Wormholes

I'll be honest... This is an intriguing idea... But I think the Bad Idea's thread is this way

The issue with it is that it would allow for unequal force projection through a wormhole. You can bring 4 dreads into my system, but I and everybody else can only bring 3 into yours. This would only be good for people living in these god-forsaken systems and bad for everyone else.

The current mechanic, while maybe not perfect, is at least fair.

Edit: Actually, on a +10% hole, if you were attempting to just seed capitals between a C6 BH and any other C6 (there is only one C6-C6 BH btw), you could seed as many as 5 capitals at a time. Also if you were committing to the fight this would allow for 3 dread, 1 carrier, and a considerable sub-capital fleet of t3's.

Make them traps.

Getting podkilled in BH makes you lose 100/200/300/400/500/600k sp by putting a negative training roadblock or removing skill level from your biggest sp skill until the dues are paid.

Harvester module Cycle duration -25% -44% -55% -68% -85% -100%
(Salvagers, strip miners, ect)

So, from the look of things the original intent was to support MWD/AB PvP at basically knife range, except that's not exactly uncommon anyway and the speed change actually throws a lot of things out of whack as far as speed tanking goes. It's fun to like, zoom around in a cov-ops your first trip into one but I can't imagine living in one.

I do like the theme though but the other sites have much more direct buffs to certain styles of play. Some more than others, certainly, but the black hole is more of a fun toy than somewhere you would want to live because of how it functions.

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How about the following:

I'm going for a theme around missile based bonuses. They tend to not get a lot of love in PvP or elsewhere and I think it would be cool to have a wormhole where the Phoenix really shines as a dread of choice.

Missile velocity increase: Not too much, say 5% or even 2.5% per class level but enough to make the Tengu and other missile boats have some really scary damage projection. Right now I don't feel the current decrease adds much beyond a "no HAM Legion fleets here" sign and some annoyance. Besides it conflicts rather annoyingly with the velocity bonus to everything else.

Explosion Radius: Decreased by up to 50%. Potential problems with dread-blap but possibly mitigated by the missile travel time, giving enemies in PvP the chance to react to the incoming missiles and overheat hardeners and mitigate damage.

Tracking: Minus 5% per level. This basically says if you're bringing gun-boats into this hole you'd better not rely on tracking or bring tons of webs. Moros, go home you're drunk.

Falloff: I'm somewhat partial to the falloff penalty but that might be too much of a hit to Arties which would, at this point, be the least affected turret system. The idea here is that space is a little distorted so your guns are pretty hit or miss.

Warp Velocity: This is more of a "just for fun" thing that may end up having interesting consequences. Lets let warp zip you around up to 50% faster. Maybe this will let your bomber beat that Noctis back to the exit hole, maybe not.

Velocity Bonus: After some mulling I think I'd leave this but at max 50% effectiveness. Yes, it hurts missile damage but in PvE you can web everything down anyway and the explosion radius boost helps mitigate it, especially with larger missiles. It supports a kiting setup which range boosted missiles would be absolutely scary in or short range brawls with heavy use of Webs.

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Overall I think this would help give Black Holes a unique play style, similar to the other wormholes and allow owners of a Black Hole to make use of some less utilized ships in defense of their home (and for making tons of ISK).

Have the black hole affect cpu and powergrid output of a ship. I bet you could get some crazy fits going.