As of the last 24h ICY has become the only offshore market in the Forge with obvious implications and is charging 0.5% broker fees. Is this monopoly being maintained by force?
There will be plenty of short-lived 0.1-0.4% broker fee citadels that are planted over time chasing the PLEX trade. Each will take it over for a few days then go silent.
And what are these obvious implications? That you have to pay brokers fees just like you did before citadels?
You will find that the monopoly is maintained by force. And you are free to install your own monopoly by force whenever you choose, as is the nature of the game.
I assumed it was the only one at the time because i went down the plex buy orders and looked at which of those locations were charging <0.5% and there were none.