' Wrote:All in all, it seems like a lot of hassle to be told "Meh, you can't really do anything you couldn't do before."
You can control your system, you just can't keep the proper indies from coming in to buy ships and equipment. Everything else is pretty much at the whim of the owner.
This doesn't matter to some factions, but it does to others: Factions get a battleship, which doesn't count towards anyone's 1-per-player (or account, or whatever it is).