Player Features and Ideas Discussion

So Thera is basicly boring. Its pretty empty and hard for most wormhole residents to get to. Your lucky if you find Thera in your chain once a week.

Proposal - Turn Thera into a trade hub for wormhole residents. Reduce it to one massive station surounded by wormholes.

How

1. Increase the connections to wormhole space massively. 100 Wormhole connections every day to other wormhole systems. (This would ensure wormhole corps have a reasonable chance of finding a entrance).

2. WH connections (to w space) have unlimited mass and a 24 hour life.

3. Eliminate the K space connections directly to/from Thera

4. No ships but Industrials / freightors/ shuttles / Pods / frigates / DICs allowed into the Thera system. No ancorable bubbles or other bubbles allowed. It is a trade hub thats it. Jump into Thera in a prohibited ship class and the drifters will insta bbq you.

5. DICS cant launch bubbles in Thera (but can in neighbouring w systems)

6.. No PvP or suicide ganking in the system. Drifter system wide jaming is in effect. Connecting w systems are still pvp zones.

7.. Drifter technology controlling the Thera wormholes wont let you back into Thera if you have fired your guns or launched/activated a bubble. 5 min timer.

8. No manufacturing. No scanable sites, gas or combat anoms. Its a trade hub only.

9. No Ancorable bubbles or structures allowed on grid with the wormhole of a connecting W space system. DICTOR and HIC Bubbles are OK.

10. When you leave the Thera system you are shot out of the wormhole 40 km in a random direction.

11. Thera station is seeded with skillbooks. and has blue loot NPC buy orders.

Why

1. Encourage Industry (and more people) into wormholes and create a community in wormhole space. Think of Thera like central hub for Wormhole residents.

2. PvP and ganking opportunities... Smart pvpers will still be able to catch industrials on the approaches to Thera.. If you dont know how... u suck.

Lots of opportunities for baiting with DSTs on the approaches as well. Smart Industrialists with scouts will be able to use the hub with a reasonable degree of safety. (although they can still be caught).

3. Ship restricitions in Thera is to prevent Thera being used as a power projection transit point. You can still move a frigate fleet with frig logi support through Thera. Could make assualt frigates fleets a thing again.

EDIT - saw some flaws. fixed em. Also changed leaving spawn point to 40km from wh.

then by all means enlighten me..

tldr; "I want an absolutely safe place to trade and market stuff in that exists in its own little microcosm separate from known Space and has tons of connections to other wormholes so transportation is ludicrously easy."


Also going to say no. There never has been, nor should there ever be, a "no PvP" star system.

So...a wormhole. As in, the most lawless, most dangerous type of space.

Yet you want to it be massively safer than highsec, while allowing for freighters crammed with gear to shuttle back and forth through it, and the total removal of anything resembling a risk when it comes to getting your bloot in and out, while also simultaneously destroying the use of the system as a highway?

What are you on, and can I have some?

Ummm... the design ITSELF is flawed. It doesn't jive with the ethos of EVE (see: "no place is safe"). This goes doubly so for wormhole systems.


Jump through wormhole.
Find a PvP gang waiting for you.
Burn back to wormhole.
Jump back through.
None of the attackers can follow you.
Find another wormhole.

Yes... it is too safe.

Who said anything about doing it without support? You have a couple of guys secure one hole for one minute, and there's no risk at all.

Or you just scout it first.


Explain why this would be good for the game. Explain why wormholes, the most dangerous, lawless type of space, should have an area that is much safer than highsec.

Protip: if you are not using Blockade Runners fitted with a cloak, MWD, and have the assistance of a cloaky-probing scout... you are not taking the logistics of wormhole life seriously.


But all that that is beside the point; there should NEVER be a star system in EVE where "no PvP" is allowed. Especially so for a wormhole system.
It goes against the principles of EVE. Hell... it makes the place safer than high-sec or even heavily fortified null-sec systems.

4/10 troll.

Made me smirk.

Came and read the OP.
Had some thoughts but they have all been covered so a simple NO will have to do.

This is just about the single most ******** idea i have ever have the dubious pleasure of being exposed to...

we do NOT need a way to move entire coalition level fleets through wormholes via a convenient midpoint... Thats what living in K-space is for,,,

Can you provide me with the intel on who your main is since its quite clear you have never actually wormholed...