Wormholes

At first I thought this was a nice nerf to the farmholes.. with the astrahus replacing all those true sansha POS... eg now the farmholes would need a character per cap + extra characters for rolling/scouting etc. (and maybe they might need to recruit and become an actual corp instead of a single guy with 4 alts)

but then I realized all the astrahus restriction is going to do.. is encourage the farmer to join the big blocs.

Because to keep the same minimal character setup they enjoy today.. the farmholes will need a fortizar.. and their best bet will be to join a large alliance and do their farming under a large alliance safety umbrella. Because attackers are not going to blowup a farmhole if they know a 50 man blob is going to show up to defend it... and then knock on their own door a few weeks later.

Thumbs up CCP ! Your successfully turning wormhole space into SOV.

Calm down man lol.. don't do yourself an injury.

Lets say your a guy who wants to farm in c5 / c6 space. You can set up by yourself and hope no one comes in and kicks the door down. Or you could put a pvp toon in one of the major alliances and then setup your farm hole under their protection umbrella.

The smart ones already do...

Now with POS's going away the slower ones are either going to have to pony up for a fortizar and defend it themselves which they wont be able to do..or get more toons cause they cant put their caps in the FF while they roll with BS etc or join a alliance and have protection for their farm hole fortizar for the cost of one extra pvp toon.

Right now if a independent farmer gets invaded he logs off caps, throws everything he can carry into a orca with a spare pos in the cargo and then logs off until the invader bores himself to death shooting a empty pos. Then when they leave he puts another POS up and starts farming again. They not going to do that if they have to lose a 26 billion fortizar each time.

As for your claim that alliances wont defend the farmholes. They not going to rush to defend if a PVE cap or two gets ganked but if someone is taking down their members farmholes then they will do something about it. This happened just recently when HK invaded duralex cause they were attacking HK members farms. (and there is nothing wrong with that.. they are defending their isk making ability upon which their pvp and other stuff is built.)

Some will. Some will also leave wormhole space to do incursions etc. I don't think many will stick around as small independent farm corps in higher class space.

Im a fan of small - medium size corps in wormholes. Ive got nothing against bigger corps who build a empire.. the mechanics allow it .. so why not.. But I just think wormholes are healthier when there are smaller groups rather than large sov like blocs.

It's not going to force our small group into joining a big bloc :- The character that used to do pi, pvp, pve, rolling wormholes and the hauling of goods to market etc will sit in a single ship unused for most of the time.

Together two unskilled alts will make less ISK because why risk a Rorqual to jump in an Epithal to do a pi run. Switching to a combat ship to fight visitors will be a non-started so little or no PVP.
Without the skills of the main the ALTS having a few million sp each will only be able to do a fraction of what the main could and our online activity will drop significantly

- EVE will become less fun and more of a chore

I want something to store capital ships that does not cost as much as a super.
I think a fuel requiring service module for small citadels that can store a limited amount of capitals would be a valid solution.

Made up?!
A sitter chars for each Dread and FAX? This is so stupid, I doubt you though a second about it. Maybe suggest to share accounts next.

because that functionality was already present in the POS system and a large is a much higher cost of entry.

Doesn't mean you can't do it but just because you can do it doesn't mean that should be the only option.

You don't want other options, you want YOUR, because your a special ******* snowflake and don't want to adapt.

POS are going away, get used to it and stop looking for CCP to handhold you cause 'think of the small/poors/reasons'

Dropping 20 billion to protect the 10-15 billion you have in capitals is too much? Ookay....

For those 20 billion, you get a station that is much more defendable than the POS ever was, that is invulnerable for 90℅ of the time at your chosen times, has better asset security against theft, gives you a market and the ability to switch clones without a timer, unlimited storage space...

Eve has always been a game where you need to adapt to the changes and this is no different. Adapt or die