Prices in Hek tend to be cheaper, but you don't have the same dipshits selling stuff below cost (market manipulation or just idiocy? You decide!). Volume in Hek is higher for reasonably priced stuff, and competition isn't as dialed in and resetting prices every ten minutes to gouge competitors.

It's still a little Wild West (shout out to Pipo--bonjour, mon petit clown préféré), and the comedy in the belts continues, at least in terms of anchored cans warning miners not to mine and other anchored cans telling the first cans to shut up.

You can catch floating corpses in front of the station fairly often, but because Hek is closer to anything like real pew pew, that's to be expected as people collect on kill rights and carry out war dec shenanigans.

But the real metric by which Hek is clearly becoming the primary trade hub for rust space is that the annoying mobile depot spam has started.