Wormholes

Wanted to write exactly the same. Bet 1 Plex that is exactly the reason for this event.

Bad CCP, really bad ... No even terrible it is.

I will not donate even one of those items and kill anybody I can without exception who I find daytripping these days. Because this event will just cause a very limited short term increase of traffic. Nothing which helps with the overall bad situation. :(

Come on
It's EvE ... always bet on stupid ;)

Awkward silence from CCP tells me it's true.

One can like the changes or not, it comes down to personal preference. I hate them, and I said why in multiple posts, but who cares. Im just one of many customers, its not about me.

What I however fail to understand is this complete lack of reply by CCP in response to our 100 pages of feedback.

How hard can it be for a professional game developer to come up with a few stats, like ship-, pod- and sleeper kills in w-space, towers anchored and characters logged in per day in w-space.

plot this for a few months before hyperion to show whether there is (or is not) any decline and compare this to the time after Hyperion. I know the data should be collected over a longer period of time, but why not giving us some data now? Whats the harm?

If such data shows that Hyperion did not make it worse until now, then probably a lot of people like me would shut up and agree to disagree with Fozzie. It would have settled the issue without any bad blood.

I know Im not the only one who stopped caring tbh, now call me a whiner if you must

Well I wandered off for a bit. Read 392 of the 404 pages of the nullsec threadnaught and then 60-whatever pages of the update thread. Before that I even read some of Manny's suggestion thread which is similar to the actual changes we are getting. The tears made me feel a little better, but what I really gained was perspective. I now understand how the WH changes are related to the null changes and the direction they want the game to go in. Interestingly enough, the changes make life both harder and easier on a solo player like me.

Base level risk is increased. WH's are now more like a series of connected roads than the dark alleys they used to be. Low-sec and null will be more treacherous with capital ships being able to roam and becoming the top dogs over BS's and T3's in those arenas. In exchange for that, risk becomes more regional. Hot-drops don't happen from as far away, reducing your chances of being a target. In WH's there isn't really a risk decrease but the trade off is that you may see more traffic from outside allowing for more targets.

Before Greyscale backed off the full JF adjustment I was psyched about the market opportunities the changes would bring. I'm still psyched, it's just going to take longer to get to a point where enough changes are made to bring about real opportunities. Originally I was excited about living in a WH simply for the challenge. Now I'm excited about the prospect of bringing compressed ore to market in remote areas of space. And that could lead to other strategies that would make living in a WH fun and profitable.

Long term I wonder if eventually the more remote areas of null will be more empty due to logistic difficulties. Would that allow for me to drop out of a WH, setup a POS and live there for a bit? Ducking back down a WH in a month or so to avoid attention? Would it be worth it under whatever sov system we have by then to hide out there without sov? Who knows, it's all just ideas in my head right now.

If nothing else I'm excited by the potential for an industrial revolution in EVE. I've never been particularly savvy at making ISK, and have dabbled in many of the options, drawing from all but mastering none. Change can bring opportunity, I'm trying to focus on identifying where it can benefit me since there are so many changes happening right now. I'm hoping to be up and running in a WH again in the next few weeks. Something always seems to come up to delay it, but eventually you have to just say screw it and go in with whatever you have, ready or not!

Would it be so hard to just have SOME acknowledgement? Its been what, a month and a half since the last dev post?

This change sure ain't helping activity levels (not that I can talk too much at the moment) - most people logged off to play other games (LoL :|) last night as there wasn't much to do with another entity active in our static with 4x our online numbers and any attempt to collapse the wh would have been pretty much suicide.

If wormholes were populated with active people most of what you said would be true. But let's call it like it is. 19 times out of 20 your static is a ghost town and this terrible mechanic doesn't effect anything. It's only that 1 time out of 20 that grinds content to a screeching halt.

Still no CCP response. Almost 2 months ago was the last one!

To be honest I still cant fathom why its so difficult to even post a "don't worry we're still here!" reply, even if it doesn't show any fancy graphs or anything. At least show us that you are still reading this and are taking on board what we've said here. A reply showing us how we were all wrong with statistics to show for it would be brilliant (although the graphs would probably show the opposite), but I'd be alright with any communication at this point!

Really feels like the devs are playing the "lets ignore it and they will be quiet eventually" card at this point. If that's the case, then I do have to ask what was the point in this thread if you were just going to ignore everything said here without addressing everyone's concerns about this issue. As Corbexx has probably told you a million times, communicate with us already!

I waited for a response until a few days ago. We then took down our tower, sold all our crap (therefore you cant have it) and unsubscribed our alts.

gg