Wormholes

It is a good concept, but isn't implemented terribly well:

The current incarnation:

You risk 15% of your pay to earn an extra 5-10%. That's not a very good return to encourage their use.

It takes 20s to activate it, at which point you can choose steal. Forty seconds after that it jetisions a can with the isk-tag in it. All in all, the locals would have 70-90s to stop a thief in an inty from running off with the isk-tag. That isn't anywhere close to a reasonable response opportunity for the locals.

Alternatively, the locals can leave a noobship sitting on one of these, and instantly click share bounties the moment a hostile enters system.

In the end, this simply isn't a conflict driver in its current implementation. It really needs to pay out a bit more (115% perhaps), and most importantly, it NEEDS to have a 3-5 minute activition time with a 3-5 minute drop-the-loot time. Finally, to insure the noobship on the ESS doesn't happen, give a limited amount of time to make the share or steal choice, after which a ship must leave grid and come back in order to activate it again. Then it would be a viable tool!

Ehhhh, but sleepers don't have bounties.

Sounds like we can use them to go fishing in null.

Eh, I think the concept of the ESS is flawed anyway, so finding a way to implement a flawe

I'm thinking more about the idea of blops, if said person decides to warp to the ESS in something stupid.

MFU? ... Mobile Fishing Unit?

So if you warp a 250 odd player fleet to it, it announces every player in local? Without a lot of precautions thats gonna cause no end of issues.

It announces the first person than goes into cool down for a certain amount of time so it doesn't spam

I think it'll be like everything else - environmentally dependant. Drop it in NPC null or rancer and you will get some action - maybe even stomped on. Drop it in providence and eventually a fleet will be cobbled together to remove it. Drop it deep deep in rainbow renter null and most likely get nothing. It's a tool like any other.

I'm surprised 'cloaky snipers at 50km' and blops bombers are the only actual ideas posted. As a group we could be called 'risk averse' if that is our only idea as to their use.

To save some wh pvp face I propose the following:

pop out of wh
drop tax thinger doodle
declare loudly the tax man is here and there is nothing you can do about it
plant you fleet and feet on the thing and wait for them to come.
kill them all
explain on various boards that wh pvp >>>> null pvp
link your proof and poke them in the ribs repeatedly
let boys be boys


There are some groups in wh space that want epic fights. Use this tool to get some. It may turn out to be the ultimate deployable failure, BUT I will garantee at least a few epic fights around these little gizzies. You can be the wh corp that reads about it or the wh corp that posts the video.

Thing I don't understand: What happens with multiple ESS out? Does it say anything regarding that? The ESS aren't avaiable as of last time I checked for experimenting, but I'd really welcome the option of dropping 5 ESS to nearly shutdown a ratting system.