do you have any neighbours / commanders you regularly bump into?
there's another commander who has his home system same as mine, although we play different time zones so have only seen each other a couple times. always a bit of friendly chat about nearby decent trades etc. neither of us are in a huge ship and it seems we trade different commodities / routes anyways, so there's no negatiev effects (in fact, because i spend most my time doing missions - it keeps the system in economic boom which works out well for both of us)
i like that there's a little bit of life in my corner of the galaxy, though i think i'd be a bit disappointed if it got busy....
there's another commander who has his home system same as mine, although we play different time zones so have only seen each other a couple times. always a bit of friendly chat about nearby decent trades etc. neither of us are in a huge ship and it seems we trade different commodities / routes anyways, so there's no negatiev effects (in fact, because i spend most my time doing missions - it keeps the system in economic boom which works out well for both of us)
i like that there's a little bit of life in my corner of the galaxy, though i think i'd be a bit disappointed if it got busy....