Thursday, July 11, 2013  The fundamental nullsec emptiness
problem  Ali Aras had a very interesting take on intel and
(AFK-)cloaking, but stopped a step before the really important
conclusion. Let me summarize her post: in WHs you can control
your entrances, in nullsec you can't, since every ship can light
a cyno pouring hundreds of enemies. To make it worse, they can
do so next to you, while they are tackling you (hotdrop).
Therefore if we remove local, no one will undock as he will
rightfully assume that he does it into a massacre. She finished
by adding that she still considers AFK cloaking a valid
mechanic.  I don't argue with her. I just finish what's missing,
because she also mentions how she is unhappy that nullsec is
almost empty. However, because of what she wrote, nullsec will
always be almost empty, even if the EVE playerbase and even
nullsec alliance membership doubles. There would be twice as big
Asakais, but in the meantime, nullsec will be just as void as
today. Why?  Because local channel is a