Wormholes

Holy sh*t, the Curse is back!

All the people in my statics are dead now.

Seriously though, this is retardäd.

The hunters already don't show for the most part until it's too late, site runners are going to get scouted with a covops ship which will appear on dscan for a split second when they jump in. If you're running sites in a hole and don't roll the connections then you'd have a scout on each open hole listening for activations.

It will make very little change when it comes to catching site runners unless the site runners are lazy and not watching connections.

People daytripping into a c3 probably don't bring a handful of scouts to watch all connections and share their measly 100m isk/hour with.

As for scouts showing up on dscan: if the recon jumps with the scout together or shortly after nothing will show on dscan before the recon lands in the site

The Lachesis is really the one to fear here. With a high scan res setup they can land in your site and point you really fast. That might be mitigated by a mobile depot and some warp core stabs, if they land solo for tackle. If you are 60k+ off the site entrance, aligned, and watching the overview as diligently as d-scan, you can probably avoid a Curse/Huginn/Rook if they don't have a perfect warp-in on you.

I need to put up a new blog post but I keep getting distracted by that thread. If I let it get too far ahead it will take days to catch up!

Maeh, it will not really kill anything. But a number of things would be thrown out of (the current) balance.

- you would be handed yet another very powerful tool for killing low-class inhabitants doing their PvE
- shitttty "cloaky Falcon" gameplay in solo pvp would be complemented by any type of offgrid combat recon
- factional warfare becomes even more stupid

A dscan immune ship with highly potent ewar, dps and actual tank for 200m is just too powerful.

As for wh-space implications I'm just afraid to run out of targets

I'm not sure it will change much in wormholes other than the fact we will see more Combat Recons used now.

Combat recons can't warped cloaked which means they will be visible the second they come onto grid. So now, grid positioning will be everything. Most wormhole groups used a cloaky to bump them while they grab point and warp a fleet anyway.

There is a really easy counter to this change however that only the bigger / older groups tend to use, combat probes. I'm suprised with the smaller groups that don't have them out while running sites.

What I do expect to see is them being used to run sites in low end holes so people don't know sites are being run expect by seeing wrecks.

Wormholers are used to being ready for cloaky ships to attack and they can't be seen while they're warping around cloaked. I don't see it affecting us much.

Nullsec ratters however; I forsee them having am issue with this

Bloody hell. Defensive combat probes! How do they work!?!

The sky isn't falling.

While i think the changes are fine, i think they have the same problem as the HAC changes: Theyre not enough.
Not being Dscannable is cute and all but id rather they were actually buffed more.