Wormholes

The pod issue is truly significant.
Unless it is addressed this frigate idea, whilst extremely good, just will not actually happen much.

simple solution would be removing the speed/agility/mass changes on hictor points and just have them disable prop mods. wtb heavy dictor rebalance, they're stupid.

Fresh idea. I like fact that it will not outright kill smaller groups. Even if someone would drop on them they have chance to kill few agressors.

+1 for possibility to clone-swap within the same system in W-space

I'm not really sure that this change is healthy for the game over all.

Right now, WH space is the only space were new players can actually life in and have some kind of their "own" system. I came to eve early this year, after having played some hours a year before. But this time I stuck with it.

As a new player, you quickly realize that you have not many options when you want to create your own space empire or jus get your own home. You can either join a big coalition and be meaningless with your subpar skills. HERO didn't exist back then, so getting your own piece of the universe (getting sov) simply wasn't an option, even if you started with some friends. And renting isn't an option, either. New players simply can not afford rent. We don#t have carriers to rat or else. So, my friends and I (5 players using more then 10 accounts by now) decided to give W-space a try.

We are now happily living an a C2 with static high sec and C3. By now, most of us fly their t3s very well and we use our C3 static regularly to kill sleepers. We even used our last c4 connection to go into the c4 and killed sleepers there. That went smoooth, and now we are giving it a thought to try to move into a c4 with static c4. We like that c4s are more quiet then other w-space systems.

Beign new players means we don't have much money. We already lost some t3s to roams due to inexperience and failure in getting the proper intel, but we get by.

If you can not longer close your home system, then w-space will be dead for newbies. And with it EVE, excpet for high sec. Sure, you can go roaming in low sec, but you can not have a "home" there. And you will probably need to make money in high sec. Getting into null and actually occupying some space is already impossible, so w-space is the last space were even noobs can plant a flag (or a pos ar two) and have their very own space home.

But if you can not close your home anymore, then you can not do mining anymore, which is an important base income. And if you can not find wormhole connections to wormholes that have only 1 or two additional connections so that you can watch (and maybe bubble) them, then we can not go kill sleepers anymore. Because well fit destroyer/frigate gang can still hurt inexperienced players in t3s with relatively small ISK risk.


What problem does this change try to solve anyways? Wspace is already full of very healthy fights, there's no need to make it even more uncontrollable. At last not in c1-c4. Maybe c5/c6 needs to be more spiced in order to kill capital escalation fleets easier, but there is certainly no need for frigate pvp in wspace in general.


I'm very concerned that some of these changes will hurt new, low-sp player with relatively small ISK very badly, while providing no real content to the already estabished, powerful wspace residents. I can't imagine the established, rich alliances getting fun out of trashing frigs.

Mobile Depot + Guns + ammo + Mods+ Cap batteries

The Storage Space of the Heavy Interdictor isn't THAT much.

You would not be able to hit a frigate with a heavy interdictor anyway (less you mount small guns/missiles, which are more common than most people want to admit on dictors).

Yea you are right here. It doesn't mean you are committed to die. Just move on, harass them, etc. You can't win every engagement. They may bring 5 to 6 guardians, they may drop a carrier, they may blueball you. But they cannot chase you either. They really can't see what you have on the otherside less they bring a scout (and with a dictor on the hole + your gang, you will either decloak them and kill them, or force them back onto the otherside).


You may ransom their capital or call for backup.

Hell you could potentially batphone for 100 frigates or destroyers (god 100 catalysts jumping into a wormhole fight would be comical).

I see potential for fights in the middle of random wormholes in cheaper ships people would be willing to risk. IF they come up with a way to swap clones at your pos, this would be a excellent change.

Fozzie, as far as I can tell all of these changes (including the other threads) are good if not great.

To address people's pod worries, it would be nice if we could use rorquals to switch pods in wormholes. Maybe when the rorqual gets updated?

Agreed, but there is a reason I (as well as others) have been asking for a pos module vs a rorqual.

1) the rorqual requires a pilot to operate and fly it
2) it overcomplicates the ship
3) No glorious killmail with pods in it.
4) Slower process.
5) the rorqual should be more than a pod swap ship.

A cloneswap method should be available to wormhole space so that people won't freak about about losing.

Not clone jumping, Clone Swapping.

You move to pos module, click "swap clone".

Your clone jump timer initiates.

You swap into a empty clone.

Your original "implanted clone", stays in the pos module.

No medical bays, no jumping to other systems. A simple "swap into clone". You cannot target a clone in a swap bay as a target to jump to (its basically just storage for 1 clone).

Make it so that the POS mod can hold 1 clone per person (you want multiple clones, you have to anchor multiple POS mods).

I would make this fairly expensive on powergrid and cpu.