Wormholes

I've seen this mentioned before. I think the problem is those new T3 frigs would have to be balanced among the existing ships in the game, while still providing advantages to make players want them. That is time-consuming for devs and they will probably make another Ishtar by accident.

It would be better if they simply raised the value of the blue loot.

Although I agree in point I'd like to point out that there will (most probably) always be a 'more lucrative thing to do'. The point, for me, is not to balance W-space against all tho other things. I'd be fine with just balancing it within W-space. As it is now there is a order of magnitude difference between say C2 and C5 when it comes to income. C2's are also where the most kills happen in W-space if I remember eve-sensus.com right. Don't quote me on the destroyed VALUE though. Eve-sensus is number of kills.

Anywho and all that said... If people are of the opinion that w-space should be worth more than X... Why not go do X? I like W-space, so I'll stick around, probably until I quit Eve. Because it's w-space I like, not the ISK.

The only thing that makes me want a T3 frig is the new frig holes. They would go good together, but I can't imagine how to make a T3 frig that doesn't break the game.

Conversely, if the existing T3's were properly rebalanced (maybe remove SP loss?) enough to encourage greater use, perhaps we could get sleeper loot prices back up through normal supply/demand free market operations.

Of course, that would require a good rebalance of T3's to the point where they became used extensively again.

Otherwise, the easy answer would be to just rebalance site blue loot so that risk/reward scale with C-value and are always more rewarding than hisec. This is actually probably a necessary first step for any WH revamps that seek to populate it more heavily.

Fix Idea for Mining:
When you rebalance the anoms, add deposits of +10% high-end ores to the sites, based again on difficulty etc. Many of the sites already have veldspar or other minerals in the site. By putting things that people actually want in the sites, you can encourage them to mine, while requiring them to have some minimal PVP abilities. This mining would take place after the final wave has been cleared making them unprobable without combats.

This would mean that miners would again be encouraged to mine in a WH, and that they would have some guns. Maybe they'd even shoot back. Oh, and make the WH ghost sites contain ice, lol.

yeah, you had fun in the wormhole while the incursion nerds just pressed f1

The idea of T3 frigates is interesting, but the balance issue really is significant.

As an idea both to bring people into wormhole space and to provide a solution to the balance problem, there should be an entire new class of ship, this can either be the redeveloped T3 line that could include all sizes of ship or provide it with a T4 fitting slot for example.

This ship is balanced against other ships in KS to ensure it is not overpowered, but when operating in wormhole space a wormhole specific module can be activated and it gains enhanced functionality or power.

For example the Nestor could have been designed as a T4 and gained the ability to warp cloaked in wormhole space that it so desperately needed to thrive here, without it becoming unbalanced against other battleships in known space, this could really create a flood of interest in wormhole space too and help bring activity when coupled with other improvements, and suck up extra income as well.