Talking about another thing, I thought that destroying the iHub would reset the ADM and looking at Providence it doesn't seem so.

Another reason not to fight, if the fleet that you risk to defend the iHub is several times more expensive than the 300Misk of the iHub and your ADM is not seriously affected.

Of course, but a big portion of it is that other areas of space are simply not viable for industry, so that all gets done in highsec. Jita is the central point for that too. If industry were viable (and profitable) in other areas of space (not just null) it owuld go a long way to easing the bottleneck in highsec.

Plus, like I say, highsec should be taxed to hell. Slap on 5-10% minimum sales taxes in Jita and you'd see people shifting.

But shifting where? You can't simultaneously say that nullsec isn't worth living in and that all we have to do is make the other place intolerable to fix that. All you'd have at the end is an entire game that's not worth living in. (Well, except maybe low sec. Keep your bloody mitts off low sec.) Everything I've seen of the sov ~metagame~ disinclines me to ever try it, so if you succeed in nerfing empire space I'll just have to take the nerf on the chin. There's no ISK/hr amount that can convince me to put up with something I don't want to put up with in a game.

And you're still dodging the problem that what makes null sec suck is logistics, which is rooted in why it's called "null sec." The remainder is built on player decisions that are rooted in first assuring maximum defense. As anyone who's ever looked at a fortress knows, defense always comes at the price of convenience, and logistics are a convenience. There's a reason why Black Frog only delivers to NPC stations.

Here's a wild thought: what if you actually looked beyond ISK/hr sometimes?

Because nobody else is complaining about the lack of content in null.

I mean you're right....other people are complaining about the lack of content, but I'd say it's about 90% Imperium members whining on the foums about how they have nothing to do and no one will fight them. Unblue even half of your coalition and you'd still be traveling 15+ jumps to find fights.

That's difference between the "nullsec blocs" vs the other members of the game. We choose to openly have a small number of blues so that we constantly have different people to shoot. Also, we poke the bear so to speak pretty much every day in order to keep getting content, which I know is another "crazy man on the corner preaching..." idea since you know, content is worth logging in for even it's not strategic. It's also one of the reaons a lot of groups, unsurprisingly who aren't blue with each other, have all decided to move to Black Rise/Placid for the content that the FW guys and local priates create.

If we are not the big boys someone else would take our place.