Wormholes

Yeah. What?

WH conflict is as good as the people living in WH. Some changes to the game can help, but as long as WH space remains on a policy of "if it moves shoot it" and people roam, we will all have fun.
Blobs can happen in WH, but unlike null, one can escape if prepared. Large alliance can be found too, but the little guys can always have their share of fun pew. WH space is special because of the people living in it.

Happy hunting!

I don't think he is saying to stay in your WH and twiddle your thumbs, but instead to actually "roam"

IE, you roll your static, the WH doesnt show any activity so you scan down that WH looking for more WH's etc.

IMO I don't know if that has any better success. Last night from our home WH I spent most of the evening "roaming". I ended up finding 6 different WH's in my travels. Only one had activity with people actively running sites. They must have caught me on dscan cause they bugged out and left the system before I could figure out which WH they had come through.

In some ways having more WH connections seems like it may help. Either via multiple WH statics, or a higher rate of random (wandering) WH's. But even those seem that they might server to mostly increase the chances of ganking PVE'rs than actually causing more fights.

Fix the people not the game :) ... although more toys and ways to use them never hurts.

Preventing SD inside POS ff would motivate me to provide more opportunities for fights.

They don't have to fight, but at least the winners then get their ships. Or get to blow them up.

Well, just a matter of perspective, PVE is boring but people do it for profit. I'd rather siege a POS for iskies than shoot red crosses.

As he said it's a matter of perspective. If someone thinks shooting a pos is more interesting than shooting sleeper, who are we to argue?!

No SDing in a ff might make the pos owners say "well we're going to lose our stuff anyway, let's not go down without a fight". Right now it's just used as a method of denying the attacker loot/killmails.

Liang I'm not actually arguing that the structure grind when nobody tries to shoot back would be interesting, but a siege operation with resistance and promise of shinies dropping from the hangars is far more fun than repetitive PVE- because of human interaction.

Currently it just defaults to small entities not even trying to fight back another small entity, because SD gives you ISK and saves your killboard from the chance of turning into a sea of red. POSes are disposable and finding a new similar wormhole to set up shop is trivial in all but C6s.

Like Rek said, having it all at stake might make even the furriest little bears to fleet up and give it a go. Or try to negotiate a solution.

Going thru all the hassle of a full-blown siege just to watch SD notifications for a day is among the most depressing things I've experienced in EVE.

Yes, it would lead to bigger rewards and thus more sieges, which would result in stronger incentive to form contacts to fight the invaders.

I just think a situation that promotes small entities teaming up to protect themselves leads to more everyday pvp- a system full of active players has more potential to give birth to ad-hoc encounters than a system occupied by a small corp that is protected by lack of motivation from invaders caused SD mechanics.

Furthermore corporations teaming up in one hole with others are more likely to last longer and thrive than small startups setting up operations in some desolate hole.

Some people will say that increased risk will disencourage people from settling w-space, but I don't see any difference between a completely empty hole and one occupied by a 5-man harvesting operation who are either offline or sit in POS. Neither has any fights and we'll just roll a new one.

This of course raises the question of the amount of wormhole systems and unique properties that OP talks about. Would w-space be better if there were less holes, or more systems that would be worth fighting for than others?