Wormholes

If you never jump into C5+ WHs, you're seriously missing out. You also seem totally unwilling to try to out maneuver your opponent. There's not an easy solution to Logi when you're solo, but larger groups will almost always assume that going against one ship is just a gank, so it's quite easy to lure them into a bad fight using positioning or wormhole variables. Depending upon your pilot skill, heavily tanked BS/Marauders can engage at a very serious disadvantage, or you can use nano ships to kite away and draw people away from their logi, or draw the logi away from the group. You can also try to pick off stragglers or the unaware with intel denial(AKA, staying cloaked until the right chance comes up).

Of the big high class groups I've seen lately, I haven't seen much in the ways of logi or E-War. Blue-Fire engaged with a pair of T1 logi, we had plenty of DPS to push through their reps, it didn't hurt they engaged our shield gang with their armor gang in a Pulsar.



Grab a Marauder and run their sites? You can do that solo. I also have a corp mate who makes a lot of ISK running all the Instrumentals he finds in C5s. He mines them for the 15 or so minutes they're there before sleepers spawn and makes a fair bit of ISK doing so.



The crux of this situation is that capital escalations aren't challenging unless you mess something up(like loosing your only Loki in system, heh), so piling all your caps into a site isn't a big deal. There's not a way to make PvE challenging, players will always find a way to complete it given enough ISK motivation. Reducing capital escalations to one per cap(so one carrier one dread) then increasing the actual escalation size(from 6 to say 10?) and removing the ability to farm them would make farming your static a very profitable venture, and it'd keep your home hole pretty clean, so farming ones static would be pretty much a must.

So what can we do to improve wspace life? Well... actually wspace is already pretty nice, that's why we live here! :)
But anyway...

1. Balance the profit on different class systems. C2 are generally less profitable even than C1... and the gap between the "escalable" classes and the others is pretty huge.
Especially relic/data sites on lower classes are really useless... good just for the sleepers inside them. But this could change following some other ideas I will write here..

2. I like the idea of some kind of trade station, or module. It might be even more useful to have tradings between the different people living in the same hole, encouraging to share the same system, more than having the occasional buyer from other systems (whs are random, so it's impossible to have regular buyers/sellers from other systems, but still can be a nice bonus).
Make it a deployable structure, that can be anchored everywhere, and visible in the overview (so people can warp to it without scanning it), but because of obvious limitations due to people that would love to pop it as soon as they see it, make it invulnerable. BUT it have to be linked to another module inside a POS, that can be defended as a normal POS module as much as the corp like it.
If you destroy the POS you can destroy the module inside the pos and then the deployed market too. The owner of the Market module can put up both sell and buy orders... customers can only buy from the sell orders, or fulfill the buy orders.

3. make wspace something that is not half unique and half the same as kspace.
We have sleepers... and no other npcs (pirate npcs never learnt to use probes?)... weird... we have the same planet types as kspace and the same moons... we can do PI but we cannot do moon harvesting... weird... we have any type of ore present in the universe, but we have no ice, and we have wspace only gases... weird...
So.... starting from the idea that we like unique, more than similar to kspace:
Why don't we get a new (or more than one...) type of planets that you can only find on wspace? PI can still be used, but the produced commodities will be used to fuel up "T3-POS", manufacture T3 items (not just ships... but modules, arrays, and so on... more on it later). Moons can become just useless rocks, or they can introduce wspace moongoo if the like it... couple it with wspace PI, sleepers salvage, wspace gas...and you have a unique indy chain that basically is the same you have in kspace, just with different mats.
Why don't we remove ores at all... or give wspace everything, included ice. Or add to the belts some wspace only ores, used in T3 manufactory. All could be good... just not half and half...
Why don't let pirates factions coming inside wh sometimes? they can build some new plexes... or just have roaming fleets (sized according to WH class) moving from planet to planet or moon, that players have to scan down...
Why not making some "sleepers officers spawn" with special loot?
Why not making sleepers loot table a little bit more exciting? (atm you already know what they will drop, and the only "exciting random part" is if/how many ribbons you will salvage)
For example introducing T3 modules... they can occasionally drop the modules, or the bpcs... the bpo of the same modules/ammo might drop from data sites... or just the bpc, if wanna keep those modules rare. Just make things more interesting...
Why not expand the T3-idea to other things? other ships (haulers, ore and gas miners, other classes of combat ships... as well as modules, ammo, weapons and rigs... and even better... T3 modular POS)
They don't even have to be unique, stats-wise... might be the same as other t2 stuff, just wspace-themed. Different look, different mats (from wspace), same values (to avoid balancing nightmares).

There can be tons of other ideas like these... the problem is IF CCP wanna actually change something in wspace and if they want, how much effort they wanna put on it.

PS. Sorry for the text wall... just it's long time I wanted to talk about some of those things.

I agree it would be cool to have more T3/Sleeper themed ships and modules. It would add more interest for wormholes, and would be great content creation. I also think for destructible stations, no one should be bared access to dock, but the Corp that deploys it can charge whatever they wish for non corp/Alliance members. As I said earlier, all frontiers are colonized so it would be cool to see new ways in how wormhole space can be settled. (not permanent settlement, even nothing settled today is necessarily permanent)

If ccp puts stations in wh space I'll just leave and go to null because essentially that's what it will become.

On another note.
reading other peoples posts have givin me some suggestions

1. ALL sleeper combat sites in ALL wormholes have a random trigger in ALL waves.
2. Smallish (based on wormhole class) but random sleeper spawns at POCO's. So you have to scout and clear them before running PI. (Mostly small frigate spawns, so as not to just be farmed for isk. But warp scrambling little transport killing bastards)
3. Similar sleeper spawns at wormholes. Random chance of spawn.

Iteration on wspace intentions in multiple packages in order to deliver real content over the next several patch cycles.

Create more space (10ish systems?)
-new Wspace without moons
-inability to close/crit wormholes for bearing operations (lots of risk)
-multiple multiple statics
-statics auto-open
-structure that spawns wormhole to this space (4+ hour online time?, 2 hour stability, fueled by blue loot, very low mass)
-bearing which does not lend itself to current farming mechanics of c5/c6
-sleepers camp wormholes
-more ewar from sleepers
-sleepers drop bubbles

Do you have language problems or something? Poor English? I'm not asking as an insult, I'm seriously asking, because I can't understand why you start off every post about how you don't understand me then completely construe it the wrong way.

I don't care about killmails. MTUs shouldn't have killmails, I am not sure why any of the anchorables do.

The concept is very simple, a way to create a short timer in a system. Maybe it's something I anchor in your system, and if the anchoring completes, your PI turns off for four hours. I don't really care about what you do to motivate people to anchor it, so long as it does get used. It has some kind of value to it, and it's got a 2ish hour timer on it. If you don't see how timers create conflict, I must ask if this is EVE you're playing, since timers are a significant conflict driver in EVE.

can we make this the official WH motto?

also

Have suggestion for POS mechanics.

Simply allow CEO and/or Directors to set Tab/CHA/SMA access to individual members instead of setting the roles group required to access.

So CEO and maybe directors could still access everything, but could set a tab in CHA so that a specific member only could access only regardless of roles. That way you assign tabs/SMA's ect. to people, and they don't have to worry about other members being able to access their stuff and stealing. Only themselves and the CEO and possibly directors could access their stuff.

If your CEO is stealing from his members, you have bigger problems then just corp thvery

I also would like to see a more "scientific" approach to collapsing wormholes, it is a bit "clunky" right now, though not that big of an issue if you have enough people around.

Any mechanic introduced for wormhole collapsing without having to traverse the wormhole I would like to see it still cause you to be polarized after each "hit", assuming each "hit" causes the same mass addition it would have had you flown through and back in the ship you're flying.

The act of being vulnerable on the hole when trying to collapse it is a pretty critical piece of how w-space works that has been there all along and should stay.