Wormholes

What i find interesting about the stats provided to us by Fozzie was that there was more player deaths in Pulsars then in a Magnetar, and by the looks of it by lots.

When we lived in a C5/5 pulsar almost noone would fight us in the home due to never having a dedicated shield fleet and understandably as we clearly had things set up with shield carrier support with the Chimera is god complex. But what i was surprised about was that we always got fight after fight in our C5/5 magnetar, the bitches loved that magnetic ****.

So i guess it confuses me are there a similar number of player deaths in pulsars and magnetars in C5/5's but it differs in lower classes due to people not being as concerned about the effect being that the effect % was lower?

Will you break down the first graph into WH C1-6 for us perhaps CCP Fozzie?

While we are at it i ******* love graphs and stats, can we have more on WH's please?

As a matter of record, a triage Archon with two meta local reppers, three remote reppers, and one remote cap transfer (plus an EANM and DC, and the rest cap regen) is fully capable of solo-tanking escalations, even in a C5 Cataclysmic Variable. Our standard setup is precisely as above, and we live in a C5 CV. With two local reppers and links from an command ship, a Triage Archon can tank a maximum of about 8663 DPS (8800ish with a second EANM instead of the DC, but we prefer the extra hull buffer just in case), and is nearly stable doing so even with a full double-wave (first carrier, first dread) of 12 Sleepless Guardians neuting it (it's 64% stable without the neuts, and still lasts 7 minutes on cap with all 12 neuts on it 100% of the time with both local reppers working 100% of the time as well).

Now, each Sleepless Guardian does 694 DPS, so a wave of 12 does 8328. Said carrier can tank them just fine.

Especially factor in that if you've got a pair of Lokis on field (as you should), they will almost instantly pull aggro off the carrier. In my experience, the carrier gets initial aggro and retains it roughly until the dreadnaught lands (assuming your dreadnaught and lokis are initiating warping to the site about the same time the carrier loads grid at the site), as which point one of your lokis (and it's almost always the same loki. I think characters have a randomized threat constant per character or something, because certain characters nearly *always* pull threat over others, regardless of actions) will pull threat on both waves, as well as the entire site.

Now, a well-tanked escalation loki can handle that aggro without breaking a sweat, and the triage archon can then keep them up just by continuously cycling their cap transfer on the loki (to counter the neuts) and pulsing a remote rep on them.

The biggest thing is that your triage pilot needs to learn what they can do with their cap, and need to train themselves to think of their armor and cap as exchangable commodities. Their armor doesn't always have to be at 100%. In fact, it's ideal if it's not, because then the triage pilot can pulse their local reppers to keep their cap between 20% and 40%, ideally between 25% and 35%, to maximize cap regen.

We've occasionally had our triage carrier get low (~20-30% armor), but all but one time that was purely because said triage pilot wasn't paying enough attention to their own armor and let it get too low (didn't lose it even then, though). The one time it wasn't simply inattention what when we accidentally spawned the second dreadnaught wave while we still has 11 of the 12 initial escalation battleships on field. That got hairy, but even with that much DPS and neut pressure on field, no one died, and our triage carrier tanked it just fine.



The problem is sleepers. Oneiros and Scimis are fantastic for PvP (especially Scimis), but they just can't handle sleeper sites purely due to the neuts. You have to have cap transfers or everything dies in those sites. Triage carriers are awesome, and will still work for capital escalations, but Guardians and Basilisk simply can't maintain their cap anymore unless they are running two transfers incoming, which negates most of the benefit, since they no longer have spare cap to give to other neut targets.



Technically speaking that data is already available insofar as the system background shows it, but it takes an experienced eye. Just like how it's possible to determine which system class a K162 Dangerous or K162 Unknown goes to by the color of the wormhole, if you know what to look for and which colors mean what.

It's nice to see that I was close to the money on what blackholes would be changed to.

To expand on my original train of though, I do not understand why you feels that cataclysmic variables need this nerf when your numbers for this kind of space are negative. Admittedly not as much as for black holes, but still negative. To me, this means that cataclysmic variables are in need of some kind of buff to make the space more desirable. I don't have any game-fixing ideas when it comes to buffs, but I do have a suggested tweak to maybe address your issues with capital logistics in cataclysmic variables whitout making a logi chain in these systems impossible.

If the current bonuses to remote energy, shield and armour were to exclude capital modules the carrier fleets you want to address would be nerfed, without touching the smaller sizes (i.e cruiser logi and Dominix/Armageddon chains)

Alternatively, make the bonuses mentioned scale to 50% in C6, not 100%. Fleets would still be viable, but not to the supposedly overpowered level.

My main concern is that medium- to small-sized groups will be severely hurt, if not completely crippled, by your suggested changes since PvE will not be doable for some ppl in C5-6. When more logistic cruisers are needed in place of battleships, dps is lowered significantly without gaining a bonus in the new system, thus making the sites impossible to complete by current fleet sizes.

I have an idea, why don't you design a anchorable device similar to tcu or customs office.
This device will people in the wormhole space to be visable in local but instead of having 1, make the device have a range such as 9au.
Just an idea from very tired person lol.

He should just biomass TBH.

I do agree the changes seem functional. Scary, but functional. Its going to mean more for those systems that have special effect going on. Now for the major question... when will we see these in K-space, so they can share in the fun?

Replace guardians with Onerios' (or scimitars) end logi subcap problem

Then you'll have to come up with something besides spider tanking...



Did you just turn Red Giants into the Bombing Fields of Eve?

Have you ever considered expanding the wormhole effects to more wormholes? There are allot of empty ones out there that could use a interesting effect, if not just temporary (call it the wormhole haylee's comet, randomly giving wormholes it passes by wormhole effects for 48 hours).

I'd be interesting to notice your no effect wormhole suddenly have an effect for 48 hours, then drop.

Adds a bit of controlled randomness, but doesn't wreck people's wormhole choices by making it mandatory.

+1
Black holes don't seem utterly miserable now, huzah!

(I dislike most of the rest of the stuff tho)