Wormholes

I've pondered whether to write this post for a while but in the end though sod it, why not, I have an opinion, share it and see if others agree or not.

1. Evictions as content is not good for w-space.

I have heard a lot of spiel from the leaders of prominent w-space corps over the last months. They have been talking about w-space needing more players, and that they are "sad about the way that the largest corps mop up most of the incoming players", they say that w-space needs many more smaller corporations in it for it to work.

But then there are the actions of the same corporations attempting to evict people in the name of "content". As a director of a medium sized corporation my immediate response to this "content" is to think that I need more players in my home to help me defend it when they come for us. Which means that for me the actions that these corporations are currently undertaking have completely the opposite effect of the gospel they are preaching.

2. Embrace the blue doughnut.

There is a lot of talk about the blue doughnut of w-space, and contrary to general opinion on these forums I am ok with it, haters are gonna hate, but w-space is not null, we do not live under the same rules as them. We don't have to kick people out of systems just because that's what the game mechanics dictate you do in 00. I for one absolutely love the fact that we fight each other one day and join up the next "for the greater good". I do not see that as a negative for the way we live, in fact it is one of the things that attracted me to w-space in the first place.

The idea of fighting with (and possibly losing) a 20b isk t3 fleet is fine with me and absolutely part of what I want out of my pvp, however do I really want to lose everything I have in system in the name of "content"? No I don't, and I think if people gave you a truthful answer most others wouldn't either.

Anyway, that's my 2p, I'm sure I'm gonna get flamed for it, but meh.

23/7 carebearing as content is not good for w-space.

I can assure you that being on the receiving side of a eviction is much less boring, a fact which you should be able to empirically confirm soon enough.

What about evictions on principal?

evictions are good for WH space
pve is good
pvp is good
mining is good

anything that gets people outside their POS shields and able to be targeted by someone else = good for WH space

Not every corp/alliance wants to sit at 300 odd members in the fear that they will need to defend themselves against these 100man t3/capital gangs that seem to like evicting people.


One day there going to hit a small/medum corp that always pvp's with everyone win or lose who can really only field 20 or 30 guys and they will be able to do sweet **** all but die in a fire. Im all for evicting people but theres no ******* point in even trying to really defend if the eviction fleet that your facing up against is 100 or so strong t3/capitals and your long established group of 30 guys accustomed to running 20 to 30 guys using very well designed doctrines of t3 blapping/capital pvp.

If you want content by eviction then evict people who can fight back, if your so obsessed with getting good fights and pvp then surely someone who can field the numbers you want in a fight is something that would make that eviction attractive? Evicting a small pvp corp for example would be completely pointless.

The sizes of corps/alliances atm is really making wormhole space unattractive.

Im sorry that I originally moved here for the small to medium gang pvp/capital pvp....not 100/200man t3 fleets.

It's very easy to make negative assumptions about evictions. As with many things, it is massively dependent on the attitude of those involved.

On the face of it, if an entity is removed and then dissolves out of wormholes entirely, yes that could be perceived as detrimental. But is it?

My first venture into wormholes was from investing level 4 mission ISK into a a medium tower and anchoring it in a C3. The guys that evicted us went on to use the system for themselves and it would have been easy to give up and try something else but we learned from experience and got right back into it.

Knowing what I know now, handing WH space to people on a silver plate because people think anything else would be bad for the environment is the greater of the two evils. Learning things the hard way enriches the environment. I know the initial statement was more aimed towards higher class groups, but it's all a slice of the same pie.

Evictions are very bad for WH space and have always been so.
Invading someone's home and attacking them? sure that's find and good content but actually coming in with an overwhelming force to just remove them? That isnt good or fun for anyone and it certainly isnt content.

I highly disagree with the blue donut being ok though.
it is 100% not needed in whs and all it leads to is people having access to huge, unopposable forces which they'll inevitably want to take advantage of, generally in the form of evicting people what as discussed above is terrible for WH space.

I'll add that kicking someone out because you want their specific system to live in is one of the few acceptable eviction reasons.

this is bullsh!t and you know it.
C5s are no harder to live in than C1s and 2s and anyone claiming otherwise is either ignorant or pushing an agenda.

C5s are not 'unpopulated', they have the same level of population as all other classes of WHs: low.