Wormholes

Hey everyone! This thread is for all of your feedback and discussion surrounding the increase in random wormhole spawning and introduction of the new small ship wormholes that we announced in our recently released dev blog.

Depending on how these are received once we release them in wormholes, we'll consider adding them elsewhere. The CSM has also requested that we consider adding them as HS-WH connections in the future to encourage newer players to dip their toes into WH space with cheap ships.
I think both are good ideas but we'll start them off as WH exclusive and consider expansion from there.

Sounds like fun, however i'd be nice to be able to change out clones so we can take advantage of these "encouraged frigate roams" without worrying about losing pirate implants constantly.

Any word in that regard? I know people have talked about letting the rorqual do clone swapping.

can you explain your reasoning in "frigate" only? I just dont see this doing anything. Up in classes where people have capitals youd need a extremely large blob to even bother anyone

Well this means that people cannot totally collapse wormholes without getting someone running into them. Planting scouts become a bit easier, and finding middle of the road fights become more viable.

You "technically" should run into more frigate/destroyer gangs in wormhole space.

I don't see this as being a way to go in and destroy capitals, but a way of creating more logistical movement in wormhole space itself (you can kill lower non-capital stuff ya know).

Basically they made a roaming gang of cheap ships viable.

They just have to find a way to cloneswap in wormhole space and people will go do this (its fun).

added bonus of a module to store different clones - dem kill mails

I can see how this would work. I can see a lot more pipe bomb camps being set up this way which is always fun.

Perhaps removing the polarization sickness for these wormholes would be a good move as well or have it scale with the ship size that is taken through.

Seems like an interesting addition but i don't really see the advantage of only being able to take frigates to fight the guys you are connected to... seems like it's a case of taking a knife to a gun fight.

Fozzie, please don't ignore this comment:

I do like the idea of encouraging traffic and limiting these holes to sub cruiser size has value.

Did you really mean to make them Connect to null only as Kspace connections? I initially read Null>Jspace and almost had an aneurysm, but seeing they originate in J space let me get better. connecting to all Kspace equally would be much more balanced.

I have some concern of the effects on c1 and c2 residents, they may become less occupied as a result, I suggest a major increase in their opportunities for Isk generation to compensate, otherwise they will become unhealthy.

You have also now created an overwhelming need to allow the swapping of jump clones in wormhole space.
Please make it possible.

Its a mass issue. You can reduce their mass by a huge amount. I'm pretty sure they couldn't restrict their use without having to do some funky coding to identify that it was a heavy dictor and to say "no".

Simpler solution.

Whether they'll be used more.. dunno.