet with one which provides income and is not a money faucet is a good move for the economy.
But for some reasons we can only guess about, it was not implemented against the by far largest and runaway growing money faucet of the last few years but against one which has about 1/6 of the volume of the largest one and has been stable over the last few years.
And it was implemented in a way which makes the replacement quite unattractive and kills off a popular pastime of some players.
Also the implementation was not across the board but only for a certain area of space as Null and Low Incursions have not seen a decrease in spawn rate.
One could now draw conclusions from the composition of a certain advisory board to CCP to these happenings, but those would certainly be premature and unfounded, right?
Zoltan