Wormholes

This is actually due to the way players behave rather than the game. Basically, a lot of scanners like to go out just before downtime and open every hole they find, to see if they can land in a juicy system to get their friends in later. If you look, those connections you see after downtime are mostly K162s coming from other wormholes (or k-space). So the other end was sitting there for hours and hours, potentially, and just hadn't been activated.

Anecdotally we do see a LOT more hostile roams during EUTZ most days instead of USTZ. No idea why this is though, since there's plenty of USTZ pilots operating in wormholes too.

I find the idea of sub cruiser wormholes interesting, there are some good possibilities, and smart bomb sales will rise astronomically as a natural consequence.

There are two issues that need to be addressed though.

There needs to be a way of swapping clones in wormholes, NOT JUMPING or re awakening of a clone anywhere else but K space.
whilst the clone cost is manageable even at high skill point levels, no one is going to use these corridors with hundreds of millions of implants. particularly as many many frigates will die using them, and that cannot be mitigated against. There will be smart bombing ships everywhere! solve the implant issue and they will be actively used.

Secondly the way PvE generates wealth such as it is in lower class wormholes, most of the value is in nano ribbons salvaged. the blue loot levels are not of any real value.

There will be less time for low class small operations to salvage while running sites, as they will be being disturbed far more often. I am not by any means saying it is impossible, but it will affect income for them significantly.

I recommend altering the loot tables for these lower class sites to increase blue loot values than can be got comparatively quickly and reduce nano ribbon drops to balance a little, but Lower class wormholes C4 and below, could do with a little help. contrary to popular opinion they are NOT isk fountains. They need income to replace their losses.

Relic and data sites in these holes, really need help as they have so many cans containing little of value. reduce the cans and up the value of the contents.

Some may say They are only farmers kill them all, but that is certainly not the whole story, there are some, but most really do not fit that label, and after these changes uninterrupted farming is not exactly going to be possible.

so TL;DR

Boost sub C5 blue loot to compensate for increased risk.
reduce the number of data and relic cans in C4 wormholes and below, and increase the contents.
make it possible to swap clones or implants in wormholes.

After all we want more players in all classes of space outside the POS, that is in ALL our best interests.

note: apart from the implant issue, none of these issues affect me or will benefit me in any way other than providing more content to shoot!

Going to say this is a stupid idea, and just goes to prove you do not like mining in wh space. you should do the players a favor and just remove grav sites from WH's cuz no one is going to mine them with un-closable frig sized wh's with high spawn rates.

Having these low class WHs have transport ships travel through them would be even more brilliant. But overall, I love this idea.

How about instead of a low jump mass high total mass regen hole, maybe make these more common, but low jump mass low total mass? Say, 20 frigate's worth or something? It open up j-space for more content, but keep the idea that when you are here you are isolated. No chance of reliable backup for your blob. If they are common, you're never really safe, but people need to bring a scout to use then and get out and can't treat them as a super highway from sov space.

Also, please give us a way to change clones.

This is a tough one. On one hand, trying to encourage more use of Frigates in W-space is good, but with the fleet sizes typically seen in W-space (very small in comparison to Nullsec fleets), combined with the fact that W-space residents typically can afford to fly whatever they want and still usually don't choose frigates, this will be difficult.

Mandating the use of Frigates in some cases likely isn't a complete solution; you need to make frigates more desirable. Being known for dying when sneezed upon, it may help to increase frigate survivability, perhaps by an increase in buffer, a decrease in sig radius, or a small natural resistance to webbing for all frigates. After all, if you can scram and web a frigate, it's dead in one shot.

You will also need to reduce the reluctance to use low-tanked ships due to a great chance of losing your pod and implants. Allow us to swap clones in W-space, placing all jump clones in the wormhole system at risk if invaded, and requiring us to risk their loss during transport from Hisec station to W-space facility. Those are two new risks that do not presently exist.


Combined, those two changes will result in more Frigates in W-space with or without a focus on frigate-only wormholes.

The current amount inside my head would keep me away from such a crappy little frig. so easily taken out inside of one of those holes and saying good bye to my pod. No thank you.

Hey, this is semi-on topic, but if you want to spice up w-space in general you could add wormhole "Pockets"

These are unstable wormhole systems... They live and die with the WH that enters them..... Lets label them C0 and have a rating of .1~.6... a C0.3 is a unstable C3 system, When the primary hole into it dies you get dumped back into normal or W space randomly.... So they are high risk for getting stranded and with 16-24hr lifespans they are not intended to support permanent residence.

What they are good for is appearing at random within normal and w-space as un-inhabited space for exploration, say your a high sec mining corp, and one of these spawns... you could venture in knowing that the space is not being lived in and try to risk some better mining. Or if your in W space it gives you an opportunity to clear more sites and explore other w-space classes without having to contend entrenched residents.

That does not mean they are safe, they would typically have only 1 entrance/exit with lower total mass limits. Getting stranded at one in high sec could mean being transported out to nul... or if you entered from w-space it would dump you out into parts unknown and you would have to scan your way out. Also some gankers could come trap you inside or roll you on purpose. Clearly there would need to be some warning perhaps a shader making the space it self all wobbly so you know you need to leave soon. But it would be neat to have these pockets to sort of stretch your legs in w-space and try new things.

An interesting idea would be making these show up on scan like standard combat sites, where they dont need scanned them self unlike normal wormholes.

I have lived in WH-s for a few years.
We are a small corporation that can not put up a real fight.

Nevertheless, I really enjoyed many aspects of the WH life with my 2 paid accounts.
I can tell you one thing for sure:
When we have 1 or max 2 exits, we do many things, including running sleeper sites, mining, doing PI, transporting stuff.
Every time we get 4-5 connections, we have people roaming our WH, usually from the higher classes WH-s or Null.
We have no defense against them, rather than closing the holes, which many times we do.
However, if 'THEY' are very active, we just quit playing in the WH for 16 hrs/24 hrs..

With these changes:
- we'll not be able to close the bad connections
- we'll always have many connections, so we'll always be prevented from playing.
- a large fleet of small ships still can kill anything given enough time, which a large corporation will obviously have

If these changes become real and affect the game as I unfortunately think they will, chances are really good that I am quitting for good EVE. It's been a few good years, but I may get more sugar from my wife if I stop playing, so not too bad at the end of the day.

PS / Option:

How about you make these changes (extra connections and the new unknown WH) to appear proportional with the WH Class?
The higher the class the more new connections to other higher class?
Large corporations with Capital ships live in C4-6 WH, and they are usually looking for more fights, so connect them to more similar WH-s. C1-2 connect them to HS, and between them.

I live in a C4, we get triple whammy:

1. Additional static. Could be good, could be bad but I didnt ask for it.
2. Increased risk to close my holes
3. increased gank traffic through these mini holes.

We are a mixed PvP / PvE corporations. While I am looking forward to more routes and more people to shoot, I can see our carebears re-evaluating their risk / reward and moving out.