Wormholes

I obv. can't comment on c1-c4 space.. but my thoughts on the C5+ changes to escalations..

Don't make escalations and PVE in general more tedious than it already is!
Trying to fix an issue by adding changes that makes the game more tedious is pretty damn bad gamedesign tbh.
with that I mean, don't do **** that makes the sites take longer to run(adding cruisers/frigs or moving spawns).

Im also not sure I like moving the isk to the finish of the site. This will remove isk from corp activities(cap escalations) and put the isk into the hands of the solo player(Marauders, dreads, carriers).
Changes shouldn't encourage people to play solo, which would be the case here.

As for burner missions in W-space..
Fozzie is bad.. Frigats sucks.. Don't buy in to his BS and don't ruin EVE by listening to him. thx <3

Frigates are great everywhere. I have only one medium turret specific implant, doesn't really bother me when flying other ship classes. Rest are useful for all ships.

Hey corbexx, I have given this some more thought.

I remember someone from CCP stating, that they didn't like how sites in C5/C6 space were run with regards to escalating them more than once. So any discussion about an overhaul must take into account that this feature is likely going to be removed.

Having that in mind, I imagine the following changes would accomplish the goal of encouraging people to run sites in there static without skewing the balance of escalation risk/reward.

- increase the value of the sites themselves by some 100m/150m isk for C5/C6 class wh (simply by adding 1 or 2 waves)
- introduce a 14 day timer after which sites despawn automatically without being triggered
- turn up the total number of combat sites (if necessary)
- leave capital escalations alone!
- introduce a sleeper capital that spawns on the warp-in of a third dread. To motivate people to actually finish the site, the sleeper capitals's wreck can only be accessed by way of hacking after ALL sleepers in the site are dead. I'm thinking the value of the sleeper capital should be around ~50m + the chance to drop some rare mods.

What do you think?

I know this is not a pve stuff but with the Hyperion Changes on mass jump distance, covops are impossible to catch even with inty full stuff for scan resolution.

With proper fit, an inty can lock anything in less then one second. And even with that kind of scan res, a covops cloaking right after a jump is uncatchable.

It is a big issue, we should be able to kill covops when defending a hole, or at least force him to go back. Not easily but with the right setup and fit we should be able to do that.

Actually it depends only on luck (is the covops close enough to another ship to get a very quick decloak before the covops w/o or before the covops go out a dictor bubble.

Yes ... but ... We are in WSpace ... Not in KSpace. And with gates you are not randomly poped around the gate, there is a direction. So it is easier to decloak a covops in nullsec.

Before Hyperion, covops was not able to cloak after jump, so even with a prop on that covops you had the time to lock it down with an inty before cloak.

Now you can't.



Killing a covops entering in your hole remove intel to your ennemies before a fight. So if you field the right ships to defend your hole against ennemy intel (dictor + inty) you should be able to avoid ennemy intel.

That has nothing to do with killing covops for killing covops.

Yes they were able to cloak after jump, unless bad luck landed them in decloak range of the hole, which was not that often.

Since the mass changes in wormhole space, I maybe once landed in decloak range of the hole.

There are ways to address this, all are kinda bad.

Covert ops have always been difficuilt to catch when fit and piloted well, the same tecniques work as they always have, however, if one is trying to lock them before they warp, one still is relying on them making a mistake or being careless. Personally I would not expect anything else when hunting them. That is their Job and what they are designed for.
A few Bombs however still work as well as they always have. It works well for us.
Just do not expect 100% success in killing them.

If you find covert ops annoying to catch the triple (at least) stabbed, interdiction nullifying, jamming, neuting T3 cloaky scanning ship designed for "hot" holes, (plus some other sneaky features) that one player we know uses, would really annoy you.

But smart players with good choices, will catch that one day too.

The point is sometimes smart prey is difficult to catch. Play your best, and do not expect CCP or other players to make things easy.

Edit:- this is the PVE little things thread, so shall we drop this subject and move on now please?

funny enough the idea for that attually came from someone who lives in C5 space as at the moment there is literally no reason what so ever to live in c6 over c5 the iskis exactly the same, your safer in a c5 get more null sec exits for pew. there is literally no reason to be in a c6 wh over a c5.

But playing devils advocate, why should they really be the same?

Biggest complaint would be _Sentries_ in some anoms. They're dumb, they defy sigtanking and they occasionally make it necessary to fly with your scanner fleeted, cause else they're vollying you into structure on some armorships. Yes, no issue with the 10% extra-hp from being fleeted, but damn risky without fleet-boni.

In addition, they kill ambitioned rookies that go *hey it shoot sperfectly out to 60km, it surely doesn't track then*... they thought, before I dropped the tractor.

I also hear a lot of supposedly honourable wormholers whine about frigate holes. Yes, frig piloting is hard, especially in a gang. That does't mean frigates are bad, but only that you can't pilot things.