Wormholes

Well time to get back to the drawing board for my cloaky tackle with smartbomb, to gain aggression before Ctrl+Q is pressed.

EDIT: Soundwave wants to do something about "AFK Cloakers". Looks like CCP are bowing down to Carebears.

I think it is pretty funny to hear people complain about w-space PVP.

We live in a c2, with a static c4, and with only minor setup or planning, we are able to get decent fights several times a week. It might only be a few sniping ships trying to pick one of our scouts off, or a 10 man battlecruiser gang jumping into our fleet, trying to clear a route through their chain.

I have lived in deep w-space for months at a time, as well as a low class wormole for the majority of my eve career, and anyone who says there isn't enough targets is the victim of lazy scouts/fleets. It takes less then 10 minutes to collapse a wormhole, no matter what the size or mass on it. In deeper w-space it seems quieter, due to the large number of uninhabited class 5 wormholes, and the fact that those groups that live there and are capable of bringing a fight, will likely be fielding a good sized t3 fleet with logistics support, whether that is capitals, or just logistics cruisers. A lot of the smaller organizations have trouble fielding logistics with their gangs, if you can raise an average 8-10 man fleet, and need at least two of them as logistics, it drastically reduces your fleets ability to do damage.

I have found that if you want more people to fight you, leave the logi's at home. A lot of people won't even think of engaging a gang that has logistics support, if they don't have it themselves, it's a "deal-breaker" of sorts. Also a shiny T3 without a guardian babysitting it is a far more inviting target. (Not always the case, but usually when you are coming up against someone who you need to field logi's against, you will know it ahead of time.)

If people want to roll their statics for pew, start picking systems with low class statics, and try scanning from there. We get the best fights out of the corps from c1/2/3/4 inhabitants. They are far more likely to engage when they are sure that there isn't a pair of triage Archons or dreads cloaked on the other side of the wormhole waiting to ruin your day.

As far as the blobbing, as it was said before, it is a natural progression within the game, as corp and alliance sizes swell.

BUT, a lot of people are way too eager to call a fight a blob, when the numbers are unbalanced at all. So you see groups that are 15 v 20, or 6 v 10 where the outnumbered side screams blob, and hides in their shields. Those sorts of numbers are close enough that with skill, the right support ships, or even just a little luck, either side could come out ahead, but the fights aren't happening because "OMG! WE'RE OUTNUMBERED! IT'S A BLOB!"

Just today we fought a 10 man mixed BC gang with just 3 pilots. They were trying to haul through our system so we forced a fight by anchoring bubbles. We knew we were outnumbered, but we did it anyhow... and they brought the fight (Props to MASQUERADE. alliance.) It was a lot of fun, and we managed to kill one of them before being forced off the field. We skirmished with them a few more times before the route connecting us collapsed.

People today, particularly gamers, are far too used to instant gratification, and patience is the MOST important trait to have to succeed in wormholes.

My former CEO had a saying about it. "If you are bored in w-space, then you're probably a boring person."

Remove all the locals.

Just a few nights ago Black Legion. decided to come play in our C6 at 3 am US time. For half the fight only myself and Chitsa were online until we were able to get 2 more. But we accepted the fight! http://exhale.eve-kill.net/?a=kill_related&kll_id=14822980 (plus our archon, and a few t3's we managed to collapse out on there side.) Major props to Black Legion for bringing a small but white knuckle fight.

great fights too be had, for sure. Sometimes you just gotta go balls deep

Yes, please just go look for fights. Go balls deep. It's the best deep. Half the fun used to be going down the rabbit hole. Then you got big and now you can't be bothered to go beyond your static (this is to whoever complains they can't find caps to gank during chain-rolling "PvP"). I'd type more, but found myself seeing too many tl;dr posts myself.

One of the reasons that I like eve and have come back to eve after dropping many other MMO's is because there is literally something for everyone here, if they choose to work for at and work at it, be it hardcore pvper or diehard carebear, or like me, something in between on any given day.

The idea that you have to work harder to "force" ( and I hate that word by the way ), me to fight you is perfectly legitimate I think. Afterall, what you are wanting to do is force me to play a style of game that I may not be in the mood for at that moment, for any number of reasons. Why should mechanics be changed in order to make it easier for you to force me to do something I don't feel like doing at that particular time?

I do like risk, I do like PVP, but I like to sometimes have a period of time where I can just chill and mine or rat till my eyes bleed while still making enough isk to pay for my accounts.

If changes are put in the game that assure that my ability to enjoy those periods of time are significantly reduced, in order to better sate your need for pew pew which you can get virutally ANYWHERE in Eve, that to me screams an imbalance that I think is rather unfair to those of us who are not sitting at the hardcore pvp'er end of the spectrum.

I think WH's are just fine just the way they are, personally.

Communities and environments change the higher up you go in wspace. What's fine for you where you reside is not fine for someone else somewhere else.

Didnt you heard?????











Titans

Clearly.

There are a lot more people in WH's than there where when I started out and a lot more fights to be found, we are not having any issues.