Wormholes

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frig holes are overvaluated. their lifetime should be max 8 hours if not 6 or 5 hours.
there should be developped also cruiser and battlecruiser holes to balance this , now is huge mess and chaos.

For those with limited understanding of player behavior here's an explanation of why increasing risk without extra reward is negative for both hunters and hunted.

Right now for the lower class WH the risk vs reward is as follows.

REWARD (50mill per site on average)
VS
RISK (250mill required ships vs chance of getting cought 1/?)

Before hyperion id say 1/10 chance of getting killed(including roling wh). Which meant income was similar to highsec but leaned heavily on a luck factor. My corp has been in the WHS for years now so this is an accurate estimate.

After hyperion id say the chance of getting killed 1/2 or 1/3 so you make 100 mill/150mill for every 250 mill you pour into to this isk sinkhole.

Granted i cant accurately prove what the increased risk is yet.
But based on the fact that you cant role the whs with a small corp in a lower clas wormhole i can make a good estimate.
Because if we didnt close the whs while running sites the chance of getting killed whent up by 500%.

Im pretty sure CCP doesnt want to role back the changes so i suggest improving revenue in the lower class wh's and decreasing other risks.

Here are some suggestions

1
All sites have to be scanned down in LOWER class wh's. - RISK
(this should dial back the pray has to fall into my lap mentality of pvpers that like to shoot things that dont shoot back)

2
Make the PI command centers in the WH more efficient and have larger capacity. + REWARD
This benifits lower class wormholes because these are connected to empire space.
The increased efficiency will generate more isk per click(matches nicely with crius).
This should make the PI people flok into the wh's and give the hunters some extra targets.

3
Create a special burner mission anomoly for LOWER class wh's

4
Be creative ;)

For more emergence the accessibility of LOWER class wh's didnt need to be fixed .
Higher rewards generates more competition which in turn generates more emergence.

The reward system in wh's is simply broken.
The C5 & C6 are making tens billions a day and the lower class whs have a hard time making a billion a week.
For a corps with 10 members thats just terrible.
You might aswell mine veldspar in a venture all week long.

guys, c5/6 space seems to be far less infected by this. Still farm haven

Are you under the impression that people who PLEX are costing CCP subscription money?

PLEASE reduce also other wormhole spawn rate too. because living in wormhole is now lottery , if you manage eoungh assault frigs you can easily take out POS . keep the random wh spawn and frig spawn low for lower class wormholes , higher wormhole class higher spawn rate , if settings for spawn are global for all wormholes , keep them at minimum then

So POS's and POS structures in WH's should be untouchable?

I am from a small WH corp with not many active players, the increase in random connections is really killing our interest in WH Life.

1) We have so many random connections that it can take 2+ hrs to scan out a chain, not a problem for a bigger corp with multiple scanners but an issue for corps with only 1 scanner at a time. Scanning the chain has changed from the excitement of possible content to an endless chore.

2) More connections for blobbers to blob through. Again not an issue for larger corps but smaller ones are defenceless against these roaming t3 blobs. They can just waltz in through their new random connection and kill any hope of content for the day.

3) Frigate holes also favour the blobber. Regenerating mass means that they can put through as many ships as they like with no fear of being rolled out.

You have stated that your intention for Hyperion was to;

- Create some variety and excitement in wormhole mechanics since most haven’t changed in many years.

- Provide ways for players to engage more fully with the random and mysterious elements of wormhole life and a ease back on attempts to ‘tame’ and control wormhole mechanics.

However instead you have;

- Taken out the excitement and suspense in new connections and WH life in general.

- Provided greater blobbing opportunities for larger groups who still have control over their connections.

WH space used to be something that groups of all size could live in and enjoy, now it seems that only the larger groups can have the fun. It's a real shame what the Hyperion update has done to WHs as they were the only part of EVE I really enjoyed.

yep and wonder when ccp introduce stations and stargates for wormholes. i dont like the idea , wormholes have to be random they cannot be excepted .

uhm, I just noticed , there is a little feedback over here also.
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=364402&p=89

just in case Falcon did not point you to it yet.. :)