Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I feel like the major barrier of entry for wh space is that people don't like scanning, its tedious and it takes alot of time scanning out even a 5-10 jump wormhole chain. Ive been tossing around ideas about how to work around that. And the way wspace would operate if these changes went through.

So the general gist is to make wormholes easier to get to. Something like anoms 100% warp-to-able by any ship, no need to probe them. Null groups would just need to send out scout intys/dictors to find dynamic chains to elsewhere. Wh groups would just need to run down there chain quick and back to decide to keep it or not. WHs would be much more dangerous, because lets face it, its safer in wspace than highsec right now.

Alternatives would be a way to distiguish wormhole sigs from all the other sigs. Because that is a majority of the issue right there, having to scan down almost every other sig to be sure its not a wh. Or have a fast ship that can see wormholes and warp to them without having to probe, like the astero. Or just make wormholes easy to hit, like 100% on 8au probes.

In the end this is about making wormholes more appealing to newer players, and more pvp whether its wanted or not. Wormhole space will become much more popular.

Gonna keep this short and sweet. Enjoy. Feel free to post any ideas regarding the subject here.


TLDR: Wormhole chains should be much much easier to populate and go through. Wormhole space is too safe.

Don't let this dirty carebear sway you.

"Lets take the Explore out of Explorations"

You Lazy bro?

+1

Either make scanning hard again, or remove it. In its current form it's nothing but a useless time sink.

The only thing I would like to see when it comes to scanning down WHs, and I'm not sure it is even a good/balanced thing to do, is have the WH type show up in the scanner window. So you would get something like this.

ID - Unstable Wormhole - X702 - 100%

-1

Scanning is part of exploration and wh belong to this part, too and it's already easy enough.

Making WH appearing like anoms wouldn't make them less safe, it would make them more safe. Jump in a WH and fly around cloaked without having to deploy probes makes me almost invisible.

Whatever your dealer sold you is not good for you

Going to pass on that. Especially since cloaky T3 fleets could just warp wh to wh and only be visible for a couple of seconds as they jump into a new system, hit d scan and start warping to sites.

Essentially what you are describing is the end of small corporations in wh space.

I'd just move them to their own category so you have Anomaly, Wormhole and Signature. That's the most in simplification I'd agree to.

I think he refers to discovery scanner and how it gives away the very fact of signatures being present in system and location you need to scan.

I can't help but to compare it to more traditional MMOs and their design philosophy of "see this pile? if your skill is equal or more than 100, apply tool and get goodies".

Then again, before we had tools that could trivialize any system to this, making the process just a time sink again, so I dunno...