Wormholes

Hello everyone.

I will be doing comprehensive post on CCP/CSM forums about wspace. It will include current issues and possible fixes. I hope that at least some of those suggestions/explanations will mature into actual content.

I would like the community to list all possible issues/bugs/annoyances/small and large things.

If you list your personal annoyance or bug or issue please also post the suggested fix and its possible impact (good or bad).

If you decide to post feature request please elaborate it as much as you can. Include the ideas on how it will impact the community in general.

Thank you for your ideas!

- not enough fights at the sun....
- dreadnaughts clearing core sides in a quarter of a siege cycle...(maybe add Sleeper Battleship escalations)
- wormhole mass is too predictable...more deviation (Lifetime and Mass to make Bob squeel for joy)

Bugs:
- Scanning issue with the doubling of a dot that doesnt show
- "no extra nodes" for big wormhole pvp battles (Traffic control at a wormhole is way more serious then in nullsec)

Small changes:
- random number of sleeper battleships in escalations taking the predictability and not a constant stream of isk
(easy fix dont make them spawn in the same spot ... bookmarking is too easy)
- no more escalation "farming" (24 hour despawn timer after the last escalation is on the field)
- sleepers should damp and jamm back :(


Needs fixing now:
- CHIMERA in Pulsars

feature: Random sleepers camping wormholes.... (depending on the class)


so i think i just pissed off a lot of people but i m also crazy .. :)

Well, those are the only really serious issues. Besides that, W-space itself is awesome and most problems are the same as with the POS and corp management systems in general, but for w-space dwellers those issues take a higher priority than for other areas of space.

Tell them not to change too much of the nature of w-space itself.

Bugs / issues:
1. After every login, the scanner window is reset so that the upper section is too small to show all eight probes. I have to resize it on every single login on every single character, annoying. This was introduced with Odyssey.
2. The radial menu does not work with many things, including SMAs and hangars. It should.
3. When a scan result is covered by only three probes, we now get only one dot where there used to be two. And we only get the WRONG dot. This is ********. Fix it. Either show two dots again or only show the right one.

Gameplay / general ideas:
1. I can say from extensive recent experience in both areas that high-class w-space is a barren wasteland at the moment compared to low-class. The reason for this is the concentration of the 'elite' into ever bigger alliances.
2. As the concentration process is a direct consequence of basic human nature, only a direct and drastic intervention via changed game mechanics can reverse it. Somehow CCP have to introduce mechanics of diminishing returns in corp sizes. The concept of diminishing returns has a big role in many other areas of EVE.
3. I have however no great plan to achieve that goal
4. That said, some possibly stupid ideas:

-limit number of POSes (usable moons) in all w-space systems so that a c1 has only 1-2, a c6 maybe 10 and the others something in between
-limit number of SMAs that can be anchored to 1-2 per POS
-remove ability to store ships in offlined SMAs
-make it so that unpiloted floating ships are vulnerable (maybe allow tractor beaming of ships from outside a forcefield )
-> hard cap on number of ships, especially capitals, safely stored in a wormhole

-introduce some new, fancy and totally unrealistic attribute for ships that supplants mass as the factor for damaging wormholes. That way you could make it so that battleships are only maybe twice as damaging to a hole as T3s, and single-handedly make them viable in w-space without breaking anything anywhere else

-remove farming of capital escalations. Once a wave is spawned and killed, it does not come back the next day. This reduces safe income from a fortress system, encourages spreading out for pve into several systems in the chain where people are more vulnerable or even splitting up and forming several new, smaller entities.

-remove the Venture. Ok that's not going to happen, so make it unusable in all high-value gas sites. Make all the sites have electric clouds that alphastrike Ventures but can be tanked by battlecruisers or exhumers (clouds instead of sleepers because clouds cannot be cleared). Force people to risk something valuable again if they want to farm the best sites

* Its too quiet out here! - Give each wh dual statics, more opportunities.
* Fix C4 Space - Allow roaming K-Space wh's to spawn.
* Same old static wh's - Have many many more roaming / wondering wormholes appear.
* Deep Space Probes removed - Give us the option of 128au on combats
* Dont Nerf T3's too much

*Big One
Static Wormholes do not connect to the k162 side until warped to, keeping farmers fairly isolated and "safe" during site running. Make wormholes always automatically connect without anyone needing to scan and initiate warp to the static

Congratulations, you just single-handedly killed solo and small group PvE in wormholes.

Terrible idea.

Tell you what.
Get CCP to let us save custom probe formations and I'll never complain the stupid new probing system again.

Refitting subs at POS also.

In all seriousness though, I'd take no changes to WHs every over most of the suggestions being posted here...

Anyone using a dread to clear a Ladar ought to lose their dread, in 5 minutes you can use 4 Tengus to clear it, or you can sit there in siege hoping nobody rolls into your hole and blaps you while you wait.

We always use Tengus, so I don't know who in their right mind is using Dreads for LADARS...

W-space needs more tech from sleeper drops. There's a whole lot of worthless stuff I've been saving for years and it's still not worth my effort to put on the market......how about we get to produce things from it.....you know....thing people want. How about more ships built from sleeper loot, more mods, implants, more stuff?

And how about we get WiS in w-space. It would work like this: You go back to POS and you enter WiS. Immediately you're ejected out of your pod and into the vacuum of space.....oh the tears!

And ice cream.......with whipped cream and a cherry on top.....with little bits of peanuts and those multi-colored topping things and hot fudge.

1. Better Wormhole space nebula environment.

I'm personally getting tired of seeing the same pitch black space with some small color variations from mass effect 3's ending selections.

2. More roaming statics that open up wormholes to each other with unrelated statics.

3. Make Black Holes suck less.