Wormholes

Anyone living in a wormhole knows the nightmare that is the POS interface. You're probably also familiar with how long most of the current complaints have been on CCP's "To do soon(tm)" list. There've been many discussions and blogs on the subject, but as far as I'm aware the only wormhole specific one was Two Step's vision for modular POSs (highly suggest you read that if you haven't already)

So my question to you, as a wormhole resident, is what do YOU want to see changed with regards to POS?

I largely embrace Two Step's vision as he describes it, but with one caveat: from the exterior, "Docked" and online players and their current ship must be visible. If you wish to be hidden from prying eyes, cloak up. Allowing an infinite ammount of active an online players to effectively hide in a dockable station will only provide more incentive for blobbing. The present mechanics regarding scouting to see what your neighbours have active aren't broken and do not need fixing.

Thoughts?

I have read Two Step's blog about it and am very much fond of his ideas. It has recently been discussed in the CSM as far as I know, so I am just waiting to hear more of what has been discussed with the devs.

Docking in a POS would completely change the w-space game, probably not for the better. Without local, putting eyes on ships is the primary means if getting intel. This would create a MASSIVE advantage for defenders being able to hide their numbers without leaving the POS shield. Another thing I'm opposed to is personal hangars. I think one of the hardships of living out of a POS *should* be that you are limited in what you can keep to yourself.

I want to see POS management beefed up so that permissions are done properly and people aren't robbed just because they can't clearly see what a given player has access to. One good fix would be the ability to set permissions on hangars so that a hangar could be shared to the corp without assigning roles. SMA divisions or permissions/passwords on individual SMAs (this might actually exist, I've never run a POS) would be good as well. This would allow a corp to lock down their shinier ships and and capitals, only giving access to more trusted individuals.

Docking - The system would have to vary to what we have with stations. You should only be able to dock your pod and when you want to get in a ship, you have to travel to the ship storage section just like you do now.

Vulnerable - good in theory but what current mods could this apply to? maybe moon harvesters but that doesn't apply in WH space. If there was a mod that let you hold a WH open, it would work for that i guess but do we want that?

IMO we should be able to change (not jump clone) clones in W-space.

I agree with Janus here. Also personally I think dockable stations rather than an outpost with a FF kinda takes away a lot of the flavor of wormhole space.

In the main the current system works fine IMO the main changes need to be to security and possibly the ability to keep 1-2 clones at POS (not ones you can jump to from k-space).

I would certainly agree on the security issues of w-space being addressed.

I DO NOT agree with having any clone facility in w-space. When I pod someone I want to know they are out of the fight for a good few minutes if not hours. I also do not want pilots to be able to swap clones so they can protect their precious implants. When you move to wormhole space you should have to make a choice about which implants are important to you - NOT have a choice between a war clone for fighting and a +5 implant clone for when you log off.

Rant over.

It would basically bring docking games to W-space.

However, i think you misunderstand the thinking behind Two Steps docking proposal... I actually had a conversation with him a few months ago where i voiced my opinion that i wanted the incarna experience brought to W-space, so that we wouldn't miss out on what CCP has planed for WIS in the future. Now i'm not saying that this is definitely what he meant in his blog, but it sound pretty likely.

Can you imagine trying to do PI in your itty V and having bombers kill you every time?

The way around the issue of people being able to hide their numbers by docking could be solved by showing pods attached to the external surface of the docking structure. Any intel gatherers would then simply need to count the number of pods to ascertain the number of pilots docked.

What this guy said.

Better security settings, no docking, easier interface to setup/manage a pos, and moon goo. Ok, no moon goo, but the rest stands.

What these guys said
also someone else said something about CSMAs that sounds like a good idea as well