Wormholes

So, from the look of things the original intent was to support MWD/AB PvP at basically knife range, except that's not exactly uncommon anyway and the speed change actually throws a lot of things out of whack as far as speed tanking goes. It's fun to like, zoom around in a cov-ops your first trip into one but I can't imagine living in one.

I do like the theme though but the other sites have much more direct buffs to certain styles of play. Some more than others, certainly, but the black hole is more of a fun toy than somewhere you would want to live because of how it functions.

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How about the following:

I'm going for a theme around missile based bonuses. They tend to not get a lot of love in PvP or elsewhere and I think it would be cool to have a wormhole where the Phoenix really shines as a dread of choice.

Missile velocity increase: Not too much, say 5% or even 2.5% per class level but enough to make the Tengu and other missile boats have some really scary damage projection. Right now I don't feel the current decrease adds much beyond a "no HAM Legion fleets here" sign and some annoyance. Besides it conflicts rather annoyingly with the velocity bonus to everything else.

Explosion Radius: Decreased by up to 50%. Potential problems with dread-blap but possibly mitigated by the missile travel time, giving enemies in PvP the chance to react to the incoming missiles and overheat hardeners and mitigate damage.

Tracking: Minus 5% per level. This basically says if you're bringing gun-boats into this hole you'd better not rely on tracking or bring tons of webs. Moros, go home you're drunk.

Falloff: I'm somewhat partial to the falloff penalty but that might be too much of a hit to Arties which would, at this point, be the least affected turret system. The idea here is that space is a little distorted so your guns are pretty hit or miss.

Warp Velocity: This is more of a "just for fun" thing that may end up having interesting consequences. Lets let warp zip you around up to 50% faster. Maybe this will let your bomber beat that Noctis back to the exit hole, maybe not.

Velocity Bonus: After some mulling I think I'd leave this but at max 50% effectiveness. Yes, it hurts missile damage but in PvE you can web everything down anyway and the explosion radius boost helps mitigate it, especially with larger missiles. It supports a kiting setup which range boosted missiles would be absolutely scary in or short range brawls with heavy use of Webs.

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Overall I think this would help give Black Holes a unique play style, similar to the other wormholes and allow owners of a Black Hole to make use of some less utilized ships in defense of their home (and for making tons of ISK).

Armor Resist: -100%
Shield Resist: -100%
Hull Resist: +100%
Hull HP + 50%
(And possibly) X-Large Weapon Damage: -100% or -500% even
This example is for a C6, percentages should be lowered for lower classes of course.

Then all we need are t1/t2 cruisers and a carrier with remote hull repairer bonuses ;)

Keep the current negative effects but make all Black Holes spawn additional static (either of the same type as the system already has, random class, same class as is the system or whatever).
Benefits would be:
a) more connections in wspace, higher chance to run into someone
b) ppl could make a choice between living under beneficial system effect (pulsar, WR, etc.) or live with **** effect but having the benefit and opportunity of having access to more systems and more content (pvp, pve or logistics).

And after all, it might even make some kind of scifi logic that black hole will attract more wormholes.

I like the dual static idea from above very much.

Regarding effects:

proposal 1 - use what's already there and turn it around:
- more lock range
- faster missiles
- more drone range
- more fall-off
- less speed

proposal 2 - move bonuses out of combat focus:
- bonus to gas harvesting
- bonus to mining
- bonus to ore compression
- more/other industry bonuses

proposal 3 - more war, less e-war:
- bonus to sensor strength
- bonus to scan resolution
- bonus to warp bubbles
- reduce efficieny of various e-war effects (painter, web, dampener, ecm)

How about messing with:
- cloaking
- scanning/d-scan
- ship mass
- spawn rate of sites
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edit:

one more:
- bonus to scanning
- increase number of w-space connections
- increase number of connections to other w-space systems that already have a connection to a black hole system significantly

The effects have to be easy to understand and not require much dev time. Removing moons or adding drag might be a bit complicated.

Replace planets/moons with mining anom sites, rename them "Shattered World"?

I understand that a physics engine change would not be a "small thing", but I think it would be cool none the less. If it was feasable... have ships exert their own gravity too... think you're going to burn away from that Capital so easily? NOPE!

I digress.

TiDi with industry bonuses could make for some (dare I say) enjoyable mining content.

I agree with some of the others. Lower level black holes are not as bad as they are made out to be and can be quite livable. The problem is that the other wh effects are quite positive for pve, pvp, and daily living activities. Black holes are acceptable for pve and pvp in lower class wormholes, but make daily living activities more of a headache and risk. There is no advantage in higher class wormholes for pve or pvp. It just gets frustrating. Good luck getting drones back in your bay. Given that you can get empty wormholes, it's more that the competitive advantage of black holes is lacking relative to everything else. And for some, the warp time risk is not acceptable.

The main reason that I won't live in the a black whole is that EVE is a game of logic, and black wholes are illogical. My ship travelers faster, but my missiles slower?! What kind of loopey physics are those? In that case, might as well screw with ship mass. Buzzard weighs like a billion kg and a Moros 10 kg.

I think there are two solutions:
1. Change the basic effects offered by black wholes to something others have suggested: Missle damage bonus, explosion radius, indy (although not necessary imo), etc.

2. Make living easier and decrease the negative effects on inertia and missile velocity.

instead of tracking nerf , a reduction/boost to gun resolution? :P

Personally liked the changing wormhole effects for Blackholes (downtime to downtime).

Blackholes can be a unique anomoly where CCP could write up something to pull random effects of the other wormholes, plus maybe add a couple more uniques, so it would always be interesting to see what perks and drawbacks you would have in the hole. It could be fun.

I like this as well, but its important that whatever changes be made be balanced with future changes to the way dread guns track smaller ships anyway. Dreads still need to be usable for reinforcing towers and shooting carriers and other dreads, otherwise the effect just makes it so "most carriers + t3's" wins since it takes an enormous amount of t3 dps to take down RR'ing carriers, especially if they're orbiting your dreads with 100mn AB's going or something silly and you cant track them. I still think limiting EWAR is the way to go so that orbiting t3's and gardians are very hard to hit with dreads, but carriers, since they're already very slow anyway are still easy targets. Webs and paints are what makes dread blapping viable in the first place.