Wormholes

Well, since the Wormholes subforum seems to have turned into its own form of Features and Ideas, here's mine:

A new type of random/roaming/periodic wormhole connection, perhaps only connecting C6s to other C6s. It would list its type as a "violent" wormhole connection, similar to what the Sansha used to spawn. Upon creation in the database, it would have a secret random total allowable mass and lifespan--perhaps anywhere between 500,000 tons and 10 mil tons, and 2.4 hours to 24 hours.

However (and this is the important part), it would list no special information or change its animation at the destabilization or crit stage of either mass or time. In other words, that violent wormhole you're looking at may be able to take a fleet of capitals for the entire rest of the evening...or it might just close behind your Guardian.

These are not intended to replace static connections, as nobody wants to risk their dreadnoughts chain collapsing to look for pews or pve. But for those who want a little extra excitement in their life and find a violent wormhole connecting to SYJ's home system...why not?

You can either push as much of your fleet through it as you can and go for broke, or you can go back to hiding in your POS.

Thoughts? Suggestions? Ridicule?

So the new opposite to risk-averse is no more risk-taking, but stupid...

I had a similar idea actually, but I think it's something that may look good on paper but will actually be counter productive in practice. More of a mechanic that make the wormhole connections similarly 'violent', but having a random chance to become so unstable that it prohibits jumps for a short time. How this would work is that each ship jumping through within a few minutes has a cumulative effect on this mechanic triggering, dependent on the ships mass.

This may stop fleets escaping engagements on connections and also have a chance of reducing the number of reinforcements jumping through. The problem I see with it is that I think overall there will be less people willing to play 'wormhole roulette', so less pew.

Of course, there a couple of variations that could be workable like applying damage to passing ships with the more that pass through in a given time, or even having variable polarizing effects with chances to buff/debuff ships passing through.

Now that's an interesting idea. A violent wormhole that has a chance to ravage your shields/armor/capacitor as you pass through it.. fleeing in structure could be the end of you.

A violent connection would work better if it only activated in systems if there was online pilots on both sides of the possible connections.

Having a WH that is a complete unknown isn't a PVP incentive. It's just annoying.

Jumping your roaming gang through only to have half stuck on one side is a nice way to kill a roam and turn it into a "ok now let's find a F**King way back home"

I love the fact that after one thread every bad idea gets contribued to c6 WH'ers.

Stop crying

Forget the special stats. Just a roaming connection that rolls into Active systems.

^ Yeah i like that idea as long as it's not predictable e.g. do X 10 times and roaming WH spawns.

terrible idea is terrible.

otherwise seems legit way to get hostiles into a system, do there sites when they are not logged in and try to get more re-enforcements in.

need to get home? just do your sites.

also seems like nz/au tz people would be the only ones able to make any isk doing sites..