Sandbox games are as interesting as the player base interacting with it. I have played many a single player edition sandbox game and ended up putting it back into the shelf after a couple of months. If we expand this game then it will become as it was back in 2003. You could sit all alone in a system for weeks without ever seeing another player. You do not need to leave a system in this game to survive and that is exactly what will make it monotonous fairly quickly. Interaction is what keeps a game interesting.
While we are on the vision bandwagon. If i could change something in the line of systems etc. then i would make eve one huge single Wormhole solar system. The Map size it has now without any gates, local etc. Sovereignty would not be about controlling systems it would be about controlling certain resources and moons. It would need the size it has now and instead of having jump fatigue we could have warp fatigue…