Alot of work has been put into these old systems and the presence of them not only makes the game more interesting, but it offers plenty of things to do in the game such as exploration. Removing systems just so pirates can pirate more and so that traders make less profitable routes is not the way for the future of this mod. Old systems could be used for a variety of RP reasons, Chester was a fantastic idea of this for Wild RP within Bretonia.
Is this really how we will attract new players to this mod, to keep the server population healthy?