We're already seeing one chokepoint existing being apparently too much. Bretonian lawfuls are dead in the water with very few bothering to log in (myself included) and unlawfuls are currently playing Credits Simulator for the most part.
Whilst the idea is fine, making the whole thing corporate centered would be quite more enjoyable. Skirmishes are a nice to have but hardly a lasting activity source as proven countless times between various factions.
The real issue atm is that people do not enjoy logging in? Why? Work in progress economy with lots of RP items gone as well as a sizable part of the playerbase outright hating new capital ships.
Gold can remain the biggest money maker route, it just requires non Molly unlawfuls and lawfuls to finally capitalize on it. If they do so, it's suddenly very risky and the other mildly worse routes get attention.
However, the gap between other houses main ore and Gold could be a bit less anyway.
