Wormholes

im going to suggest this in here because this is where wormholes are likely to read it. If the thread takes off and there is some good discussion maybe it can be moved to Features and Ideas forum... We all know that c2's have multiple statics which is great but my question is why only c2's?

Currently in wormholes there is very little reason to fight over a system because you can probably find another system with the same effect and same static thats empty. If there was some c5's or c3's for example with multiple statics there might be some reason to fight over them.

Most of the time when scanning a chain from the c5 i live in it just goes from static to static eventually leading to k-space, its just a straght line which can only be scanned efficiently by 1-2 people.

I would love to see a wormhole chain that branched all over the place where there was more wormholes than 2 people could scan at a time and you could literally send out a swarm of scanners can be connected to 10,15,20 wormholes all at once.

So anyone know the reasoning why only c2's have multiple statics? would others like to see other wormholes have multiple statics or is it just me?

Benefits:
- Multiple wormhole chains, more variety
- More difficult to wall off a so called 'fortress wormhole'
- I ncreased chance of PvP and encountering other players

Problems:
- Changing existing wormholes may give current owners an advantage due to luck
??? help me out guys

yeah it would be good to live in a wormhole with multiple statics in a high class wormhole ^^

im gonna try find his blog post about the issue

why not both? variety is the spice of life!

but most likely different statics would be great. like haveing a c5 with static c5/c6 or c5 with c3/c5 etc...

I thought the suggestion was something along the lines of:

"If you collapse your static, there is a %age chance for a random incident wormhole to spawn"

More connections == More action

a potential problem would be changeing the statics of already populated wormholes, some corps might get lucky and get an extra static in their wormhole so i think if this was a feature that actually got implemented eventually they should add new wormholes and delete wormholes that are unocupied to counteract this.

Multiple statics would be nice especially for C4s

I'd be concerned about this as well

what i'd probably want is (one or several of the below):

a) A POCO-like system that let you choose another type of static. You anchor a structure at a specific location in-system, it lets you choose a static type from reasonable lists of statics (no static highs from c5/c6s, for example :P ) and has some sort of maintenance/fuel requirement to keep that static active.

I like this one because it adds a bit of ~mystery~ to the whole thing; you can't just look up on the intertubes which extra statics a system has, it involves some figuring and intel, and it adds a nice point of contention to w-space.

b) Add new w-space regions of the same classes that exist now, but with no moons and extra statics. Add 1 new c6 region, couple of new regions for the other wh classes per each. They kinda become the true wilderness territory that no man can own.

c) Like b), but add a new higher class of wormhole systems with lots of extra statics and no moons. They become a sort of 'communal backyard' for w-space to meet and shoot each other in the face.

Agreeing with dynamic statics (yes yes, oxymoron), but it would be interesting for those c1 inhabitants to occasionally get c6 spawns and such. Just do it based along the lines of bishops idea where normally a c1 with a static high gets that high 75% of the time and then random classes there after

How about moving some of the sites to only those systems. Maybe highend ladars will only spawn in the backyard systems. (Or just spawn a lot more frequently.) Give people a reason to try and lock them down and control them while they are connected besides just good fights. (They should also have more dynamics into them)

I personally dont like the idea of allowing people to choose the static of a wormhole, i dont see wormholes as being something thats player controlled. If new wormholes were added to the game with multiple statics it would make groups have to make a choice if they want to fight over and eventually move to the new systems.

If you think about this from a designers point of view changeing the code to give wormholes another static is relitively simple compared to creating a new type of module and interface to allow people to choose their own static. The more i think about choosing a static the more i think its ridiculous lol.