EVE General Discussion

About 3 weeks ago i took my first trip inside a wh and scored a couple of kills with my brand new SB which got me quite hyped so i have bee on the hunt for at least a couple of hours every day. To my disappointment, i have not seen a single person on any sleeper sites/mining/hauling. All i've been seeing is bubbles POS's with inactive ships for 99% of the time or the occasional astero scanning around.

I can confidently say that i've become pretty good at probe scanning and Dscanning and i can quickly find POS's in wh's. Also i try not to use probes early inside wh's so that i won't scare people off. But where is everyone?

My question as a WH noobie is: Is this scarcity of targets typical in wh's or is it something that changed with the Hyperion patch? Also, should i give it some time for the changes to sink in or should i be looking for outher sources of pvp? I've been to plenty C3-C6's and even though there is a POS in almost every one of them, i rarely see sleeper wrecks or mined ore fields.

At this point i im focusing on my SB and within the next month i will be in a pretty good spot gank wise, but it's not my gank i have an issue with but the lack of targets.

So, anyone who could shed some light to my mysterious back luck would be greatly appreciated

7o

Good WHers wont let themselves be seen.

Bad ones, well hang out at the entrance if it opens in Highsec and there will be a Buzzard or a Stealth Bomber along any minute.

Wormholes suck. The vast majority of WH activity will be a few big groups and then people like yourself flying in looking for easy kills. The people you'll catch are normally solo or small group players who have no clue what they are doing and will usually pack up and leave shortly after you kill them. The problem is that wormholes are much harder work (because of the logistics issues) and the benefit for that is miniscule. Without being in a huge group that can farm en masse, they're better off running incursions or blitzing missions.

So yeah, targets will be scarce. It's another example of where they've tried to make the game so "hardcore" that any would-be target is put off from venturing there, so all you are left with is a handful of hunters with no prey to hunt.

Lol, I read it well enough. He's sad that he's got no targets, and he's hunting in an area that has ~2500 systems (more than low and highsec combined) and the lowest population in the game. The problem isn't that he's launching his probes and alerting all of these magic womholers to scatter, it's that there's a ridiculously low number of people in the space, so running into one of them is a bloody miracle.

That almost sounds like you think it shouldn't be as it is. As far as I have understood the devs regarding WH space in general, the way it is is exactly as intended. In that sense, yes that scarcity is normal and not a Hyperion issue.

Fair enough. But dont say I didnt warn you

A great thing about W-space is the thrill of the hunt. W-space is full of absolute boring moments. But then there are some epic moments in between that makes it all worth it. So it depends on what kind of person you are. If you have the patience to work hard in order to get some great moments then W-space is epic. This guy seem to be very successful despite being rather new: https://www.youtube.com/user/wingspantt

The population and general activity in wormhole space has been on the decline for some time now. This is mostly to do with the fact that CCP haven't added anything new and interesting since wormholes were introduced to the game.

Instead of a wormhole expansion, Hyperion was essentially a nerf to wormhole space and in a small way, it destroyed what the community have spent years building and turned this area of space into something less fun.

I makes more sense now to live in K-space running incursions or whatever, and just pop into wormhole space when I feel like it... but will there be anyone left to hunt?

There was a devblog with charts in which area how much PvP happens. Nullsec was the most by a far margin, but I'm not sure on which place wh space ranked. But this shows thats its no big wonder why you can't find anyone

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