Wormholes

Seeing as CCP are pushing the new deployable structures, I've been thinking about a wormhole generator structure.

Firstly, No, this should not be able to generate wormhole after wormhole until you get the one you want.
My idea is to have a structure that can generate a wormhole and has a cooldown period equal to the lifetime of the wormhole it has generated (more on this below).

Only one Wormhole Generator can be active in a system, and the wormhole generator needs to be loaded with 3 different types of charges:

Charge 1: Destination Schematic.
This is an item that specifies where you want the new wormhole to go. Hisec, Losec, Nullsec, C1, C2, C3, C4, C5 or C6.
Using any of these does NOT guarantee you will get a wormhole to that place. It should give a base chance (maybe 25% or something) of giving you what you wanted. Possibly introduce a new skill to increase your chances at getting what you asked for.


Charge 2: Stability Schematic.
This is an item that specifies how long you want to wormhole to remain open.
Different schematics would be available for different amounts of time the wh would remain open.
This could be skill based, so you can only use schematics based on your skill lvl.
At [New Skill] lvl 1, you can use a schematic to create a 24 hr hole.
lvl2 = 18, or 24hr hole.
lvl3 = 12, 18 or 24 hr hole.
lvl4 = 8, 12, 18 or 24 hr hole.
lvl5 = 4, 8, 12, 18 or 24 hr hole.
The system would not allow this, or another wormhole generator to be used again in this period of time. So at best you could make a wormhole last only 4 hours to cycle through looking for something specific, but doing it this way would mean when you find what you want, you only have it for 4 hours.

Charge 3: Magnitude Schematic (or some better name)
This is an item that specifes what mass limits you want on the wormhole. For ease of explaination, let's assume this item controls both jumpable mass, and total allowable mass.


So, how do you make these 3 charges, or schematics?

Charge 1: Destination Schematic.
Thematically, using Ancient Database Coordinates to construct the Destination Schematics (which type of space you want your wh to go to) makes sense to me, and gives them an alternative to just being sold to NPC orders. A combination of ADC's, and the other blue loot could determine what the destination is for your generated wormhole.
Some thought would be needed here to figure out the cost of each type of wh, but I imagine a Highsec hole would be the most expensive.

Charge 2: Stability Schematic.
Controlling the duration of the wh's life could be made from Thermoelectric Catalysts, and other sleeper salvage components.

Charge 3: Magnitude Schematic (or some better name)
Thematically, I want to link this somehow to incursions, as the Sansha seem pretty good at opening wormholes, however I'm not sure giving incursion runners another way of making isk is the way to go.


The construction of these three schematics needed to open a wormhole should not be so expensive that they stop smaller groups from using them, but expensive enough that after the initial fascination has worn off, we don't have newly generated wormholes popping up all over the galaxy.


Another thought that I've not really fleshed out yet would be to possilbly use Capacitor Transfers to 'power up' the wormhole generator. This could affect the duration of the hole, or maybe the mass limit. Maybe it would just be needed in additition to the schematics to actually provide the power to generate the hole. Different types of hole would require different amounts of power, which would require ships to be sitting on the generator for x amount of time feeding it cap. Possibly have the structure pop straight up on the overview like a FW beacon, or a cyno, so there is some risk at feeding it power to open a hole.

Anyway, I'm sure there is more that could be imagined here, but this is a start.
Whaddya think?

FFS.

Slamming I can take, It just makes those people look like typical internet morons.

On the other hand, Intelligent discussion either furthering the idea, or explaining why this isn't a good idea is welcome, and funnilly enough, the point of a forum.

I for one would appreciate the ability to open a hole (even a random one) when there is nothing happening in the chain, but we didn't want to close the static.

I agree with you there, re-reading my OP I probably made it sound a bit too easy to get what you want when you want it.

The idea was supposed to be more, "we don't want to close the static (maybe cos people are moving ships in/out), but there is nothing else happening in the chain at all.... I wish we could open another wormhole to have another option of looking for pew.

Maybe I got a little carried away with the details... it's not supposed to be about controlling what you get, more like just having another option, and with a SP investement, making that option slightly less than completely random.

Well no, not always. In some cases the OP gets to look like a moron for posting what is the same idea that has been done before over, and over, and over.



Use the search/google/ whatever floats your boat to find all of the intelligent discussion that has already been done to death.

Get out

Your choice of phrasing....replete with innuendo

I approve

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Yes. It doesn't matter what you've accomplished, what you know, or anything. Nothing matters except the opinion of the guy that disagrees with you... I mean fact, not opinion. It's his fact, and yours is just a biased opinion and you were born wrong. Sorry, Andrew, it's a shame that you can't be right. It's a shame that I can't be right. I'm wrong, and you are wrong, but the other guy is correct because he has thought this idea through, and through his limited knowledgebase and ignorance finds ZERO flaw in this, his brilliant idea.

Wormholes are already generatable, OP. Although your commitment to your idea could be admired, the fact is that wormhole generators already exist. They are hardwired into the code and all you have to do is roll the hole to generate another. It's a perfect mechanic and with the exception of the occasional wobble, works splendidly.

Thanks for sharing though.

It's called wandering wormholes, champ.

And... agreed.

^This is what WH space REALLY needs