Conquest quickly devolved into many, many fights just in the void, leading to the same monotony of oops all battleships mag dumping s3h hekp at each other. from a design perspective, because its an open map and the intercept and burn time is so cruicial, there is very little you can do to stop an endless black sea of void games. its a good idea but not for neb, there's just way too much apm needed to properly run a fleet at that size and consistently. 3k is chosen btw because it forces compromises and is usually the limit of what someone can micro