Okay, but moving “high to null” isn’t exactly a new player problem either, which you kind of made it out to be with your “mates” example.
Bottlenecks are important because they allow groups to actually own space and assert their authority over it. If travel is unrestricted, then there’s hardly a point to sovereignty, since everyone can travel anywhere at will. Bottlenecks are also responsible for a sizable chunk of destruction that happens in the game, which you haven’t accounted for elsewhere in your argument to compensate for the economic disparity it would cause.
And if one has business out there that much…setup a 2nd shop out there. Once can find cheap stations out there for offices even. Fly and research, cheaper rent is there.
don’t like running uedama that much one can reduce the need. I just have BR’s be the middleman when I need to cross the streams. Big stuff sources locally on each side. Kind of works out…I remember the old days.
Dual boxing the web for a charon jita to amarr the long way since niarja was being more niarja than usual can ahve you go dude I should have jsut paid the rens price lol.