Wormholes

I am adding this thread to the forums, so that it's easy for people who browse this subsection of the forums to find my CSM post.

I appreciate all of the support I have received so far with my CSM candidacy, and I urge you all to keep it up! I have spent some time updating the posts in my CSM thread, and I will continue to do so as we approach the elections, so keep checking back for updates!

You can find my CSM candidacy thread here: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=196000&find=unread

Wormholes may not be the largest part of the EVE community, but we are one of the most active and vocal. We need someone who knows the community, and who can reach out across allegiance and organizational lines to talk to all aspects of the community!

I am that person.

No matter which candidate you end up choosing, make sure the wormhole candidates are all at the top of your voting lists, so our community gets represented on CSM 8!

Remember that teamspeak meeting few days ago Cipreh when I told you I would prolly vote for you if you weren't in Transmission Lost...


Guess i have to eat my hat now

hmm wonder what happened there

Cip gets my votes.

He's been in the wh game pretty much from the beginning. He's proven over the years that he can work with diverse groups (big, small, smart, dumb, puppy lovers and puppy haters). He's done the merc/pvp thing and now he's done the carebear thing in transmission lost so he knows both the man side and the school girl side of wh life (luv ya bane and noobs). I would say what I like most about him is he has demonstrated his ability to blow up all you ships AND not be a D1&K about it on more than one occaision. He lives the wh attitude and I have faith that he wouldn't do anything to mess it up. In my discussions with him, it's clear to me he understands the 'big picture' and will work to keep wh space fun for everyone big and small.

If you want a guy that will work to preserve our way of playing eve then he's your guy.

I feel that wormholes are in need of iteration, if they continue along the current vein, we will be looking at another stagnated feature that CCP has neglected. We've reached a point in the progression out here where the only way to compete with one another is through evictions, which only serve to diminish our community, or with the ever increasing strategic cruiser blobs, which discourage smaller organizations from getting involved. If CCP iterates on w-space, I think we need new conflict drivers so that we aren't forced to grind structures for evictions in the hope of getting a fight, as well as ways to bring new blood into the wormhole community.

CCP has stated in the past that wormholes were not designed for long term inhabitation, but we players, have carved out a niche in this section of space and made it work beyond what CCP had envisioned. We should be very proud of ourselves for it, that's EVE in its greatest form, the emergent gameplay that makes us love this game so much. However, because of this, I feel that the dynamics of wormhole space need to be looked at.

What is your take on the mexican standoffs that happen 95% of the time in higher up wormholes? I am talking about each side having a large fleet+ caps on their respective sides with dreads at range along different angels that make an engagement impossible. What would you do to remove such deadlocks and bring more fights to the higher classes?

Do you think the jump from class 5 to class 6 is to little? Because now the difference between C5 and C6 is quite minimal (cap escalations as the main source of isk are the same, bonuses are not that better the only major difference is that they are way safer from invasion because collapsing into them is not feasible). If we take a look at c1-c4 they all have different properties and levels of progression that make them unique while the c5-c6 jump is just meh. What would you do to improve on this? I am talking about things like more statics. way harder sites and other things that would make people want to move to a class 6 instead of just hiding in a class 5.

Would you push ccp to increase the number of dynamic wormholes and increase their spawn rate so that we get more deep and branched out chains that would have more chance of conflict?

Here is a little out of the box idea what do you think about "ghost" sigs that would appear all the time as you scan but would lead to nowhere once they are scanned. They could appear as all the sig strengths. Adding this concept to d-scan would also be interesting.

I hope that you agree that wormholes as they are today (at least c4,5,6) need some much needed changes.

YAY vote for cip .. umm .. YAY .

Your people want to know.

Pancakes or waffels ?

1.) Are we just supposed to roll with it? Personally I would be fine with dreads being unable to hit anything bigger then a cap even if it breaks the way sites are run and all those fancy Moros skills go to "waste" . Those very specific situations you are talking about come up damn frequently tbh.

2.) I was referring to mass limits in c1's, dual statics in c2's and empire only statics in c3's not the difference in combat sites. The hiding part was a little over the top true.

3.)Never bitched about anyone chain collapsing no sure where you got that from. Please the biggest chain I can remember scanning had only like 30 systems counting all the dynamic c5 chains that I found in nullsec. So my point is still the same increasing the spawn rate of dynamics would bring more interesting and deeper chains that would allow for more surprise attacks.

4.) If you think that scanning is boring then what are you doing living in w-space? The fake sigs where intended as a way of making w-space even more dangerous by masking incoming holes and the like so instead of having one probe out checking for 10's you would need an dedicated scanner scanning down new sigs all the time. But yeah it's kinda harsh could work well with d-scan only showing partial results and fakes tho.

Can't post on unsubed accounts bro. If you really what to know who I am you can easily find out from the links you posted earlier.
But we should drop this the questions where addressed to Cip for people to get a feeling what kind of candidate he is.