Didn't you get the memo? Null-sec power bloc's all blued each other for the holidays and are spending the time killing red crosses to RMT enough isk to buy christmas presents.

If activity dropped off in a system, any system, enough, then yeah 1.0 would become eventually 0.4 or lower.
It would be extremely unlikely that a trade hub would become low sec or null, since they would self-perpetuate based on activity.

But you would have dynamic chokepoints, as 0.5 systems flipped to 0.4, and vice versa.
And all those empty tracks of systems in null would be filled with explorers looking for the freshest tech moons/rings to replace the ones petering out since a moon mining array would slowly raise the sec status of a system.

I see that Test has added another 1% growth this week, up to 10.500 members.
Goons are a paltry 8600 members.
Yeah, null sec alliances are just fading away right now.

What this would do is force null sec players to actively explore all of null sec on an ongoing basis.
And heavily industrialized zones are inherently more safe.

The U.S does not build its carriers and subs in Alaska. They build them in areas where it is safe.
You want to heavily industrialize / populate an area? No problem. Just expect that area to experience lower crime rates (less valuable rats), and lower availability of resources (less valuable ore and moon goo).

And just like asteroid belts, moons/ rings would naturally dissipate as the sec status went up.
Alliances that need moon goo to support themselves would have to actively explore for more of those precious resources.

Just like nations do today.

I am not saying that there is a finite amount of resources in the game.
I AM saying that as one supply of moon goo shrinks in a heavily industrialized space, another supply increases in some unknown, undeveloped area of low/null.

This argument you've been making hasn't changed for a long time, but the reality that people who are too afraid to go to null today would still be too afraid to go to null, even with these changes, didn't change either. Especially if local were to be removed as well.

There are already ways to bypass choke points today. Wormholes, for example, is the best one. Jump clones, especially with the use of a Rorqual, is another. Sometimes you'd need to get a covert ops frigate or two in position before you go, but those can escape any camp with ease anyway.

People are afraid to go to null because they fear what's inside, not because they fear the path that leads there. Don't believe me? Go ask some long-time empire carebears why they don't make the move.

I never got the whole "waaaa CTAs" and "waaa I don't have enough isk" arguments. Most competent nullsec alliances got rid of CTAs long ago, and will fully reimburse you for PvP losses in fleets. I had my reasons for leaving null, but neither of those were part of my decision.

Join -A- in Stain, I hear they will ~wolfpax~ there after they get owned out of their current sov.

Or you can join goons and instantly reduce your IQ by 100 :)

Could easily say the same of "the iniative" which certainly has a ring of irony.

Yeah, it's not like null sec has zydrine, megacyte, morphite or moon materials, those are readily available in hi sec, I am bathing in Technetium water and using Dysprosium soap right now!

(citation needed)

Sorry, but you have been tossing that phrase around in everyone's thread to discredit any points they have so, now it's your turn.

Nullsec isn't empty because it's broken.

Nullsec is empty because CCP designed it with a deliberate scarcity of resources so that people would fight over them.

Highsec has more resources and scalable content so they don't have to turn away customers that lack the desire or ability to play in nullsec (whether temporarily or permanently).

That means that nullsec will continue to be empty compared to highsec until CCP decides that it is time to change the way nullsec works in a dramatic fashion.

Nullsec is broken for your purpose, but not for the purpose for which it was designed.