Dear Novaquark,
haven't read through all the DevBlogs yet, but the idea your transporting sounds very enticing. You yourself often take EVE Online as a comparison and want to expand on the sandbox made available there. Instead of CCP providing "Citadels" to the players, in a sandbox it should be other players constructing and selling "Citadels" and many other things a creative community will come up with.
It will be interesting to see, how this added freedom and sandbox will play out.
Getting to the point of this post, again you often refer to EVE Online and the community, the mark