Player Features and Ideas Discussion

We are only a short period into the new patch but already I see some changes which affect my game play.

I see less traffic roaming around my area now, probably due to no dt exploit for officers/faction spawns.

Plexes seem to be less frequent and drops seem to be less in value.

This appears to have put an emphasis on NPC missioning.

All of this seems to have dried up a lot of systems/areas to be dead.

I was wondering if anyone else that lives in Null NPC had experienced any similar unexpected knock on affects from the patch to their game play?

Thanks for any feedback.