EVE General Discussion

So yesterday they revealed the new WH System "Thera" (I believe its called). A new superhub system located in a Wormhole. A Wormhole which will have NPC stations and be massive in scale. (Over 250AU). In addition to having stations, it will also have no local, Sleeper Sites and a new WH effect. Alliances/Corps cannot place any POS's/ Stations as well.

CCP hopes that this will be the Sigil (or Mos Eisley) of EVE.

While I do think the idea has merit I see a major problem with this new system.

Whats to stop one of the major power blocks to just seize control of the whole system? The WH will have (multiple) statics to K-Space. All of which can easily be controlled by the Power Block.

I cannot see this "Thera" system becoming a trade hub as well, simply since there is no concord and everybody and their mother will be out to gank.

Perhaps in the coming weeks we will get some more background information on this Special WH system and how CCP thinks to balance it, so that everyone can profit from it.

Pirates however...Ohh my...will they have a field day

If there's no bubbles in the system then there's a decent chance that a trade hub will form. It might be a problem if one power bloc tries to take control, but I'm not sure I see the benefit of that over selling their stuff there.

NPC stations in wormholes. Never thought I'd see that day.

I think CCP devs and the idea crew are hitting the booze and that's a good thing.

To be precise it will have usual wh local :)

And I guess environment itself will "limit" ability to totally dominate this system. After all when one hole closes another opens and you cannot camp/bubble them all. And since right now wh signature shows on scanner AFTER somebody jumped through it you cannot really catch first wave of visitors. Also no caps allowed should force entities to field much more pilots should they want to try to dominate.

I'm sure there will be some fun and stories coming from that place but we will see how it will play out when it hits TQ. I will be watching map for growing red spot in w-space but personally I'm more excited about clone changes and new stuff "a little closer to home".

Not enough info on thera, although I think it will be awesome. Also interdiction nullifiers and instant undocks handle the whole station camp bit pretty well.

You have to keep in mind that smallish groups have done remarkably well against larger entities in both npc 0.0 and wormholes. GSF has been kicked out of wh space repeatedly, for example. Ditto -A-, back when they were only partially zombified.

Mass limitations will reduce casual blobbing into the system, though it will no doubt be possible with a concerted effort. The blocs won't be able to control it because, quite frankly, there isn't much that can stop a cloak-nullified t3 - or a ceptor gang for that matter from moving in or out. Likewise, all but the most dedicated gatecamps will be relatively easy to bypass in bombers, covops, recons, asteros and stratios'.

How do you create an instant undock bookmark in a crowded system where everyone will shoot everyone on sight?

The Thera idea is awesome nevertheless.

So it's Old Man Star without gate guns?

It would be tragic If they allow bubbles there... otherwise could be very fun

It's actually a low sec defined as a wormhole. What happened in low sec will happen there.
However its huge scale could make some differences.

No worries, Marmites will guard it 24/7. Now if I only could get Concord to pay us for it