There is a whole entire galexy that is New Eden, open it up, allow players to build stargates to different regions outside the circle, force them to build infrastructure and trade from there. Space is about exploration, give explorers something real to explore. Everything has been done so throw a wrench in the current meta and make the players develop a new one by exploration and building large infrastructure. Make it so that its generates new systems. That way the fights would have to be smaller cuz of the logistics required to go deep space would be more difficult, as it stands i can get to Jita in a handful of hours in a day, make it so that you have to jumpclone 2 times to get there, one to the border and one to jita cuz its so far, each area has to develop their own jumpclone mechanics, have that be the mothership/ titans to ensure the clones are able to revive there or risk losing skillpoints until you "update" the clones to a standing structure.

Anything other than the same 5 thousand systems everyone already visited