Wormholes

This discussion is very much driven by the most powerful w-space entities in the game. I don't think adding new statics to C4-6 is a good thing. Right now you have to choose: If you pick a C5 with static C5 or similar, you get new highly profitable sleeper sites every day and the chance to meet the other big players of w-space on a regular basis.

If you choose a C3 you get easy access to well-paying sites for 1-2 players and relative safety most of the time because you have few connections to other holes, but this is also a big disadvantage if you are not simply a farmbear but also want to pvp in wormholes. And C3s cannot support more than two reasonably active players.

If you choose a C2 you have the most options, but are still limited in that you can't have direct access to the high-end content. Which is also an advantage because you are somewhat shielded from the big guys who will only occasionally pay a random visit (for example, I have been living in several C2s for two years now and did only recently see an AHARM fleet for the first time).

If C5s get additional C2 or C3 exits, then the big corps get everything: Their high-end hole for amassing riches and play with their other big-corp frenemies, and the low-end hole for easy logistics and ganking of smaller-corp players.

That's why in my opinion, if more statics are added, they should be of the same kind. Even that is problematic because corps would get more access to more sleeper sites without having to close holes.

What about this little change: Change wormhole mechanics so that all holes are always open; once a new signature spawns the wh is active and the k162 exists without someone warping to it. This would automatically lead to a LOT more connections between systems, and less ability to turtle up in your hole. The wandering holes would also appear more often because they never get stuck in an empty backwater system for weeks like they do now.

Only if you have a team of skilled, experienced and dedicated players with no newbies. I find that flying with others almost always drags down your efficiency. As I don't really enjoy shooting at NPCs, I always preferred to rat solo so I have to spend less time on it.

In a gang, you have lost cycles because targets have already popped, inattentive people who 'forget' to restart their launchers after reloading because they know the others will keep shooting, delays for organizing and so on. And newbies who drag everyone down with their **** skills.

Back when I ratted in C3s, I made 250+ m/h solo (two chars). Nowadays I run C2s again (for not ISK-related reasons), though I have the opportunity to rat with friends in a C4. But what I hear from them, they usually make only 100-120m/h per player, and they all fly shiny ships and most also dual-box. I make about the same alone with two cheap Drakes.