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An Open Letter to the Wormhole Community

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Le'Mon Tichim
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
#41 - 2014-01-08 03:15:53 UTC
Winthorp wrote:
Rall Mekin wrote:
Winthorp wrote:
Keep it brief he says. Sorry i stopped reading after i scrolled down and saw all that sperging with no paragraph structure.

Why do we have to have these threads every two bloody days that amount to nothing other then a WH'er mad about the way things are and their brilliant solutions that CCP will never implement?


TL;DR

We are the problem, not wormhole space or CCP. Don't blob people and you will get more fights, even if you are capable of being amazingly large.


Are you not the one looking to get into an alliance to blob up?



That is not the purpose of our interest in an alliance.

Can you hear them? They are calling to us. It is beautiful. http://thegreattichim.wordpress.com/

Blodhgarm Dethahal
8 Sins of Man
Stray Dogs.
#42 - 2014-01-08 05:35:41 UTC
At least the bigger the group the harder to maintan and higher chance of shattering into smaller entities.
Witchway
Hard Knocks Inc.
Hard Knocks Citizens
#43 - 2014-01-08 05:47:07 UTC
this place is going to ****...

Official Shit Talking Captain, Bastard of Hard Knocks Inc.

QT McWhiskers
MultiPass Inc.
The 5th Seal
#44 - 2014-01-08 06:25:19 UTC  |  Edited by: QT McWhiskers
Rall Mekin wrote:
QT McWhiskers wrote:
Not a bad attempt rall, but you are missing some key elements. Get with me later if you need pointers on how to effectively make a threadnought.


For now I will simply help you out by getting you to the next page.


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Another celebrity posting!

Actually, I do need to spend some time of Hard Knocks comms soon. Its been too long since I reconnected with my heritage--you guys did pop my w-space cherry after all. Let me know when is a good time in game or lets get on comms together.

ON ANOTHER NOTE to others:

The paragraph structure is not exactly what I'd do on more formal writing, but I'd have also proof read better if this wasn't for a video game. Something I learned in my writing courses at college is that sometimes breaking a paragraph early is easier on the eye than letting it wander on, even if its not optimal, and I realize I'm dealing with a largely "tl;dr" crowd.

I'm not pro at it, but I write fiction as a hobby (sometimes), and have been known to do a lot of more formal type writing. I also know I talk too long for my own good sometimes, especially when I'm trying to be thorough.


IM more like a george zimmerman level celebrity. Everyone knows who I am and usually recognizes me in local... but its not really in a good way lol.

Blodhgarm Dethahal wrote:
At least the bigger the group the harder to maintan and higher chance of shattering into smaller entities.


THats why you should just get a massive corp leading the charge...
Axloth Okiah
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#45 - 2014-01-08 07:04:09 UTC
You wont change people's nature. Some simply wont fight unless they have overwhelming force because its safer. On the bright side you should be grateful that large organizations arent compatible with the environment of wormholes. While you and many others complain about wh groups allegedly getting always bigger and bluer (I beg to differ and have yet to see any actual proof of that) they keep fragmenting and reforming, swelling and breaking apart.

btw arent you trying to join an alliance...? :P
Rall Mekin
End-of-Line
#46 - 2014-01-08 07:46:23 UTC
Axloth Okiah wrote:
You wont change people's nature. Some simply wont fight unless they have overwhelming force because its safer. On the bright side you should be grateful that large organizations arent compatible with the environment of wormholes. While you and many others complain about wh groups allegedly getting always bigger and bluer (I beg to differ and have yet to see any actual proof of that) they keep fragmenting and reforming, swelling and breaking apart.

btw arent you trying to join an alliance...? :P


Alliance? Absolutely. As I stated many times, it's not the groups size per se but how they choose to wield their power. A large group willing to not blob will get fights more often and have less complaints about "no fights." That is my point.

I'm also NOT complaining, I'm offering a solution to those who constantly are. My stance is the problem lies not with wormhole space, but with how we resonsibly or irresponsibly wield power.
Axloth Okiah
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#47 - 2014-01-08 08:30:54 UTC
This "solution" unfortunately has several issues. For example what you do when you find an easy gank (lets say a drake in C2) but you have 15 guys currently online and ready to go? Will you tell most of them to stay home? Or what if it's a bait and your "fair force" gets slaughtered and podded? In wormholes you can rarely be sure what you're getting into.

Trust me, we run into this problem all the time despite being essentially a single corp without blues. People refuse to engage us even when they have a superior force, simply because they cannot be sure we don't have reinforcements hidden somewhere. Unfortunately it's only the "glorious" fights with T3 blobs that get the attention and by which corporations are judged. No one remembers all the utter failures and welps.

One way around this are the honorable staged fights, which we've been trying out with mixed success. When they work out, they are actually great fun and leave no hard feelings. However some groups will simply refuse these as well.
Rek Seven
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#48 - 2014-01-08 09:06:29 UTC  |  Edited by: Rek Seven
Jack Miton wrote:
Rek Seven wrote:
Blobbing has been and always will be a thing in eve so at the end of the day, all we can do as individuals is deal with it.

What is not under our control is the implementation of new content. I have heard lots of fantastic suggestions for ways in which ccp could improve wormhole space (roaming sleeper, C7 wormholes, multiple statics in some c4-c6, more attackable structure, ect.) but CCP do nothing. All they do is fix things that should have been that way from the start (e.g. changing subsystems at a pos).

Now CCP are talking about adding new space so if you are 100% happy with wormhole space, you are in luck because you can bet your ass wormholes are going to be ignored from now on anyway.

You know Rek, if there was an award for missing the point, you'd have to buy a bigger house just so that you can fit all your awards in your spare rooms.


Brilliant smart-arsed and pointless comment as always Jack. Perhaps, for once, you could be constructive and tell me what point you think i missed.

The OP states that this thread is a result of people asking for more conflict drivers. I am one of those people so i felt i should share my opinion.

If you believe the OP is right and we should all arrange fights and keep our numbers to a minimum, then you fail to understand basic wormhole PVP and human nature... And if you think the answer to more fights is for people not to blob the upstart corps in the vein hope that they will one day grow to be a competitor, you're deluded.
Kalel Nimrott
Caldari Provisions
#49 - 2014-01-08 09:34:11 UTC
You guus are all sp wrong....

Bob Artis, you will be missed.

O7

Jack Miton
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#50 - 2014-01-08 11:50:38 UTC  |  Edited by: Jack Miton
Rek Seven wrote:
If you believe the OP is right and we should all arrange fights and keep our numbers to a minimum, then you fail to understand basic wormhole PVP and human nature... And if you think the answer to more fights is for people not to blob the upstart corps in the vein hope that they will one day grow to be a competitor, you're deluded.

let me try spell it out one last time.
it isnt about arranged fights or keeping numbers small or anything game related. It's about mentality and attitude.
you, and others, keep saying there's no conflict in WHs, no reason to fight. well, youre wrong.
i can't make is any clearer for you. youre wrong, because people like me and the op and others keep telling you that there are conflict drivers, that there are reasons to fight and that WHs are just fine the way they are.

if you dont have any drive to pvp in WHs then why are you living in WHs? and i'm being serious with this question.
why live in space you dont like and clearly dont enjoy being in?
If i hated WHs as much as you clearly do I would have moved out years ago and gone done something else.

i think you really need to consider if you want to be here. if not, that's fine. wspace is definitely NOT for everyone, im not saying it is, but it provides a very unique gaming environment that you seem very eager to make closer to kspace.
people like you saying there's no reason to do anything in Whs or people like herrbert saying scanning is boring and that WHs should be anoms doesnt help wspace at all.
the best case scenario is people just ignore you, the worst is that CCP listen to you and ruin Whs for those of us who actually like them.

PS: hoping that smaller corps one day 'grow up to be a competitor' is exactly the wrong attitude im talking about. Ive met many really good small corps and likewise many really awful large corps. size has very little to do with quality and in WHs space, size past a certain point only adds chaff.

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Cheesy Feet
The Hells Bells Club
#51 - 2014-01-08 13:19:02 UTC
Jack Miton wrote:
I think you really need to consider if you want to be here. if not, that's fine. wspace is definitely NOT for everyone, im not saying it is, but it provides a very unique gaming environment that you seem very eager to make closer to kspace. People like you saying there's no reason to do anything in Whs or people like herrbert saying scanning is boring and that WHs should be anoms doesnt help wspace at all.


+1 - A hundred times this

Jack Miton wrote:

The best case scenario is people just ignore you, the worst is that CCP listen to you and ruin Whs for those of us who actually like them.


+2 - A thousand times this
Rek Seven
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#52 - 2014-01-08 13:21:59 UTC  |  Edited by: Rek Seven
Jack Miton wrote:

it isnt about arranged fights or keeping numbers small or anything game related. It's about mentality and attitude.
you, and others, keep saying there's no conflict in WHs, no reason to fight.
well, youre wrong.
i can't make is any clearer for you. youre wrong, because people like me and the op and others keep telling you that there are conflict drivers, that there are reasons to fight and that WHs are just fine the way they are.

if you dont have any drive to pvp in WHs then why are you living in WHs? and i'm being serious with this question.
why live in space you dont like and clearly dont enjoy being in?
If i hated WHs as much as you clearly do I would have moved out years ago and gone done something else.

i think you really need to consider if you want to be here. if not, that's fine. wspace is definitely NOT for everyone, im not saying it is, but it provides a very unique gaming environment that you seem very eager to make closer to kspace.
people like you saying there's no reason to do anything in Whs or people like herrbert saying scanning is boring and that WHs should be anoms doesnt help wspace at all.
the best case scenario is people just ignore you, the worst is that CCP listen to you and ruin Whs for those of us who actually like them.

PS: hoping that smaller corps one day 'grow up to be a competitor' is exactly the wrong attitude im talking about. Ive met many really good small corps and likewise many really awful large corps. size has very little to do with quality and in WHs space, size past a certain point only adds chaff.


How old are you Jack? You seem to fail to understand that different people have different desires and motivations. I once knew a guy that thought that he was the only real person and we were all figments of his imagination... but i digress...

Saying "you're wrong because we have different play-styles and i don't agree with yours" is not an argument and you should save your time and mine and just not reply to my posts.

Most of what i see on your corps killboard are people being ganked in a C2 and that's fine. I lived in a C2 as part of a smaller corp and it was far more entertaining than living in a C5/C6. To me that would indicate that there is a problem with C5/C6 wormholes... And if you disagree, why did you home to a system with a low class static?

For your information, i live in wormhole space because it used to feel like the least broken region in the game but now i've seen and done everything and i'm bored.

The best case scenario is you STFU and continue playing the game the way you do and CCP start to add more content to wormholes which provid you with new ways to play in addition. The worst case scenarios is that CCP listen to people like you who say wormhole are 100% perfect and fail to iterate on wormholes for so long that it ends up becoming like the old low sec wastelands.

If you are going to reply answer me this or don't bother replying at all: Why are you so against improvements to wormhole space or more reasons to fight?
Axloth Okiah
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#53 - 2014-01-08 13:39:29 UTC
Rek Seven and Jack Miton wrote:
things
I'm afraid the intense love between you two prevents you both from seeing that one is talking about adding new content and the other about changing existing mechanics... those two are neither mutualy exclusive nor dependent.
Cheesy Feet
The Hells Bells Club
#54 - 2014-01-08 13:44:21 UTC  |  Edited by: Cheesy Feet
Rek Seven wrote:
The best case scenario is you STFU and continue playing the game the way you do and CCP start to add more content to wormholes. The worst case scenarios is that CCP listen to people like you who say wormhole are 100% perfect and fail to iterate on wormholes for so long that it ends up becoming like the old low sec wastelands.

I'm guessing that you will just ignore my real questions and proceed to tell me why i, and people who share my opinion, are wrong.


Do you really have no doubts that CCP won't mess up if they make changes or add new content to WH's?

What we have in WH's now is more by luck than judgement on CCP's part - it was only intended as a place for exploration, it is the player base that made WH's a new way of life - that was never forseen by CCP.

Depends whether you're a cup half full or half empty kind of guy, but I'd rather keep what we have now, than gamble that CCP would add any meaningful new content without messing something else up whilst doing so.
Rek Seven
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#55 - 2014-01-08 13:47:46 UTC  |  Edited by: Rek Seven
Axloth Okiah wrote:
Rek Seven and Jack Miton wrote:
things
I'm afraid the intense love between you two prevents you both from seeing that one is talking about adding new content and the other about changing existing mechanics... those two are neither mutualy exclusive nor dependent.


Yeah to me it sounded like Jack read a post where i said "CCP should throw existing WH mechanics in the trash and start over", when what i was actually saying is CCP should add new things to wormholes and maybe something that the large alliance can fight over (i.e. end-game content) Ugh
Rek Seven
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#56 - 2014-01-08 13:52:43 UTC  |  Edited by: Rek Seven
Cheesy Feet wrote:
Rek Seven wrote:
The best case scenario is you STFU and continue playing the game the way you do and CCP start to add more content to wormholes. The worst case scenarios is that CCP listen to people like you who say wormhole are 100% perfect and fail to iterate on wormholes for so long that it ends up becoming like the old low sec wastelands.

I'm guessing that you will just ignore my real questions and proceed to tell me why i, and people who share my opinion, are wrong.


Do you really have no doubts that CCP won't mess up if they make changes or add new content to WH's?

What we have in WH's now is more by luck than judgement on CCP's part - it was only intended as a place for exploration, it is the player base that made WH's a new way of life - that was never forseen by CCP.

Depends whether you're a cup half full or half empty kind of guy, but I'd rather keep what we have now, than gamble that CCP would add any meaningful new content without messing something else up whilst doing so.


That is a completely fair point and if i'm honest, no, i don't have that faith in CCP.

However, i believe there are things CCP could do to make wormholes feel more alive and exciting but that's for another thread.

Where wormholes are concerned, i'm definitely a "glass half full" guy and i would like CCP to fill my wormhole class to the top. Blink
Borsek
KarmaFleet
Goonswarm Federation
#57 - 2014-01-08 14:54:05 UTC
Small guys fight to live, big guys fight to keep their patch of farmland. Everyone fights for the lulz. That being said, blobbing has always been present in eve, because it's 10x as fun and safe as trying to artificially maintain a level engagement. Also, fair fights in eve? You must be playing the wrong game, good sir! Blob them with falcons!
HerrBert
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#58 - 2014-01-08 15:13:40 UTC  |  Edited by: HerrBert
Oh the rightious oh you delighted,
Oh you ccp why did you leave the holes like you did,
why did you make pos fuel easier?
why did you gave us the corp bookmarks?
why did you steal our boosting subsystems and gave us command ships on steroids?
why did you make it possible to refit a probe launcher via a mobile depot?
why did you move ore belts to anoms?
why did you fiddle with the wormholes?
why did you fiddle with pos gun ui in inferno?
why did you implement a new mechanic and broke the entire boosting mechanic?
why did you revamp the probe system to make exploration easier ?
why did you figure out that the chimera was **** to fit (well that was twostep)?
why did you went forth and reduced the overall requirements to live in this space?
why did you give us uncatchable haulers and reworked the entire mining department to warpcore stabbed whiney bitches?
why did you make us boost infront of the pos and why did you make the naglfar viable again?
why did you make a MemberCHA when we asked for SMAs?
why did you invent the ******* venture and made it the most profitable ship in eve?
Why did Chichi and James crawled on bleeding knees after you and asked for fixing the SMA drops...for a year
Why did you implement the wormhole wobble...
why did you do all these and many more but people still assume that wormholes haven't changed?
Why did you add automated sig updates to the scanner?

Why did we just sit there and take it up the arse .... because we didnt see an enviroment change that has been minorly changing since its inception and has now moved so far of the original that we still think it hasnt changed?


I guess its just more comfy to sit and watch, then to scream and shout.

Just saying "Wormhole space hasn't definitly not ever never changed since 2008, still the same."

Oh yeah ... WHAT DA FUDGE CAKE GHOST SITES?

But lets look forward to Rubicon 1.1:
Why does the new BS have such a wierd mass and looks suspiciously like a brawling ship?
Why does the MMJD have the potential of forcing people into more of a scram range and kill of kiting fleets (lets be a little overdramatic)
Why do we have to hide pve fleets by spamming the new dscan cloaking thingys...?


Jack you are right .. let wormholes stay the way they are because they never changed. Not from a cultural point nor technicly its just 6 years of the same ... never ever did ccp do anything to ruin the integrity and enviroment, i used to call home.

Also NEGATIVE TRACKING WAS WORKING AS INTENDED!!!! I m sorry but the list is to ******* long for saying that the good old Bert the Turtle was safe when he ducked and covered...

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Red Garsk
#59 - 2014-01-08 16:44:52 UTC
Rall Mekin wrote:
Van Steiza wrote:
Rall Mekin wrote:
Van Steiza wrote:
Come have tea with Whalegirth.

<3


Does tea involve T3s and capitals?



If you want?


Ah. I'll have diplo convo you guys.


Wait what? You tell a real good story and most of it is true, however, somewhere at the end you become the problem you are trying to point out.

Stop creating alliances... Stop diplo bullshit and fight. No blues, no battphone... Just you and your guys.
Winthorp
#60 - 2014-01-08 18:30:11 UTC  |  Edited by: Winthorp
Rek Seven wrote:

How old are you Jack? You seem to fail to understand that different people have different desires and motivations. I once knew a guy that thought that he was the only real person and we were all figments of his imagination... but i digress...

Saying "you're wrong because we have different play-styles and i don't agree with yours" is not an argument and you should save your time and mine and just not reply to my posts.

Most of what i see on your corps killboard are people being ganked in a C2 and that's fine. I lived in a C2 as part of a smaller corp and it was far more entertaining than living in a C5/C6. To me that would indicate that there is a problem with C5/C6 wormholes... And if you disagree, why did you home to a system with a low class static?

For your information, i live in wormhole space because it used to feel like the least broken region in the game but now i've seen and done everything and i'm bored.

The best case scenario is you STFU and continue playing the game the way you do and CCP start to add more content to wormholes which provid you with new ways to play in addition. The worst case scenarios is that CCP listen to people like you who say wormhole are 100% perfect and fail to iterate on wormholes for so long that it ends up becoming like the old low sec wastelands.

If you are going to reply answer me this or don't bother replying at all: Why are you so against improvements to wormhole space or more reasons to fight?


So you couldn't beat his argument and went KB trolling tsk tsk whats next insult him with mom jokes?