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As a pirate, I think it's great. It's given value back to low-sec bringing more people for us to kill/ransom.

I'm hopeful this will revive the almost dead piracy in eve. whee

I joined a militia on one of my chars. It's like basically declaring war on the two opposing factions (Amarr and Caldari vs Minmatar and Gallente).

You can freely fly around in any highsec space you or your ally control. (For example Amarr can go into Amarr and Caldari space.) But if you enter a highsec system controlled by an opposing faction, the faction police will open fire on you. They do a ton of damage, but do not warp scramble, so I've heard if you're in a fast ship you can quickly jump through enemy space without being killed.

So pretty much you are still safe in your faction and your allied faction's highsec space to do mining, trading, missions ect.

With the FW and stuff, I was able to for the first time to explore low sec space biggrin
But I was thinking,Not as many people would focus on setting up their P.O.S's due to the FW. So I could probably buy a P.O.S and place it in a low sec system. But it take a long time to do so. (money wise)