Hindsight is awesome isn’t it 
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Yep, and yeah, I’d love to see Yulai back as the central trade hub, CONCORD weaker than it is now and the super highway reinstated.
Why would you love that?
I think it is fair to say that not everyone is going to agree on why the game is broken, or even that it is broken. That’s the thing about opinions, everyone has a different set.
Edit. For instance, I’m of the opinion that a “take no prisoners” attitude results in everyone fighting to the last breath. (I dug for a historical example, but couldn’t find one quick enough, of generals deliberately giving their troops no way to escape so they’d fight harder.)
Nostalgia.
Clever answer.
If CCP ever gives us player owned gates, and doesn’t lock them out of high-sec, you may get your wish.
Edit. But probably not. The die is cast and unseating Jita would be a truly Hurculean task.
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Its within reason that CCP could.
Declare that the Jita star is going nova in 6 months, leaving the system devoid of planets/moons/stations.
Then watch where people go, and how long it takes to generate another megalithic trade hub.
Not long. Not long at all. About as long as it takes everyone to move all their stuff twice.
Edit. Unless they simultaneously put in reasons not to congregate so heavily, such as a graduated tax, which could push Jita level trade fees past 100%.
That would require consensus of where best to go, and the next system might not have “trade hub” status.
Many NS entities, in particular, would prefer the next megalithic trade hub is built closer to their doorstep.
I wish nostalgia felt like it used to.
That’s why it’d take long enough to move everything twice.
First move would be where you would prefer to trade from.
Second move would be to where most everyone else was congregating.
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I’m quite serious.
Nova the Jita system with a 6month warning.
There are no POS/Citadels there anyways.
Let the chips fall where they may, and the economy/trade re-align itself.
Then the next stop is Amarr, which is, I think, the second largest trade hub currently.
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Would be Amarr very likely. It’s already large & shares some features with Jita, among it very close proximity to various regions (helps with trading). Not to mention that it isn’t far from the production regions that fuel Jita, so the producers don’t have to do any drastic work in changing their transport routes.
So in the end, you just get the same, now with Jita switched to Amarr. Hence, let players deal with it.
Closest to Jita, yes, but not to everyone else, or their nearest trade hub, or their own Citadel trade hubs.
Jita isn’t close to everyone else. When I fly there, I think I have 20 gates to go through.
Thats my point, exactly.
With Jita impending disaster, everyone will want the trade to come nearer them.
My projection is it will take years for another “Jita” to form, providing all manner of opportunity for all parties involved.
And most of them won’t get it.
Whoever gets the early lead will get the win, unless almost everyone else objects and jumps behind an underdog to avoid the first one winning.
I don’t think too many people would object to trade being in Amarr over Jita, excepting the Caldari, and Amarr and Jita are similarly distant, so yeah, Amarr is the natural winner in that contest.
In probability, you’d have the six months that Jita would survive for, while trade, more and more, shuffled to the next best choice, which currently is Amarr. If you also blocked off Amarr, maybe by closing a couple gates and the Amarr entering a new isolationist phase, probably Dodixie would be next. If you managed to block all the Current crop of trade hubs, you might get a week before the winner was evident and everyone started moving their trade there, more and more.
People are now accustomed to one trade hub and have built their playstyles around it. You have Red Frog and trading alts. You have such a glut of capital ships that pretty much anyone who wants one can afford a freighter of their very own.
It wouldn’t take more than a couple months before it was clear who the winner was, although you might enjoy a few more months of somewhat flattened trade.
…Especially if the players felt history might repeat itself. But such heavy handedness could also cause them to cancel. A dangerous gambit.
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Problem with that statement is Amarr.
It is big enough to jump up to be the next Jita, should Jita ever fall by some mysterious reason.
If you blow up both Amarr & Jita, a new Jita will be formed within the year. Where that will be? Can’t tell really. But don’t underestimate the persistance of players & their need for a central trade hub. CCP underestimated that once, they won’t do that again.
It just takes a strong mouth to mouth advert to create a new hub. Enough players chant you can buy most stuff There and behold, There becomes new Jita.
Note, you got to remove Jita & Amarr for that (Dodoxie, Rens & Hek are too small imo to be candidates for immediate take over, but they would grow in strenth for a while no doubt, because chaos, and perhaps one of those does become the new Jita!)
Imo, the best way to spread out trading more is by making it harder to gank transport ships: easier transport of goods; easier for traders to supply local tradehubs better & tehreby spreading out trade.
As long as large scale goods transport is risky, a single tradehub will be preferred as it minimized good transport risks.
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