Wormholes

I didn't want to **** up my ideas thread with discussion, so allow me to respond.

Your idea for having people be active to have to defend is fine in theory, but what about time zone differences? To expect a small corp to be able to defend themselves now is hard enough, but if their tz is totally opposite of yours, it would be virtually impossible to have any defense against anyone with what you are proposing. The only thing that gives the smaller corps any hope is the effort it takes to smash a pos/system. Taking the bulk of that away would not encourage anyone to stay in wh space once all their stuff is gone.

You don't have the authority to grant that title.

I'd like to take a "non-troll" approach to this thread. Ignore my first post.



In my recommendation to Bane, I said "settlements". I agree with your idea, and I think that wormholes would benefit with allowing options that create infrastructure and elevate a wormhole from a barren field/forest to a town/settlement. Creating components that are engagable intice would-be invaders.



I wrote an article about farms and fields for nullsec ages ago and I think something similar would be good for wormholes, but only at a system level of course.



I agree with Bane to a degree that TZ's would create an issue with this idea, however timers have been the historic answer to this issue, but also, to properly implement a conflict driver to wormhole farms and fields, we would need something drive visitors to attack inhabitants, while making it lucrative for inhabitants to build the structures.



Yes. Make it lucrative to build a settlement, requiring the settlers to protect their home, but also make it lucrative to invade. CONFLICT DRIVERS.

I fail to see how it's a shiit move. I wasn't doing it to be insulting. I simply didn't want a ton of discussions going on in that thread

I guess I take issue with using his name in the title but if duke is okay with it, I am.

Still, stop the hole poking.

No offence, but it's irrelevant here just like when you were posting in the C7 discussion. Ideas have holes at the beginning but as they are developed and fleshed out, those ideas can be implemented in a balanced way. As I said, it is not our job to design the game.

On conflict drivers, not fighting in your pulsar is simply a lack of will. People don't really want to fight a group that uses doctrines perfectly designed for the system effect, especially if the aggressor doesn't have the right ships. This is all to do with convenience and willpower, not really conflict driving. Conflict driving is the reason and force pushing people to fight each other.

Idea discussion on a level playing field, minus the trolls, egos, alliance backgrounds and instant idea 'shoot downs' is fine.

As for the time zone differences-

My first response would be 'tough luck'- you decide to set up your stuff in dangerous space- expect there to be danger.
Either recruit people from around the globe or don't set up what you can't defend.

Other than that you can have the reinforce timer system that means the gangs can roam around and reinforce P.O.C.Os and towers and then wait 2 days for anything to happen. Obviously that can be a major time investment to people -especially WH gangs that have shifting connections. It also gives defenders time to bat phone everyone they know or titan bridge in everyone they have.

The 'farms and fields' ideas would mean more action- I personally would scan EVERYWHERE if it meant I could take out gangs and even if we couldn't find a similar gang to fight, then we had the option to burn at least some of their stuff down and take home a profit without shooting through a million hit points and waiting 24 hours for a timer to end.

For me the aim is more player interaction, more destruction, more fights but also more fights and destruction mean more industry and mining. Everyone is a winner.

Strange to write this but I have to agree with Bane on this matter. The idea suggested would only serve as further insentive for the megacorps/alliances of 300+. All well and fine in c6 space but to expect a c4 or below corp to muster around the clock timezone coverage is not healthy for wormholepsace at all.

Typical comment from a "high class power bloc"

So a corp waits until it can provide 24 hour coverage before moving into wormspace or doesn't come at all?

Great idea for getting more folks into wormspace right there Einstien, maybe you should run for CSM?

Big issue is that - once pilots settled into a HUGE corp/alliance, they forget how to do things on their own (regarding pvp). For most hostile scanners I see, it's mostly the same one/two scanners each time.

To the Pulsar-effect: Good choice. No wolf-rayet entity opening up to you even has an incentive to fight on the hole, but I doubt that's news to you. Such a connection is just worthless, can roll it right away. Inside the Pulsar, armorships are just going to get blapped by dreads, and the pulsarguys won't follow into the WR for obvious reasons. Been there, fought with an armorgang inside neighbours c5 pulsar, they dropped carriers, we went home, they didn't follow cause *WR, wtf fight on this side cowards*.