Big land grab of everything near the bubble by players with lots of time on their hands, followed by taxing or ganking every time I want to land somewhere. Sounds like an effective means of cleansing Open of the remaining human players.
You got me, although I was going more for Stephen Moore than Alan Rickman.
But when I think of the direction E: D has gone, it does make me depressed. I put a lot of money, time & effort into it over the years. It makes me really sad to think that they're apparently turning it into a generic & nasty MMO designed to keep you playing (or else!!), rather than an actual game to have fun in.
If New Era continues this, I think I'm finally done.