Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Hello All,

As you know, in null space a corp can operate a Jump Bridge to connect two stations. Wormhole Space dwellers should have the same option.

Wormhole Space is -1.0 so it meets the security criterion. Many corps hold more than one wormhole and it would be really convenient to be able to link 2 together sometimes.

The way it could work would be that the Wormhole Jump Bridge would consist of 2 separate bridge units which are each powered by quantum-entangled power cores fueled by the usual Liquid Ozone. Because the two power cores are quantum-entangled, they are automatically linked together, regardless of distance, like a lock and key and can only form a jump bridge between one another.

You place one jump bridge in one wormhole and the 2nd in the other wormhole. You quantum-entangle 2 power cores (you could generate a random code or whatever to link them) and each bridge gets a power core and fuel. Now your 2 wormholes are connected.

Apollo.

bad idea....W-space will become another null cake

I've considered of an idea like this, but some important restrictions should be placed on it:

1) Rather than being a jump bridge, either side of the connection can create a WH linking the two systems for a short period of time (45mins). Normal mass restrictions apply that scale based on the class of each WH.

2) Instead of two jumps before polarization, a single jump triggers global polarization (can't use normal WHs either!) with a longer than normal duration (15mins). This prevents the WH from becoming a significant advantage in PvP as using the WH guarantees you're committed for the duration of the fight. It also means you have to be aware of how recently the WH was created to avoid being trapped.

3) Creating said WH costs fuel and triggers a global CD for either side preventing a new WH from being created for a set period of time (I suggest 6hrs). This further commits players who use the WH as they must return with the 45min window or wait for the next WH.

4) No more than one such connection can be created between any two systems. This prevents shenanigans.

These restrictions provide a reasonable method for coordinating multi-WH groups while allowing hostiles the ability to turn it against them with proper planning. Attack one WH, bait reinforcements to WH in and prevent them from leaving before shifting your attention to the now largely undefended paired system.

Limiting it's abilities would be a good idea. No one wants wh space to become null. I would suggest it can only allow either capsules or shuttles through. This way, your toon is transported to where he/she needs to go, and yet the wormholes stay isolated enough to stop them becoming like null.

While I support swapping clones in a Rorqual WITHIN a WH, being able to use jump clones normally removes a significant strategic element of WH PvP: pod killing.

When you invade a WH, pod deaths on either side bring the added advantage of forcing that player out of the WH. They must then physically travel back which is usually sometime after the resolution of the engagement. Allowing players to jump to Rorquals in WHs would double the strength of any defensive force given they could immediately jump to a spare clone and reship for the fight.

Alternatively, an invading force with a Rorqual would have a hard time equalizing as they must risk their Rorqual bringing it into the WH or deal with mass restrictions when they bring new ships in. I don't feel the defending side needs this kind of advantage on top of everything else.

It makes more sense to allow physical travel (w/restrictions) between WH systems you already occupy instead of instantaneous travel regardless of situation.

I would like to inform you that not only are wormholes within the same galaxy as the New Eden star cluster, they ae in fact in constellations, and can/have been mapped out by some intrepid explorers with nothing to do.

All of EVE is within one galaxy, the only other galaxy is the milky way that for all we know decided to nuke itself after the EVE gate collapse.

i dont understand all the people who think EVE is the whole galaxy, its just a couple stars out of a luster that people through gates in because they were capable of sustaining the gates, there is still a whole galaxy around New Eden, as well as stars within that cannot be traveled to due to anomalies and just plain not ebing investigated yet.

(if i recall in lore, there were still some thousand or so hibernation ships slowboating to distant stars in the cluster in the hopes of building gates)

If you want that then go into nullsec. Wspace is not supposed to be like that.