Wormholes

Dear ccp/csm/corbexx,
i meant to write this a long time ago... i am worried about some of the things that were said in the structure presentation at fanfest especially in regard to wormholes.

now i understand it was fanfest and it was REALLY clear that the structures situation was very early. and yesyesyesyesyes that stuff isnt final. it was fanfest and CCP wanted to show SOMETHING. so we got this ultra vauge presentation of "maybe this might be a thing one day maybe kinda". we were kinda hoping for the new POS reveal and it totally wasn't. and thats not a complaint btw, thanks for showing what you had! it left me wanting more.

the biggest theme in general as far as the eve development goes over the last year is to take NPC power away and buff player power and i think thats a great idea. however there are a lot of mechanics that need to be left for the "game".

the biggest red flag was mention that gates that can increase or decrease the spawning of wormholes. this is a huge insult to what wormhole space is because wormholes are supposed to be random and completely out of the players control. thats the biggest downside/risks of wormhole space.

especially in nullsec I find it is totally not ok for someone to make the wormhole spawn chance half as much, have local, have intel networks and rat in even more peace. it is already hard enough to jump out of a wormhole figure out whats going on and tackle stuff before they warp off or even worse the bot warps off.

i hope that wormholes stay random and moreover wormhole space stays spooky and out of control. anything to increase the danger of people ignoring new wormholes being there is great. if you want to rat in peace they should be forced to roll it and take some RISK! maybe they get stuck on the wrong side! if this gate change means that the alliance this person is in checks a few boxes on a gate and now the are X% safer.....cmon...thats bs. or even if they had to grind for it, still lame!

it also has become really fashionable on this forum recently to talk about a magical structure that spawns a new static. NO! you cant control it! more holes/ less holes doesnt matter, it is not a player's decision to make!! it is supposed to be dangerous and random! if ccp wants to add new statics c6s or whatever systems im all for it, but a player cant be controlling this. i like the idea that the wormhole is trying to kill you at all times and you have to fight it to stay alive.

i hope this resonates in the design of the new structures. im excited to see what comes out. i just wanted to get this off my chest for ccp or csm to read. if this kind of thing made it into the game and i never said anything id be able to fuel my pos with salty tears.

TLDR keep wormholes dangerous. players shouldn't be able to control them.

....and while were at it lets add some more danger

I strongly doubt this will effect K162's.

LOL.. I dont think they will end up on gates.. prob on one of the other structures.. and when did they say they would lessen the spawn rate? They have only ever increased the chance of them spawning for people who who wants a system with whs to farm or now more so for people who need them for logistics. I think it is a good idea.. lowering no raise it yes it gives way far out groups a chance at easy logistics to empire for the trade off of opening into a wh group that camps you for 24 hours.

I dont think any of the structures were ever intended to be in a Wh they would rely on sov level even if they do end up on citidels meaning you cant use them..

And WH stabilizers have been a running joke and brought up sense the begining of WHs and ccp has said over and over we wont do that its stupid

VOTE TIM FOR CSM!

Hey if chance can do it, anybody can right?

To be fair, Chance never ran as "WH CSM". He ran as a NPE CSM with some exploration on top. He was pretty clear about it during his campaign, so it doesnt seem very fair to bash him for not being terribly interested in wormholes and wormholers, because he never claimed to represent us.

Seconded. We tried this in Delve a while back. They don't work.

We got the alliance to get our Sov sec L5 but hardly anyh wormholes for pew, love it if CP actually fixed that issue before creating more problems.