Wormholes

Random is good

Sleeper officers ala burner rats is a great idea but should be something that can occur in any class wormhole from completion of any site. It could promote more PvP-like fits for PvE runners and would all around be a nice addition to PvE. Make them drop loot like a much higher level sleeper. The chances of you getting and introducing new "sleeper faction" modules is probably highly unlikely (no offense) so concentrate on standard, but increased loot drops. This could be extended to all PvE sites and even ore/gas anoms.

Add potential "respawns" to ore and gas anomalies and randomize the timer. The static 20 minute(ish) timer means the site is a known quantity and once cleared, is safe for endless harvesting.

Anything that you can come up with to make PvE scale with the people involved would go a long way to improving the quality of PvE efforts. It is not an easy nut to crack. I don't like escalations as the answer as it often simply draws a line in the sand to say "bring this many people for optimal farming". Anything less than that is locked out.

I'd like to see something more adaptive. Warp in two players? One segment of each wave randomly doubles in quantity. Warp in a ship using remote reps? A wave of random neut sleepers possibly spawns which focus on logistics using ships. Once you start to layer these things up, warping in 4 players with remote reps could result in a significant increase in targets, DPS, and difficulty without the static "do this, get that" play of the typical escalation. Maybe this is outside the realm of the existing tools but I think pushing towards that type of semi-random changes to sites resulting in increased loot drops/targets would go a long way to making PvE more interesting.

only thing i don't like about that is that it breaks the natural barrier for mega corps/alliances in wh space. I like that it's hard for larger organizations to live off of their home. It provides an additional incentive for smaller corps to form and live outside of those structures.

An upper cap on the "random" wouldn't be hard to do. I'm just not a fan of more static content in an already static PvE environment. I appreciate the effort to make the escalations work for as little as 2 pilots but I'd love to see work put into randomizing instead.

I think what CCP wants to do, they do
I think proposing new modules as part of a PvE fix/enhancement/etc is less likely to occur and I would fear that any proposal that relies upon "new items" at it's core would then be looked on less favorably than simply extending existing items. New items have significant ripple effects in their application and thus require much more work to introduce vs. just dropping "stuff"

Truth is, when talking about worth, I don't care if a green item drops or a blue loot, just that it has value.

Now this is a thread that I have been encouraged to post my/corbex suggestion for capital escalation fixes.


Remove the capital escalation value added and instead put it into the base site to be given at the end of clearing the entire site totally (non escalation waves). There would also need to be a slight boost to the base site income to encourage people to raid static.

What this does is leaves the payout relatively the same but creating a risk/reward system to create some conflict about getting that much money. Either you take the 700+base site payout the first day, and clear the site, or you take a risk of it being stolen from you on your off time.

What I feel that this would do, is not only reduce the amount of money that bears make who really shouldn't be in c5s, but encourage people to raid their static trying to find people who have been running capital sites and leaving them.

An under rated side effect of this is the fights between the major groups. If hard knocks connects to lazerhawks, they can just go into their sites with t3's and clear them. This creates content from the major groups by giving something worth while to fight over, especially fights in home systems which dont really happen.

I think the most important part about this change is that it should encourage people to get into the statics more to be a way of consistently making high money, rather then just closing out your wormholes and doing some quick capital escalations. Mid/low level bears CAN STILL make money even high money, but it isnt basically risk free any more. Mid level groups (like mine) would likely two/three day escalate and take some risk while taking a good influx of money.

Non-harvestable Gas clouds in combat anomalies are overly mean to graphics cards compared to the other decorations eg. large-collidables. Sorry to not name specific anomalies but they are used in many.

Farming static sites? Did everyone forget how to expo?

Based on the information available here:

http://games.chruker.dk/eve_online/npc_ships.php?supergroup=23

which I have found nothing to discredit thus far, is it time for sleepers to be rebalanced? In the interests of fairness to other NPCs in the game sleepers aren't particularly hard they just seem to have a lot of HP.

I note that there is nearly no RR in the lower class wormholes. Neuting is also fairly neglible with the peak neuting occuring in a c3 anom I think peaking at like 16gj/s. Webbing and scramming are more commonplace but not really noticable.

Now obviously as you go C4 and higher this story changes but if wormholes are now a point of developer focus (due to their obviously neglected and underdeveloped nature) then perhaps as part of a comprehensive, longer term wormhole revision we can look at these NPCs themselves.

Blue loot was buffed to make the rewards of living in lower class holes better and for this reason I am getting and seeing a lot of questions related to lower class holes where previously no interest was expressed at all. But there is a caveat which I would say is that certainly some parts of the space could be made harder, just to drive home the point of this space.

Now I don't claim to have years and years of experience in wormholes but I have for the last 6 months lived variously between C1s and C3's in different capacities.

To start with I would broadly propose that CCP create 1 new kind of anomoly per class of wormhole that is a bit harder than normal, say perhaps in the mid-difficulty range of the next highest class of wormhole.

This would allow C1's to have one site that spawns a battleship, without escalating (which might require more people than the group can field). And so forth. These sites would also feature a higher degree of webbing/neuting than normal, possibly as much as or more than the amount expressed inside of the class it's emulating.

The ultimate objective of this kind of introduced anomaly would be to provide more challenge to people within their current residences that might not have the numbers available to proc an escalation but otherwise can handle the sites in their home hole relatively easily. It could also present a milestone for smaller groups building up membership, they would complete this site and then guage whether or not based on their success whether or not they have the capacity to upgrade their hole class. All from the ease of their home hole.

I feel that in the interest of fairness, loot should be comparable to the same mid-level anomaly from the next higher class and that clearance times should be similar for a given fleet size that would be used in the next higher class. This is not simply a port of a higher level anomaly in to a lower class hole - that would be easy but raise balancing issues. You might as well upgrade your hole at that point not to mention the jump from c2-c3 is larger than from c1-c2.

It's just food for thought.

Edit: moved for splurging. Replace with flag stating "Corbexx for leader of wormholes, should be hired By ccp and named CCP Wspace".

No need to get mad corbexx. I can be particularly hard headed. Been putting those ideas in every thread about polarized weapons since they were announced.

No one wants you to give up. You are doing an amazing job and we all know it. You are open and upfront with the community and put your heart into the game. For that we all thank you for your hard work.

Don't take my post as any type of attack. You can treat it more like propoganda than anything else. I'll edit the above as it should be in a different thread.