Local is the most important PvP intel channel you have . They say you dont miss something until its gone, so hop into a wormhole and see how it fundamentally changes all aspects of game-play, and approach to content if you are not yet convinced.
In nullsec, if you are the only person in local, for that transitory time, you are safer than you are in high sec . In high-sec a system like Jita , with its multiple thousands of players in local allows the wolves to hide among the sheep. Or in this case the carebears! So easy to miss a war-target or suicide ganker sitting in a catalyst or tornado on the undock who notices you are carrying way more in value than your ships EHP should be carrying.
Back in an empty nullsec , the only thing that can kill you is NPC pirates. Yes , things can change quickly, if you leave an "unrolled" active Wormhole (WH) in your system, someone can pop up , you not notice them and suddenly you come back from your quite autonomous ratting session to a malediction or cloaky Tech III cruiser pointing you. But , there needs to be several points of failure for that to happen. You need to leave that hole , unrolled. You need to not be watching your other intel channels that can tell you of threats approaching your ratting system and finally you need to miss watching LOCAL and seeing that neutral player pop up.
Now go live in a WH for a month and see how much you miss the safety of the warm, loving blanket that is : local.
