Wormholes

We didn't start big. Our first week, we were 20 something members. We took any fight since day one. No, "sorry, we're in the middle of moving." We weren't even moved into our Pulsar yet. It's a hard job keeping our member numbers low. It's more work purging our inactives than it is taking in fresh blood. And cutting off recruitment is the fastest way to kill your corp, I think. But still, I recognize there's a problem. I know what needs to be done and we're trying. Most of our cap ganks are solo. The teaming up does reflect negatively toward us, so we'll be cutting down on that.

The TDSIN invasion was a step in that direction. There was nothing we (both sides of leadership) wanted more than to keep it 1v1. It was only us two, until suddenly Dropbears trickled in, then hearing about several others volunteering. I suppose the assumption that HK/QEX were en route was panic enough to not waste time picking up the phone, but they'd been absent the entire time. There are battle reports to prove. I mean, ****, all 50+ of their towers were reinforced by us, only. But, in hindsight, maybe we should have just kept it 100% Lazerhawks, despite the looming TDSIN coalition (DB, PL, TSNK, Exceed, AHARM [others they tried to reach, but came offering to us, instead]). We would have been mangled from the boots up with that coalition, but maybe then we would have been patted on the back. TDSIN had enough power to repel us on their own, actually. We started with two dreads and subcaps... It probably would have still been something like, "Lol, getfkt evikshen fail lolol," though.

Everyone starts small. If they produce enough content, they swell in numbers. People dig that. Can't blame anyone for that. The teaming up is a problem and should be done at least proportionally (1v1 corps). We do fight each other, though. We've fight HK and SSC more times than we have any other entity.

We want more fights, so we'll do our best to make that more appealing to others, starting with reductions.

That said, there's not a mechanic that can be changed to increase consensual PvP. That's why when Sugar asked me how I would change it, I was stumped (also inebriated). Corbexx did what he could to bring people out of their force fields, but beyond that is a cultural mindset. Most people hate overly aggressive behavior. Others hate risk aversion. There's conflict there, just not the right type. So, I think it's really up to us, as corp leaders, to make some sacrifices to foster internal changes, if we want more people willing to pew.

I think they should give dual statics to other space, before introducing yet another class of wormhole.

I can confirm, some times Iso5 is like, 2 guys (or guys acting as girls) online, and then you randomly see a Dusette in Local and it's all "Hey bbeh wut U doing?" and hen "Oh there's like 8 guys camping bubelz but it's only me." and I'm all "lets slide a few Gilas and a bait Rook in there and see what happens."

*dim lights*

*lava lamp*

content happens. Amirite?

Commonly it's *They have the same fleet as us, +2 falcons and then a bubbler. Not only do you know you're going to lose, but you also know you're going to have to make 1248061 jumps in order to get into the fight again, if the victorious so chose as to let you back in.

While at 0m and with strong logistics, T3s resists+sigradius+gank turn them insane. They got tackle and neuts and effects turn more impactful the stronger the numbers are shifted. When engaging a numerically weaker force, it's sort of a mobile version of parking a dozen vindis and an archon on your hole. So if a gang shows up in T3s and has to announce themselves in local, it's usually not going to happen that way. Yet so many people try it and wonder.

it's lights on music blasting when dusette and I create content

Just guessing, but it's probably that they only would have like three other entities to fight in such a scenario. Like HRDKX, SSC, and oh look I can't even think about a third one now that NoHo is gone -.- Anyways, it would probably become boring on day three.

Downsizing is probably the best thing they can do for their own sake and the overall health of wh-space content. There would be nothing wrong for the occasional get-together over a big cap gank or a casual null sec roam after splitting up, so ...

I would say the worst idea of the bunch is to force folks to farm outside their home system. Here's the reasoning:

1. Ganking folks doing pve is (my opinion) not really pvp. It's ganking. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy both ganking someone and I get a good chuckle out of getting ganked. If folks mean 'we can't find punching bags to gank' when they say 'we can't find pvp' then please, from now on, say what you mean. Not to presume I can read Fremen's mind, but of the few encounters I've had with him, I'd wager he's looking for a bit more than an endless supply of paladins to bubble up and pod.

2. Eve pilots are smart. WH pilots are smarter than average eve pilots. They/we (yeah you and me) will find the safest way to quickly gather pve isk and move on to other things. Any pve wh can be made 'safe'. We all have a variable level of what amount of 'safe' is ok. If you move 'safe' too far to the dangerous side, then folks won't pve unsafe, they will move to a safer way to get pve isk. HK has a policy of pve alts go to other corps, others will adopt this - for instance rolling up incursion alts to make isk that way. The bottom line is no one can design a pve mode that folks will line up to get slaughtered doing. That just makes no sense.

3. What making static pve more lucrative really does - it allows large corps that can't survive on home system sites feasable by shifting the income source from the once per day cycle to the once per static cycle. That shift in how isk is brought in would totally alter how wh space is played toward bigger being necessary. It's bad math. Period. You want to make hordes of low skill pve blobbs the norm, then lucrative static farming is the quickest route. I'd rather re-double wh spawn ranges based on possible max hull speed.

The reality is, however, that many groups that pve in their statics are already closing the connections there as well. This trend would only continue if you killed home sites ... ultimately you gain nothing by pushing people into their statics.

You're not making sense to me.

NOW: 1. Log on. 2. Bear it up. 3. Log off.

PVE FORCED TO STATIC: 1. Log on. 2. Bear it up in static. 3. Hey, doing pve in the static makes me want to stay logged in on my farming alt and roam around and get in a fight........ or 3. Log off.


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I get that.. really.. But timezone's, the normal variation of activity, etc works both ways. Just like Noho was always thought to be a 50 man fleet... believe me, we didn't always have that...You often see people reminding others when their group has less members than normal due to tz/activity/whatevd but forget that your oponents can have the same thing when you don't have eyes on the enemy fleet.

People however are risk-aversed and will assume the worst. This is where reputation comes in. If you sometimes batphone, people will assume even when you haven't that you can or will and therefore will either not fight or try to bring even more. That is your own doing, don't blame your oponents for that assumption.

TL;DR: Batphoning is bad.