Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Wormholes are today vital to the area of eve known as unknown space (WH-space) for obvious reasons, but to known space (K-space) they're nowhere close to the utilization that the gates have. This suggestion won't take them close, but it is in my opinion that they're an underused resource for the game. Their current properties matches the the needs for links between WH-space very well, but it makes them underwhelmning in many situations compared to gates in K-space. The two big reasons for that is they're harder to access and limited in capacity. My idea is to modify the K-space -> K-space wormholes, in order to make them more attractive for a large majority of the population in Eve.

My suggestion is:

• Make K-space to K-space wormholes into anomalies instead of signatures
• Increase the total jump mass (not per jump) and/or mass regeneration radically

Reasoning and effect:
Making them into anomalies will increase their use, especially the use by the ppl who stumble upon them. Instead of being neglected by many as signatures since ppl in K-space often don't have a scanner along, they will become opportunities. I know that diligence should be rewarded, but I think the value this would bring to so many outweights that in this particular topic.

Increasing the mass before collapse would make them more relevant for bigger needs. I'm mostly thinking about hauling here, like if a wormhole that connected two tradehubs actually could handle the traffic for a couple of hours. That amount would also enable big fleets to show up where the enemy didn't expect it to or allow a corporation/alliance to realocate easily.

I would guess that atleast the second idea has been suggested before, but I couldn't find it in the stickied "Commonly proposed ideas" and I think that both ideas warrant some attention. What do you say?

No. Exploration does not need decrease in content, it needs an increase.

I know how to scan, which is why I know that they're specific types of ships that you want to scan with and that you scan for specifics types of tasks. No one takes the time look through the systems on route for possible shortcuts since it involves reshipping and getting taking the time to scan those sites. You might say that this begs the question whether anyone deserves that shortcut. I'd say we do. A shortcut serves it purpose better if it's easily accessible. There's a reason as why ppl don't look all over for a random shortcut and that's because it takes more time to find compared to the gain in travel time.

I personally would like to see some type of sleeper homeworld incursion type content, I know this sounds bad right? but hear me out lol.

Basics:

Entries to homeworlds via core systems.
Incursion type dynamic (entries with sleepers around them, added sleepers and possibly new/extra sites in system)
Homeworld entries larger and more stable than standard entries.
Homeworld systems have non anchorable moons.
Homeworld systems have no static exit and can remain closed for days/weeks or even a month.

I don't care for this idea. The removal of things that require pilot action (scanning; signatures, ships, etc) and skill (efficiency) for things that do not require any of the aforementioned (anomalies; free effortless content, free effortless Intel, less attention to detail and game mechanics) is a very bad trend.

It should be discouraged whenever suggested by CCP or by player. You should feel discouraged.

And there you go, if you need or it can be useful you look for it and thus use it.

Those who have no need for it, do not care about them.

Seems normal and fine.

No, because not everyone needs to know about secret passages, and we don't need even more stuff where you can easily camp on. Besides, this would be a massive inconsistency. Why are only these WH's anomalies, but others not? The content is already there, you, however, need to look for it first. That is what Exploration is about.

You're generalizing and missing the point. First off, they're random, so you can't be certain to find anything even if you scan through every system within 10 jumps. And are you really sure that only the ones that need something, care for it?
I'm saying that wormholes can be so much more than it currently is.

Wormholes in W-Space are random in destination as well (this includes statics, its just a more of a focused random).

So should those wormholes be Anomalies as well?

Imo, no, since everyone and his grandma in W-space got a scanner with him/her. The random whs are just a piece of the daily work out here.