Wormholes

Mass limits will reduce the potential for blobbing in straight up fights to a degree and even with increased recruitment no one rushes to do POS bashes in a WH :P (and in the long term its generally counter-productive - 9/10 POS bashes in WH space are down to either someone smacktalking/generally being a jerk or 100% carebear corps that duck out of every fight even when they have the numbers online and active to feasibly fight).

It might mean C5 space becomes busier but afaik theres quite a lot of room there to take more people in - off the top of my head only something like 1 in 6 C5 system is properly "settled" - will make it a lot harder to run sites uninterrupted but thats only really a problem for 100% carebears.

I don't really see CCP giving wormhole space that much attention for the foreseable future beyond things like POS updates as far as the core mechanics go its one of the least broken parts of eve.

wow you guys are pretty grim im gonna still be blowing **** up!

i do not think your analysis is accurate. for one thing, small-ish gang pvp is enforced by mass limitations. you can only get so many caps and support into your static, even if it's a c6->c6. which leads us to the second point.

massive coalitions are only useful when you need to cover vulnerability. this will not be the case, as more and more wormhole systems will amass enough firepower inside to easily defend against anything that could come out of an incoming WH. to seriously attack a reinforced system, you would have to rotate your static till you get lucky several times. otherwise, you just won't be able to bring enough hulls inside to keep up the attack on the enemy POSes. the only dangers for highly reinforced systems will be sabotage and member burnout.

as for gas monopoly: i do not have the exact numbers but my guess is that the booster market is much much smaller than the T2 market. therefore it is not likely that the big entities (even if they would arise) would bother with a cartel agreement.

my own predictions depend very much on the fate of T3s. personally, i do not believe that T3s will be nerfed significantly. the versatility argument that T3 opponents usually bring does not hold, except in very few situations where people do not have a semisafe station or POS to hold a few significantly cheaper specialized ships. therefore, T3s need to stay what they are now: most powerful in their class/role but also most expensive.
if CCP agrees with this assessment, nothing much will change except for what i described above. the major powers will harden their grip on their home systems and keep harassing each other and smaller powers in lower-class holes.
if by some unfortunate stroke of luck, wormhole life becomes less fortunate, beit by a nerd to T3s or a direct nerf to blue sleeper loot, w-space will become less and less populated until a new equilibrium is found where more carebears move in for mining and PI, whereas the PVP corp count goes slightly down. most PVPers will remain though, as someone will have to collect the tears of said carebears.

Ok the way I see it you have limited experience of w-space. None of the things you listed WILL EVER HAPPEN. I dont know what sort of coalition you need in order to control 500+ C5s and 100+ C6s. Also, who would be willing to live in all the horrible C5s, the ones that open into lower class w-space or, god forbid, c4s or the ones that have Black Hole effect. Ugh.

As far as I am aware all the large / notable / successful w-space entities have their POS security setup pretty well. The limited amount of recruits you see coming into w-space is not because we are hesitant to recruit potential thieves, its because we are trying to recruit active and experienced players. I am of the STRONG opinion that we do not need POS changes except a few minor tweaks such as, swapping out subsystems on Tech 3 ships, ability to repackage in CHAs and the ability to fit out ships through the Fitting menu when using our SMA / CHA combo.

Honestly, I don't foresee wormhole space changing all that much. Only changes to wormhole space will be features that affect eve as a whole, such as poses, rather than wormholes specifically. Maybe the music change will give wormholes their own specific music set.

I know enough to feel comfortable talking about it but admittedly i have never lived in a C5 or C6 wormhole, nor have i done much in the way of T3 manufacture. Are you saying that if several of the large entities grouped together that they would NEVER be able to affect/manipulate the T3 market?

Like it or not the POS system is being reworked, probably in a way that will have a massively affect on wormhole pvp tactics. It's nice that you recruit experienced players but not every one thinks like you or cares about good fights... But until ccp give us specifics, it's anyone guess how things will turn out.

Huge coalitions already exist in high class wormholes.

In the future large alliances will continue to fortify their citadel wormholes with more and more capitals :)

It's going to be hilariously **** if this is going to be what happens...

If CCP remove force fields it will mean that pos bashing can be done with close range, high dps setups. If a 20-30 T3 fleet can come into your system for a fight and then bash your pos with the same fleet, this drastically change the way we operate in w-space.

Mass limits are not as restrictive as you make out. All a group has to do is amass a large enough force to control the wormhole entrance, and then they can bring in what they want.

Correct, even if you find a coalition that can control most of C5s, they will not be able to control them 24/7 and someone sooner of later will sneak in and mine the gas. That is considering that this giant coalition will be able to COMPLETELY control their own ranks, even pilots in big alliances need ISK and need to replace their ships, trying to hold them from mining gas is going to be difficult and cause drama. In the end the largest entities in w-space do think mostly like I do and they do actively seek good fights, that is why you will never see a mega coalition, oh there might be a temporary one to evict some null sec alliances but after the deed is done we always go back to shooting each other.