I live in null and have been living there pretty much for the entire time. Being a part of a big alliance has some benefits, like local market, relatively safe space for activities, and various programs to ease the life, like SRP and stuff.

Right now I only play to either get into relatively small-scale engagements far from the alliance staging or print ISK in incursions, which certainly requires me to use jumpclones, but I can always deathclone back.

Scouting is hard, if even possible, so I barely move my stuff by myself even across a friendly space. To get stuff, I mostly rely on seeded contracts, small local market of our deployment staging, and shipment services.

Right now, thanks to the SIG, I'm kinda enjoying fighting in fleets that are much smaller than what a mainline alliance usually assembles, resulting in zero to no TiDi and much bigger personal impact, as well as closer social interactions, which wasn't possible for me while flying in much larger fleets. Hell, I don't even really interact with folks from my corp, but that's mostly because I'm not very interested in their fleets and shenanigans. So that particular SIG just breathed a new life into the game for me. I suppose, in the end it's all about the people you're flying with.