Imagine visiting a system and you see a station under construction.. not because Frontier put it there; but because a Wing managed to generate enough money and resources to actually get it built.
Or .. perhaps a station in ruins, CMDR's picking through her skeleton to find things they can salvage.
A much more living and breathing galaxy, imho.
See, emergent gameplay in the making right here. As opposed to the absolute sterility of the ED galaxy right now with literally no gameplay that you haven't down a thousand times over. How about instead of sterile and shallow powerplay "diplomacy" you do the real thing? How about a delivery mission that meant something? Delivering something of value to your ally with their enemies on your trail? The annual system race around the planets or buggy racing or whatever - you could have events planned all year.
Or we could have posts where someone points out that 3 different types of delivery mission are somehow different gameplay because they're transporting different goods on a CG. I'm sure there were a mass of exciting stories to be told over that one!